The Flash finds himself struggling to remain doing his super-heroics without bending to the will of the government, so he announces his intention to stop being a hero altogether on television.Ī scientist's experiment results in an alien being teleported from Mars. He is soon contacted by a dying alien and given the Green Lantern ring. Hal Jordan is a fighter pilot for The Korean War who gets shot down, then recruited for a mystery space program. Even Wonder Woman starts to ignore "Man's World" and returned to Paradise Island.
"Idealistic" heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman are forced to sign loyalty pacts, while Batman remains underground and outside any government control. The story took the paranoia associated with McCarthyism and how it would affect the costumed heroes.
In the story, Batman changes it after frightening a child he was trying to help, rather than the criminals he wants to scare. It was easy enough with Legacy Characters like Green Lantern, but Batman went from a dark and menacing figure who wore grey and black into someone more kid-friendly with blue and yellow highlights. Part of this experiment was Cooke trying to figure out a reason why various characters changed in the switch between The Golden Age of Comic Books and The Silver Age of Comic Books. The plotline is broad-ranging, featuring dozens of characters in the DC Universe including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Martian Manhunter, and many more. Even the art work itself is very similar to comics of that era, with only the layout being modernized. Instead of reimagining the classic superheroes as they would be today, Cooke created a story firmly set in the 1950s and took the superheroes as they were in The Golden Age of Comic Books and made them believable. A comic book series written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke, later adapted as an animated film.
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