Captain Liberty
Creator: Steve Mitchell
Characters
Gardner Grant/Thomas James Wakefield
Angelo Raven (SGO)
Kathleen Murrell (sister of Adam Stone, the original
Dreadstone)
Susan Lin (Dreadstone #2)
We know the story: in 1940 scientist
experimented on a young soldier turning him into a super soldier to fight the
Axis in Germany. The experiment turned young Gardner Grant into a large, fast,
and strong individual they called Captain Liberty. He, along with other heroes,
fought the axis powers throughout the war, but at the end of WWII Nazis shot
Captain Liberty. Wounded, he was taken to the hospital in Berlin. When the
Russians entered Berlin they found him and carried him off to Russia, where he
was drugged and brainwashed. For the next 54 years he followed Russian orders
in all their skirmishing as Red Wind, killing Americans, South Koreans, and
other allies of America, until the Special Coordinating Group in America
brought him out of Russia again, and for two years American doctors returned
him to h is identity of Gardner Grant.
Giving Grant the new identity
of Thomas James Wakefield, his SCG
contact, Angelo Raven sends him to Bay City under cover as a member of The
State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, where he was to again fight
an enemy, but this enemy was within America itself.
Captain Liberty never wore a
costume, though occasionally did wear a mask.
Little information is shared on
Angelo Raven, except that she is a black woman and is an agent of SCG, and she
only has contact with Gardner/Wakefield prior to leaving for Bay City. In the
story, “In Final Battle”, featuring
Dreadstone, The Shape, and Princess Athena, she joins them in the Middle East
where they find Captain Liberty.
Susan Lin is an Asian/American,
possibly Chinese. She is short and slim, with glossy back hair that hung down
to her shoulders. A mysterious person gave her a ring on a necklace with a
stone called a Chintamani, which once belonged to the super hero known as
Dreadstone, who had been killed in Afghanistan. Now she has absorbed that
hero’s great strength and speed, and becomes the modern day Dreadstone.
Other heroes are mentioned from the
war years, Adam Stone (Dreadstone), Doc Pagan, Athena, Pendragon, the Black
Guardian, and Madame 13. It appears that Madame 13 is now also among the
living, though all the great heroes had perished after the war.
A contemporary comic books series
from WONDER ADVENTURES, features the exploits of “Captain Liberty, America’s
Ace Avenger”.
There have been three stories in the
Captain Liberty series so far:
Captain Liberty DOUBLE DANGER TALES #51
Shadow of The Stone DOUBLE DANGER TALES #55
Four Color Adventure DOUBLE DANGER TALES #59
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