Monthly Archives: November 2003

DC Universe: Challenge of Shazam, Chapter 4: Darkness at the End of the Tunnel

by Blackwolf247, Cynthia Finnegan and Arcademan Return to chapter list Meanwhile, on the outskirts of Fawcett City, Jim and Susan Barr were enjoying a rare moment of free time and having a picnic in the park when Susan pointed toward the sky over the city. “Jim, the sky — it’s suddenly turning pitch-black. What’s going . . .

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DC Universe: Challenge of Shazam, Chapter 3: You Can’t Always Get What You Want

by Cynthia Finnegan and Arcademan Return to chapter list Outside a Bronx storefront, an almost plain brunette girl was chasing the man who left her little fortune-telling parlor without paying. Athena looked like a gypsy, from her long, jet-black hair right down to the “bad eyes” (as one of her customers called them), but she . . .

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DC Universe: Challenge of Shazam, Chapter 2: The Beginning of the End

by Immortalwildcat, HarveyKent and Cynthia Finnegan Return to chapter list A taxicab screeched to a halt in front of the WHIZ Broadcasting building. Tossing a five-dollar bill into the front seat, a fat, gray-haired man got out of the cab and rushed through the building’s door to the elevator. “Tenth — gasp — floor — . . .

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DC Universe: Challenge of Shazam, Chapter 1: Heirs of Black Adam

by Starsky Hutch 76 and Doc Quantum Return to chapter list Black Adam sat at the outdoor table in a small restaurant on the streets of Cairo. He wore plain clothes over his uniform to hide his identity. He had chosen to lay low since his last defeat by the accursed Marvel Family. (*) It . . .

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Feature: Hi-Jack: Saving Grace

by Philip-Todd Franklin
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Hi-Jack, former member of the Royal Flush Gang and the Secret Society of Super-Villains on Earth-One, finds himself on the wartorn world of Earth-X with no idea how to get home. And when he is mistaken for a wealthy California senator during the liberation of Occupied California, things take a strange turn. Can the threat against the family of his parallel universe double turn a hardened criminal into a hero?

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Feature: Hi-Jack: Saving Grace, Epilogue: The News at War

by Philip-Todd Franklin Return to chapter list At one of the few still-functioning television broadcast stations in the newly freed state of California, anchorman Sam Morris sat at his desk wearing a dark brown suit as he waited to give what was to be his first truly free account of the news to the public. . . .

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Feature: Hi-Jack: Saving Grace, Chapter 4: A Second Chance

by Philip-Todd Franklin Return to chapter list Hi-Jack had been lucky during his fight. One of the Occupation soldiers was lying upon the ground, holding on to his broken left leg, and he had been able to remove the guns from the two soldiers that were left. Standing between them, Hi-Jack began trying to taunt . . .

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Feature: Hi-Jack: Saving Grace, Chapter 3: The Shape of Things to Come

by Philip-Todd Franklin Return to chapter list Outside the San Francisco Bay, the U.S. Army was slowly beginning to press its way forward into the area, and the fighting was impressive on both sides. For hours on the first day of the battle, it nearly seemed as if the task before the U.S. troops was . . .

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Feature: Hi-Jack: Saving Grace, Chapter 2: Jacks and Kings

by Philip-Todd Franklin Return to chapter list In the holding cage in an old warehouse at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, the prisoners were trying to relax after what had been a long week of more interrogations. For some of them, it was nearly a repeat of when they had first been captured a year ago. . . .

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Feature: Hi-Jack: Saving Grace, Chapter 1: Earth-One Exile

by Philip-Todd Franklin Return to chapter list The man stood in the doorway, listening to the sounds of exchanging gunfire as he thought, I didn’t sign up to get abandoned on a strange world controlled by people who were defeated long ago back home. As the sounds of gunfire drew closer to the empty, old, . . .

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