Category Archives: Earth-4

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Premiere: Wild Dog: Running Wild, Chapter 2: Bait

by CSyphrett Return to chapter list Wild Dog drove through Bettendorf slowly. He was trolling. He needed a lead or a connection to the Scalias. He just hadn’t had an idea on how to secure such a thing. And so he was trolling. Then he found just the man he had been looking for. He . . .

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Premiere: Wild Dog: Running Wild, Chapter 1: Wormwood

by CSyphrett Return to chapter list A blond, athletic young man named Jack Wheeler parked his truck in an alley down the street from the place where he wanted to be and intended to go in a few minutes. He frowned at the number of vehicles in front of the place as he checked his . . .

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Blue Beetle and Green Mask: 1940: Anno Domino

by Bradley Cobb
Action-Hero Team-Up: The Five Earths Project
The Blue Beetle and the Green Mask battle a hypnotist’s criminal machinations, but can even they withstand Zoltar the Magnificent’s mesmerizing glare? And can Domino the Miracle Boy accomplish what both his hero and his mentor could not?

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L.A.W.: Living Assault Weapons

by CSyphrett, with Doc Quantum
L.A.W.: The Five Earths Project
Hank Hennessy has just been recruited by Sarge Steel and Tiffany Sinn to lead a new team of superhuman agents connected to the Checkmate division of CHESS, a secret agency. But will he be able to keep from exacting revenge on the man responsible for the destruction of the Fightin’ Five, the team he formerly led? Featuring the Red Knight (former Checkmate agent and expert martial artist), John “Specs” Anders (a telepath and former member of the Tyro Team), Syntac (a super-android), the new Puppeteer (grandson of the 1940s mystery-man by that name), and Destiny Fox (a Native American with the power of a river god) as the first LAW team.

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L.A.W.: Living Assault Weapons, Chapter 3: The Target

by CSyphrett, with Doc Quantum Return to chapter list Hank Hennessy reviewed the recordings of the arrest of the Blue Streak over the next two days. He was quietly satisfied with their performance. They had acted like a well-oiled machine. Now it was time to get ready for the main event. Hennessy gathered the materials . . .

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L.A.W.: Living Assault Weapons, Chapter 2: The Blue Streak

by CSyphrett, with Doc Quantum Return to chapter list “This is the new field commander, Hank Hennessy,” Sarge Steel said to the new team without preamble. “He’ll be going into the field with you when you’re ready.” “But he has only one functioning arm,” said Syntac, stating the obvious. The whole group turned on her. . . .

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L.A.W.: Living Assault Weapons, Chapter 1: Checkmate

by CSyphrett, with Doc Quantum Return to chapter list A tall, forty-something handsome blond man with a muscular build, who was missing his right arm and his left eye, waited impatiently among the relics of the aviation era at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. His contact was late, but that was nothing major. . . .

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The Green Mask: The Vita-Ray Rush

by Bradley Cobb and Doc Quantum
The Green Mask: The Five Earths Project
When an old friend contacts him in need of help, private eye Michael Shelby visits the small city of Foxville, intending to solve a police corruption case before resuming his old identity of the Green Mask. But will this mean the beginning of a new rise to fame or the start of a long jail term?

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The Green Mask: The Vita-Ray Rush, Chapter 2: Marquee Star

by Bradley Cobb and Doc Quantum Return to chapter list For the next three years, the Green Mask and Domino fought crime together. The Green Mask even joined the team known as the Mystery Men of America, an organization of costumed crime-fighters that had grown out of the earlier group known as the Big Three, . . .

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The Green Mask: The Vita-Ray Rush, Chapter 1: Michael Shelby’s Story

by Bradley Cobb and Doc Quantum Return to chapter list Of all the places I could be right now, why here? Those were the thoughts of the man known as the Green Mask as he drove through a torrential downpour. He exited his vehicle and quickly ran through the parking lot to the entrance of . . .

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Sentinels of Justice: The Calm Before the Storm

by Doc Quantum, CSyphrett, John M. Burt, and Blackwolf247, with Punkybluester
Sentinels of Justice: The Five Earths Project
The Crisis on Infinite Earths that threatened Earth-4 is over, but it left the Sentinels of Justice scattered, the action-heroes each preoccupied with their own problems. Son of Vulcan has been appointed with his new duties as the overseer of the world from Mount Olympus, but where does that leave John Mann? Captain Atom was granted power and virtual immortality, but was that at the price of being truly human? Nightshade’s main goal in life has always been to rescue her brother Larry from the Land of the Nightshades, but can she do it without needing rescue herself? The Blue Beetle finally returns to Pago Island to face up to his past, but will he be able to bury it? The Question fights a never-ending battle against corruption in Crown City, but how will he react when two rookie action-heroes begin fighting crime in his city? Will it take a threat to the time continuum itself by six criminals from the future for the core members of the team to reunite and start over once more? Guest starring Phantom Lady and the Mysterious Traveler, and featuring the first appearances of Blue Beetle IV, the new Black Fury, and Street Hawk.

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Sentinels of Justice: The Calm Before the Storm, Chapter 5: Earth-Four Starting Over

by CSyphrett and Doc Quantum Return to chapter list “Greetings, John Mann,” said a chilly voice. The Son of Vulcan turned his head slightly from his scrying cauldrons to examine his visitor. He recognized him instantly as a watcher of humanity’s struggle who had not been known to interfere except in small cases before the . . .

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Sentinels of Justice: The Calm Before the Storm, Chapter 4: The Question

by Blackwolf247, with Punkybluester Return to chapter list Vic Sage always trudged slowly through the crisp air of the evening. Others stayed inside, tucked safely away in suburban Crown City homes, but Sage liked the feel of the breeze against his hardened face. It chilled his old bones, battered and beaten from the past years . . .

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Sentinels of Justice: The Calm Before the Storm, Chapter 3: Blue Beetle

by John M. Burt Return to chapter list Ted Kord stood on the deck of the Kord Explorer watching Pago Island growing ahead. Only briefly once before had he ever returned to that small island off the coast of Long Island since that disastrous day in 1966 when he’d learned that his friend and former . . .

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Sentinels of Justice: The Calm Before the Storm, Chapter 2: Nightshade

by CSyphrett and Doc Quantum Return to chapter list “Back! Get back, demons!” cried a masked woman dressed in a dark blue and gold costume and wearing a brunette wig. She struck a ghoulish red demon in its chest and sent it flying back to the others, but it was a futile effort, for with . . .

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