Category Archives: Earth-X

A world where World War II continued until the mid 1970’s, most of the superhero characters were those published by Quality Comics. A re-surgence of the Third Reich has thrown this world into turmoil after the Crisis.

Feature: The Clock Strikes, Chapter 3: Secret Origin of the Clock

by Doc Quantum and Christine Nightstar Return to chapter list The Clock’s story began three years earlier in 1983. By his late twenties, Lester Colt was already a retired special operations soldier who had returned to the United States after serving his last tour of duty in Germany. The years after the world was freed . . .

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Feature: The Clock Strikes, Chapter 2: Prisoners of War

by Christine Nightstar and Doc Quantum Return to chapter list “I can’t believe that they would be so stupid as to try another convoy so soon after the last one,” muttered the Clock to himself as he looked down through binoculars onto the procession of trucks and troops below him. A helicopter was scanning the . . .

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Feature: The Clock Strikes, Chapter 1: The Divine Wind

by Doc Quantum and Christine Nightstar Return to chapter list Captain Shiro Nakayama was the commander of the Divine Wind, a super-powered military unit of the Imperial Army that was Japan’s answer to the Freedom Fighters of the United States or the SS Ubermenschen of Nazi Germany. Long before the rise of the Fourth Reich . . .

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Feature: The Clock Strikes, Prologue: Masked Hero of the Resistance

by Christine Nightstar and Doc Quantum Return to chapter list San Francisco, California: A tall figure in a dark, full-body jumpsuit and a full-face mask stood on top of a power line tower next to a bridge looking down on the convoy. The Scarlet Seal’s information was good as always, he thought as he dropped . . .

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Weird War Tales: Retribution

by Drivtaan
Weird War Tales: The Five Earths Project
With the Nazis again in control of Europe, they begin plans to set up the concentration camp system once more. Learning of these plans, a Jewish rabbi who survived the original Holocaust enacts his own plan to stop Hitler’s Final Solution. But will the golem calling itself Retribution be a new hero or an unbridled monster?

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Weird War Tales: Retribution, Chapter 3: The Golem

by Drivtaan Return to chapter list “It is finished.” The weariness of the voice drew everyone’s attention to the entrance of the Children’s Memorial. It had been more than thirty hours since the kabbalists had first entered the underground cavern, and now they were beginning to emerge. Despite his years, Benjamin was the first to . . .

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Weird War Tales: Retribution, Chapter 2: Three Graves

by Drivtaan Return to chapter list The Polish countryside lay like a sleeping child beneath a blanket of pre-dawn mist. At the edge of a large open field, tendrils of gray wetness gently tried to push their way into the ancient forest. A surreal silence seemed to permeate the entire area. The night creatures had . . .

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Weird War Tales: Retribution, Chapter 1: We’ll Meet Again

by Drivtaan Return to chapter list The man and woman stood in the darkness of a Prague hotel room, holding each other tightly in a lover’s embrace. Cheek to cheek, they whispered words not meant for others to hear. “Are you certain of this information?” the man asked as his lips brushed the woman’s ear. . . .

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Feature: Mary Merlin and the Isles of Avalon

by Philip-Todd Franklin
Feature of Earth-X: The Five Earths Project
On the mystical isles of Avalon, young Mary Merlin has lived a life of relative peace on the Isles of Avalon, learning from the greatest wizard of them all, Merlin the magician. But when a great threat arises on her homeworld of Earth-X, the young magician-at-large must leave her safe haven and confront the rise of evil!

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Feature: Mary Merlin and the Isles of Avalon, Chapter 2: Stepping into Adventure

by Philip-Todd Franklin Return to chapter list At first the two fairies left behind in the chamber had taken their assigned duty very seriously and had faithfully watched the two bowls and the great-sized crystal ball. After the first few hours had elapsed, however, they had begun to grow lax with their vigil. It was . . .

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Feature: Mary Merlin and the Isles of Avalon, Chapter 1: A Great Threat Arises

by Philip-Todd Franklin Return to chapter list A young woman lounged on the beach along the palm trees of a tiny island, just basking under the slowly setting sun, nearly oblivious to all that went on in the world around her. It was a private beach with no one else in sight, so she wore . . .

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Freedom Force: The Price of Freedom

by Philip-Todd Franklin
Freedom Force: The Five Earths Project
A young man named Hiroshi Tain struggles to understand how he has become an agent of Old Glory! More importantly, how can this Japanese-American become a member of Rick Flagg’s Freedom Force, when the old soldier already hates his guts? Meanwhile, as Hi-Jack continues to search out the Earth-X counterparts of his old allies, Amos Fortune and the Royal Flush Gang of Earth-One, has he inadvertently made an enemy who seeks his death? And what murderous dark force is destroying the Imperial Japanese fleet, one sailor at a time? Guest starring Plastic Man and Max Mercury, the former Quicksilver!

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Freedom Force: The Price of Freedom, Chapter 6: Flagg’s Private War

by Philip-Todd Franklin Return to chapter list Unknown location: The next morning Hiroshi Tain awoke early and was just finished dressing himself when a knock came at his door. Opening it, he said, “Yes?” On the other side of the door was a young woman dressed in the same combat fatigues as most of the . . .

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Freedom Force: The Price of Freedom, Chapter 5: Diamonds in the Rough

by Philip-Todd Franklin Return to chapter list Hi-Jack ran like a man possessed, his long coat flowing behind him as he moved. He had no idea what he was going to do, nor even how he was going to fight off four people at once. All he knew was that they could not be allowed . . .

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Freedom Force: The Price of Freedom, Chapter 4: The Dinner Act

by Philip-Todd Franklin Return to chapter list Wellington Estate, Los Angeles, California, September 14, 9:51 A.M.: Jack Wellington slowly drove his car toward the mansion that had become home not too long ago, continuing to replay through his mind the news he’d received after his plane had landed. He’d been told that there was an . . .

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