America's 1st Patriotic Comic Book Hero, The Shield #1
The Shield — billed right on the cover as "America's 1st Patriotic Comic Book Hero" — charges toward the viewer in his red, white, and blue stars-and-stripes costume, bullets sparking off his chest as two armed gunmen close in from either side through a cascade of shattered bricks. Cover artists Stephanie and Mark Heike stage the scene with real kinetic energy, capturing exactly the bold, unapologetic heroism that made this Archie Comics character a fixture of the patriotic superhero tradition. This 2002 collection spotlights Harry Shorten and Irv Novick's original "G-Man Extraordinary" stories and comes with a foreword by Gemstone Publishing's Robert M. Overstreet — a fine way to explore where the patriotic superhero genre got its start.
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The Mosconians send a submarine to sink a passenger ship that the Shield is on. The Shield travels to Washington DC and puts and end to the Mosconians' plan to blow up Congress.
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