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Tom Taylor posting some art of Amazing Man punchin’ Hitler, which CBR takes to be a hint that he’s bringing back the All-Star Squadron.

Neat! I’m down with more superhero period drama stories, particularly if they’re more representative than a lot of them have been previously.

The first Amazing Man (debuting in All-Star Squadron #23 (July 1983)), Will Everett, was an athlete who took part in the 1936 Olympic Games, only for his career to take a turn towards janitorial work in the years that followed. It’s in this capacity that Everett was blown up in a lab accident, which luckily gave him superpowers instead of making him a sad Major Taylor figure in-universe.

During the 1940s, Everett teamed up with the All-Star Squadron (the other non-JSA superhero team of the team) and he also defeated a racist supervillain that had taken up residence in his hometown of Detriot (no, not Henry Ford).

And in the 1950s, J Edgar Hoover outed his secret identity to the public, which on the one hand brought him and his family a lot of negative public attention but on the other, this assisted him when he got involved in the civil rights movement.

As per Justice Society of America #12…

Will’s powers were inherited by his grandsons, Will Everett III (the second Amazing Man, who was murdered along with the rest of his newly formed superhero team by the second Mist purely to build her in-universe supervillain street credit) and Markus Clay (the third Amazing Man, and cousin of Will the Third) who was seen helping folk out in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina.