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Listen -- There was a struggle song they sang in my time -- it's still good, if you alter it a bit! Try it with me -- EARTH SHALL OVERCOME! EARTH SHALL OVERCOME! EARTH SHALL OVERCOME -- SOMEDAY!!

-- Vance Astrovik (Earth-691)

Appearing in "Earth Shall Overcome!"Edit

Featured Characters:

• Centaurians
• Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Astro, Major Vance
  • Charlie-27, Captain
  • T'Naga, Dr. Martinex
  • Yondu
• Jovians
• Pluvians

Supporting Characters:

• saturnian hound-hawks

Villains:

• Brotherhood of Badoon
  • Eastern Zone Council
    • Drang
    • Maz
    • Yur

Other Characters:

• Einstein, Albert
• Free Colony
• unnamed Beta Centauri IV colonists

Locations:

• Beta Centauri IV
• Earth
  • Moon
  • New Moscow
  • New New York
  • New Nome
  • New Paris
• Jupiter
  • Callisto
• Karsus (may be a person)
• Mars
• Neptune
• Pluto
  • Rent a Servant
• Saturn
  • Titan

Items:

• Bio-tronics
• Harkovian physics
• Incendi-Drop
• Memory Probe
• Psyke-Disc
• Psyke-Pusher
• Ray Gun
• Tele-Tran
• Yaka

Vehicles:

• UC C-57D
  
  

Synopsis for "Earth Shall Overcome!"Edit

• Synopsis not yet written.

NotesEdit

• Reprints the first appearance of the Guardians of the Galaxy from Marvel Super-Heroes #18 with 4 pages edited. The cover was recolored for the reprint.
• The year is given as 3007.
• Charlie has been on patrol for six months at the start of the story, watching for Badoon. This implies that there was an ongoing threat preceeding the invasion.
• Charlie was patrolling the "solar rim", which could be referring to the heliopause.
• Martinex says Pluto was evacuated two months ago.
• On Earth-691, humans had established a Moon colony and had landed on Mars by 1988.
• The program that sent Vance to the stars was called Project Starjump.
• Vance's stasis suit was made with copper foil.
• The planet Vance was sent to is never named.
• Beta Centauri IV appears to have at least two large moons.
• Yaka is described as a mineral. One panel implies that the yaka arrow discharges energy to shock a Badoon, but the action is unclear.
• Vance says that he has "learned how to harness psychic energy", implying that he is only using a special technique, and does not possess any extraordinary power.
• This story was retold in Guardians of the Galaxy #26, with Starhawk manipulating the formation of the Guardians behind the scenes.
  

TriviaEdit

• Charlie's ship is named for the United Cruiser C-57D in Forbidden Planet. In addition, the design is the same as a missile in Showcase #22.
• Badoon is misspelled "Bardoon" once at the beginning of the story.
• The title of the story and the song Vance teaches the Guardians at the end is a variation on We Shall Overcome, a key anthem of the US civil rights movement.

See AlsoEdit

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Recommended ReadingEdit

• Marvel Super-Heroes #18

Links and ReferencesEdit

• None.

 

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