Appearing in "Earth Shall Overcome!"
Featured Characters:
- Guardians of the Galaxy ⏵ (First appearance)
- Charlie-27 ⏵ (First appearance)
- Major Vance Astro ⏵ (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Martinex ⏵ (First appearance)
- Yondu ⏵ (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- U.L.E. Federation
- Space Militia
- Jovians
- Charlie-26 (Charlie-27's father)
- Pluvians
Antagonists:
- Brotherhood of Badoon (First appearance)/Badoon Empire
- Saturnian Hound-Hawk (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Robot servants
- unnamed Beta Centauri IV colonists (Only in flashback)
- Betina Marsh (First appearance) (Video Phone) (Only in flashback)
- Einstein (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Badoon
- Centaurians (First appearance)
Locations:
- Earth-691 (Years 1988 and 3007)
- Sol
- Centauri-IV (Only in flashback) (Planet where Astro landed)
- Moons of Centauri-IV (Only in flashback)
- New New York
- New Paris (Mentioned)
- New Moscow (Mentioned)
- New Nome (Mentioned)
Items:
- A-Suit (Charlie-27's suit)
- High-intensity Harkovite
- Bio-Tronics
- Memory Probe
- Psyke-Disc
- Yondu's Bow
- Yaka Arrow
Vehicles:
- UC C-57D
- Badoon ships
- Tele-Tran
Events:
Concepts:
- Einsteinian Physics (Mentioned)
- Harkovian Physics (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "Earth Shall Overcome!"
Charlie-27 returns from a six-month mission to discover that his home planet of Jupiter has been completely enslaved by the evil Badoon. He knows that he wouldn't stand a chance against them on his own, so he teleports to other worlds to find help. First, he joins forces with Martinex on the planet Pluto. Then together they travel to planet Earth, where Vance Astro and the Centaurian Yondu have just escaped from Badoon forces themselves. When Vance and Yondu encounter Charlie-27 and Martinex, they briefly mistake them for more Badoon guards and a misunderstanding fight ensues. However, soon enough they realize that they are all fighting for the same side and a new super-team is born... the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Appearing in "Courage"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Lunarians (First appearance)
- Numerous unnamed Lunarians
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed Atlanteans
- NYFD
- United Nations
- NYPD (Mentioned)
- Neptune (Referenced)
Races and Species:
- Lunarians (First appearance)
- Mutant Atlantean-Human Hybrids
- Humans
- Fish
- Shad (Invoked)
- Squids
- Octopuses
- Crabs
- Atlanteans
- Penguins (Invoked)
- Cows
- Flies (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earthspace
- Sol
- Earth
- Moon (Named only)
- "Second Moon" (First appearance)
- North America
- Antarctica
- Southern Ocean
- South America (Mentioned)
- Jupiter (Named only)
- Sun (Named only)
- Neptune (Named only)
- Saturn (Named only)
- Mars (Named only)
- Mercury (Named only)
- Uranus (Named only)
- Pluto (Named only)
- Earth
- Sol
- Heaven (Invoked)
Synopsis for "Courage"
A supposed new moon that orbits around Earth undetected suddenly eclipses the sun, then much of the water on Earth begins to be pulled into space, threatening to put the planet through a drought of global proportions. Among those are the people of Atlantis who find their kingdom drained of water and only have hours before they will suffocate. During a meeting of the United Nations, the world governments accuse the Sub-Mariner for such an attack.
Hearing the reports in the news Betty Dean warns Namor and convinces him to do something about the problem, however Namor is furious at being wrongly accused for the crisis. Knowing only the surface water of the planet had been taken and knowing that there is a cistern of water under Betty's property, digs a hole in the yard to reach it. As soon as the water is exposed the same force pulls the water, and Namor into space and to the second moon. He finds himself on the surface and meets the alien inhabitants of the moon. They explain to him that when their moon passes the Earth they use the device to pull sucks Earth's water to it for a short period, allowing them to keep a relatively small amount of water for their people when the water is eventually returned to Earth. Furious with the people on the surface of the Earth for accusing him of the situation tells the aliens that they must keep the water away from the Earth.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, Namora has come to the home of Betty Dean to try and find Namor to solve the crisis in Atlantis. Learning that Namor was pulled into space, Namora returns home to tell Princess Fen what happened. Fen then attempts to communicate with her son telepathically. The message is received by Namor who realizes that in getting revenge against the surface world he will doom his own people as well. Namor orders the aliens to return the water, but they refuse. Namor fights through them and reverses their devices sending all the water and himself back to Earth. Back on Earth, Namor returns to Atlantis where he is welcomed back home with open arms. He is informed by Namora that the surface dwellers still blame him for the episodes and he decides to leave to show the surface dwellers that he means revenge.
Appearing in "Menace From the Future World (Part II)"
All Winners Comics #21
(originally printed as Menace From the Future World!)
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Future Man (First appearance)
- Madame Death (First appearance)
Races and Species:
Items:
Vehicles:
- Future Man's Time Ship
Synopsis for "Menace From the Future World (Part II)"
All Winners Comics #21
(originally printed as Menace From the Future World!)
Captain America and Bucky call together the All-Winners Squad and tell them of a new menace: While they were staking out the hideout of Madame Death, they witnessed as Future Man, a time traveller from the year One Million AD appeared and offered Madame Death and her gang a place in his new world order if they assist him in taking over the world so that it can be taken over by his people from the future, whose world has been left dying. When Captain America and Bucky attempted to stop them, Future Man's advanced technology allowed them to escape to begin plotting their conquests of each continent of the world.
Finishing his story, Captain America dispatches each member of the All-Winners Squad to a different part of the world: The Whizzer to South America, the Sub-Mariner to Asia, Miss America to Africa, the Human Torch and Toro to North America and himself and Bucky to Europe.
Notes
- The Guardians of the Galaxy story is reprinted in Astonishing Tales #29.
- Charlie-27 mentioned Karsus in an expression. It is unknown if it a planet, person or deity.
- This story was retold in Guardians of the Galaxy #26, with Starhawk manipulating the formation of the Guardians behind the scenes.
- 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.