| Supermen of America | |
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 Supermen of America #1, artistDave Gibbons | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | (Original) Supermen of America #1 (March 1999) (Second) Superman #714 (October 2011) |
| Created by | (Original) Stuart Immonen writer (Second)Chris Roberson (writer),Jamal Igle (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Base(s) | (Original) Outreach 1 (Second) Mobile |
| Member(s) | (Original) Brahma Loser Maximum Outburst Pyrogen Psilencer White Lotus (Second) Superman Superboy Supergirl Steel Livewire Iron Munro Super-Chief |
TheSupermen of America is the name of twosuperhero teams published byDC Comics. The original group first appeared in a special written byStuart Immonen published in 1999,[1] and a later mini-series written byFabian Nicieza, which was published in 2000. The second group debuted inSuperman #714 in 2011.
The Supermen of America appear in the second season of the television seriesSuperman & Lois.
The original Supermen of America was an officialSupermanfan club from the 1940s. Comic readers could send away for and receive special membership cards that also doubled as decoders. Members also received buttons and special certificates.
The members of the first Supermen of America are youngmetahumans gathered by Outburst after the shooting death of singer Junior K-D from theboy band Crossfire.[2] Outburst and his family had been saved from death atDoomsday's hands bySuperman. The young naive meta is willing to acceptLex Luthor's funding for a team of superheroes to protect the city in Superman's absence. Although Luthor volunteered money, Outburst is tasked with recruiting the members.
Outburst first recruits his girlfriend White Lotus, a young meta trained by the Warlords of Okaara, then he gathers Brahma, Loser, Pyrogen, and Psilencer. They were salaried heroes but they were determined to protect the city from villains emboldened by news of Superman's apparent death.
They refurbish buildings acrossMetropolis and turn them into community centers. The main building Outreach 1 serves as the team's headquarters. After Psilencer's untimely death by a gang member, Outburst and his inexperienced teammates are deeply shaken and reconsider their vocation. The team meets and recruitsMaximum, the angry young protector of Suicide Slum, a chronically poor section of Metropolis. A former athlete, Maximum would have remainedquadriplegic without special implants provided by Lexcorp.
A disgruntled Lexcorp employee discovers thatS.T.A.R. Labs had hidden a capsule inside a special holding chamber called Lockdown 6 in the waters near Metropolis. Luthor successfully deploys Pyrogen to retrieve the capsule from Lockdown 6, but he encounters the villainous groupDeep Six and is rebuffed. Darkseid, lord ofApokolips, also wanted the contents of Lockdown 6 and had sent the Deep Six to retrieve them. In the Vega system, the Warlords of Okaara sense the danger presented by the capsule, and take preventative measures.
The Okaarans overpower Earth's defensive forces and White Lotus hurries to negotiate a peace settlement before they "cleanse' the planet. To save Earth from worse attacks, while White Lotus is negotiating with the Okaarans, the chamber is opened and the Unimaginable is unleashed. The Unimaginable's energy form possesses Maximum and he temporarily gains immense power. Maximum's parents convince him to relinquish the power, which he disperses safely.
In exchange for the Supermen's silence about his involvement with the Unimaginable fiasco, Lexcorp cuts its ties with the Supermen of America charities. Lex Luthor signs all property deeds over to the organization, including Outreach 1.
Several members of the group are seen during the 2006Infinite Crisis event in the pages ofThe OMAC Project No. 6. The team is confronting severalOMACs, technologically advanced warriors controlled by a central intelligence that wishes to corral superhuman activities, even if it means using murder. The OMACs analysis states the team is "67.89% neutralized". The final fate of the SoA remains unrevealed.
After a months-long walk across the US during the "Superman: Grounded" storyline, Superman recruits several allies into a new group named after the former SoA.[3] Superman family membersSuperboy,Supergirl, andSteel joined the team, along withLivewire andIron Munro.
Mitch Anderson (portrayed byIan Bohen) and a variation of the Supermen of America appear inSuperman & Lois. The group consists ofTag Harris (portrayed by Wern Lee),Jesse Vance (portrayed by Evelyn Gonda), and an unnamed boy (portrayed by Dominique Termansen), who all possessKryptonian abilities.
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