Seven Soldiers of Victory I (New Earth)

The Seven Soldiers of Victory, also known as Law's Legionaires, were a team of crimefighters. They debuted sometime in the winter of 1941.

Original incarnation
Their original line-up consisted of the Crimson Avenger, the Star-Spangled Kid and his bodyguard Stripesy, Vigilante, Stuff the Chinatown Kid, the Shining Knight, and Alias the Spider. They were assisted by Wing How(the Crimson Avenger's young ward), the Squire(Shining Knight sidekick) and Winged Victory(Shining Knight's horse.

The team was active in the United States during the Second World War, fighting villains like Black Star, the Iron Hand, the Dummy, and the time-travelling Doctor Doome. While fighting Doctor Doome they were inadvertantly transported forward in time, where they were briefly captured by the Appelxians in their attempted invasion of the Earth - an event which led to the founding of the Justice League of America. Reasoning that their presence in the future was potentially dangerous to time itself, the Seven Soldiers return to their own time immediately afterwards.

However, shortly after the retirement of the Justice Society in 1950, the Iron Hand attacked the world with his Nebula Man and demanded tribute. The Seven Soldiers of Victory charged into battle and vanished, apparently killed.

However, decades later the Justice League and Justice Society teamed up to deal with the return of the Iron Hand, and it was revealed that the cosmic powers of the Nebula Man had scattered the heroes in the past. Splitting up to catch them, the Justice League and the Justice Society helped the Seven Soldiers return to the present and save the day.

Now living out of time, the various members of the team have gone their seperate ways. The Crimson Avenger never recovered from the death of his young ward Wing, and was killed saving a city from a bomb. The Shining Knight spent decades trawling the time-stream for Swamp Thing after he went missing, after which he retired to ancient Camelot. The Star-Spangled Kid joined the Justice Society and was eventually killed by Solomon Grundy. Stripesy is currently active with the Justice Society as STRIPE. The Vigilante attempted to form a new Seven Soldiers but was killed by the Sheeda.

Second Incarnation
During the Silver Age event, Batgirl formed a teamed called the Seven Soldiers of Victory. It consisted of her, Deadman, Metamorpho, Blackhawk, Mento, Adam Strange and Shining Knight. It fought valiantly but disbanded soon afterwards.

Seven Soldiers Megaseries
In 2005, Grant Morrison began writing an event titled "Seven Soldiers", in which seven heroes fought off a paranormal invasion force from the future, without ever actually meeting. It was popularly received and used several elements from previous stories, but the Seven Soldiers of Victory did not reform based on this. However, all seven of the characters involved(Shining Knight, Manhattan Guardian, Zatanna, Klarion the Witch Boy, Mister Miracle, Bulleteer and Frankenstein) are considered active in the DCU. Most of them appeared in Infinite Crisis, and several story elements from the Seven Soldiers project will be used in Final Crisis.