DC: The New Frontier Vol 1 1

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 * Title              = DC: The New Frontier
 * Image              = DC-_The_New_Frontier_1.jpg
 * Volume             = 1
 * Issue              = 1
 * Month              = March
 * Year               = 2004


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 * CoverArtist1       =


 * Editor1_1          = Mark Chiarello
 * Editor1_2          = Valerie d'Orazio
 * Writer1_1          = Darwyn Cooke
 * Writer1_2          = Dave Stewart
 * Penciler1_1        = Darwyn Cooke
 * Inker1_1           =
 * Colourist1_1       = Dave Stewart
 * Letterer1_1        = Jared K. Fletcher
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 * Quotation          = It's over. Make war no more.
 * Speaker            = Steve Johnstone


 * StoryTitle1        = Our Fighting Forces
 * Synopsis1          =

Chapter One: Analog Heroes
The chapter starts on Dinosaur Island during 1945. In a fortified cave, Johnny Cloud of the Losers alongside with Pooch, writes a story on the cave's wall about the Losers' final mission...

Following the closing end of World War Two in Europe, the United States has been locating and procuring Axis scientists, including a Dieter Teschner who was important to America's post-war plans, was secretly transported through the Pacific Ocean to avoid detection.

However, when the plane carrying Teschner and a squad of O.S.S. commandos led by Colonel Richard Flag crash landed on a Pacific island (Dinosaur Island). Radio communication with the castaways was lost between them and the American mainland, but fortunately their location is located and an O.S.S. rescue operation (codename: "Four Horsemen") was initiated involving The Losers, consisting of Johnny Cloud, Captain William Storm, Sarge, Gunner MacKay, and Pooch.

The Losers voyaging on a PT Boat and trailing with a Albatross seaplane are close to their arrival, and cut loose their plane. As they are close to the island, their boat is violently rock by something large, and alive in the ocean which sends them and their boat flying towards the island.

Recovering from their crash landing, the group are confused of what it was that they encounter. Suddenly the Pooch sense something, and a tyrannosaurus rex appears and about to attack them. The Losers attack the t-rex with their weapons, with Gunner effectively hits it with his bazooka. As Cloud and Storm tries to flank the dinosaur with grenades, and while Gunner and Sarge prepares a bazooka round the t-rex thrash it's tail fatally at the rocket crew wounding Gunner. The Cloud and Storm manage to harm the t-rex with their grenades, mutilating it's left arm and forcing it to leave. The Losers pay their respects to a dead Gunner, but Sarge is greatly affected of his death than the others who he treats Gunner almost as a brother to him.

The Losers, along with Sarge carrying a wrapped Gunner, manage to find Flagg's abandoned fortified mountain cave base, discovering spare supplies of armaments including those of Japanese and Australian, but also acknowledged that there are traces of human presence. The Losers make camp in the cave in hopes of awaiting the missing castaways and Sarge personally bury Gunner.

The next morning Johnny Cloud and Storm are awake by rocket fire and finds that Sarge is missing. Suspecting that the dispatched rockets belongs to Sarge, the two follow the sounds and suddenly the two are attack by pterodactyls. In the conflict, they manage to kill one but Storm is carried away by another pterodactyl. Despaired of Storm's capture, Cloud went back to the cave and finds Rick Flagg. Flagg then informs Cloud that he had heard the Losers' firefight the night before while planting traps on the north face of the mountain. On his way to his cave, Flagg tells of Sarge's attack on the same t-rex that attacked the Losers and was killed. Cloud then introduce himself to Flagg and his team's mission in rescuing anyone on the island, but to learn that Flagg was the only one alive and has a film copy of Teschner's notes.

With everything ready, the Losers, Cloud and Pooch, and Flagg race back to the beach and prepares a life raft to cross back to the Albatross. However, Cloud tells Flagg that he intends to avenge his comrades' death in killing the t-rex. Flagg tries to convince him to leave the island, but Cloud points his pistol at Flagg stating his vengeance. After Flagg bids Cloud with luck and leaves the island, Cloud and Pooch prepare themselves in killing the t-rex.

The next day, Cloud and Pooch chase after the t-rex. On their way, Pooch is killed by one of Flagg's booby-traps. Though wounded, Cloud manage to face the dinosaur and sacrifice himself into killing it by priming a pair of grenades into it's mouth.

In the end, Cloud's epitaph reads: "Ask my family and they'll tell you I was a Navajo. Ask the Army Air Force and they'll say I was an American. But if you ask my brothers, they'll set you straight. John Cloud was a Loser."

Three years later, a young boy sneaks to Edwards Air Force Base in a chance to meet with his longtime hero Chuck Yeager. The boy travels to the 'Fly Inn' bar and meets with Miss 'Pancho' Barnes. After talking to Pancho of his reasons, he then meets Yeager. The pilot notice of boy's airman jacket and learns it belongs to his father Martin, who Yeager greatly knew him, died in aerial combat. The boy brings out his self-made model of the Bell X-1 airplane asking Yeager to have his autograph, just to make it out to "Hal Jordan."

Chapter Two: State of the Union Suit
In 1952 Gotham City Hourman is being chased by several policemen across the rooftops of several buildings. When they, including a cameraman, run and land on a fire-escape railing, it failed to give them support causing them to fall several stories to the ground.

A newspaper article,"Washington Declares War On Mystery Men", written by Iris West, reveals that Hourman was wanted in for questioning in regarding to a Federal warrant, and was one of a handful of vigilantes that refused to retire or register with the Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities; however, the chase on the rooftops caused Hourman and four policemen falling to their deaths. It reveals that four years ago following the Alger Hiss case that the House on Unamerican Activities (HUAC) and Senator Joseph McCarthy had been turning their focus on and blacklisting Hollywood directors, screenwriters and celebrities for alleged communist sympathies, including Roy Raymond. Then later the HUAC began questioning America's superheros and vigilantes of their loyalty. The Justice Society of America was put into question and was brought to Congress for their list of absurd and exaggerated allegations of "Un-American" activities. Ultimately, Congress demanded that the JSA revealed their identities and swear an oath of loyalty. However, they refuse to recognize Congress' authority and chose to vanish from society, henceforth they retired.

The JSA's stance was followed by many vigilantes to refuse to register to their government, leaving a few dozen of heroes to register including Superman and Wonder Woman. President Eisenhower have the Man of Steel to arrest the unregistered vigilantes, until he was matched in facing Batman who hit Superman with a chemical explosive, presumably a Kryptonite substance.

Concurrent with the legalization of vigilantes, Task Force X was created which is led by Richard Flagg, in a succession of Harry Truman's Suicide Squad, whose purpose was to "react creatively to any challenge, Terran or Alien, scientific or biologic."

With the new change in the world's status quo, though some of the public was against their American government's aggressive view on superheros, including Hourman, revealed to be Rex Tyler. In the end of Iris' article, Hourman is lauded for being a "quintessential American."

Chapter Three: Heavy Traffic in Mig Alley
A year later in July 27, 1953, the Korean War is declared over in an armistice. Hal Jordan and his wingman Ace Morgan have their last (joyful) recon patrol over the Yalu River Delta in order for Intelligence to draw up exact positions at the time of the cease fire. However, not everyone had heard about the ceasefire.

Soon later both Ace and Hal are attacked by North Korean Migs. In the dogfight, Hal's jet is hit forcing Hal to bail out. Unfortunately before he could pulled his ripcord for his parachute Hal is knocked unconscious as a piece of his plane hit him. Seeing that Hal is unconscious Ace position himself under Hal and abandons his jet to reach Hal, and manage to pull his ripcord.

Meanwhile, a 100 kilometers away in South Korea, reporters Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane are picked up to Seoul by helicopter pilot Steve Johnstone.

Back to Hal, before hitting the ground he regains consciousness and unexpectedly landed on a North Korean soldier, knocking him out.

Johnstone is radio in by firebase of Ace and Hal's fall, which Ace is already rescued, is required to pick up Hal.

In the trench that Hal was in, he sees Johnstone's chopper and signals it with a smoke flare. However, other North Korean soldiers sees the flare and the chopper. As Hal prepare his pistol for the worst, he is then attack by the unconscious Korean soldier. As they wrestle, Hal tries to tell him of the war's ceasefire but couldn't remember to speak the Korean language. Hal was then force to kill the soldier. The chopper arrives and both Johnstone and Jimmy rescue Hal before the Korean soldiers arrives.

In the chopper Lois enthusiastically ask Hal of how he cheated death, but for Hal to sadly reply in Korean. Johnstone translate to Lois that Hal said "It's over. Make war no more."

Featured Characters:
 * Appearing1 =
 * The Losers
 * Johnny Cloud
 * William Storm
 * Sarge
 * Gunner MacKay
 * Pooch

Supporting Characters: Villains: Other Characters:
 * Hal Jordan
 * Richard Flagg, Sr.
 * Ace Morgan
 * Lois Lane
 * Jimmy Olsen
 * Steve Johnstone
 * Dinosaurs
 * North Korean soldiers
 * Hourman
 * Justice Society of America
 * Green Lantern (Alan Scott)
 * Black Canary
 * Doctor Mid-Nite
 * Doctor Fate
 * Hawkman
 * Wildcat


 * Task Force X
 * Karin Grace
 * Hugh Evans
 * Jess Bright

Locations: Items: Vehicles:
 * Superman
 * Batman
 * Dinosaur Island
 * Edwards Air Force Base
 * Gotham City
 * North Korea
 * PT Boat
 * HU-16 Albatross
 * F-86 Sabres
 * MiG-15s

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 * Notes              =
 * Trivia             = *There are some historic inaccuracies if not alternations in this issue (and the series as a whole). Eisenhower is President in 1952, but he wasn't until '53, and Senator Joseph McCarthy is the head of the House Un-American Activities Committee, but McCarthy never sat on the HUAC as he was elected directly to the Senate in '48. John Stephens Wood was the chairman of HUAC at the time.
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