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"The Battle for Blüdhaven": Following the Chemo disaster, the United States President has declared a state of emergency and erected a wall around the city, as it is a threat to public health. Since Chemo was only chemically toxic, the nuclear fal

This doesn't look like America to me. Our own Government pushed us out and built a wall to make sure we didn't get back in.
— Firebrand

Battle for Blüdhaven #1 is an issue of the series Battle for Blüdhaven (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 2006. It was published on April 12, 2006.

Synopsis for "The Battle for Blüdhaven"

Following the Chemo disaster, the United States President has declared a state of emergency and erected a wall around the city, as it is a threat to public health. Since Chemo was only chemically toxic, the nuclear fallout present in the city remains a mystery. A new government-sanctioned super team codenamed Freedom's Ring, composed of Major Victory, Silent Majority, Lady Liberty, has taken charge of Blüdhaven. The wall has become a permanent structure, and displaced citizens compare the immediate area to the Gaza Strip. Many live in refugee camps that have sprung up around the wall. Alice Cohen, Tilt Shimura, and the Monolith come from New York to help the refugees. Monolith attempts to keep the peace. Within the city, Father Time of S.H.A.D.E. takes command of the United States military forces in the city. He learns that they have been ordered to shoot and kill any heroes, referred to as insurgents, who enter the city. Father Time also learns that the military is investigating two anomalies. The first is the source of the radiation. The second is a strange seemingly extradimensional being that is part organic and part machine. The being has been in stasis for three months. Given its appearance as a gestating humanoid, the military scientists have dubbed it the “Astronaut Fetus.” It is also revealed that the military has, in its custody, a civilian named Andrew Franklin, whose metagene activated during the Chemo disaster, allowing him to survive but transforming into a walking bomb. They are keeping him in stasis within a liquid-filled chamber. Further, Father Time is told that a mysterious group of power armored vigilantes are running an underground railroad in an attempt to smuggle citizens out of the city. Unbeknownst to them, this group is a new group of heroes calling themselves the Atomic Knights led by Atomic Knight (Gardner Grayle) and outfitted with armor like his. Outside the wall, Firebrand leads a protest against the military’s treatment of the citizens of Blüdhaven. This leads to a riot, which the military puts down aggressively. Inside the city, the Secret Society of Super-Villains has dispatched a newly formed team of villains dubbed the Nuclear Legion, composed of Professor Radium, Nuclear, Mister Nitro, Geiger, Reactron, and Neutron. The Legion is to discover the nature of the radioactive leak inside the city. Soon, the Nuclear Legion encounters and battles the Freedom’s Ring. Lady Liberty and several of Silent Majority’s duplicates are killed, with Reactron severely wounded. The battle between the two groups inadvertently spills into the Atomic Knights’ temporary headquarters, while they are working to save a group of refugees.

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Notes

  • This issue is reprinted in Crisis Aftermath: The Battle for Blüdhaven.
  • This issue received a second printing with black and white cover art on May 10th, 2006.
  • At one point, the narrator says that the Teen Titans were engaged in assisting during the events of this issue. However, Robotman is depicted as fighting alongside them, despite the fact that Robotman is not a member.
    • Because of their similarities, it is possible that it was Cyborg who was intended to be used in the aforementioned scene instead of Robotman, given that Cyborg was a member of the Teen Titans at the time shown in the panel.
      • Robotman is the only one shown among the Teen Titans to not have any speaking lines, making it more difficult to tell whether Robotman and Cyborg were actually mixed up.



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