We go to the Golden Age for a look at that other DC Super-team in the Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives, Volume 2.
We look at the earliest adventures of Superman as a boy in the Adventures of Superboy.
Finally, Atomic Robo meets up with a gang of outlaw lady pirates and takes on a rogue Japanese terrorist in Atomic Robo and the Flying She-Devils of the Pacific.
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Transcript:
The Seven Soldiers of Victory go on epic adventures, and we take a look at some early adventures of Superboy, and we wrap it up with a little bit of Atomic Robo. Join us straight ahead.

Welcome. Well we're going to start out, we have a couple different Golden Age comics from the 1940s and we start out with the book, The Seven Soldiers of Victory, Archives Volume Two. Now this is not to be confused with Grant Morrison's later series, The Seven Soldiers of Victory. This one is the original; they starred in leading comics in the 1940s and this book was really just their big team up book. And Volume Two of the Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives collects Issues Five through Eight.
Now the Seven Soldiers of Victory were Shining Knight, Star Spangled Kid and Stripesy, Vigilante, Green Arrow and Speedy, and Crimson Avenger and Wing. Now none of these characters had super powers except for Shining Knight who had some magical powers, mainly his flying horse which was really cool. One thing I don't like about this is how they do the Seven Soldiers of Victory and how they count it, because if you listen there were actually eight names. And there are three sidekicks who regularly appear; thus, there's really only five features per book. The one sidekick that is usually not counted as a soldier is Wing. Wing is the Chinese sidekick to the Crimson Avenger and he's got his own costume and is pretty competent in battle. However, the way his dialogue is written is kind of in this broken English as well as Wing's general design is really stereotypical. It's enough to make you wonder whether the writer realized that the Chinese were actually our allies at this point – though Wing would have better portrayals and better stories and actually be the keystone to the big story in Justice League of America Number 100.
In many ways, the Crimson Avenger was a rip-off of the Green Hornet from the radio show in the same way the Blue Beetle was. And so Wing came along as the sort of valet character who was also the sidekick, though I think Cato from the Green Hornet was a stronger character. The Crimson Avenger was actually DCs first masked hero, beating Batman to the punch by several months. The Vigilante was a Western-themed character. He was related to a Native American fighter and the son of a sheriff in Wyoming; and he went on to stardom as a singing radio cowboy, but comes back to avenge the death of his father and begins the first of many adventures fighting evil in the pages of Action Comics.
Green Arrow and Speedy are probably the most familiar to modern-day readers, and of course were known for their archery related skills and powers. And the team wraps up with the Star Spangled Kid and Stripesy which is kind of an interesting reversal. Star Spangled Kid is actually the hero and is a kid, and Stripesy is an adult, Star Spangled Kid's chauffeur in his real life. So, this is the case of an adult sidekick for a kid which didn't really happen a lot, even today. They are really known for having a series of maneuvers and they'll call out the maneuver, like a football play, and they will use that to fight and to overcome their enemies. So that is the team, so let's take a look at their adventures.
The first one in here in Issue Five is The Skull, and the plot of this is pretty simple.