Outsiders Week: Forgotten Five for Fighting

The Force of July were a fleeting attempt at capitalizing on the woebegone and misguided patriots attempting to reign in the threat of fellow super humans that are unregulated. Major Victory is the strong beefcake, Sparkler is the flying firecracker in power and in youthful spirit, Mayflower is the vine-growing lass, Lady Liberty the maiden that projects energy from her torch, and Silent Majority is the self-multiplying foot soldier(s). Their one claim to fame was a brush up versus Earth-One's Outsiders.

The Seven Soldiers of Victory were a band of seven… actually eight… masked manhunters who formed shortly after the Justice Society. During their sixth recorded adventure, these heroes encountered individuals masquerading after them. Among these individuals were a handful who either previously or would later resume their heroic opponents’ identities in other encounters with them

Comprised of faux-facsimiles, these fraudulent “Seven Soldiers” attempted to claim a high-value reward offered by a millionaire. “Stripesy” (aka Barsey) is the strong beefcake, “Star-Spangled Kid” (aka Comet Kid) is the flying firecracker in power and in youthful spirit, “Crimson Avenger” (formerly clad in fadora and suit like the original) is the crimson cloud crusader, “Shining Knight” (aka Ranny Roves) is the English lad with his energy repelling sword,  and “Vigilante” is the self-multiplying foot soldier(s). Unlike the costumed crusaders they were modeled after, these miscreants were as cowardly as they were crooked.

While the Force of July battled the Outsiders once prior to the Crisis, and then disappeared from whence they came, these forgotten five themselves vanished amidst the crisis of World War II. The fake Soldiers were foiled by traps and snares easily overcome by the originals.