Two knights out-of-time, thrust into the present...and two modern day Templar knights of a different type... each impacting the 20th century in various ways.
Jason Blood was the premier protector of the Camelot of Earth-One, wherein his superhuman alter ego of Etrigan struck terror in his foes. However, facing insurmountable forces, Blood retreated from the battle to protect his home and lived for centuries until the modern era when he was revived in Gotham City, a noted historian who protected to innocent alongside Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman... among others.
Sir Justin Arthur was the premier protector of the Camelot of Earth-Two, hand picked by his counselor to be the Shining Knight. Given an indestructible golden armor, a sword that could slice through anything, and a flying horse named Winged Victory, Justin had adventures in this historical time period. Then, a battle with a giant ogre sent Justin into the cold waters enveloping him in ice and freezing him for over a thousand years, awakening in a modern era of the 20th century to become one of Law's Legionnaires.
Keith Kenyon was a political dissident and scientist who discovered a sunken gold chest that enabled him to modify its ancient properties to become an elixir which he drank, turning him into the criminal known as Goldface. After his initial defeat at the hands of Earth-One's Green Lantern, Kenyon developed his gold armor along with a modified liquid gold spray gun. Despite an inherent weakness to the color yellow which prohibited Lantern's power ring from affecting, the hero was still able to outmaneuver Goldface once more. Kenyon returned years later to resume his criminal career in Coast City, and resume his war against his foe.
His counterpart of Earth-Two was criminal gang leader Baron Buckton, known as the Black Templar, an ancient 1000 year order allegedly originating in Camelot (who a time-traveling Alan "Green Lantern" Scott encountered while battling their then leader Tarquin). This meglamonical malcontent led forces of the same name. Twice his forces struck against Keystone City, drawing first his henchmen and then himself into conflict with its costumed protector, the Flash. Along with his ancient weaponry, including the ancient Flame of Buckton, Templar incorporated modern sensibilities into his schemes and nearly succeeded in conquering his city and its prize jewel, Keystone Research (that world's version of S.T.A.R Labs) possessing cutting edge technology itself, owned by the Flash. Yet both times they battled, the Flash beat the Black Templar.
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