Four Freedom Fighters Face Fearsome Foes

A despotic extra-dimensional ruler sought out the secret to the anti-life equation in order to bend the wills of all in his path. This ruler, Darkseid, posssessed the devastatingly powerful Omega beams or Omega effect. Despite this, he wanted more power, and so sent various evil agents from his world of Apokolips to Earth-One, where key individuals possessed portions of this secret equation. To oppose this threat, his son Oberon journeyed to Earth from his adopted world of New Genesis in order to secure these individuals. To that end, Orion became the guardian protector of Dave Lincoln, Richard Roe, Lorraine Hampton and Professor Bradford. Dave had especially assisted Orion in various adventures, as would another diminutive ally in the circus performer known as Oberon. As a result, Darkseid was kept from his goal, and humanity's freedom was preserved.

Decades earlier on Earth-Two, there was a group of equally destructive individuals, although they fought on the side of justice. These were the Bombardiers... consisting of Montague, Swordo and Red... each possessing the same abilities as the Human Bomb. These three were given formula 27-QRX, as was another man named Hustace Throckmorton, and like Roy Lincoln (aka the Human Bomb), each manifested destructive abilities. While Hustace fought alongside Roy in America, the Bombardiers accompanied Lincoln to Japan in an attempt to free Red's captured soldier sibling. Red was the sassy red head lady seeking to save her brother... Swordo was the carnival performer craving adventure... Montague was the former criminal wanting to turn over a new leaf. Although not a Bombardeer, Red's brother Rogers had a larger than life ego as well. Throckmorton had himself only worked with Human Bomb in the mainland of America and wasn't one of the Bombardeers in name but was one in purpose.

While there was only one man behind the mask of the Human Bomb, the contributions of Throckmorton and the three Bombariers aided Roy Lincoln in his costumed crusade. Another five-in-one combination was the quintet known as the Forever People, young adults from New Genesis who fleed to Earth-One in order to escape persecution from Darkseid. When endangered, these five youths (Vykin, Mark Moonrider, Big Bear, Beautiful Dreamer and Serafin, counterparts of the Earth-Two TNT, Dyna-Mite, Nuklon, Dian Belmont and Buddy Smith) merged into the extra-dimensional being known as Infinity Man, who like Human Bomb possessed tremendous destructive powers, and like him ended up exiled from the universe of his birth.