When you need help defeating the Axis powers, you cut to the chase by building the Chronopticon to travel to the year 2350 and get a mutant super soldier. Lasting for only four issues of Fight Comics in 1941, Super-American was a fusion of Superman and Captain America. Allan Bruce is the world's first timelord and uses his new time machine to get help from Americans in the future where everyone has superpowers. They send back one of their unnamed citizens to assume the role of a stars and stripes sporting superhero. This reverse-Buck Rogers uses his powers of strength, speed, flight, and invulnerability to first take on some pesky fifth columnists assaulting Washington lead by the Nazi stooge Tyrannus. Their initial mission fails, so Tyrannus gets help from his commanding officer, the sneakily named Vultro, while Super-American flies all the way over to Europe to stop their plan to use brand new "air torpedoes" on the Allied Forces. Further installments show the original Homelander going back and forth from his time to help win WWII, even though in his final story Super-American ends up getting his powers temporarily stolen by a deformed Nazi scientist who managed to get the better of the future man with gas, which is his own personal Kryptonite. The concept of a utopian society centuries in the future altering the timeline by sending a regular rando to cause who knows what kind of damage to their own history is something only desperately hungry Golden Age comic writers would come up with.
When you need help defeating the Axis powers, you cut to the chase by building the Chronopticon to travel to the year 2350 and get a mutant super soldier. Lasting for only four issues of Fight Comics in 1941, Super-American was a fusion of Superman and Captain America. Allan Bruce is the world's first timelord and uses his new time machine to get help from Americans in the future where everyone has superpowers. They send back one of their unnamed citizens to assume the role of a stars and stripes sporting superhero. This reverse-Buck Rogers uses his powers of strength, speed, flight, and invulnerability to first take on some pesky fifth columnists assaulting Washington lead by the Nazi stooge Tyrannus. Their initial mission fails, so Tyrannus gets help from his commanding officer, the sneakily named Vultro, while Super-American flies all the way over to Europe to stop their plan to use brand new "air torpedoes" on the Allied Forces. Further installments show the original Homelander going back and forth from his time to help win WWII, even though in his final story Super-American ends up getting his powers temporarily stolen by a deformed Nazi scientist who managed to get the better of the future man with gas, which is his own personal Kryptonite. The concept of a utopian society centuries in the future altering the timeline by sending a regular rando to cause who knows what kind of damage to their own history is something only desperately hungry Golden Age comic writers would come up with.
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