American Comics Group started out in 1939 and lasted all the way to 1967. They were well known for their anthology titles, even though they did have a small number of original superheroes including the awkwardly named Nemesis which sounds more he's a supervillain plotting revenge against some random good guy. Similar to Kid Eternity, Nemesis didn't become a hero until after he died. In life, Steve Flint was a detective with the Department of Justice who gets killed on assignment and is sent to the Unknown(aka: Heaven)where the Grim Reaper gives him a new lease on afterlife as becoming a ghostly agent dressed up in a boy wonder shorts, a cape, a red tunic with an hourglass emblem, and a pointless mask to cover his identity which is stupid because he's already dead. Now dubbed Nemesis, this avenging angel existed in the same comic book universe as other ACG superheroes, so he met up with Magicman and Herbie(aka: Fat Fury), but his weirdest crossover happened in Adventures Into The Unknown #169 where he gets in a literal fist fight with Der Fuhrer, which is tricky considering the bastard died over twenty years ago. In the year 1966 when the comic came out in, the Grim Reaper shows Nemesis his new telescope to look down on an Earth that had diverged into an alternate timeline where the Nazis won WWII, and Hitler is still the big cheese. Nemesis quantum leaps to 1940 where he helps the British army with the battle of Dunkirk, after which he then dresses himself up as a mysterious wizard and appears to Hitler's flunkies Hermann Goering and Joseph Goebbels along with Adolf himself in their dreams to convince them to invade Russia. The German assault fails when Nemesis uses his powers to freeze over their tanks which leads Hitler into a deep depression that has him commit suicide. This resets the status quo of history, even though Nemesis did pour liquid paper all over the timeline completely changing it to the point that even the Grim Reaper can't tell the difference. In most comics, this would've led into some whole other parallel universe like Age Of Apocalypse or Days Of Future Past popping up to screw up the fragile walls of reality even further. It's obviously a better world where Hitler offed himself, but there was explanation as to how this broken history happened in the first place so Nemesis could avoid future paradoxes that bug Doctor Who on a weekly basis.
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