SW10/WWW: Powernaut 1962 #12 and #13: THEN YOU SHALL MEET THEIR FATE
Scott Eiler
seiler at eilertech.com
Sun Apr 21 09:32:09 PDT 2013
DOUBLE EPISODE to end the 1962 series!
http://www.eilertech.com//stories/powernaut/1962b.htm#12
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Bonus Section: Commentary from Online! Powernaut and the Power Patrol
(comic strip)
From the Encyclopedia Galactica, free information for the universe.
See also: Powernaut and the Power Patrol (social group).
Editor's Note: This article may contain wording that presents the
subject in a subjective manner.
Powernaut and the Power Patrol was a comic strip published in 1962. More
than any other comic series, it capitalized on team-building and
pro-American sentiment within the United States.
The main character was the Powernaut - the same one as in 1941 and 1954,
realistically aged and acting as a leader. The adventures of PowerTEEN
from 1955 to 1960 were ignored.
Also appearing was Paula Power. Oddly, she'd gotten her Powernaut-like
powers alongside PowerTEEN in Powernaut 1955 comics. Her possession of
such powers outside of PowerTEEN continuity was never explained.
Rounding out the team were S.O.S. and Stonewater Smith, literal space
cadets - with massive military experience. S.O.S. had appeared in
Powernaut 1944 comics. It was later revealed that he'd become a U.S.
secret agent and fought Russian agents in Greece in 1947. There was a
real-life war veteran Stephen Oliver Samuels who claimed to have had
these adventures; he died in 2006.
(http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2006/yesterday.htm)
The presence of Stonewater Smith in this strip is harder to explain. He
is portrayed as a Negro, which was controversial in 1962. The Power
Comic Company editor Scott Eiler was asked about this, and responded
simply, "That's what color he *is*." Like S.O.S., a real-life war
veteran Matthew "Stonewater" Smith has claimed these adventures. Mr.
Smith was recruited from St. Louis, Missouri into the Tuskegee airmen of
the U.S. Army, toward the end of World War 2. "Stonewater" Smith had
been reported dead - but he appeared at a conference in 2010 in East
Nashville, Tennessee.
(http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2010/cauldron4.htm) Someone had
claimed to be him at a ceremony in Cut Bank, Montana earlier that year,
but that person was much younger.
(http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2010/predecessors.htm)
The comic went farther than any other in portraying the space race
between the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1961 it portrayed an
American rocket landing on the Moon; 1962 portrayed a space race to
Mars. The strip shows a basic misunderstanding of politics and rocketry,
but science may have been sacrificed for the sake of entertainment. And
politics might have yielded to the political sentiment that Cuba could
yet be swayed from the Communists.
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Author's Notes:
heh. The name of the Powernaut's editor of 1955 is Scott Eiler. That is
how I fit into the Powernaut's universe.
The Power Patrol will have significant adventures with the Powernaut in
future, and also with his universe. S.O.S. survived nearly to the
present day; his final story may well show up in a Powernaut comic.
Stonewater Smith is still around - though he skipped some years! There
is considerable story to be told there. They are both in canon for
Superhuman World stories, currently waiting to surge forward from
2011... Paula Power is not so involved. And there's probably a story
there too.
This is only the second year of Powernaut comics, but the Powernaut has
now turned eight years old! He was born on the afternoon of Easter
Saturday 2005. www.eilertech.com/stories/2005/powernaut.htm ... Yeah, it
was a slow start for him, but the big guy was running the series by
August of that year. I've got plans to retell those stories as Powernaut
2005 comics, wherein there will be great drama and amusement. But for
now there's www.eilertech.com/stories/2005/powerpatrol1.htm .
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(signed) Scott Eiler 8{D> -------- http://www.eilertech.com/ ---------
When you *are* the leader... whatever goes wrong... whether you did it
or not... *you* are held responsible. - Barack Obama
I know. - Archie Andrews
- from Archie #617, March 2011, scripted by Alex Simmons.
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