SW10/WWW: Powernaut 1976 #3: Have Some America!

[Scott Eiler]

The Powernaut of 1976 only has one way to defeat his Nazi enemy: He'll 
put on a pageant, and the United States will be the star!  Powernaut 
1976 *concludes!*

http://www.eilertech.com/stories/powernaut/1976.htm#3

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Bonus Section:  2005 Reprint Commentary from Stephen Oliver Samuels 
(S.O.S.)!   Patriotism and Powernauts


Powernaut comics were hardly alone in suddenly finding patriotism during 
the year of the American Bicentennial.  I don't know the state of mind 
of that particular Powernaut, so I can't say whether he truly felt pride 
in America.  But I can tell a story about the real Powernaut.

When we were in France in 1944, I told him I wanted to be as inspiring 
and patriotic as him someday.  The Powernaut just tugged at his tunic 
and said, "Do you think yellow's a patriotic color?"

"Well, not in our country."

"There you have it."

Now I realize, the Powernaut only became inspirational by accident. 
That's known from his origin story in 1941.  He was just trying to do 
the right thing.  The rest is history.

Having met the Powernaut's replacement, I believe a similar thing may 
have happened.  He was obviously a moral man, trying to do what he felt 
to be the right thing.  When he took up the Powernaut's name, he got the 
Powernaut's enemies with it - as witness Aryan Man.  I can testify, the 
presence of any Nazi is enough to make people believe in anything which 
is the opposite of Nazism.  Like America.  So, the Powernaut of 1976 
might truly have had a patriotic moment.



-- 
(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.