#mort meskin

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𝗠𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻 Cover art, February 1946.

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Leading Comics #1 (December 15th, 1941)

Art by Mort Meskin

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DC Hero the Golden-Age Vigilante with the secret ID being a singing cowboy on the radio by Mort Meskin

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More Fun Comics #86, December 1942. Mort Meskin cover pencils & inks.

Info from Grand Comics Database

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Jack Kirby, Mort Meskin and Steve Ditko Captain 3-D #1 (1953)

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Leading Comics #01 (Winter1941)

Art by Mort Meskin

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Adventures into Darkness 15 Cover (Unpublished) by Mort Meskin

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LEADING COMICS #2 (March, 1942). Cover by Mort Meskin.

The Seven Soldiers of Victory, aka Law's Legionnaires, take on the evil Black Star!

The SSV were DC Comics' (then known as National) second super-hero team, after the more famous Justice Society of America. And like the JSA, all the SSV members appeared in anthology titles, but not their own comic books (that rule would eventually be lifted for the JSA).

The Justice Society was comprised of heroes from both National (Doctor Fate, Hourman, the Spectre, Sandman, Starman, and honorary members Superman and Batman) and affiliated publisher All-American Publications (Flash, Green Lantern, Atom, Hawkman, Wonder Woman, Johnny Thunder, Wildcat, Doctor Mid-Nite, Black Canary, and Mr. Terrific)*. The Seven Soldiers, on the other hand, came only from National's books.

Unfortunately, this second-hand team with second-tier heroes didn't last. The Soldiers' feature ended in Leading Comics #14 (March, 1945), although the individual members did manage to last a little longer in their own features before disappearing by the end of the decade.

Although The Vigilante managed to get his own 1947 movie serial. And Green Arrow and Speedy became part of a handful of DC superheroes (along with Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman and Aquaman) who were published continually from their first appearance until well into the Silver Age.

(That's right - Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Johnny Thunder, Atom, Wildcat, Doctor Mid-Nite, Black Canary and Mr. Terrific weren't originally DC characters! They only became part of DC officially when National and All-American merged into one company in 1944.)