Alter Ego: Samuel (last name unknown)
Occupation: Patriot, Adventurer
Known Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: All Star Squadron (former), Freedom
Fighters (former)
Base of Operations: The United States of America
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 170 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White
History:
In 1777, Hessian soldiers who were serving the British
side in the American Revolutionary War were puruing a
wagon train bringing supplies to General george
Washington's troops at Valley Forge. With out those
supplies, the American cause was doomed.
One of the men accompanying the wagon train was a
courageous, white-haired patriot named Sam who tricked
the Hessian troops into pursuing him while the wagon
train got away safely. Sam's plan succeeded, but
Hessian soldiers gunned him down. As Sam lay dying, he
had a vision of the spirit of American freedom, who
appeared as a bearded, white-haired man garbed in the
costume wo now know as that of Uncle Sam. Sam's spirit
rose from his body and united with the spirit of
freedom, which told him, "we will be one, as you guide
America through the future."
Through the succeeding decades, the being known as
Uncle Sam appeared to help Americans in times of
turmoil. He fought alongside Americans on the
battlefield and helped them fight for their rights
against oppression within America.
In 1940 Uncle Sam, the spirit of liberty, decided to
come to life again now that America was threatened by
the Axis power and by subversives such as the Black
Legions. The spirit of of Uncle Same appeared to a
white-haired midwestern patriot named Samuel, who
opposed the Black Legions. The spirit merged with
Samuel, who became the new Uncle Sam and defeated the
Legions and other enemies of freedom.
In 1941, Uncle Sam had a vision of Japanese zeroes
bombing an American naval base, while he is fighting a
group of homegrown fascists called Steel Helmets. With
the threat impending, Uncle Sam recruited a number of
costumed heroes as members of a team that would be
known as the Freedom Fighters. This first set of
Freedom Fighters engaged a group of Japanese zeroes
over the Pacific Ocean on December 7, 1941. This team
succeeded in preventing the first wave of Japanese
attacks on Pearl Harbor, but Uncle Sam's first
incarnation of Freedom Fighters are apparently all
killed in their first foray (although it is later
revealed Neon The Unknown and Magno are the only ones
to actually perish). Only Uncle Sam escaped relatively
unscathed.
Later, Sam recruits a new team with Black Condor, Doll
Man, the Human Bomb, Phantom Lady, the Ray, and the
Red Bee and for a time, they operated under the larger
All-Star Squadron organization. This group fared much
better than the previous one, but on one mission they
were captured by Baron Blitzkrieg , who killed the Red
Bee. It was soon thereafter, the Freedom Fighters
separated from the All-Star Squadron and were based in
Washington D.C.
Even when not leading the Freedom Fighters, Uncle Sam
fights alongside ordinary Americans everywhere. From
the battlefields of World War II to the jungle swamps
of Vietnam to the Middle Eastern desert, Uncle Sam has
been there.
Powers:
Uncle Sam possesses superhuman strength and a large
measure of invulenerability. He has limited ability to
travel into other dimensions by concentrating. He does
not age, and possibly it is he who kept the Freedom
Fighters young over the decades.
