In Amazon's The Boys, one of that world's most insidious characters, Stormfront, was updated as a gender-swapped version of the character who concealed her racist beliefs behind the veneer of a media-savvy superhero. However, Stormfront is hardly the first secret Nazi superhero in comics. And in a forgotten '90s tale, the Justice Society and DC's other early heroes confronted a secret Nazi superhero who was even more twisted than Stormfront.

James Robinson and Paul Smith's 1993 Elseworlds mini-series, The Golden Age, featured DC characters from the titular era. That included members of the Justice Society of America like Green Lantern Alan Scott and Hawkman Carter Hall, as well as more obscure characters like Captain Triumph and the Tarantula. In the aftermath of World War II, The Golden Age finds superteams like the Justice Society and the All-Star Squadron disbanded and their members retired in the '50s when their greatest threat returns in the body of the hero Dynaman.

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Although the war was over, life wasn't going too well for all of DC's early heroes. Some of the heroes attempted to return to their former lives, but that didn't come without complications, like the dissolution of the marriage between Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle. Others, like Ted Knight's Starman, have been broken by the part they played in the war. The guilt over his contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb caused him to have a nervous breakdown, which effectively took him out of active superhero duty.

Into the void of active heroes stepped Tex Thompson, a former superhero who went by the codename the Americommando. He became a war hero during World War II after killing Adolf Hitler. He used that fame as a springboard to a political career. Senator Thompson fielded his own team, which included younger JSA alumni like the Atom and Johnny Thunder, to become the superteam of the '50s and take on the Soviets.

Another character on Thompson's team, Daniel Dunbar was the superhero Dan the Dyna-Mite, the kid sidekick of the hero TNT. With his partner dead, a depressed Dunbar signed up for a government experiment that dropped an atomic bomb on him. It transformed him into Dynaman, augmenting his explosive power and granting him super strength, speed, and flight.

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At least, that was the official story. In reality, Thompson and Dunbar weren't who they appeared to be. Thompson had died during the war during a spy mission. He was being impersonated by Superman's original mad scientist nemesis, the Ultra-Humanite, who was working with the Nazis. He replaced Thompson's brain with his own, and he put the brain of Hitler into Dynaman's body. The Humanite used the Dynaman experiment to give Hitler a super-powered body. Starting with Thompson's presidential bid, the Ultra-Humanite and Dynaman planned to take over the world and reshape it in their image.

When the heroes of the JSA and the All-Star Squadron were gathered in a public show of loyalty to the United States, the truth about Thompson and Dynaman was made public by the few heroes who had learned it. The ensuing battle between Dynaman and the assembled heroes was one of the most brutal battles in DC history, and it's one that cost the lives of many heroes.

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One of the fight's first casualties was Miss America, who was killed by the cyborg Robotman as she began to reveal the truth. Ultimately, a confrontation with Manhunter led the Humanite to break his neck in a fall. Dynaman almost seemed poised to defeat the heroes single-handedly, easily dispatching heavy hitters like Green Lantern, Starman and Hawkman -- whose wings he tore off -- with brutal, bloody combat. With Dynaman distracted with young hero Captain Comet, Liberty Belle was able to stab him with the remains of Starman's Cosmic Rod, ending the threat almost took out the first generation of DC heroes.

Ultimately, Stormfront's plan on the Amazon series is quite similar to the Humanite's Dynaman plan. They both sought to use the veneer of populism and super-heroics to cover their true intentions, but their methods were ultimately different. Stormfront wanted to use her corporate connections and relationship with the Homelander to fulfill her Nazi ambitions, while the  Humanite and Dynaman planned to use political power to achieve their goals.

The Golden Age ended with its villains' dead and the birth of the Silver Age of superheroes on the horizon. It's ultimately an optimistic story that celebrates a generation of superheroes by bringing their story to a definitive end. To put it mildly, The Boys doesn't share that story's optimism, and Stormfront's return remains a possibility. Still, The Golden Age shows how DC's most straightforward, uncomplicated heroes would deal with the same kind of subversive threat as The Boys.

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