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On the latest Who’s Who: Update ‘87 Podcast, we discuss Axis Amerika by Brian Murray. Click here to enlarge.

"Hey, what would the Justice League be like if they were Nazis?" This is a question that has been posed to the comics reader again and again and again. Frankly

Okay, so, with the Crime Syndicate making their stance as the big bad of Forever Evil, I wanted to share with everyone a lesser known "evil JLA" associated with the JSA and the All-Star Squadon.

Axis Amerika was a collection Nazi, Fascist, and Imperialist superhumans stationed in America during WWII acting as saboteur agents. Their most frequent foes were the Young All-Stars, essentially the Teen Titans to the All-Star Squadron's JLA. The group was made up of counterparts to the Justice League.

Ubermensch to Superman, Gudra the Valkyrie to Wonder Woman (Gudra was a preexisting WW villain), Horned Owl and Fledermaus to Batman and Robin, Usil the Sun Archer to Green Arrow, Sea Wolf to Aquaman, and later they included Kamikaze, Sumo the Samurai, and I believe Tsunami was a member for a while but ultimately defected. I think Kamikaze might function as a substitute to the Flash.

As someone pointed out, it was kind of interesting that they reversed the bat and bird motif with Horned Owl and Fledermaus, who were a father-and-son duo. Fledermaus was accidentally killed early in Young All-Stars and his father swore revenge, although considering the moron let his kid in the team in the first place...

But I also thought it was interesting in that Horned Owl and Ubermensch can be seen as more direct counterparts to Owlman and Ultraman, especially the versions seen in Forever Evil (Owlman still grieving over the loss of Talon and Ultraman's whole "survival of the fittest" dogma fitting with Ubermensch's nazi dogma).

I'm also kind of interested in the idea of an aquatic werewolf, as it's not something usually seen in comics.