General Glory
| General Glory | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance |
(Jones) Justice League America #46 (January 1991) (Wallace) Justice League Quarterly #16 (Autumn 1994) |
| Created by |
(Jones) Keith Giffen J.M. DeMatteis (Wallace) Paul Kupperberg |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | - Joseph Aloysius Jones - Donovan Wallace |
| Team affiliations | (Jones) Justice League |
| Abilities | enhanced strength, olympic athlete in other areas |
General Glory is the name of two DC Comics characters. The persona is mostly used by writers as a parody of Marvel's Captain America with exaggerated "patriotic values" and a sidekick called Ernie (aka Ernie The Battling Boy), who was similar to Bucky. General Glory first appeared in Justice League International #46 as a 1940s style hero placed in a modern world, resulting in cultural differences and personality issues. Whereas Captain America is patriotic, heroic, and rational, General Glory is so blindly patriotic that it approaches the point of fault, unwilling and psychologically unable to believe that his country or international peacekeeping organizations have a dark side. He was introduced as a comic foil for the jingoistic Green Lantern corps member Guy Gardner in the early 1990s.
Joseph Jones was a soldier in World War II who was granted superior abilities by Lady Liberty herself upon saying the words:
"Lady of Liberty, hear my plea —
For the land of the brave —
And home of the free!"
He became a government agent, under the authority of an Agent Newkirk Sharp. Sharp arranged for General Glory comic books to be published, so that people would believe he was a fictional character. In England, his adventures were published in the pages of Tuppenny Fun.
During his many adventures in World War 2, General Glory worked with the original Beefeater, an English-based super hero. One mission saw him working with the time-travelling hero Booster Gold- who had come to 1943 looking for his missing adopted daughter- when a Nazi scientist was attempting to create a time machine, although Booster regarded Glory as mentally unbalanced at best.
As with Marvel Comics' Captain America, General Glory disappeared in an Arctic mission. Rather than be encased in ice, however, he returned to America with little memory of his past. He would later learn that Sharp had drugged him and given him a new identity.
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