   the seven soldiers of victory (also known as law's legionnaires) is a fictional team of comic book superheroes in the dc comics universe. they first appeared in leading comics #1 (winter, 1941), and were created by mort weisinger and mort meskin. ==seven soldiers of victory== ===pre-crisis=== the seven soldiers of victory (also known as the law's legionnaires) was dc comics' second super-hero team, following the justice society of america. like the justice society, the membership of the seven soldiers was drawn from dc's anthology comics: the vigilante (from action comics); the crimson avenger (from detective comics); the green arrow and speedy (from more fun comics); the shining knight (from adventure comics); and the star-spangled kid and stripesy (from star-spangled comics). it is worth noting that, unlike most superhero teams, this one included two sidekicks, speedy and stripesy, as members. (stripesy was a rarity, an adult sidekick to a "kid" lead character.) on the other hand, the crimson avenger's sidekick wing also took part in the team's adventures, and was in every other way an "eighth soldier," but was never considered an "official" member of the team. it is also relatively unique among super-hero teams in that all but one of its membersâthe shining knight, a time-displaced arthurian knight who rode a winged horseâwere non-powered humans with comparatively mundane backgrounds, who relied on more-or-less conventional weapons or training in place of superhuman abilities. per leading comics #1, the team's origin came about when the criminal mastermind called the hand (later the iron hand), believing himself terminally ill, gave his greatest unused schemes to five other criminals who he saved from the policeâbig caesar, the dummy, the needle, professor merlin, and the red dragonâto commit crimes across the usa as "the hand's five fingers" and prove his genius to the world. the hand further challenged the five criminals' enemiesâthe crimson avenger, the vigilante, the star-spangled kid and stripesy, green arrow and speedy, and the shining knight, respectivelyâto stop the criminals, presuming they would fail, further highlighting the hand's criminal genius. however, the heroes defeated their enemies. green arrow and speedy stop
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