Victory Comics

Victory Comics is a comic book publisher within the universe of The Boys and subsidiary of Vought-American. The publisher's titles serve as fictionalized narratives for Vought's superheroes so that fans can experience the supposedly "real life" adventures of their favorite heroes. Lead for decades by head editor the Old Legend, they also serve as the propaganda arm for the Company's "heroes", as the comics depict a highly sanitized and fantastical version of Supes in order to obscure the often dark and terrifying underbelly of the superhero world and safeguard their image with the public.
== History ==
=== Superhuman PR Machine and the Arrival of the Homelander ===
For any superhero wanting to achieve any kind of popularity and financial success, one of the most vital things they must have is their own comic book line. Not only do they (along with other kinds of franchising and merchandise, such as TV shows and t-shirts) provide a steady revenue for Supes, they also help create a romanticized perception with their fans and secure their reputation in the event of public scandal. As a result, most supes are far less willing to rebel against Vought and try to take over the world, as they benefit from the current status qua. This is also the explanation given for why there are very little actual supervillains and other rogue superhumans active in this universe
Although superheroes have been around since at least the 1940s, they were comparatively much weaker and had a far harder time hiding their seedy behavior from the public. Because of this, Victory Comics often used their comics books to explained away the more the unseemly and less heroic side of the Supe world, such as Supes having blacken eyes and broken teeth or getting into barfights.
With the arrival of Homelander, however, the publisher was finally given the perfect Supe for their comics, or, in the words of the Legend, a "living weapon". To obscure the existence of Compound-V and create a narrative more marketable and appealing to the public, Vought stages Homelander's origin story by faking a meteor strike in Wyoming, where Homelander first "emerges of out as an infant before supposedly "growing" into a fully developed 18-year-old in the course of 2 weeks. In reality, Homelander had actually spent his entire life up till that point iin a silo in South Dakota. Following Homelander's success, Vought breads and creates 6 other extremely powerful Supes to what would eventually become the Seven, who also given completely fictional backstories (typically involving science fiction or fantasy tropes) by Victory Comics.
In addition to creating backstories for Vought-American's heroes, they also provide justifications for when Supes find themselves in potential PR disasters and embarrassments. This is most notable by their handling of superhero deaths, often portraying either killed while fighting a supervillain or perhaps sacrificing themselves to save the world, instead of undignified demises. 
=== Post-9/11 censorship ===
In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks and the Seven's horrifically botched attempt to rescue a hijacked passenger plane, leading to the destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge, Victory Comics forced their lines to be halted entirely and had the content of them completely altered, with artwork being changed, scripts heavily rewritten, and whole storylines disappearing, so as to erase all superhero associations with the incident. One employee was even tasked with removing every instance of the word "war" from all their comic pages. This resulted in the comics becoming even more whitewashed than they had before and containing very bland and inoffensive plots, such as the event storyline "The Infinity Debate". To provide an excuse for the Seven's absence from the public eye, Victory Comics presented them as having been on another world or outer space, fighting villains like Molesto.
== Trivia ==
* Victory Comics is a parody of and .
* In the television series, Victory Comics is replaced with Vought Comics.
* The name "Victory Comics" may be a literary homage to George Orwell's iconic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four , where the totalitarian government of Oceania labels all consumer products produced by the state with "Victory" as an prefix (Victory Gin, Victory Cigarettes, Victory Coffee, etc..), which is described by the characters as being of low quality and relatively scarce.
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