Squadron Supreme Author:Mark Gruenwald, Mike Carlin, Tom DeFalco, Kurt Busiek, Mark Waid, Ralph MacChio, Alex Ross Before Watchmen...Before Marvels...Before Kingcome Come... — There was Squadron Supreme. — Published before such stories became commonplace, this deconstrictionist parable of the super-hero paradigm in a real-world setting set the standard for post-modernist super-hero fiction and influenced a generation of creators. — On... more » an Earth much like our own, the world's greatest superhuman champions are confronted by a society in ruins. Faced with the possibility of a new dark age for mankind, they choose the only course available to them -- and take control of the world's governments themselves. Now they have one year in which to completely restructure human society.
Can their plan succeed? Will a renegade member bring about their downfall? And what will happen when the Earth's mightiest heroes find themselves becoming instead its all-powerful, totalitarian overlords?
Collects Squadron Supreme #1-12 and Captain America #314.« less