—WitnessI am the Witness...and I must see that which I am doomed to see.
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Twelve (Unnamed)
Supporting Characters:
- United States Army
- Zog Industries (First appearance)
- Ms. Zogolowski (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Danni (Bunche's Diner) (First appearance)
- Julie (Mentioned)
- NYPD
- Lt. Detective Lew Goldman (First appearance)
- Four unnamed police officers
- FBI (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Several unnamed agents (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- John Edgar Hoover (Mentioned)
- CPD (Only in flashback)
- Two unnamed police officers (Only in flashback)
- Mr. Flint (Herr Falkstein) (First appearance; dies)
- Daily Bugle (Named only)
- Caroline Jordan (Photo)
- David Jordan (Photo)
- William Jordan (Photo)
- Philo Zogolowski (Mentioned) (Deceased) (Full surname revealed)
- William Morris Agency (First appearance)
- Stanley (Blue Blade's Agent) (First appearance)
- Bladettes (First appearance)
- Five unnamed members
- Nazis (Mentioned)
- Douglas Fairbanks (Mentioned)
- Al Wallanby (First appearance)
- Dean Martin (Mentioned)
- American Broadcasting Company (Mentioned)
- Emo Philips (Mentioned)
- Pee-wee Herman (Mentioned)
- Prof. Goettler (Referenced)
- Laura (Unnamed)
Races and Species:
Realities:
Locations:
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Bunche's Diner (First appearance)
- New York City Hall (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Yancy Street (Named only)
- Manhattan
- New York City
- New Jersey (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Illinois (Only in flashback)
- Chicago (Only in flashback)
- New York
- United States of America
- Germany, Europe (Mentioned)
- Berlin (Named only)
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe (Mentioned)
- North America
Synopsis for 1st story
Dynamic Man registered with the government before going on to help the police break up a terrorist cell. The Witness caused an old man who had once been a prison guard at Auschwitz to be hit by a bus. Dynamic Man mocks Captain Wonder's sadness at the news that his family are all dead, causing a super-powered fistfight which is broken up by the Fiery Mask. Professor Zog's daughter demands to have her father's invention, Electro, remanded to her custody, but Colonel Dexter refuses. The Blue Blade pursues his dreams of stardom as he is given his own television variety show. The T.V. executives hate it, but they give him a deal based on the guarantee of his agent. Captain Wonder goes to an inner city school as a motivational speaker, but quickly realizes that he can't connect with the issues facing today's youth. Dynamic Man admits to Captain Wonder that despite his bravado, he doesn't like this future any more than he does, that he fights crime as a means to keep himself busy so he doesn't have to think about what the world has become. The police inform Laughing Mask that his guns had been implicated in the murder of a gangster in 1940 and is arrested. Captain Wonder decides to don his costume once more.