Paranormals of the West Coast, c. 1966

[akaihyo]

Some additional information for the Champions of the 60s/M&M game.


Heroes

Blue Archer, master bowman with trick arrows, and his sidekick, Quiver.


Nagimaki, martial arts vigilante, involved in a running war with the Triads.


Rebel, media celebrity and superhero. Spokesman for Black Label Cigarettes.


Villains

Doctor Zero, mysterious master of robotics and computer. The Doctor has never been seen, only his agents, the ZeroBots and a silhouette on television broadcasts.


Obsidian Shark, super-strong, super-tough thug with razor sharp claws and teeth.


Red Dragon, Chinese superspy working in the LA-Area.


The Reel Gang, dress and talk like gangsters from the 1930s. Hit and vanish after their attacks.


Rocket Robber, using outdated, but still effective technology: flight suit, rocket pack and jet gun.


Seven Thousand Fists, San Francisco based martial arts gang, primarily Chinese-Americans.



Taking suggestions for both sides . . .

Comments

[st-rev.livejournal.com]

Blue Archer. Unless this is someone different. I sense trademark lawsuit!

[akaihyo.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you have to explain the mistake within continuity to get your "Nil-Award".

Corrected in any case.

[st-rev.livejournal.com]

In 1965, a French publisher published a controversial novel titled Flèche Bleue, or "Blue Arrow", featuring a fictional character described as being very similar to Blue Archer. The "Blue Arrow" of the novel engaged in a wide variety of scandalous behavior, including sodomy, drug use, and union-busting. Both Blue Archer and Diamond Industries filed defamation suits, but it wasn't until after a famous obscenity case was brought against the book in Boston that the publisher went bankrupt.

Blue Archer's enemies were known to refer to call him "Blue Arrow" as an insult, and the propagandist Red Ink would occasionally alter newspaper and magazine articles about Blue Archer to use the slanderous monicker.

After the USSR collapsed in 1989, it was discovered that both the French publisher and Red Ink were partly funded by a Soviet cultural-warfare operation of the KGB.

[st-rev.livejournal.com]

GIVE ME MY NIL-AWARD DAMN YOU

[akaihyo.livejournal.com]

Your Nil-Award is in the mail, dear reader.