Young Allies is the name of three fictional superhero teams appearing in American comic books published by

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Golden Age

The

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's Young Allies were a gang of kids who fought the

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. Their line-up included the two key

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s (

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and Toro) of then-prominent

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heroes Captain America and the

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Creation

Created by Joe Simon and

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as the Sentinels of Liberty, "a multiracial group of patriotic kids", the group was led by

( Captain America's teenage sidekick), and initially made up of his four friends: Knuckles (Percival Aloysius O'Toole), Jeff (Jefferson Worthing Sandervilt), Tubby (Henry Tinkle), and Whitewash Jones (Washington Jones). The group appeared in a text feature in ''Captain America'' #4 (June 1941), but were swiftly moved into the comic-proper to help Cap in his battles, and became popular enough to be spun into its own title. In ''American Comic Book Chronicles: 1940-1944'', Kurt Mitchell and Roy Thomas take a negative view of the group, describing the four new characters: "Jefferson "Jeff" Sandervilt was the brainy kid, Percival Aloysius "Knuckles" O'Toole the tough kid, Henry "Tubby" Tinkle the fat kid, and (alas) Whitewash Jones the harmonica-playing, watermelon-loving, racist-caricature kid". According to ''Jess Nevins' Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes'', "they primarily fight Axis agents: the

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, Agent Zero, the Monk, the Black Talon, the Khan, the Owl, and so on. There are also ordinary gangsters and name criminals like the Doll-Devil, the Python, and the Mad Fiend of Horror Castle".

The Young Allies (1941)

Launched in Summer 1941 after only a couple of appearances in the pages of ''Captain America'', the "Sentinels of Liberty" were revised, renamed "The Young Allies" and joined by the original Human Torch's sidekick Toro. By this time, Simon and Kirby were in the process of leaving Timely for

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, and relationships were strained, so while the first issue of the ''Young Allies'' series was pencilled by Kirby (under the shared "

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" pseudonym), it was written by

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. By issue #2, Kirby had left, and the art duties were taken over by

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and former ''Captain America'' inker (and then penciler, in the wake of Simon and Kirby's departure)

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(art duties would change considerably over the course of the title's run). A young Stan Lee began writing with the third issue. It is not known who wrote the second, although Lee began his tenure as series editor with that issue. The first issue saw the (mostly non-superhero) team fight Captain America's nemesis the

, and is often labelled as "the first ongoing comic to team up characters from two or more other Marvel series". The team frequently traveled the world to participate in

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skirmishes and, in keeping with the somewhat exaggerated scope of the series, eventually literally beat up all three major Axis leaders:

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, Benito Mussolini, and

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, something that none of their elders accomplished. ''Young Allies Comics'' lasted until issue #20 (October 1946), and also appeared in ''Amazing Comics'', ''Complete Comics'' and ''Kid Komics''. Toro and Bucky would continue to team-up briefly, "as members of the

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... t Knuckles, Jeff, Tubby and Whitewash weren't seen again". In the ''Young Allies Comics 70th Anniversary Special'' (2009), their comic book adventures are revealed to be fictional retellings of their real exploits. Their real names are Pat O'Toole, Washington Carver Jones, Geoffrey Worthington Vandergill, and Henry Yosef Tinklebaum. The first two are still alive in the modern day. With the original series, indicia title was simply "Young Allies"--"Comics" was part of the cover title for only the first two issues.

Heroes Reborn

The second group of Young Allies was founded on the Heroes Reborn world, now called

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, after the Avengers and Fantastic Four returned home and the planet suffered several devastating blows in the wake of their leaving. While several members share codenames with their predecessors on Earth-616, they have little else in common with the prior group. * Bucky (

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) - Captain America's partner from his time on the HR world. She is the most like her Earth-616 counterpart. She uses a photonic shield as a weapon, and is the group's leader. *I.Q. (Ishmael Questor) - A heavily deformed,

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telepath and analyst, who works with the Young Allies from his protective, life-sustaining tank in his Earth's Germany. *Kid Colt (Elric Whitemane, born Elric Freedom) - Captured by the world's corrupt

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and experimented on, and bonded to Kymellian DNA, allowing him to assume a humanoid horse form and open miniature wormholes for teleportation. *O and K - Manifestations of Order and

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, sent to judge whether Counter-Earth deserved to continue to exist. *Toro (Benito Serrano) - Can turn into a super-strong humanoid

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Fictional history

The Young Allies came into conflict with the

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, a US government-backed team related to the Thunderbolts, while the Redeemers were supervised by Captain America, who, due to amnesia, had forgotten his time on the other Earth with the Allies' Bucky. The conflict was caused by Allies' creation of a hoax chemical weapons scare in the "main" Earth's

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in an attempt to force Doctor Doom, the then-ruler of Counter-Earth, to distribute food and medicine more evenly. When they left, Bucky was left sore that Cap thought she would be capable of really using a WMD, causing Cap to lie to Doom that other canisters had been hidden. Later, they encountered the Thunderbolts themselves on their homeworld, while a rift was threatening to destroy both worlds. When the crisis was resolved and the Thunderbolts returned home, Jolt remained behind with the team. Later, the Exiles visited Counter-Earth to save it from Proteus, in their teammate Morph's body. At first, Proteus convinced the Young Allies to fight the Exiles. The Young Allies later figured out the truth when Proteus was enjoying torturing the Exiles. Proteus seemed to be winning, but two cosmic entities known as "O" and "K" ripped Proteus away from the Exiles, saying that they've been waiting for him. They supplied Proteus with an army of nukes. Empress Dorma and Proteus soon clashed, resulting in Proteus taking Dorma's crown, drying up Atlantis, and killing her and her soldiers. The Exiles arrived with the Young Allies at Atlantis. Proteus then launched the nukes. Luckily, Colt and Jolt stopped the nukes without detonating them. Proteus had the Exiles and the Young Allies on the ropes when he put his crown back on. Unbeknownst to him, however, Blink rigged it with a behavior modifier, causing Proteus to believe he really is Morph and being trapped in Morph's body. The Exiles then teleported back to Panoptichron and sent the last remaining nukes into space. The Young Allies then thanked the Exiles for saving their world from the nukes, Dorma, and Proteus as they left.

Heroic Age

As part of the Heroic Age line-wide relaunch, a new team and ongoing series was introduced, written by

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, with art by David Baldeon. McKeever has said: Members include

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, Firestar, Spider-Girl,

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and Toro (Benito Serrano). The series was cancelled with ''Young Allies'' #6. They become a team in ''Onslaught Unleashed'' #1. They also appear with the

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in ''Avengers Academy Giant-Size'' #1 (80-page one-shot), at the Avengers Academy prom night in ''Avengers Academy'' #13, the ''Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt'' mini-series, and the "

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" saga.

Bastards of Evil

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. They debuted in the 2010 " Heroic Age" storyline, in the series ''Young Allies''. Their name is a play on the

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and that they are said to be the bastard children of evil supervillains. The Bastards of Evil first appeared in ''Young Allies'' Vol. 2 #1 and were created by

and David Baldeon. The Bastards of Evil are young supervillains who claim to be the disavowed children of some of the supervillains. They came together not only to rob a bank but to come up with plans to take over the world. The Bastards of Evil committed acts of terrorism and recorded it with floating robotic cameras. Warhead destroyed a part of

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which

stopped, but Warhead escaped. The Bastards of Evil end up running afoul of the

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. During the fight, Warhead exploded on Ground Zero (the former site of the

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) presumably killing himself and thousands of bystanders. The Bastards of Evil meet up with their mysterious benefactor. When Firestar and

fight Electro, he ends up defeating them. He let them live so that they can spread the message that he doesn't endorse Aftershock and the Bastards of Evil's terrorism. He also says that they should look up how and when he got his powers on the internet and there no way a girl of Aftershock's age could have been conceived after he got his powers. It's impossible for him to be Aftershock's father. Aftershock informs the Bastards of Evil that they have orders from their superior to Araña and

. When Firestar and Gravity arrive at the edge where Warhead exploded, they are ambushed by the Bastards of Evil. During the Young Allies' fight with the Bastards of Evil, the Young Allies end up meeting their leader who calls himself Superior and claims to be the son of the

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. It is soon revealed during the battle that the other Bastards of Evil members were originally teenagers who were kidnapped by Superior, exposed to various forms of radiation, given personal narrative implants, and false memories of their forgotten childhood as the children of those supervillains. When Araña and Nomad are kidnapped, the Bastards of Evil plot to kill them on national television. When the Young Allies arrived and convinced the Bastards of Evil members to in-fight themselves, Aftershock remembers her true identity of Danielle Blunt and causes her to attack Singularity who remembers his true identity of Devin Touhy. Singularity turns on Superior while the other Bastards of Evil members question their true identities. This gave the Young Allies the opportunity to defeat them after Superior uses his telekinetic abilities to rip Singularity in half. Superior and the remaining Bastards of Evil were incarcerated at the Raft. While in his cell, Superior plans to find a way to escape incarceration, wipe the memories of the remaining Bastards of Evil, and create "new siblings" to serve him. During the " Fear Itself" storyline, Aftershock and Ember were seen escaping from the Raft after Juggernaut in the form of Kuurth: Breaker of Stone leveled it. Both were fighting against the students and teachers from the

alongside Icemaster, but were subdued by Jeremy Briggs.''Avengers Academy'' #20. Marvel Comics. Members include but are not limited to: * Superior - Supposed son of

. * Aftershock (Danielle Blunt) - Supposed daughter of Electro. * Ember (Jason) - Supposed son of Pyro. * Mortar (Liana Feeser) - Supposed daughter of

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. * Singularity (Devin Touhy) - Supposed son of

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. Ripped in half by Superior's telekinetic abilities. * Warhead - Supposed son of Radioactive Man. Exploded on the site of Ground Zero.

Collected editions

Some of the comics have been collected into individual volumes: * '' Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Young Allies, Volume 1'' collects ''Young Allies Comics'' #1-4, 274 pages, hardcover, July 2009, * '' Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Young Allies, Volume 2'' collects ''Young Allies Comics'' #5-8, 280 pages, hardcover, April 2011, * ''Young Allies - Volume 1 by Sean McKeever and David Baldeon'' collects ''Young Allies'' (2010) #1 - 6 (August 2010 - January 2011), ''Firestar'' (2010) #1 one-shot (June 2010) and ''Gravity'' back-up story from ''Age of Heroes'' (2010) #2 (August 2010), 192 pages, paperback, February 2011,