The Powernaut
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POWERNAUT 1962!

PART 2

HERE COME THE REDS!

Greeting

Hello, my Power Patrol! We've got no way off of Mars - except to beat the Commies!

(signed) The Powernaut!

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Strip #7

Bonus Section: Talk Back to the Powernaut!

Dear Mister Powernaut,

I have performed a thorough check of the entire USMRA database, and I regret to inform you that I cannot locate any registrant with the alias "Powernaut". You have 30 days to comply with USMRA code 3-A and register at the nearest USMRA office and apply for a Metahuman Activities Permit or terminate all such activities immediately.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely, Elliot Parker, Clerk, United States Metahuman Relations Agency

Queezl,

I got this message from Earth in your daily radio packet. Is this a joke? Because this is not how America treats its heroes in 1962! It's more like one of those dystopian stories about the far-flung future of 2006.

Signing off, Powernaut.

Powernaut,

You ask the wrong being about Earth jokes. But this is an actual letter the Power Patrol office received this week. Its attitude matches what I know of your species. In other species, either the individuals have all responsibility and power, or the group does. Only humans argue over which. I could take Elliot Parker to my laboratory on Venus and train him in the way my species does it...

Signing off, Queezl.

Queezl,

No! Just tell the temporary office manager to send Agent Parker's letter to our lawyer. He'll take care of it.

Signing off, Powernaut.

Dear Mr. Parker:

I represent Power Patrol, Inc., a limited liability company based in Power City. You have our apologies for the lack of paperwork filed with your department. It was and remains our understanding that the activities of the Powernaut and the Power Patrol are covered by a technological license and mutual disclosure agreement signed between Power Patrol, Inc. and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (hereafter referred to as NASA). I understand there may be alternative interpretations of this agreement relative to the Metahuman Relations Act of 1955 (hereafter referred to as the Act). However, even under strict interpretation the Powernaut is in compliance with the Act; he was inactive from 1955 to 1960, and has engaged in costumed metahuman activities only off planet from 1961 to the present.

I look forward to further discussions with a view toward resolving these differences. My client is presently away from the office, but I'm hopeful we can arrange a solution to present to him upon his return. Please sign and return the attachments, then I'll arrange for a meeting.

Sincerely, George Lang, Esq., Attorney at Law.

(attached: NASA Non-Disclosure Agreement)

(attached: NASA Security Clearance Application)

Strip #8

Bonus Section: Talk Back to the Powernaut!

Dear Powernaut Komix!

I've got a funny idea for your next komic! What if the Cigar Commando gave the Powernaut a Cigar for the Powernaut to smoke!? But when he smokes it, it turns out to be the Cigar Commando's Special Boxing Glove Cigar! And it Bops the Powernaut right in the kisser!!

Or wait, this is an even funnier idea!! What if the Cigar Commando gave the Powernaut a *Cigar* for the Powernaut to smoke!? But when he smokes it, it turns out to be the Cigar Commando's Special Banana Cream Pie Cigar and it splatters banana cream pie all over the Powernaut's face!!!!!

I think these would be very, very funny!!!!

Feel free to take these ideas!!

(signed) Li'l Karl age 144!!

Why thanks, li'l buddy! Here at the Power Patrol, we already watch out for the Cigar Commando's exploding cigars and his knockout gas cigars. Good thing he can't use those things on Mars! Or... can he?

Hey, buddy, I think you mistyped your age. You wouldn't be trying to convince me you're really Karl Marx, would you?

Thanks for writing in to the Power Patrol!

(signed) the Powernaut

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Bonus Section: Commentary from Online! Powernaut and the Power Patrol (comic strip)

From the Encyclopedia Galactica, free information for the universe.

See also: Powernaut and the Power Patrol (social group).

Editor's Note: This article may contain wording that presents the subject in a subjective manner.

Powernaut and the Power Patrol was a comic strip published in 1962. More than any other comic series, it capitalized on team-building and pro-American sentiment within the United States.

The main character was the Powernaut - the same one as in 1941 and 1954, realistically aged and acting as a leader. The adventures of PowerTEEN from 1955 to 1960 were ignored.

Also appearing was Paula Power. Oddly, she'd gotten her Powernaut-like powers alongside PowerTEEN in Powernaut 1955 comics. Her possession of such powers outside of PowerTEEN continuity was never explained.

Rounding out the team were S.O.S. and Stonewater Smith, literal space cadets - with massive military experience. S.O.S. had appeared in Powernaut 1944 comics. It was later revealed that he'd become a U.S. secret agent and fought Russian agents in Greece in 1947. There was a real-life war veteran Stephen Oliver Samuels who claimed to have had these adventures; he died in 2006. (http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2006/yesterday.htm)

The presence of Stonewater Smith in this strip is harder to explain. He is portrayed as a Negro, which was controversial in 1962. The Power Comic Company editor Scott Eiler was asked about this, and responded simply, "That's what color he *is*." Like S.O.S., a real-life war veteran Matthew "Stonewater" Smith has claimed these adventures. Mr. Smith was recruited from St. Louis, Missouri into the Tuskegee airmen of the U.S. Army, toward the end of World War 2. "Stonewater" Smith had been reported dead - but he appeared at a conference in 2010 in East Nashville, Tennessee. (http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2010/cauldron4.htm) Someone had claimed to be him at a ceremony in Cut Bank, Montana earlier that year, but that person was much younger. (http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2010/predecessors.htm)

The comic went farther than any other in portraying the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1961 it portrayed an American rocket landing on the Moon; 1962 portrayed a space race to Mars. The strip shows a basic misunderstanding of politics and rocketry, but science may have been sacrificed for the sake of entertainment. And politics might have yielded to the political sentiment that Cuba could yet be swayed from the Communists.

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Author's Notes:

heh. The name of the Powernaut's editor of 1955 and 1962 is Scott Eiler. That is how I fit into the Powernaut's universe.

The Power Patrol will have significant adventures with the Powernaut in future, and also with his universe. S.O.S. survived nearly to the present day; his final story may well show up in a Powernaut comic. Stonewater Smith is still around - though he skipped some years! There is considerable story to be told there. They are both in canon for Superhuman World stories, currently waiting to surge forward from 2011... Paula Power is not so involved. And there's probably a story there too.

This is only the second year of Powernaut comics, but the Powernaut has now turned eight years old! He was born on the afternoon of Easter Saturday 2005. www.eilertech.com/stories/2005/powernaut.htm ... Yeah, it was a slow start for him, but the big guy was running the series by August of that year. I've got plans to retell those stories as Powernaut 2005 comics, wherein there will be great drama and amusement. But for now there's www.eilertech.com/stories/2005/powerpatrol1.htm .

(signed) Scott Eiler, 21 April 2013.


Superhuman World:
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Powernaut: 1941 1944 1948 1954 1955 1962 1966 1968 (with Stories) 1969 2005 (with Stories) 2009 (with Stories) 2011 (with Stories) Awards .
Powernaut 1962: 1 2 .

Correspondent credits go to Andrew Foltz and Arthur Spitzer. All characters and artwork in this fiction are copyright © 2013 by Eiler Technical Enterprises.