POWER STARS 1945!

This series is so important to Powernaut history, its modern editors have picked a modern commentator. For reasons which will become obvious later in this series, I (instead of Steven Oliver Samuels, S.O.S.) will be your commentator.

I will start by saying... Auge von Shaitan is just bad news. Those others with him, he is probably grooming as apprentices. He'll probably infect them with Satan some day. Or maybe their descendants. He plans that far.

From what I know of Private Danger, I doubt he actually volunteered for this mission. Still, he's surprisingly competent here. I guess after the first time one falls in a pit and loses all one's grenades, one naturally knows not to do that. He's probably carrying his grenades in a grenade belt, like real grenadiers do.

Power Star Comics of 1945 predicted, their favorite boy heroes would die at a ripe old age. That was hardly going out on a limb. But for excitement, they predicted at least one of them would die fighting future Nazis... Hey, World War 2 was great for comics. The comic book companies had some motive to make it go on forever.

This prediction was self-fulfilling in the end. By 2006, our future Earth was actually getting a different reality shift every year. In 2005 we got President Bush II instead of President Rodham. The next year, we actually got Nazis who looked like what Power Star Comics had dreamed of. And Stephen Oliver Samuels actually died fighting them. Hence how I now do the World War 2 commentary in his place.

I don't presume to say that these old stories were real. I see that S.O.S. swore the stories were real. (Hence, how he felt comfortable dying while fighting Nazis in the modern era.) But *I* can only track Powernaut history back to 1968, and even then the record is sketchy. Still...

In 2003, I saw an outbreak of familiar-looking fiction-heroes. That included a Powernaut who looked a *lot* like this. So I'll just say: Every story is real somewhere, and every idea influences something.

As we know, Auge von Shaitan develops plans across generations. This is what I know of him and his old allies this year.

• The Count of San Giacomo was a Sicilian collaborator. He traveled back to 1935, and promptly increased his influence. His exact fate is unknown. But by 2005, the Counts of San Giacomo had dabbled in superhuman technology so as to shrink a random target for terror purpose. The modern Count's wife betrayed him, though; she has agency as the Countess now.
• Randall Anvernacht was a Dutch collaborator. He traveled back to 1935. In the 1950s he went back to the Netherlands and had a son, Russell. Russell Anvernacht grew up to oppose the world's superhumans, with wild results. By 2006 he had become "Evil Mayor Anvernacht" in Maquoqeta, Iowa. His father Randall's fate is unknown.
• Gruppenfuehrer Paul Bradt worked with Germany, because he was a World War One veteran with them in East Africa. He came to America in 1945, as Auge von Shaitan's first sleeper agent. There he took the name "Paul Brady", married a black woman, sired one son Peter, and blended in with American society as much as possible. Peter Brady would grow to become an evil Black Mage. His father Paul's fate is unknown.