Gold Key Alliance - Phil Hester
Four characters from the old Gold Key line -- Samson, Dr. Solar, Turok, and Magnus Robot Fighter -- go about their usual business. Well, Samon is in a world he doesn't understand and knows is wrong, but the other three act as normal. Dr. Solar, a black woman, helps out in an African village, Turok is a ranger in a dinosaur park, and the spy Magnus fights a war against AI-driven robots. Eventually, all of them start to feel wrong somehow, as if they aren't in their real place. And they're right. Another Gold Key character that I've never heard of, Dr. Spektor, explains that the infinite varieties of these four characters have been dreamed up by the real Dr. Solar in order to protect the multiverses from his own exploded power. I'm not very familiar with these characters, but I knew enough to realize that the initial versions weren't the ones from their old Gold Key runs, so I enjoyed the story. I think it would have been better with a multiverse-threatening Big Bad, instead of "oops Dr. Solar simultaneously endangered and then reimagined the multiverse in order to save it." But it was a fun read. [4]
