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"Silver Streak is a fictional superhero character created by Joe Simon that first appeared in Silver Streak Comics #3 (cover-dated March 1940), from Lev Gleason Publications.The Silver Streak at Don Markstein's Toonopedia Archived from the original on June 3, 2017. He is believed to be the second-ever comic book superhero whose primary power is speed; All-American Publications' The Flash preceded him by two months.Flash Comics #1 (All-American Publications, Jan. 1940). However, Silver Streak beat out National Allied Publications' Johnny Quick (who debuted in 1941)More Fun Comics # 71 (National Allied Publications, Sept. 1941). as the first superhero whose two powers were speed and flight. Silver Streak has a kid sidekick called "Mercury" (soon changed to "Meteor"); he is also assisted by a falcon named "Whiz". Publication history Silver Streak Comics was originally published by Arthur Bernhardt's Rhoda Publications, and the title was inspired by Bernhardt's car, a Pontiac Silver Streak. With issue #3, the title was taken over by Lev Gleason Publications and Silver Streak himself first appeared. Silver Streak appeared in Silver Streak Comics until issue #19 (March 1942); the title itself ended with #21, and was renamed Crime Does Not Pay. Also during this run, Silver Streak appeared in Lev Gleason's Daredevil #1. In 1945, Silver Streak appeared in the only issue of Dime Comics, and in 1946 he appeared in the 22nd and 23rd final issues of the briefly revived Silver Streak Comics. Since then, the character has fallen into the public domain. In the mid-1980s, Roy Thomas featured the "Scarlet Streak" in his limited series Alter Ego. In 2008, he appeared in issue #141 of The Savage Dragon, along with a score of other Golden Age heroes. Also in 2008, Silver Streak appeared in flashbacks in issue #0 of Dynamite Entertainment’s Project Superpowers, a title that uses mostly public domain Golden Age characters. In the one-shot Project Superpowers: Chapter Two Prelude. He later appeared in the related Dynamite miniseries The Death-Defying ’Devil. Editor Erik Larsen's "Next Issue Project" (Image Comics) published Silver Streak Comics "#24" (Dec. 2009), featuring Silver Streak in one story, written and illustrated by Paul Grist. Fictional biography =Lev Gleason Publications= In Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes, Greg Sadowski says that "Silver Streak's origin... is one of the most contrived and convoluted stories of the early golden age, and that's saying something." In 1940, a taxicab driver (name unknown) applied for a position as a race car driver (all of the previous drivers of the "Silver Streak" having been killed by a giant fly sent by a mad scientist named Dr. Katan) and was hypnotized by a mysterious swami (name unknown) into believing "You are the Silver Streak—the strongest, bravest, fastest man in the world." The cab driver was apparently killed in a crash caused by the fly and was buried, but the swami believed it was "merely a hypnotic trance" and used his mystical powers to bring him back to life, after which the swami declared "It is as I feared, the hypnosis has become part of his mind... he is now all-powerful, a man to be feared!" Motivated by a strong desire to make the world a better place, he donned a colorful costume and fought against crime, Nazi spies, and The Claw, calling himself "Silver Streak." He had changed costumes a few times over the years, but one detail that remained constant was the arrowhead-shaped emblem on his chest with the shape-fitting “SS” inside it; curiously, most of his costumes had no silver coloring anywhere on them. He later learned that anyone who receives a transfusion of his blood gains super-speed when a sheik steals it to inject a pet falcon (given the name "Whiz" in the next issue) who immediately gained speed and kinship with the Silver Streak, and to Mickey O'Toole, a kid sidekick initially called "Mercury" but who quickly became "Meteor." In Silver Streak Comics #5 (July 1940), Jack Cole, who by this time was writing and drawing the character's adventures, directly addressed the readers and explained the hero's motivations: The Streak wears a ring emblazoned with a "V" for Victory; in one story, he rescues Mercury from the Nazis, and punches Adolf Hitler in the face, leaving a "V" mark on the dictator's face. =Project Superpowers= At some point after World War II, Silver Streak and other heroes were imprisoned in the mystical Urn of Pandora by the misguided Fighting Yank. Decades later the Urn was broken and the heroes released; Silver Streak emerged (wearing a red and silver costume similar to his original one) just in time to aid his former ally The Death- Defying ’Devil against a terrorist attack. Exactly what part this hero will play in the modern world remains to be seen. =Living Legends= The Metahuman Press serial Living Legends has introduced a new version of Silver Streak. This character is an Asian female, native to the fictional city of Riccapoor, home of The Claw. References External links * * Category:1939 comics debuts Category:Comics characters introduced in 1939 Category:Dynamite Entertainment characters Category:Savage Dragon characters Category:Golden Age superheroes Category:Public domain comics Category:American comics characters Category:Characters created by Joe Simon Category:Characters created by Jack Binder Category:Fictional characters who can move at superhuman speeds Category:Fictional taxicab drivers "
"Class 70 may refer to: *Rail vehicles: **United Kingdom (UK): ***British Rail Class 70 (electric), electric locomotives built by the Southern Railway in the 1940s. ***British Rail Class 70 (diesel), GE Transportation "Powerhaul" diesel locomotives. **Germany: *** DRG Class 70, a class of German passenger locomotive with a 2-4-0 wheel arrangement operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and comprising the: *** DRG Class 70.0: Bavarian Pt 2/3 *** DRG Class 70.1: Baden I g *** DRG Class 70.2: ELE T 4 *** DR Class 70.61, DR Class 70.63 and DR Class 70.64 : locomotives taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR) in East Germany in 1949 *** DRG Class 70.71: Bavarian D IX "
"Arthur D. Nicholson Jr. (7 June 1947 – 24 March 1985) was a United States Army military intelligence officer shot by a Soviet sentry while engaged in intelligence-gathering activities as part of an authorized military liaison mission which operated under reciprocal U.S.-Soviet authority. Military liaison missions were ostensibly liaisons between the British, French and U.S. forces and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (East Germany), but they had a known intelligence-gathering secondary mission and an important role to verify that offensive action was not being prepared. Reciprocal groups were authorized and operated by both the British, French and U.S. (in East Germany) and the Soviet Union (in West Germany) during the Cold War. Nicholson is officially regarded by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been a victim of murder and the final victim of the Cold War. Nicholson's death led to a U.S. - Soviet crisis and intense negotiations regarding the Military Liaison Missions. Career as intelligence officer Nicholson was the son of a career navy officer. He graduated from Joel Barlow High School of Redding, Connecticut in 1965 and earned a bachelor's degree from Transylvania University in 1969 before joining the U.S. Army in 1970. Nicholson was commissioned as a Military Intelligence (MI) officer and served as a Battalion S-2 (officer in charge of the staff section responsible for intelligence products and analysis) with a missile battalion in Korea during 1973-74. From 1974-79, he served with MI units in Frankfurt am Main and Munich in the Federal Republic of Germany. Following this, Nicholson became a Foreign Area Officer. In 1980, he earned a master's degree in Soviet and East European Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School and also attended a two-year course in the Russian language at the Defense Language Institute. From 1980-82, Nicholson attended the U.S. Army's Russian Institute in Garmisch- Partenkirchen, Germany. In 1982, Nicholson was assigned to the U.S. Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) to the Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces Germany. He was promoted to major in 1983. Death Major Nicholson's casket being placed on a U.S. aircraft at Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany Grave at Arlington Cemetery Memorial near Ludwigslust, Germany On March 24, 1985, with Sergeant Jessie G. Schatz, Nicholson undertook his final mission for the USMLM. The mission was to photograph a Soviet tank storage building near Ludwigslust, some 100 miles northwest of Berlin. After approaching the Soviet facility covertly but legitimately through an adjacent forest, Nicholson stepped out of the vehicle and approached the building to photograph it while Sergeant Schatz maintained a watch for Soviet personnel. Unseen by either man, Soviet Sergeant Aleksandr Ryabtsev emerged from the forest and opened fire on the Americans. The first bullet narrowly missed Schatz, and another bullet struck Nicholson. After crying out that he had been hit, Nicholson fell to the ground. Attempting to go to Nicholson's aid, Schatz was halted by Ryabtsev at gunpoint and forced back into the USMLM vehicle. Although the Soviets later claimed that Nicholson died instantly, an autopsy indicated that he had actually bled to death while on the ground. Even as more senior Soviet personnel arrived, no medical aid for Nicholson was provided and no one checked his conditions for two hours after he was shot. After an attempt by the Soviets to perform an autopsy of Nicholson and a demand by General Glenn K. Otis that they return the body, Nicholson's body was returned to the U.S. Army at the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin. On March 30, 1985, Nicholson was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.Nicholson funeral He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and the Legion of Merit as well as promoted to lieutenant colonel. The Soviets contended that the response of Sergeant Ryabtsev, as a guard, had been appropriate in confronting an "unknown intruder who did not comply with the warnings of the sentry,"Statement by Larry M. Speakes on 23 April 1985 and also stated that the area that Major Nicholson was in was "off-limits" to military liaison mission operations, as well as placing blame for the incident on the United States. Aftermath At a subsequent meeting between General Otis and General Mikhail Zaitsev, the commander of Group of Soviet Forces Germany, General Otis made it clear that the U.S. Army believed that Nicholson's murder "[was] officially condoned, if not directly ordered." Following this, a Soviet diplomat was ordered out of the U.S. and the U.S. canceled plans to jointly celebrate the 40th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe with the Soviets. The incident was also the first major foreign policy crisis faced by Mikhail Gorbachev as leader of the Soviet Union. The relatively muted U.S. response drew criticism from various sources, among them George Will. Further negotiations over the shooting resulted in the Soviets issuing instructions to their personnel that the use of force or weapons against Allied military liaison personnel was strictly forbidden. However, in 1987, another incident took place in which Soviet soldiers fired at USMLM personnel, one of whom was wounded. In 1988, Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov officially apologized for the death of Major Nicholson to U.S. Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci at a summit conference in Moscow. References =Sources= * W. Durie, "The British Garrison Berlin 1945-1994 ( No where to go) " Publisher: Vergangenheits, Berlin May 2012. * USAREUR report of 1988 * Nicholson Memorial with photos, Website of the USMLM * * Arthur D. Nicholson at Arlington National Cemetery * Tödliche Schüsse ohne Vorwarnung, Der Spiegel, 20 March 2005 * Soviets Offer Apology..., New York Times, 15 June 1988 External links * The Embracing Forest First-person account of 20th anniversary memorial in Ludwigslust. * Category:1947 births Category:1985 deaths Category:Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Category:Defense Language Institute alumni Category:People of the Cold War Category:People from Redding, Connecticut Category:Soviet Union–United States relations Category:Recipients of the Legion of Merit Category:United States Army officers Category:American military personnel killed in action Category:Deaths by firearm in East Germany "