Honor Guard

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Status:
active

Real Name:


Debuted:
Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol. 1 #1

Earliest known appearance:
organized in 1959 by Max O'Millions for a special mission to neutralize the Legions of Midnight.

Affiliation:
Current Members:

Black Rapier (chairman)
Beautie
Cleopatra II
M.P.H.
N-Forcer
Quarrel II
Samaritan

Base of Operations:
Honor Guard Headquarters

Range of Operations:
Global(includes orbital)

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Headlines:
Aliens Routed By Honor Guard (prior to August of 1995)
December 17, 2002: Alien Conqueror Captured in Suburbs

Appearances:
Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol. 1 #1, 2, 6
Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol. 2 #1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 16, 19, 20, 22
Astro City: Local Heroes #1
Astro City/Arrowsmith The Flip Book
Astro City: The Dark Age Book One #3, 4
Astro City: The Dark Age Book Two #1
Astro City Special: Beautie
Astro City: The Dark Age Book Three #2, 3, 4
Astro City: The Dark Age Book Four #3, 4

The world's most elite team of superheroes. Over the years the membership of Honor Guard has changed in response to various needs and goals. Among them, team power balance, personal choices, retirement, and various conflicts. But the team endures, building a firm, proud reputations. The standard bearers for heroic achievements.


Contents

Resources

Flying headquarters: Honor Guard HQ is a hi-tech airborne vessel traveling over the Western area of the United States, though location has varied. It brims with advanced technologies, including cloaking technology, shielded armor made of high density, heavily reinforced alloyed metals. It is a moderate sized structure, complete with personal quarters, meeting area, a trophy room (displaying weapons, artifacts, special tools, communication devices and various memorabilia from the team's past cases), a technology center(complete with an extraterrestrial-alien detector) and other areas necessary for controlling and maintaining this all important headquarters.

Repli-Matrix: A crystal seized from Tritonian slavers early in Honor Guard's career. The device possesses replication powers of some sort, and Honor Guard regularly used it for reconstruction purposes after super-battles. Some time prior to late 2001, the alien conqueror Kroseth IV of Antares merged his essence with the Repli-Matrix. Though he then escaped the device the next time it was used, it is unknown whether Honor Guard has permanently retired the crystal in light of these events.

History

Former Members include: Cleopatra I, El Hombre, Hummingbird, Kitkat/Greymalkin, Leopardman, The Living Nightmare, Max O'Millions, Mermaid, Mirage, the Silver Agent, Starfighter, Starwoman and Stormhawk.

Membership Timeline

1959

Max O'Millions

Cleopatra I

Kitkat

Leopardman

N-Forcer (costume design 1)

Silver Agent

Starwoman

Appearances: 1:2, DA1:0


Early 1960's

Silver Agent

Cleopatra I

El Hombre

Leopardman

Mermaid

N-Forcer (costume design 2)

Starwoman

Appearances: 2:16


1964

Silver Agent

Cleopatra I

El Hombre

Hummingbird

Mermaid

Mirage

N-Forcer (costume design 2)

Appearances: 2:13 2:16 2:19


1970

Cleopatra I

Hummingbird

Leopardman

Mirage

N-Forcer (costume design 2)

Starfighter

Beautie - just joined group after exploit

Appearances: CS:Beautie


Early 1973

Silver Agent

Black Rapier

El Hombre

Mermaid

Starfighter

Appearances DA1:3

1973

Black Rapier

El Hombre

Hummingbird

Mermaid

Mirage

N-Forcer (costume design 3)

Starfighter

Appearances: 2:16, DA1:4 (minus Mermaid and after El Hombre presumably, in a loose gathering)


1976

Black Rapier

Cleopatra I

Hummingbird

Living Nightmare

Mirage

N-Forcer (costume design 3)

Starfighter

Appearances: DA2:1


1982

Beautie

Black Rapier

Greymalkin

Mermaid

Mirage

N-Forcer (costume design 4)

Stormhawk


Appearances: DA3:2(minus Mermaid, possibly Starfighter as member), DA3:3, DA3:4 (minus Mermaid)

1984

Beautie

Black Rapier

Greymalkin

Mermaid

Mirage

N-Forcer (costume design 4)

Starfighter

Appearances: DA4:3(minus Mermaid and Greymalkin), DA4:4(minus Mirage and N-Forcer)


1991

Black Rapier

Beautie

M.P.H.

N-Forcer (costume design 5)

Quarrel II

Samaritan

Appearances: LH:1


1995

Black Rapier

Beautie

Cleopatra II

M.P.H.

N-Forcer (costume design 5)

Quarrel II

Samaritan

Appearances: 1:1, 1:6, 2:1(only 5 AC-based shown, not team activity), 2:5(only Beautie, N-Forcer, Quarrel, Samaritan), 2:6, 2:7, 2:9(minus Black Rapier), 2:19, 2:20(N-Forcer and Samaritan only)


2000

Cleopatra II

M.P.H.

N-Forcer (costume design 5)

Quarrel II

Samaritan

Appearances: 2:22(likely no changeover just non-present members)


2008 - Current Lineup

Black Rapier

Beautie

Cleopatra II

M.P.H.

N-Forcer (costume design 5)

Quarrel II

Samaritan

Appearances: CS:Beautie (see from 1995 onward lineup)

Speculations, Observations and Theories:

Timelines of Interest

Honor Guard
Honor Guard Cases and Adventures

External Links

An early prototype webpage, showing the Honor Guard Time Line