On Independence Day, spare a thought...

...for the Force of July, the worst-named superhero team ever.
Pretty much a throwaway group of really bad character designs when they were introduced in Batman and the Outsiders Annual #1 they were, from left to right,

Silent Majority - a Madrox the Multiple Man rip-off who - wait for it - was silent. He's dead now.

Lady Liberty - dresses as the statue of liberty and fires energy from her torch. She's also dead.

Major Victory - had the ability to wear that uniform and not feel stupid. A great quote from him regarding the Outsider's Katana and Looker: "I can understand the Jap turning against us but Looker - she's an American!" Yep, he's dead now. And he probably deserved it.

Sparkler - basically a male pre-Jubilee version of Jubilee. Killed - and we can only hope only killed - by Dr Light.

Mayflower - the most interesting of the bunch if only because she was the daughter of the Golden Age Thorn, making her Jade and Obsidian's half-sister, and possibly full sister as her father was never identified so could be Alan Scott. As she's dead, we'll probably never know.

The Force of July was kind of resurrected almost twenty years after most of them died in the Janus Directive as the only slightly less embarrasingly named Freedom Ring in Battle for Bludhaven where most of the original character designs were reused with new characters in them.

The Force of July - an American legend!