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First, they became heroes. Now, they must obey—or become outlaws.

A year after the Nazis’ failed invasion, the world’s first superheroes face a new enemy: the law. New York’s Superhuman Organization Act requires every masked hero to register with the state—or become an outlaw. For Percy van Norton, aka Strongman, it’s the price of legitimacy for his new team, the Minutemen. For allies like the Black Cobra, whose enemies hide inside the government itself, it’s an invitation to be destroyed.

Across the city, war is escalating. The Order of the Crimson Cross hunts superhumans in white robes; the Acolytes of the New Pantheon worship them as gods. A framed ex-cop called the Black Hood wages a one-man war on the skeletal crime lord who ruined him. Nazi holdovers burn and plunder under new names. And every escalation traces back to the same hidden hand: the Black Knight, amassing an army beneath the earth.

From the author of Donner und Blitzkrieg, Crusaders assembles the largest cast of Golden Age public domain heroes in modern fiction—Strongman, the Arrow, Daredevil, the Wizard, Steel Sterling, Nukilik, and more—into a sweeping alternate history of 1950s America where heroism is tested by registration, prejudice, and the beginning of a conspiracy that threatens the nation itself.

Watchmen meets The Untouchablesin a novel that’s perfect for fans of Marvels, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,and Wild Cards.

Book Two of The Minutemen trilogy.