Following the Second World War, the great super heroes of the Golden Age must adjust to life in peace time. Green Lantern has been blacklisted by the McCarthy hearings. Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle have married and divorced. Starman is struggling with the guilt of helping to develop the atomic bomb.

The Americommando has retired a war hero and run for Senate, and is recruiting a new group of heroes for the 1950s. But is he hiding a great secret?