"Slashing his way through his 1st solo adventure!" I have only the vaguest recollection of Agent Liberty--I may have encountered him in the early 1990s Superman comics he occasionally appeared in. In my head, he's like Captain America, but reading this one-shot reveals he's much more a paramilitary operative/spy than a traditional super hero. Agent Liberty can fly, create a force shield, has forearm blades (I'm informed a special metallic silver ink was used to make them shine on the cover, though I didn't notice), and uses a gun. He has a support group called the "Sons of Liberty" which sounds a bit too MAGA for my tastes. Anyway, Agent Liberty, whose real name is Ben Lockwood, was once a CIA operative on the ground in Iran during the aborted rescue of the American hostages in 1979. After the rescue attempt was called off, the CIA, on direct orders of the President, let Lockwood and another agent dangle with no evacuation plan. Ben escaped, but his ally Devlin was captured, tortured, and eventually became a terrorist. Devlin has a nuke and Agent Liberty has to stop him! That's the gist of the issue. All in all, it's not bad, though the one-shot doesn't exactly made me eager for more.
Agent Liberty never got another solo offering again. Apparently the character has continued to appear occasionally in other books, and there's even a heavily-adapted version of Agent Liberty in the Supergirl tv show. The more super hero stuff makes it to the screen, the more obscure characters get dug up and given new life . . .
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