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Secret Origin
John was a nobody who wanted to be a somebody. Sitting in a semi-stuffed easy chair in his drawing room, John thought about the hero he could become. Then the mail came.
Besides the numerous bills, the letters addressed to "occupant," and the solicitations for credit cards proclaiming that he was and would forever be unapproved, there was a note on yellow paper. The communication declared that "due to a failure of payment," John's home was to be repossessed. Thinking this was the sign he was looking for, John sprang into action.
It was during this time the Commonplace Avenger was sort of making his mark on the streets of The City. Inspired by this, John trained (for a few weeks) as the Avenger's sidekick, Second-Rate. Later the two would join the Seven Soldiers of Mediocrity. As Second-Rate, John had a fair to middling career in such groups as the Inferior Five and the JSSA, the Just So-So Americans.
After such a run-of-the-mill life, John retired to a job in the humdrum world of Back Issue Comics, where he now reads about people who lead much more interesting lives than he.
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Top Ten, Tom Strong — the Alan Moore train
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The Short Line, the Reading, the Baltimore and Ohio — the B&O train