Hopefully by now you've read the big 50th issue of the comic. If you haven't, there are major spoilers ahead!
Ready? Okay - here we go!
As I've mentioned before, I started to create my comic when I was in 5th grade. When I created the team, it was more akin to the way that the Legion of Super-Heroes handled things in the 1960's; by that I mean I just created the character and boom - they were on the team! I didn't deal much with onboarding the members, they were just there.
When I created the comic Master Mind was not a founding member of the team. In fact, she was actually dead before I created her. When I created her, I did so as a member of the team who had been killed in the line of duty at some point in the past and the heroes just remembered her. In fact, they had a golden metal statue built for her memory that they kept on the grounds of their headquarters.
The original story went that she was the first hero to join the team, but was killed by the traitor Beam during an assault on the headquarters. Much of the story in issue 50 stayed true to the original version, except for Master Mind having been a founder of the team. I felt that her being a founding member would add more emotional impact to the book than just some random member who came later.
The other change that I made: in the original stories, the team used a castle as their headquarters and the members lived in barrack-like structures built on the grounds. After that was destroyed, when Master Mind was killed, they moved into the U-shaped building that they stayed in.
When I was creating this comic a few years ago, I decided to leave out the castle/barrack set up and just have them in the U-shaped building from the start.
I'm going to reveal something here that the public as never seen before! The original headquarters layout and a breakdown of each floor of the castle. Again, please keep in mind that I was a kid when I drew these...
At some point, maybe on some Alternate Earth storyline in the future the castle might just have to make an appearance again one day!
Oh, before we go - you might be wondering whatever happened to Beam in the original version of the stories? Good question! I actually had two outcomes in mind for her; in one version of the story she was killed (which the option I went with in this issue); in the other version she went into hiding and was never seen again. I felt that since I had no other stories for her, I opted not to go with that version of the story.
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