Battle of the Spanish Armada

Military action

Vandal Savage helps lead the Spanish Armada against the vastly-outnumbered British Royal Navy, only to meet with defeat.

In the cold waters of the Atlantic off the American coast, Captain Jon Valor was the terror of the Spanish fleet, who call him Black Pirate. In the late 17th century, when Valor’s letter of marque and reprisal from the English Queen Elizabeth is stolen and he is framed for the murder of his own son in the estuary town of Port O’Souls, Valor’s enemies rush his trial and hang him for piracy. Before he dies, Valor curses himself, his crew, and all who die in Port O’Souls to walk the city’s streets as ghosts until his name is cleared. The spirits do so for the next four hundred years, until Starman finally redeems Black Pirate.