Schwarzerlachtern, Zick-Zack, Schwarzerpunkt and Tarot -Not Tongue Twisters!

 There was Kopfmann's counterpart, Kleine Klaus whose D-Gruppe had been wiped out; then we have Herr Baron Münchhausen (not Hans Alber but the character from Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia (1785) and his crew. General Blitzen, the Pied Piper, Barbarossa and along the way others including Lady Quiir and The Elfenkind as well as Hildegard Caterina Kouise, Baroness of Silesia and Kommandant in the Great Imp[erial Prussian Army or more simply "The Kommandant"! 

There were also two Rotkappchen, Deutsch Michael and many in cameo, etc. plus the main gatherer of the heroes -Gauntlet.

There is also the groundwork leading up to The Trial as well as hints at The Days of Darkness/Terror.  Heroes from Earths destroyed, now in refuge on this parallel included Amulett, Zick-Zack, Sonnenscheinen, Schwarzerpunkt and, of course, Schwarzerlachtern.

Schwarzerlachtern was seen with some of the other heroes in The Trial and was off world when his family and his Earth were obliterated.  He came from Earth Parallel 56765 and was instrumental in taking down the Zeitgeist in the final battle.  His powers are magical in nature and he commands, amongst other things, black light and can create solid light.

Ever present is the Gipsy Sorcerer, Tarot -he first appeared back in the 1980s (1984) in the Kotar and Sabuta story Werewolf -magnificently redrawn and made into a three part story by Ben Dilworth for Black Tower Super Heroes.

Although there are science friction elements at times the idea is to keep D-Gruppe and its characters on the edges of the magical and fairy tale world.  Wavell is the  team "super man" and was a primitive man caught up in a time experiment and brought into the 1980s -his IQ actually increasing but due to a flux in the time stream he also acquired super powers. Wavell, as I have declared before, is firmly based on the character Wastl -he is mentioned in this post on Comic Bits Online:

https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2015/12/dalborn-germany-and-bastei-verlag.html

Although I am a big fan of Mykros (and thanks to Subzero I now have the full Bastei series) Insekten Konig/Insect King is not based on him but was created long before I saw Mykros.

There are many other characters, let's face it the group was created in the 1960s so the team was bound to be added to over that time! Some 1990s work has been used to be part of the upcoming Parallel Motions issue of Black Tower Super Heroes so the team is living rent free in my brain... for now!

Above: Inspiration for Wastl -Willy Vandersteen popped up with a character from his Suske en Wiske series -Wastl.  The character of Wastl appeared in German-speaking countries for the first time in the Felix Comic books of Bastei and was initially a minor character in the "Ulla and Peter" stories (Suske and Wiske ), by Pankwitz (in the original: Lambik ) . There was a separate Wastl series in Felix from 1965 to 1968. And as his popularity increased even more he got his own fortnightly to later weekly comic from May, 1968 to January, 1972.  There were a total of 173 issues appeared.  Bastei began publishing the series in 1968.