Justice League
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| Justice League of America | |
 Variant cover art for Justice League of America #12. Art by Michael Turner. |
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| Publication information | |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | The Brave and the Bold # 28 (February-March 1960) |
| Created by | Gardner Fox |
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| Base(s) of operation | The Hall and the Satellite Watchtower The Refuge JLI Embassies Detroit Bunker Satellite Secret Sanctuary |
| Roster | Batman Black Canary Black Lightning Flash Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) Green Lantern (John Stewart) Hawkgirl Red Arrow Red Tornado Superman Vixen Wonder Woman |
| See:List of Justice League members | |
The Justice League, sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short, is a fictional DC Comics superhero team.
First appearing in The Brave and the Bold #28 (1960), the League originally appeared with a line-up that included Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter. However, the team roster has rotated throughout the years to include such recognizable characters as Green Arrow, Atom, Hawkman, Black Canary, Captain Marvel, Plastic Man and dozens of others. Throughout the years, various incarnations or subsections of the team have also operated as Justice League America, Justice League Europe, Justice League International, Justice League Task Force, Justice League Elite, and Extreme Justice.
Various comic book series featuring the League have remained generally popular with fans since inception because, in most incarnations, its roster includes DC's most popular characters. The League concept has also been adapted into various other entertainment media, including the classic Saturday morning Super Friends animated series (1973-1986), a lesser known live action television movie, and most recently the successful animated series Justice League (2001-2004) and Justice League Unlimited (2004-2006).
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[edit] Publication history
[edit] Silver and Bronze Age / Justice League of America
| Justice League of America | |
 Cover to Justice League of America #1. Art by Mike Sekowsky. |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
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| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing |
| Publication date | October 1961 - 1986 |
| Number of issues | 261 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | various |
| Artist(s) | various |
| Creator(s) | Gardner Fox Mike Sekowsky |
Having successfully re-introduced a number of their Golden Age superhero characters (Flash, Green Lantern, etc.) during the late 1950s, DC Comics asked writer Gardner Fox to re-introduce the Justice Society of America. Fox, influenced by the popularity of the National Football League and Major League Baseball, decided to change the name of the team from Justice Society to Justice League.[1] The Justice League of America debuted in The Brave and the Bold #28 (1960), and quickly became one of the company's best-selling titles. Fox wrote virtually all of the League's adventures during the 1960s, and artist Mike Sekowsky pencilled the first five years.
As with the Justice Society, the concept of the Justice League was simple: to include all of DC's most popular characters in one book (hence the original lineup included Superman, Batman, Aquaman, the Flash, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman). Three of DC's other surviving or revived characters, Green Arrow, Atom, and Hawkman were quickly added to the roster, the latter two having been re-introduced by Gardner Fox himself. JLA's early success was indirectly responsible for the creation of the Fantastic Four, and by extension the entire Marvel universe. In his autobiography Stan Lee relates how, during a round of golf, DC publisher Jack Liebowitz mentioned to Marvel-Timely owner Martin Goodman how well DC's new book (Justice League) was selling. Later that day Goodman told Lee to come up with a team of superheroes for Marvel; Lee and Jack Kirby produced the Fantastic Four.[2]
The Justice League operated from a secret cave outside of the small town of Happy Harbor, Rhode Island. Teenager Snapper Carr tagged along on missions, and was both the team's mascot and an official member. Snapper, noted for speaking in beatnik dialect and snapping his fingers, helped the League to defeat giant space starfish Starro the Conqueror in the team's first appearance. In Justice League of America #77 (December 1969), Snapper was tricked into betraying the cave headquarters' secret location to the Joker, resulting in his resignation from the team. His resignation followed the resignations of two of the league's original members, Wonder Woman (in Justice League of America #69) and J'onn J'onzz (in Justice League of America #71). Both resignations appear to have been retconned due to changes in DC continuity.
[edit] Satellite years
In need of a new secure headquarters, the Justice League moved into an orbiting "satellite" headquarters in Justice League of America #78 (February 1970). Through this period, the membership was limited to the remaining founders along with Green Arrow, Atom, and Hawkman, who were joined by Black Canary, Phantom Stranger, Elongated Man, Red Tornado and, eventually, the return of Wonder Woman. The League's twelve-member limit (sometimes explained as a "no duplication of powers" policy) was conceded (in Justice League of America #161) to have been simply a charter provision about numbers, once the League had formally removed the limitation and admitted Hawkwoman and hoped to admit more members. (Indeed, through this period, several League members challenged and joked about the notion that they shared skills and talents, for example, with speed races between Superman and Flash, and Hawkman's use of archery in combat.) The policy change allowed Zatanna and Firestorm to be admitted as well.
Those involved in producing the Justice League of America comic during the 1970s include writers Gerry Conway, Cary Bates, E. Nelson Bridwell, and Steve Englehart, while Dick Dillin primarily handled the art chores. Justice League of America had a brief spike in popularity in 1982 when artist George PĂ©rez stepped in following Dillin's death, but the commercial success was short-lived.
[edit] Detroit
In 1984, in an attempt to emulate the success of DC's most successful comic at that time, The New Teen Titans, DC editorial had most of the regular members replaced by newer, younger characters. DC also moved the team from its satellite headquarters into a base in Detroit, Michigan. This move was highly unpopular with readers, who dubbed this period of time the "Justice League Detroit" era. The major criticism was that this Justice League was filled with second-rate heroes. Created by Conway and artist Chuck Patton, the team was initially led by Aquaman and featured Justice League veterans Zatanna, the Martian Manhunter and the Elongated Man, but the majority of the stories focused on newly recruited heroes Vixen, Gypsy, Steel and Vibe. Aquaman left the new team after only a few issues, and was replaced as leader by J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter. Even the return of Batman to the team in Justice League of America # 250 could not halt the decline of the series.[3] The final issue of the original Justice League of America series, issue #261 by Writer J. M. DeMatteis and artist Luke McDonnell, culminated with long-time Justice League enemy Professor Ivo's murders of Vibe and Steel at the onset of DC's Legends miniseries.
[edit] Modern incarnations
[edit] Justice League International
The 1987 company-wide crossover Legends featured the formation of a new Justice League. The new team was dubbed "Justice League" then "Justice League International" (JLI) and was given a mandate with less of an American focus. The new series, written by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis with art by Kevin Maguire (and later Adam Hughes), added quirky humor to the team's stories. In this incarnation the membership consisted partly of heroes from Earths that, prior to their merging in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, were separate. The initial team included Batman, Black Canary, Blue Beetle, Captain Marvel, Doctor Light (a new Japanese female character, emerging from the Crisis of Infinite Earths, not the super-villain who had appeared previously), Doctor Fate, Martian Manhunter, Mister Miracle, and Guy Gardner; and soon after inception, added Booster Gold, Captain Atom, Fire (formerly known as the Global Guardians' Green Flame), Ice (formerly known as the Global Guardians' Ice Maiden), and two Rocket Reds (one was a Manhunter spy, and one was Dimitri Pushkin). The series' humorous tone and high level of characterization proved very popular, but writers following Giffen and DeMatteis were unable to capture the same balance of humor and heroics, resulting in the decline of the series' popularity. New writers gave the storylines a more serious tone. By the mid- to late-1990s, with the series' commercial success fading, it was eventually cancelled, along with spin-offs Justice League Europe, Extreme Justice, and Justice League Task Force.
[edit] JLA
| JLA | |
 Cover for JLA #1, by Howard Porter and John Dell. |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
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| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing |
| Publication date | January 1997 - February 2006 |
| Number of issues | 125 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Joe Kelly, Chuck Austen, Kurt Busiek, Geoff Johns, Alan Heinberg, Bob Harras |
| Artist(s) | various |
| Creator(s) | Grant Morrison Howard Porter John Dell |
The low sales of the various Justice League spinoff books prompted DC to revamp the League as a single team (all the various branch teams were disbanded) on a single title. A Justice League of America formed in the September 1996 limited series Justice League: A Midsummer's Nightmare by Mark Waid and Fabian Nicieza. In 1997, DC Comics launched a new Justice League series titled JLA, written by Grant Morrison with art by Howard Porter and inker John Dell.
This series, in an attempt at a "back-to-basics" approach, used as its core the team's original and most famous seven members (or their successors): Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash (Wally West), Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner), and the Martian Manhunter. Additionally, the team received a new headquarters, the "Watchtower", based on the Moon. Morrison introduced the idea of the JLA allegorically representing a pantheon of gods, with their different powers and personalities, incorporating such characters as Barbara Gordon (Oracle), John Henry Irons (Steel), and Plastic Man.
Since this new league included most of DC's most powerful heroes, the focus of the stories changed. The League now dealt only with Earth-shattering, highest-priority threats which could challenge their tremendous combined power. Enemies faced by this new JLA included an invading army of aliens, a malfunctioning war machine from the future, a horde of renegade angels, a newly reformed coalition of villains as a counter-league, mercenaries armed with individualized take-down strategies for each superhero, various cosmic threats, and the enraged spirit of the Earth itself. In addition, because almost all of the members had their own comics, the stories were almost always self-contained, with all chapters occurring within JLA itself and very rarely affecting events outside of that series. Developments from a hero's own title (such as the new costume temporarily adopted by Superman) were reflected in the League's comic book, however.
The new approach worked, and JLA quickly became DC's best-selling title[citation needed], a position it enjoyed for several years[citation needed]. Despite this, DC did not create continuing spinoff series as it had done before. Instead, a large number of miniseries and one-shots featuring the team were released. One spin-off team, the Justice League Elite was created following the events of JLA # 100, but their series was limited to 12 issues, and the team appeared only once after the title ended its allotted run. JLA's popularity was also able to launch the critically acclaimed JSA series, which was relaunched as Justice Society of America to coincide with the new Justice League of America book.
In 2005, a story arc by Geoff Johns and Alan Heinberg called "Crisis of Conscience" (JLA #115-119) depicts the dissolution of the Justice League of America as the breakdown of trust shown in the 2004 limited series Identity Crisis reaches its zenith. At the end of the arc, Superboy-Prime destroys the Justice League Watchtower. JLA, one of several titles to be cancelled at the conclusion of the Infinite Crisis storyline, ended with issue #125.
As depicted in the "Villains United Infinite Crisis Special" and the final issue of Infinite Crisis itself, preparations for the defense of Metropolis against an army of organized super-villains required a brief and temporary expansion of the Justice League to its largest roster to date. The main defensive teams of the JLA, JSA, Teen Titans and Outsiders already being occupied elsewhere by the Crisis, it fell on Oracle and the Martian Manhunter to contact and deputize seemingly every active or once active hero in the DC Universe as effective Justice League members to form a last line of defense for the city.
[edit] 52
In 52 Week 24, Firestorm recruits a group to reform the Justice League. It consists of Firehawk, Super-Chief, Bulleteer and Ambush Bug. They fight a deranged Skeets who takes Super-Chief's powers and kills him as well as numerous persons given powers by Lex Luthor's Everyman Project. Afterwards Firestorm breaks up the team.
Also in the series, Luthor's new Infinity, Inc. was informally referred to as a "Justice League" in solicitations and on covers.
[edit] Justice League of America (vol. 2)
| Justice League of America (vol. 2) | |
 Variant incentive cover for Justice League of America #1 Art by Michael Turner. |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
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| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing |
| Publication date | August 2006 - |
| Number of issues | 19 (including #0) as of February 2008 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Brad Meltzer Dwayne McDuffie |
| Artist(s) | Ed Benes |
| Creator(s) | Brad Meltzer Ed Benes |
One year after the events of Infinite Crisis, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman reunite in the Batcave to re-form the League in Justice League of America #0, the kick-off for a new series by Brad Meltzer and Ed Benes. They select Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Black Canary, Red Arrow (Green Arrow's former sidekick), Red Tornado, Vixen, Black Lightning, and Hawkgirl. The three founders built a new headquarters for the Justice League, consisting of two buildings linked by a transporter. The first site is The Hall, located in Washington D.C. at the location of the Justice Society of America and the All-Star Squadron's former headquarters, paid for by Batman and designed by Wonder Woman and John Stewart, who is later elected to join the team alongside Hal Jordan. The Hall, functioning as the League's embassy on Earth, features an extensive collection of rare historical items of significance to the League and its forebearers, including several pieces of deactivated weaponry and technology from former heroes and villains. The transporter leads both to the Batcave and to the League's new orbiting satellite headquarters in space: the new Watchtower. Black Canary is elected as the first official Chairwoman. In issue #10, the Flash (Wally West) is brought back from another dimension, and then inducted into the Justice League. Dwayne McDuffie took over the writing job with #13. At the end of issue #15, Firestorm is "invited" to join the League so that someone with his powers but lack of experience will not be "unsupervised". After the Injustice Gang story arc, Amanda Waller had taken those villains in custody and tranported them to Hell Planet without any regard or without anyone's consent. Recently the Key, among other villains, broke into the headquarters of the Justice League. They surrendered themselves to the League, as a method of seeking safe haven from Waller. They were transported to individual cells on the JLA satellite, where their powers were nullified. Batman has been secretly communicating with J'onn J'onzz, finding out that Waller has been sending villains to this distant planet. Upon notifying the League they quickly went to the planet to check on the villains. Telepathically communicating with the League in space, J'onn asked for help. Little did the League know, it was Kanjar Ro impersonating J'onn, who then tried to capture the League and extract their DNA. The Justice League quickly disposed of Kanjar Ro and have since stated that they will find out where the villains have been transported to and also to rescue J'onn.
[edit] Justice League
There is a new monthly title by writer James Robinson and artist Mauro Cascioli simply called Justice League. This team will differ from the Justice League of America, and will be lead by Hal Jordan and Green Arrow, alongside new recruits Supergirl, Batwoman, Starman (Mikaal Tomas), Atom (Ray Palmer), Shazam (Freddy Freeman), and Congorilla.[1]
[edit] Various origins of the Justice League
In 1962's Justice League of America #9 Earth was infiltrated by the Appelaxians, competing alien warriors sent to see who could conquer Earth first to determine who will become the new ruler of their home planet. The aliens' attacks drew the attentions of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash (Barry Allen), Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Aquaman, and the Martian Manhunter. While the superheroes individually defeated most of the invaders, the heroes fell prey to a single competitor's attack; only by working together were they able to defeat the competitor. For many years, the heroes heralded this adventure as the event that prompted them to agree to pool resources when confronted with similar menaces.
Years later, however (as revealed in Justice League of America #144), Green Arrow uncovered inconsistencies in League records and extracted admissions from his colleagues that the seven founders had actually formed the League after the Martian Manhunter was rescued from Martian forces by the other six founders, along with Robin, who did not join the League because of his young age. Green Lantern participated in this first adventure primarily as Hal Jordan, though he finally appeared as Green Lantern when the group formalized their agreement, news of which they mutually suppressed because of anti-Martian hysteria (mirroring the real-world backdrop of Martian scares and anti-communist hysteria of the 1950s). Because the League members had not revealed their identities to each other at the time, they did not realize that Jordan and Green Lantern were one and the same. While most subsequent accounts of the League have made little mention of this first adventure, the animated Justice League series adapted this tale as the origin of the League as well.
1989's, Secret Origins #32 updated the Justice League of America's origin for Post-Crisis continuity. Differences included the inclusion of Black Canary as a founding member and the absence of Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman (though Batman and Superman had cameo appearances they did not join the League yet, but Bruce Wayne was secretly funding them). Additionally, while the confident and good-looking Hal Jordan served as the public face of the Justice League, this iteration of the League's origin cast the Flash as the team's unofficial leader, since it was the methodical Allen who usually came up with the plans that best utilized everyone's powers. 1998's JLA: Year One limited series, by Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn and Barry Kitson, further expanded upon the Secret Origins depiction.
In 1994's Justice League Task Force #16, during Zero Hour, an unknown superhuman named Triumph appeared. It was revealed that, in a plotline never explored before, Triumph was revealed to have been a founding member of the Justice League, serving as their leader. On his first mission with the fledgling Justice League, Triumph seemingly "saved the world", but was teleported into a dimensional limbo that also affected the timestream, resulting in no one having any memory of him. This was to explain how all the heroes ended up in Washington for their first meeting.
In 2006's Infinite Crisis #7, the formation of "New Earth" (the new name for the Post-Crisis Earth) resulted in the retcon that Wonder Woman was a founding member of the Justice League in the early days. In Brad Meltzer's Justice League of America (vol. 2) #0 (2006), it was also revealed that both Superman and Batman were founding members as well. No official changes in continuity for Hawkman and Hawkgirl's involvement with the team have been confirmed. 52 Week 51 confirmed that the 1989 Secret Origins and JLA: Year One origins are still in canon, with Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman joining the team (consisting of Aquaman, Black Canary, Flash, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter) with founding members' status shortly after the group's formation.[4]
[edit] Related series
[edit] Formerly Known as the Justice League
In 2003, Giffen, DeMatteis, and Maguire returned with a separate limited series called Formerly Known as the Justice League with the same humor as their Justice League run, and featuring some of the same characters in a team called the "Super Buddies" (a parody of the Super Friends). A follow-up limited series, entitled I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League, soon was prepared, although it was delayed due to the events shown in the Identity Crisis limited series, but was eventually released as the second arc in JLA: Classified. The Super Buddies consisted of Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Captain Atom, Fire, Mary Marvel, the Elongated Man with his wife, Sue Dibny, Maxwell Lord, and L-Ron. The second story arc of JLA: Classified focuses on the Super Buddies in a humorous story that features Power Girl, Guy Gardner, and Doctor Fate.
[edit] JLA/Avengers
In 2004, George PĂ©rez and Kurt Busiek came out with a JLA/Avengers crossover, an idea that had been delayed for 20 years for various reasons. In this limited series, the Justice League and the Avengers were forced to find key artifacts in one another's universe, as well as deal with the threats of villains Krona and the Grandmaster. A key moment in League history occurs in this series, when the Avenger Hawkeye becomes the first Marvel Comics character to be inducted into the Justice League.
[edit] JLA: Classified
| JLA: Classified | |
 Cover of JLA: Classified #1 by Ed McGuinness. |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
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| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing |
| Publication date | January 2005 - May 2008 |
| Number of issues | 54 |
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| Writer(s) | various |
| Artist(s) | various |
| Creator(s) | Grant Morrison Ed McGuinness |
In 2004, DC began an anthology series titled JLA: Classified, which would feature rotating writers and artists producing self-contained story-arcs starring the JLA. JLA Classified is in official continuity; the stories take place somewhere in the team's past.[citation needed] The first arc features Grant Morrison's return to the team with artist Ed McGuiness and a storyline featuring a "proto-universe" that was first seen in Morrison's JLA run as well as his then-upcoming Seven Soldiers limited series. Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis then did the sequel to "Formerly Known as the Justice League" entitled "I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League". Then Warren Ellis, Gail Simone, and Howard Chaykin wrote the following stories with other writers taking over after that. Dan Jurgens and Dan Slott produced the six part bi-weekly "4th Parallel" storyline which ran through issues #32-36, introducing a new villain named the Red King. Creators rumored to do upcoming arcs include Tom Mandrake and Garth Ennis. Garth Ennis had stated that his final Hitman story would be published in JLA Classified, but it has since been published as the JLA/Hitman two part mini-series. The series was cancled in May 2008 at issue 54.
[edit] Justice
In October 2005, DC began publishing the 12-issue miniseries Justice by writer Jim Krueger, writer/illustrator Alex Ross, and artist Doug Braithwaite. In the story, which is not set in current DC continuity, the League faces off against the combined forces of their most infamous criminal archenemies, including Lex Luthor, Riddler, Joker, Brainiac, Black Manta, etc. These villains have all shared the same nightmare of the Earth's destruction, and the shared nature of this vision leads them to believe it is a premonition of an actual impending event, one which they believe the Justice League is responsible for. Instead of using their combined strength for destructive ends, the new criminal team provides humanitarian aid in the form of large floating cities in which the impoverished people of Earth can live. They also use the power of rhetoric to criticize the Justice League for not having done enough humanitarian work themselves prior to this. In truth, this is a prelude to a coordinated attack on the Leaguers, which involves learning their secret identities, physically attacking them on multiple fronts, and unleashing microscopic mechanical organisms on a number of them that cause those infected to become murderous psychotics. With help from Doc Magnus and the Metal Men, the Leaguers build special armor to protect them from the mechanical worms. During the climactic battle, John Stewart manages to erase knowledge of the League's secret identities from the villains' minds, and Brainiac, who had taken control of all of Earth's nuclear weapons, in a ploy to restore the glory of his planet Colu on Earth, is defeated.
[edit] Justice League
Announced at Wizard World LA 2008; James Robinson will be starting a new Justice League series known simply as Justice League. According to Robinson, this series will be about "justice and seeking justice, rather than responding to emergencies, letting the problems come to them, and being almost entirely reactive". The team will be brought together by a murder, and Robinson revealed that the series will be tied to Final Crisis.[5]
Robinson explained that "Hal Jordan decides that he wants a pro-active team. This team will go after the equivalent of the FBI's most wanted list, sometimes in different countries, sometimes through time. It's a nice eclectic team of established teams and some oddball characters I've thrown in." He also said that "The difference is, the Justice League of America is all about the League, it's a family. While this is about justice. It's all about bringing in the bad guys."[6]
The team will be consist of Green Lantern Hal Jordan, the Green Arrow, Ray Palmer—though not as the Atom—Supergirl, Batwoman, Freddy Freeman "with a new name", Mikaal Tomas, and Congorilla.[5]
[edit] Related teams
- The Justice League occasionally has worked with its predecessor, the Justice Society of America. Between 1963 and 1985, a popular annual series of team-ups between the two teams to tackle some sort of mutual threat was seen. They often encountered other worlds in the Multiverse, such as Earth-S, home to Captain Marvel and Shazam (comics). Now that the teams inhabit the same Earth, the JLA and JSA have Thanksgiving dinner together each year, with the location varying year to year between their respective headquarters. A crossover between the two teams in 2007 involved the Legion of Super-Heroes.
- A team originally formed by the teen sidekicks of a few Justice League members (and thus known as a "Junior Justice League" of sorts) is called the Teen Titans.
- Another team of young heroes similar to the Teen Titans was Young Justice, originally composed of Superboy, Impulse and Robin. Later more members were added like like Secret (rescuing her was the first case of the original trio), Wonder Girl, Arrowette, The Ray, Empress, Lil'lobo (later Slo-bo). The team was formed by chance and it's name was coined by a reporter when Impulse tried to say that they weren't really a team but "just us" (thus making the reporter believing the team was named "Young Justice"). Red Tornado was first mentor and then liason for the team to the Justice League when the group was officially adopted as the young branch. The team was disbanded after the events of Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day and some former members of both the Titans and Young Justice grouped together to form the new Teen Titans.
- In light of the increased UN scrutiny of super-powered teams after the events of Infinite Crisis and 52 (comics), Batman has re-formed his own team of Outsiders, to work under his direction tackling politically sensitive problems that might prove problematic were the Justice League of America to become directly involved.
- A team formed by some rejects from the Legion of Superheroes that are native to Earth as shown in Action Comics # 859. This "Justice League of Earth" has twisted the legacy of Superman to promote their xenophobic agenda. Members include:
- Earth-Man: Kirt Niedrigh, formerely Absorbency Boy. Has the ability to absorb and duplicate superpowers, albeit temporarily. Leader.
- Spider Girl: Sussa Paka. Has web-like hair and former member of the Legion of Super-Villains.
- Tusker: Horace Lafeaugh. Has an unbreakable skeleton.
- Storm Boy: Myke Chypurz. Has weather-making machines implanted in his chest cavity, giving him the ability to generate wind and lightning.
- Golden Boy: Klint Stewirt. Has a midas touch and a solid gold body. Finances the team.
- Eyeful Ethel: Ethel Lynn Niwtyn. Has the ability to grow extra eyes anywhere on her body. Acts as a teacher at the "Earth Cultural Center", telling students about Superman's false hatred of aliens.
- Radiation Roy: Roy Travich. A living radioactive isotope. Must wear a red containment suit as his powers have damaged his body. Former member of the Legion of Super-Villains.
- In the final issue of 52 a new multiverse was created, containing 52 worlds, some of which have alternate versions of the Justice League. On Earth 11, a world where all the genders are reversed from the characters of New Earth, There is a Justice League led by Superwoman and Batwoman; its members include Kylie Rayner, Olivia Queen, a Blue Beetle who is similar in costume and power to Jaimie Reyes (however dialogue suggests it may be a female version of Ted Kord), a Flash (whose blonde hair suggests she may be a female Barry Allen), Aquawoman (a female Arthur Curry), Atom (whose costume resembles Ryan Choi's), and Plastic Woman. Female versions of Red Tornado and Martian Manhunter are also members as well as a male version of Black Canary. Wonderman was also a member but was kicked off the team for killing Maxine Lord.
[edit] Justice League parodies/references
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- The Seven in The Boys.
- The Just-Us League in Tiny Toon Adventures.
- The Freedom League in Histeria!
- The Guardians of the Globe in Invincible.
- Squadron Supreme as a whole was created as an homage to the Justice League of America.
- League of Honor in The Pro
- Knights of Justice and Round Table of America (RTA) by Big Bang Comics and published by Image Comics, recreate the Golden Age and Silver Age of comics.
- The Allies, from Image Comics.
- Honor Guard from Astro City.
- Apollo's and Midnighter's original Stormwatch team was an homage to the Justice League.
- Planetary contains numerous references to JLA members. The first issue prominently features an homage to the Justice League. Planetary/Authority: Ruling The World features a JLA as though created by H. P. Lovecraft.
- The Justice Friends in Dexter's Laboratory (although the characters who made up the Justice Friends more closely resembled Captain America (Major Glory), The Hulk (Krunk), Thor (Valhallen) and other members of the Avengers).
- The Planetary Brigade by Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis is a League parody. The cover of #1 parodies the traditional first issue covers from their time on the real League.
- In the Futurama episode Less Than Hero, after Fry and Leela receive powers from Dr. Flim Flam's Miracle Cream, along with Bender, they form the New Justice Team; whose enemy is the Zoo-Keeper (also the name of a DC villain). The first battle between the New Justice Team and the Zoo-Keeper is an obvious parody of the 1960s Batman television series.
- The Justice Ducks (or "Just-Us-Ducks") team in the comedic Disney cartoon Darkwing Duck is a team of super heroes (not all of them ducks, which makes the "Just-Us-Ducks" name all the more amusing) that along with Darkwing Duck protect the city of St. Canard.
- In episode 504 of South Park, the Super Best Friends, a team formed of religious figures Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Joseph Smith, Krishna, Lao Tsu, Moses (in the same form he appears as in episode 309 "Jewbilee") and a parody of Aquaman known as "Sea Man", save the world from magician David Blaine.
- The Freedom League, in the Freedom City campaign setting for the Mutants and Masterminds role-playing game, is an homage to the Justice League.
- On Spongebob Squarepants they had the I.J.L.S.A. (the International Justice League of Super-Acquaintances).
- The Drawn Together episode "Ghostesses in the Slot Machine" features a superhero team called the League of Heroes.
- The original and the 2003 animated series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles both feature a parody of the Justice League called "The Justice Force." The Justice Force is composed of parody characters from several different comic series.
- The Underground episode 8 parodies the Justice League, with names like Supra-Man, Man Bat (and his Manmobile), Green Lighthouse, along with a Wonder Woman reference. Spider-Man is the only non-JLA member there, besides the main parody character, Super N-Word.
- Bang Cartoons have had six episodes to date of "The Justice Guys"; a superhero team based on topical NFL players and coaches. Mainstays of the group include Bill Cowher as Spitball , Tom Brady as The Dynamic Dimple, Donovan McNabb as Chokemaster or Chokey McPukington, Peyton Manning as Commercial Man, Aaron Brooks as Captain Useless, Jeff Garcia has had several different characters, including the Cleveland Steamer, The Velvet Lion, and the Liberty Belle. In various adventures they have tackled the nefarious herpes spreading Ron Mexico, rescued Matt Leinart from Paris Hilton's cooch, and recently saved Matt Millen on Halloween.
- Smallville At the end of the episode in which the young Aquaman visits Smallville, he invites Clark to join the Junior Lifeguard Association. Clark laughingly tells him that he is not ready to join the JLA quite yet. Also, at the end of the episode in which the young Flash appears (Bart Allen), he says that he's going to travel the world and search for others with superpowers, and "maybe start a league or something." In the season six episode, “Justice”, Oliver queen (Green arrow), Victor Stone (Cyborg), Arthur curry (Aquaman), Bart Allen (Impulse/the flash), and Clark Kent work together to take out a 33.1 facility set up by Lex Luther. When Clark is asked to permanently join the group he declines, saying that he must first deal with something else. It is later revealed throughout the season that the group (minus Clark) is still taking out 33.1 facilities throughout the world.
- In The Fairly Odd Parents, a team known as the "Power Pals."
[edit] Awards
The original Justice League of America series has won:
- 1961 Alley Awards for Best Comic Book
- 1961 Alley Awards for Best Adventure-Hero Group
- 1963 Alley Awards for Favorite Novel ("Crisis on Earth-One/Crisis on Earth-Two" in Justice League of America # 21-22 by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky)
- 1963 Alley Awards for Strip that Should Be Improved
- 1963 Alley Awards for Artist Preferred on Justice League of America (Murphy Anderson)
- 1973 Shazam Awards for Best Inker (Dramatic Division) (Dick Giordano)
[edit] Bibliography
- Silver Age Justice League of America
This series has been collected in the following:
| # | Title | Material collected |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justice League of America Archives volume 1 | Brave and the Bold #28–30, Justice League of America #1–6 |
| 2 | Justice League of America Archives volume 2 | Justice League of America #7–14 |
| 3 | Justice League of America Archives volume 3 | Justice League of America #15–22 |
| 4 | Justice League of America Archives volume 4 | Justice League of America #23–30 |
| 5 | Justice League of America Archives volume 5 | Justice League of America #31–38, 40* |
| 6 | Justice League of America Archives volume 6 | Justice League of America #41–47, 49–50* |
| 7 | Justice League of America Archives volume 7 | Justice League of America #51–57, 59–60* |
| 8 | Justice League of America Archives volume 8 | Justice League of America #61–66, 68–70* |
| 9 | Justice League of America Archives volume 9 | Justice League of America #71–80 |
*omitted issues featured reprints of material from earlier Archives.
- JLA #1-125 (January 1997 - February 2006)
This series has been collected in the following trade paperbacks:
| # | Title | Material collected |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New World Order | JLA #1-4 |
| 2 | American Dreams | JLA #5-9 |
| 3 | Rock Of Ages | JLA #10-15 |
| 4 | Strength In Numbers | JLA #16-23, JLA Secret Files #2, Prometheus One-shot |
| 5 | Justice For All | JLA #24-33 |
| 6 | World War Three | JLA #34-41 |
| 7 | Tower of Babel | JLA #42-46, JLA Secret Files 3, JLA 80-Page Giant 1 |
| 8 | Divided We Fall | JLA #47-54 |
| 9 | Terror Incognita | JLA #55-60 |
| 10 | Golden Perfect | JLA #61-65 |
| 11 | The Obsidian Age (Book 1) | JLA #66-71 |
| 12 | The Obsidian Age (Book 2) | JLA #72-76 |
| 13 | Rules Of Engagement | JLA #77-82 |
| 14 | Trial By Fire | JLA #84-89 |
| 15 | The Tenth Circle | JLA #94-99 |
| 16 | Pain Of The Gods | JLA #101-106 |
| 17 | Syndicate Rules | JLA #107-114 and a story from JLA Secret Files 2004 |
| 18 | Crisis Of Conscience | JLA #115-119 |
| 19 | World Without A Justice League | JLA #120-125 |
- Justice League of America vol. 2 #1-onwards (August 2006-onwards)
This series has been collected in the following hardcover collections:
| # | Title | Material collected |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Tornado's Path | Justice League of America #1-7 |
| 2 | The Lightning Saga | Justice League of America #0, #8-12, Justice Society of America #5-6 |
[edit] In other media
[edit] Television
Justice League of America has been adapted for television numerous times.
[edit] Animation
- The first animated appearance of the Jus