At long last, DC Comics’ Justice Society of America star in their own animated film.
The first super-team of all time debuted in “All-Star Comics” No. 3 in 1940.
The comic was a hit, and for the next decade, DC’s greatest heroes banded together to fight villains on this world and across the cosmos.
Superhero comics dropped out of popularity in the early 1950s, and “All-Star Comics” went western and then went kaput.
In one of the bonus features on the new “Watchmen” DVD set, writer Damon Lindelof refers to this nine-part HBO series as “fan fiction.”
He was a boy when his father thrust the first two issues of the now legendary DC series “Watchmen” into his hands. His father didn’t think he was ready for the groundbreaking story. He had no idea how much it would change the course of Damon’s life and influence his writings.
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