DC waited 81 years to make an animated Justice Society film. It should have waited longer.

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 the 1960s, DC relaunched the Justice Society concept as the Justice League, and then in one of the most ground-breaking comics ever, established the existence of a parallel earth in which the original Golden Age heroes still battled evildoers in “The Flash” No. 123 (September 1961).

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Tigress (Joy Osmanski) and Barbara (Amy Smart), "Stargirl" (Photo: CW)

‘Stargirl’: Home invasion

When we last left “Stargirl,” Icicle (Neil Jackson) had ordered a hit on Courtney, Pat and Barbara – oh, and don’t forget Mike.

“Can’t leave a legacy running around,”  he told Brainwave (Christopher James Baker).

And that’s where we pick up in “Stars & S.T.R.I.P.E. Part One,” the first half of the season finale, written by Melissa Carter and directed by Toa Fraser.

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