A man considers the final moments of his life.
Despite all he’s accomplished in the worlds of business and sport, he is bereft without his anchor, his soulmate, his beautiful wife, taken from him through an act of capricious fate.
Michael Holt stands above an abyss, ready to step into the void.
She’s my daughter!
She’s my sister!
She’s my sister and my daughter!
– “Chinatown” (1974)
In 1983, it took three esteemed DC Comics writers to answer a question nobody was asking – and in doing so create perhaps the creepiest JLA/JSA team-up in history.
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Super-hero team names are tough.
Have you ever tried coming up with one?
All the good ones are taken.
You have your Justice League, Avengers, Defenders, Teen Titans, Fantastic Four, Doom Patrol, X-Men, Inhumans, Secret Six, Mighty Crusaders, Legion of Super-Heroes, Legion of Substitute Heroes and Legion of Impossibly Silly Twits. (OK, I made that one up.)
And, of course, the first and greatest of them all, the Justice Society of America.
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There’s something about oddball heroes.
Keep your Supermen and your Thors.
Give me the heroes who have no great gifts – or worse – just weird gifts – and throw themselves into battle with the same determination and fervor as the gods of justice.
It took almost 40 years, but the Justice Society of America, DC Comics’ premier super-hero team, finally got an origin story.
Which begs the question:
What took so long?
Even the good folks at DC Comics had to be scratching their heads.
When the team debuted in “All Star Comics” No. 3 in 1940, the band was fully formed, sort of. They might as well have been drinking buddies gathering to swap stories – which is just what our heroes did.
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Mark Perigard 