599. The JLA and JSA's most interesting team-up!

                  These two comic books were very important in my life- they pretty much set my ability to understand the DC Multiverse.

445. All Star Comics #3 (1940) review!

             What a great concept- I am still surprised that it took this long to get together the top DC heroes.  Everything was so new back in 1940.

413. DC Super Spectacular DC-6 comic book review!

                            Here we have one of my favorite comic books of all time.  I really enjoyed all the 100 page Super Spectaculars I ever bought.

DC 100 Page Super Spectacular #6- Facsimile Edition (2004)

I just got this edition from MyComicShop.com, for a reasonable price.  I have an original, but since that is over 50 years old, I thought it would be nice to have readable copy that is only 21 years old.  I remember seeing this on the shelves then, and thinking "pfft, I have an original, what do I need this for?"  Which may have made sense back then, but the older the original gets the less I want to turn newsprint pages on it.  This has better paper and printing, and a sturdier cover, and looks to have been touched up in the coloring department.  Yes, selected recoloring.  There were two stories from the 40s that probably needed it.  There will be a podcast episode about this issue and book, probably for Sunday.

346. Justice League The New Frontier (2008) review

      I am amazed that I could talk about this 75 minute for this long!

Justice League Adventures- Trapped In Time TRAILER

            

325. Time Trapped with the Justice League!

276. JLA/Avengers from the 80s!

                  

Justice!

What a great picture!  Sometimes you don't nee more words than that.  This was done by George Perez, probably on his first run with the book.  One can tell by Zatanna's costume, as well as the Red Tornado's costume (which is not great).  This was a great run on the book, I will tell you what.  I am glad to see both Supermen there.  I still wonder if the Batmen had ever met.  I know the Robins did.  Heck, even the Arrows did, sorta, though GA of Earth 2 was not a member of the JSA, and neither was Aquaman of E2.

Gulliver's Gigantic Goof

 

What, did Stan Lee write that alliterative title?  Green Arrow guest starred in that episode from the first season of Super Friends.  A well meaning but misguided scientist,  Dr. Hiram Gulliver, invents a way to shrink all humanity down to two inches tall.  This will solve the population problem.  He is not wrong, but he didn't figure in all the damage it would cause, plus people would turn into food sources for larger animals now.  Or perhaps he did?  Green Arrow is called in to help rescue the main members of the Justice League, and they manage to get Gulliver to see the error of his ways.

Justice Society World War II (2021)

Barry Allen is having a lunch date with Iris West in Metropolis.  While having a serious talk, an explosion happens.  The Flash rushes off and finds Superman in battle with Brainiac.  They decide to team up.  Brainiac loads a small missile with kryptonite and shoots it at Superman.  The Flash sees it, and runs faster than he ever has before, breaking an interdimensional barrier.  He ends up in WW 2, watching a battle between the Justice Society of America and ratzis.  Wonder Woman accosts him, but soon they realize he is not a ratzi.  Jay Garrick believes Barry is from the future.  They have to stop a plot from Atlantis from helping the ratzis conquer the US.  The adviser has tricked Aquaman into it.  Arthur brings up some undersea monsters to help.  In between all this, Barry realizes he is on a different Earth, not his own past.  Eventually, they free Aquaman from the control of the Psycho Pirate, and Barry returns to his world.

Super Friends- G.E.E.C.

 

The title is "Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C."  The good professor develops a super computer which will relieve people of all the work in the world.  They can rest and learn and do whatever they want to do.  It is full of safeguards and will never fail.  He names it Goodfellow's Effort Eliminating Computer, and for a time, it works perfectly.  However, the prof leaves his cheese sandwich in the computer control room, which leads a mouse to get in.  After it has its feast, it runs all over the buttons and switches, making the entire world go crazy.  Good thing Plastic Man is there to help out.

Super Friends 1973

 

I finally caved and bought this first set of eight episodes from the first season of Super Friends.  I have not seen most of these episodes for probably fifty years or so.  I watched some of the other seasons intermittently, since I felt so betrayed by the portrayal of this Justice League.  I was quite salty about this show for many years.  The show ran for fifteen years on ABC, and changed nearly every season.  It got better in the 80s, but by then, I had jobs and things that took me away from Saturday morning cartoons.  I let my thoughts of this season taint all the rest of them.  Ah, to be young and ever so foolish!

The Avengers meet the Justice League

Avengers #70 was the first comic book I remember owning and actually knowing a little about what was going on.  I did not realize exactly what was happening then, with the homages going on. It would actually be years before I figured it out, but I did start to have my suspicions in time.  The Squadron was too similar to the JLA.

Avengers/JLA

 I have not yet commented about George Perez and his diagnosis.  It makes me too sad.  I can, however, comment about this special reprint of the Justice League/Avengers crossover.  It is limited to 7.000 copies, which is fine and good, but damn, it's a mess overall.  The proceeds are going to George, but already people want to buy all 7,000 copies.  Then sell them for $300 on eBay.  George won't see a dime of that money.  Apparently most stores are only getting one or two copies of the thing.  It is priced at $30, which is pretty good, but even that won't net much monies for George.  It is all very annoying that Marvel and DC didn't get their baktag together earlier and make it a much larger run.  I would love a copy of this.

Batman Beyond Blu Ray

I'll be interested in reviewing this series again.  I still don't like Bruce being a bitter old coot, though I can see it would be a logical conclusion to the Batman we saw in B:TAS, at least the first run.  Once Superman and especially the Justice League cartoons happened, it's a lot harder to say Bruce was a loner.  Adding the possible romance with Diana into the mix... who's gonna tell Wonder Woman he DOESN'T want to date her?  So that aspect of the series doesn't sit well with me.  Of course, if you take it out or change it, the reason for the series existing is moo.  You know, a cow's opinion.

Earth X... casualties?

  In the classic JLA/JSA/Freedom Fighters first team up,  we learn from Uncle Sam that many of his comrades had perished in the ongoing battle against the feckin' Nazis.  This implies that the Blackhawks and Plastic Man had perished.  Of course, the 'hawks had been bought by DC and published through the 60s, even getting a superhero upgrade at one point, and Plastic Man had shown up here and there in various series as well.

Dream adaptions

How I would love to see these comic book stories adapted into cartoon movies: the Kang-grandmaster story.

Crisis on Earth X

It's a great time to be a superhero fan.  This four part crossover with the CW's super shows was so much fun to watch.  When I saw the promos I knew what was going to happen, what with reading the original JLA/JSA/Freedom Fighters story way back in the early 70s.  Obviously it's not the same, and I'm not even sure how many of the actual heroes (well, one for sure) actually made it from that story to this adaption, but it was just fine.

Justice League (2017)

I liked it.  I've been a fan of the Justice League in many of it's incarnations for a long time, and I'm glad they made this movie now, instead of a few years ago when it would have been all grimdark.