More science fiction stuff from DC in April 1947 with All-Star Comics #35. Per Degaton is introduced, who steals a time machine and goes back into the past to prevent Alexander the Great from winning a key battle in order to become ruler of the present-day Earth. As a result, technology starts to disappear in […]
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All-Star Comics #32 (October 1946), features the second appearance of the Golden Age Psycho-Pirate, Charles Halstead who tries to defeat the Justice Society of America by giving them different challenges, each related to an emotion.
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In All-Star Comics #24 (February 1945), Wildcat and Mr. Terrific are called in on a case and join the Justice Society of America. Honorary members The Flash and Green Lantern show up to hear about the case. The story is more World War 2 propaganda told through the re-education of a recently drafted young American […]
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Wonder Woman masquerades as herself and finds herself dancing with a fake Superman while other fake Justice Society members rock out with Etta Candy and her girls. I like how each costume is a fake, but not an obvious one (Flash’s lightning bolt goes the other way!).
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All-Star Comics #15 (December 1942) features Wonder Woman rallying all the girlfriends of the men of the Justice Society of America to save them. It’s a far cry from A-Force or the Birds of Prey… Wonder Woman is still just the “secretary” of the Justice Society, for crap sakes.. but it’s a start, at least!
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In All-Star Comics #11 (April 1942), members of the Justice Society of America decide to join the United States armed forces as civilians to help with World War II. Eventually, the generals decide that having super-powered civilians in the forces is too disruptive, so they decide to form the Justice Battalion of America. In the […]
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In Leading Comics #1 (December 1941), the marketing team at DC slung together a bunch of their other heroes that weren’t already in the Justice Society of America into a new team, later called the Seven Soldiers of Victory. It was the first superhero team to include sidekicks (Speedy and Stripesy), but about the only […]
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In All-Star Comics #8 (October 1941), the third of DC’s “Trinity” finally arrives: Wonder Woman! Tucked behind a Justice Society of America story (in which Hourman and Green Lantern have been replaced by Starman and Dr. Mid-Nite), Dr. William Moulton Marston, aka Charles Moulton gives us the definitive Wonder Woman origin story. This story has […]
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In All-Star Comics #7 (August 1941), we finally see an in-story meeting of Batman and Superman. The Justice Society of America decides to raise a million dollars for the world’s war children. At the end of the story, Johnny Thunder wishes in the honorary members of the JSA: Superman, Batman and the Flash, who bring […]
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Johnny Thunder becomes an official member of the Justice Society of America, in All-Star Comics #6 (June 1941), while Jay Garrick (the Flash) becomes an honorary member like Superman and Batman. It’s pretty clear that DC / National only considers the team-up a gimmick to boost readership, because once the Flash gained a solid-enough founding […]
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