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Justice League of America (Earth-One)

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Official Name
Justice League of America
Team Aliases
The JLA, Justice League

Status
Status

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Team Leader(s)
Various

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Origin
Origin
After Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), the Flash (Barry Allen), Aquaman, Black Canary (Dinah Laurel Lance), and the Martian Manhunter each showed up independently to handle an emergency, they decided to stick together and form a new team.

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History

Image:Quote1.png The League leads. When there is a Crisis, the other heroes -- and the world -- look to us first to deal with it, to rally others. We set the example. Image:Quote2.png

Pre-Crisis

The five founding members of the Justice League were Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), the Flash (Barry Allen), Aquaman, Black Canary (Dinah Laurel Lance), and the Martian Manhunter. After each showed up independently to handle an emergency, they decided to stick together and form a new team. Inspired by the Justice Society of America, they decided to call themselves the Justice League of America and announced their new team in a press conference. They decided to consider other recruits, but for the whole first year they operated as just the five of them.

After repeated requests to join, a reluctant Superman and Batman finally joined the League on reserve status (although they ended up in the field more often than not). The team soon expanded to include Elongated Man, Zatanna, Firestorm, and Hawkgirl.

Satellite League

Main article: Justice League Satellite I

The team then built a geosyncronous (22,300 miles above the equator) space station "satellite" headquarters [1], which they had to defend from the Joker and other threats.

The Satellite League

Through this period, the membership was limited to the seven founders along with Green Arrow, Atom, Hawkman, Black Canary, Phantom Stranger, Elongated Man and Red Tornado. It was the largest and most powerful lineup of the League to date, although seldom did all League members assemble. The League's twelve-member limit (sometimes explained as a "no duplication of powers" policy) was conceded [2] to simply have been a charter provision about numbers, once the League had formally removed the limitation and admitted Hawkwoman and hoped to admit more members. (Indeed, through this period, several League members challenged, and joked about, the notion that they shared skills and talents, for example, with speed races between Superman and Flash, and Hawkman's use of archery in combat.) The policy change allowed Zatanna and Firestorm to be admitted as well.

The satellite would be the League's home for the next several years. Members were able to teleport to and from the satellite using teleportation centers located across the planet. League members took turns on watch duty, monitoring Earth from the satellite and dispatching the League as needed. This era of the Justice League (and its roster of heroes), is commonly referred to as the "Satellite League".

The Satellite is Destroyed

The underpinnings of the League began to strain, as many of its most important members found themselves devoting less time to the JLA for a variety of reasons; Flash experienced tragedy in his personal life, while the "big three" of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman were committed to their own caseloads. When the satellite was destroyed by the Green Martians[3], Aquaman decided the destruction of the satellite provided an opportunity to disband the JLA and start over.

The satellite met its final and complete destruction during the Crisis On Infinite Earths, when it was destroyed by a self-destructing Red Tornado that had been sabotaged and tampered with by the Anti-Monitor. It was never rebuilt.

Justice League Detroit

Main article: Justice League Detroit

The satellite was heavily damaged and rendered effectively inoperable just prior to Aquaman's decision to disband the team [4]. The League was in a time of transition, not only in its choice of headquarters, but also in its membership. The deepening detachment of members such as Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman caused the three charter Justice League members to resign from active duty with the League. At the same time, the Flash left the team to confront his manslaughter trial and investigate the disappearance of his wife. The death of her mother led Black Canary to leave the team and move to Seattle with Green Arrow. Green Lantern had been temporarily expelled from the Green Lantern Corps and resigned from the League as well to sort out his life.

Aquaman subsequently reformed the Justice League, which now included himself, Martian Manhunter, Zatanna, Elongated Man, Vixen, Gypsy, Vibe, Steel, and later, Batman. Based in Detroit, this era is referred to as "Justice League Detroit".

Post-Crisis

Main article: Justice League of America (New Earth)


Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.


Notes

  • The original team first appeared in The Brave and The Bold #28 (1960) as a revival of the Justice Society of America (or "JSA") under a new, more dynamic name of "League" and soon gained its own title that same year. The creator was a writer named Gardner Fox, who was inspired by the Justice Society to create a similar, contemporary concept, and who decided upon the word "league" influenced by the National Football League and Major League Baseball. The artist for the first five years of the comic was Mike Sekowsky.
  • The JLA comic was initially amongst the most popular of DC Comics' publications, but by the end of the 1960s, it had become overshadowed by Marvel Comics' equivalent super-team book, The Avengers, in sales and quality. Various changes were made as an attempt to boost sales; the first of these changes included dropping Snapper as a "mascot."
  • In 1989 Secret Origins #32 updated the JLA's classic origin from Justice League of America #9 (1962). See more below in "Origin of the JLA".


Trivia

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Recommended Reading


Links and References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Justice League of America Vol 1 78
  2. ↑ Justice League of America #161
  3. ↑ Justice League of America Vol 1 230
  4. ↑ Justice League of America Annual Vol 1 2
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