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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 30, 2015 5:56:18 GMT -5
I was wondering why Dc never released the satellite era in TPB form.
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 30, 2015 7:07:17 GMT -5
I was wondering why Dc never released the satellite era in TPB form. Maybe they're allergic to making money?
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 30, 2015 7:10:57 GMT -5
The JLA/JSA teamup mentioned elsewhere was JLA #123-124, co-written by Bates and Elliott Maggin. Bates, Pasko, and Conway also wrote a handful of alternating JLA issues around 1976. At some point Conway became entrenched as the regular writer for Thoth only knows how long; all I know was that his tenure SEEMED TO LAST FOREVER--!! Ah, thanks for the info. I don't have #123, but I do have #124, and I thought it was a fun story. I wouldn't want every issue of the JLA to be like that, and I thought that the Spectre getting God to resurrect the JSA was a dues ex machina, but overall I liked part 2 of this crossover. Plus, you've got the Dick Dillon art.
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Post by realjla on Oct 31, 2015 14:05:45 GMT -5
First-time poster. I basically grew up on the Gerry Conway era of the League, and hung around for the 'wacky' version, until JM DeMatteias left. My favorite stories span from the 'classic' League about # 179 through 223(except for that 'Microverse/Siren Sisterhood/Atom Goes Nuts' saga).I particularly liked the JSA teamups from '81 (Secret Society) and '82 (All-Star Squadron), but I loathe the '83 Black Canary retcon, as well as the gradual gutting of the League that started around that time. I actually didn't mind 'JLA Detroit', but when the group moved back to the old 'Secret Sanctuary', and were attacked by...Gypsy's mutant alien hamster(?), it was obvious they'd hit bottom! I haven't read a lot of pre-Conway stories, but I prefer Len Wein's tenure to Bates (yeccch), Maggin(double yecch), and anything before # 100. It seems like Wein, although being roughly the same age as Bates, Maggin and Mike Friedrich, wrote more down-to-Earth superhero fiction, instead of getting bogged down with 'hippie fanboy' cliches, or overwrought, 'change the world' epics.
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 6, 2015 16:55:56 GMT -5
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 6, 2015 17:02:24 GMT -5
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 6, 2015 17:05:36 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2015 17:06:35 GMT -5
The satellite era was my first exposure to Justice League of America with issues 149 and 150. Became hooked then and there! So many great heroes together. I quit reading the JLA when they moved to Detroit. I enjoyed the annual JLA/JSA team ups, the bickering between Green Arrow and Hawkman, the Dick Dillin art, pretty much everything from 1977 (when I started reading-1984). I read JLA off and on since then. Last consistent reading was the JLA series by Morrison and Porter back in the 90s.
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 6, 2015 17:17:39 GMT -5
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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 10, 2015 13:15:55 GMT -5
One funny thing about the JLA satellite is that it had two, maybe even three, different and somewhat contradictory death scenes. I guess the editors were not on the same page!
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Post by realjla on Nov 10, 2015 13:50:21 GMT -5
The original explanation for the satellite's destruction, said by the Legion of Superheroes to have occurred 'in the early 21at century' can be explained away by the Legionaires being a few decades off in their reckoning(that story established that the 30th century has a poor grasp of 'ancient history'). As for the later depictions, CRISIS showed a truckload of heroes escaping before Red Tornado 'exploded', but the JLA Annual # 3 showed that Reddy was alone when he destroyed the satellite. This was just a plain old screw-up, and Alan Gold apologized for the crossed signals in a letter column(As I recall, Gold did a lot of backpedaling, if not apologizing, for stuff in that era). The final version, in which Despero brought down the satellite, was 'post-Crisis'. That was the last anybody addressed the matter while I was reading comics (I quit about a year before ZERO HOUR, so I don't know what they did with the histories of RT, the League, or the satellite from then on).
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Post by Hoosier X on May 11, 2017 13:54:23 GMT -5
Has it really been a year and a half since anybody posted anything on the JLA thread? I took a short break from the runs I'm reading (Avengers #98 to #120, Strange Tales #151 to #168 and Adventure Comics #350 to #380) to read some carefully selected JLA stories. I was looking at the Comic Book Database at the entry for Professor Amos Fortune. I love Amos Fortune! He's simultaneously hilarious and lame and sorta awesome and also OH SO SILVER AGE! He's one of the JLA villains (like Queen Bee or Amazo or Despero) that I didn't really discover until I was well into adulthood because I didn't read much JLA as a kid. And I noticed that I've never read his second appearance, Justice League #14. It's available online so I read it a couple of night ago. He's in disguise for most of the issue. It's a fairly typical early JLA story where you can't figure out what's going on and the conclusion doesn't make any sense. (You know, like a 1960s DC comic!) But still, once you get used to this kind of storytelling, you develop a sense a which ones are better than others, and I liked this one quite a bit. Although it's entirely possible that I'm not enjoying it for any of the reasons the writer intended. Amos Fortune has gathered a bunch of villains to help him in this plan. He's got the Pied Piper, from the Flash rogues gallery. And the Wonder Woman villain the Angle Man is in the group. (The Angle Man is largely forgotten today, but he was Diana's main villain through much of the 1950s and into the early 1960s. He appeared over and over again for years.) And fighting Aquaman, Amos has recruited ... the Sea Thief! Who? And from the pages of the Green Arrow's series in World's Finest ... Dr. Davis! Yeah, that Green Arrow rogues gallery. My favorite professor in the CSUN (Cal State Northridge) history department was Dr. Davis. I've been thinking about Dr. Davis as a Green Arrow villain for two days. How would a history professor work out as a super-villain? "I have harnessed the power of the Herodotus Wave! Prepare yourself for an attack by Persians plucked from the time-stream! Their arrows will blot out the sun!" Or the Spengler Ray Cannon! It increases the rate of social evolution so that the super-heroes are quickly defeated by the progressive forces of history. But no, there's nothing like that in JLA #14. Just 25 pages of your DC Silver Age favorites mixing it up with Amos Fortune and his motley band.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 11, 2017 14:07:49 GMT -5
The only issue of JLA that I ever bought as a kid was #136. It's the middle issue of a three-part JLA/JSA adventure where they meet the Fawcett heroes, like Spy Smasher, Bulletman, Bulletgirl, Mr. Scarlet and Pinky. And the SHAZAM family. I bought it because the Joker was on the cover. IIRC, it's the Earth-2 Joker. (It was almost certainly my first exposure to the JLA/JSA team-ups, though I think I already knew about Earth-2 from my brother's Flash comics.)
I found these issues available online and I read #135, the first part, last night and it's a lot of fun. I'll have a more lengthy comment after I've read the whole three-part story.
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Post by brutalis on May 11, 2017 14:11:50 GMT -5
Maybe this means there will soon be TPB's coming from DC over the next few years? Usually an Omnibus means a trade follows down the line. Thankfully i have all of these in the Showcase editions.
Justice League of America: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 1 Hardcover – March 28, 2017 Hardcover
$49.06
One of the greatest eras in the history of the Justice League of America starts here. The beginning of the 1970s saw the heroes of the JLA trading in their secret New England cave hideout for the Earth-orbiting Satellite HQ. Plus, the League started expanding its lineup to include even more characters, such as the Elongated Man and the Red Tornado! Throw in team-ups with the classic Justice Society of America and the returned Seven Soldiers of Victory, and it’s easy to see why these stories became fan-favorite epics.
These cosmic tales turned the Justice League of America into the legends of the DC Universe that they are today, and are gathered for the first time in this expansive collection.
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: THE BRONZE AGE OMNIBUS VOLUME ONE begins the famed super-team’s Bronze Age exploits from JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #77-113, and includes a foreword by veteran comic writer Roy Thomas.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 15:11:50 GMT -5
brutalisI have a copy of that book along with most of the DC Archives involving the Justice League of America.
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