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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 15:47:58 GMT -5
Is PHANTOM STRANGER is a member of the JLA SATELLITE Team?Poll will lock on June 30th.Popular Pictures in the Web showcasing the entire team ...     This picture below you is the only one that I have that has Phantom Stranger in it. He's on the right side of Elongated Man - Upper Right Hand Corner.  Some of my Home Made Pictures ...   I made these for the Hall of Justice Forum as Signatures - I was known as JLA SilverAgeFan. I'm asking all members to not get into a serious debate about this and I taking a big gamble on this and I honestly think that Phantom Stranger was never really was a member of this team and more like a honorary member to me.  Please choose the best answer of your choice and you've only have 1 option of the field of six choices that I've selected.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 15:52:17 GMT -5
I say No, because of the criteria that he is a Honorary Member period. If, I'm wrong please state your reasons ... thanks.
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Post by brutalis on May 18, 2017 16:36:23 GMT -5
Here is what i think about Phantom Stranger. He is a member of the JLA. There was a vote in issue 103 by the majority of the team where they offered him membership, and Superman declaring that the Stranger is "a member" without qualification, though he left without saying he accepted.
While the Stranger doesn't normally participate in regular adventures with the team he has always gone to them or assisted them whenever they face supernatural menaces. He and Metamorpho would qualify as honorary members simply due to the fact they are utilized often and interact with the team quite well.
Just as the saying goes: once an Avenger always an Avenger where those that hanged out with the A-Team regularly eventually became or were considered as team-mates or members (Black Widow, Swordsman, Captain Mar-Vell, Mantis and such) either by voting/acceptance or in their continued participation with the team, the JLA is the same.
Such heroic warriors band together in fighting the good fight and would naturally just accept someone who fought by their side regularly and that they could depend upon without hesitation.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 18, 2017 17:40:39 GMT -5
He was voted into the team, is regarded as a member by the others, and considers himself a member. Here, on the splash of JLA #146, Red Tornado counts the Stranger as one of four Leaguers returned to life through his actions:  Four issues later, Englehart counts the Stranger as a Leaguer in this group shot:  So what more do you need? Hawkgirl is missing from almost as many of the group portraits as PS but nobody's questioning her credentials. I realize the letters page in JLA #213 said that he wasn't a member, but one comment by an assistant editor doesn't negate what my own eyes tell me. Cei-U! The defense rests! |
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Post by hondobrode on May 18, 2017 18:56:55 GMT -5
I agree with Juggy here.
Technically he's a member, but to me he never felt like a fully active member, more of an honorary member.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 18, 2017 21:06:09 GMT -5
Nope; he emphasized the Stranger part when it came time to collect the dues. The only reason he wasn't blackballed was because every time the team got a quorum together to vote, some villain or disaster struck and it took forever to get another quorum.
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Post by Crimebuster on May 18, 2017 21:43:07 GMT -5
It doesn't matter what our criteria are. The Stranger has his own criteria. And according to The Stranger, he's a member when it suits him. So... he's a member.
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Post by foxley on May 18, 2017 22:07:14 GMT -5
In one issue Batman is trying to contact the League, and mentions all of the members who are unavailable or uncontactable, and that he has no way of reaching the Stranger. He doesn't mention any of the honorary members, so he must regard the Stranger as a full member. If Batman thinks he's a full member, that's good enough for me.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 22:29:13 GMT -5
I did not expect these results today so far and I was stunned by the overwhelming facts that you've made here. I didn't expect this at all. Special Thanks goes to Cei-U! for making a point through pictures; like a good saying ... A picture worth a thousand words ... these pictures speaks for themselves. |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2017 8:52:13 GMT -5
I always considered him a full member of the team, but only showed up when they truly needed him.
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Post by badwolf on May 19, 2017 9:00:48 GMT -5
I always thought of him as an associate.
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Post by tingramretro on May 19, 2017 9:11:52 GMT -5
From issue #12 of "Who's Who, the Definitive Directory of the DC Universe". Not a great scan, I'm afraid, but nonetheless, the man in the hat is there. He's shown as a member, he appears in the roll call more than once, he desribes himself as a member at least once and the JLA themselves seem to consider him to be one. If the Stranger, the team, and the publishers all say he's a member, he's a member!  |
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Post by fred2 on May 19, 2017 21:57:59 GMT -5
This picture from the Treasury Editions always had me think of him as a member; albeit it as that employee who works from home, blows off his job half the time and never shows up for meetings. Kind of like the Al Pacino character in Glengarry Glen Ross. Also he is "mysterious" so cannot be hanging around in plain daylight all the time. My two cents worth. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Dec 21, 2021 10:39:42 GMT -5
I've been reading JLA lately, and in JLA #145 he says that he's a member, sort of attends his first "meeting", and nobody disputed it when he called himself a member, so I think it's official based on that that he was technically a member, though I've always only thought of him as a reserve member. He really only shows up when there's some significant supernatural threat.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2021 9:50:31 GMT -5
The Phantom Stranger was a notorious self-promoter. He gained admission to the JLA just to "pad the resume" a bit. But more times than not when the call for action came, like Die Fledermaus in The Tick animated series, he would disconnect his phone and leave town for a few days.
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