Sunday, August 12, 2007
This week's Sunday Funnies is all about the Justice League. Not just any Justice League. The bestest Justice League.
Maxwell Lord (recently destroyed by the supervillains who have infiltrated the headquarters of DC Comics) was a sleazy businessman who had a bright idea in the wake of the disbanding of the original (or the last incarnation of the original) Justice League of America: start the league up all over again, but with him pulling the strings and getting a large chunk of the glory (and profits from tie-in merchandise).
Since many of the bigger DC heroes were busy being reinvented from the ground up, some newer characters and second-tier folks were brought in to fill the ranks. This allowed the people responsible, Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire to have more fun than they could have with DC's top icons.
The cover of the first issue was often imitated by other comics, as well as by JLI itself. Issue 24 features the largest group shot of the run, just prior to the launch of the Justice League Europe spin-off.
Bonus image (from the same auction):
One of the more notable things to happen in the series was Batman punching out loudmouth Guy Gardner (with a single punch) in the fifth issue. A few issues later, Guy woke up and promptly hit his head on the underside of a computer. This caused him to adopt an absurdly milquetoast persona for several issues. Another bump on the head many issues later returned Guy to his normal obnoxious personality. This change is marked in two of the covers shown here (the upper left and lower right to be precise).
Maxwell Lord (recently destroyed by the supervillains who have infiltrated the headquarters of DC Comics) was a sleazy businessman who had a bright idea in the wake of the disbanding of the original (or the last incarnation of the original) Justice League of America: start the league up all over again, but with him pulling the strings and getting a large chunk of the glory (and profits from tie-in merchandise).
Since many of the bigger DC heroes were busy being reinvented from the ground up, some newer characters and second-tier folks were brought in to fill the ranks. This allowed the people responsible, Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire to have more fun than they could have with DC's top icons.
The cover of the first issue was often imitated by other comics, as well as by JLI itself. Issue 24 features the largest group shot of the run, just prior to the launch of the Justice League Europe spin-off.
Bonus image (from the same auction):
One of the more notable things to happen in the series was Batman punching out loudmouth Guy Gardner (with a single punch) in the fifth issue. A few issues later, Guy woke up and promptly hit his head on the underside of a computer. This caused him to adopt an absurdly milquetoast persona for several issues. Another bump on the head many issues later returned Guy to his normal obnoxious personality. This change is marked in two of the covers shown here (the upper left and lower right to be precise).
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