#jsa all-stars

[celadons-penultimate]

😔 Still in mourning over Rayhan Mazin, a weather manipulating Arab meta introduced in the 2009 POWER GIRL comic, back in 2011, in the midst of the New 52 dropping; he gets all of 2 issues (#24-25, wherein he's racially profiled & wrongfully accused of using his weather powers for terrorism, when in fact, he was using them to save his plane from crashing) + hints of hero potential, but he's been MIA ever since. 😭

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JSA All-Stars v1 #1

Writer: Geoff Johns and David S. Goyer

Artist: Sal Velluto

Inker: Bob Almond

Colors: John Kalisz

[bi4bihankking]

Can't believe Hank watches the destruction of Stellar Studios by himself *strangles Al and Rick*

[balu8]

JSA All- Stars #10: Apotheosis

by Matthew Srurges; Freddie Williams II; Chris Sotomayor and Pat Brosseau

DC

[tomoleary]

Freddie Williams II JSA All-Stars #14 (2011) Source

[lunar-sams]

this was funnier in my head

[evilhorse]

From all corners of the world they come

(All-Star Comics #74)

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Justice Society of America #08/#09/#010 (2023-2024)

Art by Tony Harris

[dcdreamblog]

So, what exactly is the difference between the JSA and the All-Star Squadron?

Oh that's an easy one: People CHOSE to join the Justice Society. Let me explain.

(This famous image, published coast to coast in December of 1940 shows the JSA's founding lineup upon its first meeting at the team's now iconic Civic City brownstone)

The JSA was formed of what were, at the time, the 8 most prominent mystery men in the United States. Assembled on the advice of FDR after they all collaborated in the wake of Hitler's discovery of the Spear of Destiny and a battle against the 3rd Reich's robotic Murder Machine. Notably BEFORE the USA's official entrance into WWII.

The All-Star Squadron, by contrast was originally a team assembled under the kind of random circumstance most superhero teams form from, creating what constituted its "core membership" which is usually agreed to be Liberty Belle, Amazing Man, Johnny Quick, the original Robotman, Tarantula, Firebrand II, Shining Knight, Commander Steel, Guardian and the original Hawkgirl (They were also frequently joined by the original Hawkman and Atom). They assembled in response to a caper that nearly saw the then entire JSA membership fall under Hitler's sway.

This is not what the Squadron became.

The Wartime Deputization and Vigilante Service Act more commonly known as "Article X" was officially passed in the very early days of 1942. It functionally drafted every Mystery Man active within the United States, making them answerable to the United States Government through the All-Star Squadron.

(This iconic propaganda poster shows a sizeable chunk of the Squadron's membership circa 1943)

EVERY Mystery Man active at any point between the Act's passing into effect on January 1st, 1942 to VJ Day in 1945 were considered members of the Squadron. The Squadron's core membership and larger functions were carried out from its headquarters at the Trylon and Perisphere in New York City (where I work at its current historical site!).

Most Mystery Men interacted with it either rarely or not at all unless they were called up for their specific skill sets on a specific mission. Many Mystery Men completed their "tour" simply by battering the kinds of spies and saboteurs they would have fought anyway.

It was also split into smaller teams and sub groups, either for some specific function: The Freedom Fighters, Young All-Stars, Squadron of Justice. Or because that team's existence predated the Squadron and was simply subsumed into its roster: The Justice Society, The Seven Soldiers.

The Justice Society famously went into ultimately temporary retirement in response to a witch hunt conducted by House Unamerican Activities Committee in 1949, resurfacing during the early days of the JLA where it continues its activities to this day.

The Squadron was never officially disbanded on paper and Article X remains on the books, having been invoked during a handful of Crises over the past couple decades but its core membership retired either with the war or very soon afterwards. Some have reappeared, some haven't, some have passed on in public and many probably passed on in well earned obscurity.

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Jerry Ordway presents some All-Stars hanging out in the Justice Society's headquarters.

[ufonaut]

Upcoming Justice Society of America (2022) variants by Tony Harris.

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JSA All-Stars v1 #1

Writer: Geoff Johns and David S. Goyer

Artist: Sal Velluto

Inker: Bob Almond

Colors: John Kalisz

[kryptonbabe]

Clark??? You don't go around saying things like that!!

We are so used to blaming Barry for altering timelines and messing up the space-time continuum and Superman is such a polite person that we often ignore that he tried to mess with the past a hundred times already

From All-star Comics #64 (1977)

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CAMERON MAHKENT/ICICLE & RICK TYLER/HOURMAN in JSA ALL-STARS (2009)

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