#justice league of america 198

[aboutzatanna]

Hey, remember that JLU episode titled ‘The Once And Future Thing: Weird Western Tales’ where a couple of JL members ended up stranded in the old West thanks to time travel?  

Well, turns out there was a comic book very similar to it written by Gerry Conway with art by Don Heck but starring a different set of JL members which may or may not have been the inspiration for the episode:   

The episode was written by the late Dwayne McDuffie who was no stranger to writing in references to older comics. For instance, the two parter ‘Brave and the Bold’ Flash’s hallucinations were references to various Silver Age Flash comic covers and he was also very open about the fact that the line up for the Terra Beyond two parter was based on Marvel comics Defenders (no not the Netflix team, the one with Namor and Dr Strange). Even the episode title itself, ‘Weird Western Tales’ is a reference to the long running anthology series of the same name featuring DC’s western characters. 

The story arc in the comics ran from Justice League of America Vol 1 #198-199.     

While it’s hard to conclusively say that the episode was inspired by the comic, there are some interesting similarities like Batlash’s introduction here:   

I posted Zatanna’s meeting with Cinnamon earlier in another post but here is a little excerpt:  

Interesting to note that one of the goons calls her an ‘Eastern Filly’ (is it because of the way she was dressed or a subtle hint that she is not 100% Caucasian?).  The heroes and their new Western cowboy friends all meet at a Saloon: 

Then they all ride off on horses out of town to confront the villain and of course, faces robot cowboys:   

The differences begin with the choice of the time travelling villain, the comic went with classic JL villain: the Lord of Time:   

JLU went with David Clinton, aka Chronos. He’s a different villain who is primarily the enemy of the Atom/Ray Palmer but has also fought the JL on occasion.   

The Lord of Time on the other hand, is a conqueror from the future who travelled back in time with future technology to conquer the past and rule the future. Sound familiar? He was Kang before Kang.  Since JLU’s version of Chronos comes from the future, you could make a case that version is a combination Chronos and Lord of Time.   

Then of course,  there is the line up, the comic features Zatanna, Elongated Man, Barry Allen and Hal Jordan whereas the show features Wonder Woman, Batman and Green Lantern.  Superman also appears trying to thwart the Lord of Time in the present day.     

On the Western heroes side, we got Diablo instead of Cinnamon and Scalphunter is replaced by Pow Wow Smith (and it only takes a cursory glance at the characters wikipedia pages to see why the socially conscious Dwayne McDuffie made that choice).   

The plot of the JLU episode involved a corrupt sheriff using future technology to take over the town but the plot of the comic is a little different. The Lord of Time sent the heroes back in time, erased their memories, because an anti matter meteor was set to strike earth on that day.   The LoT is counting on the heroes to stop the meteor so he can have it for himself so he can use it to conquer the world.  (Why he doesn’t just get the meteor himself? Maybe he didn’t have the technology to?) 

Anyway, the heroes learn about the anti matter meteor heading towards them, Zatanna is reluctant to leave her new found cowgirl girlfriend with her friends to fight the robots:

But she ends up going anyway:   

Can I just say, I really like this shot of Zee and Green Lantern flying together? Even though she is depowered during this period, they never really stuck strictly to the ‘she can only manipulate the elements’ ethos.  Having her flying alongside GL and being unabashed powerhouse is really cool and shows her place among the DCU. There is no ‘she has to be taken out so someone else can shine’ bs here.  Also, reading these comics, I have felt that GL makes the most sense as the field leader of the JL; power based on creativity and will power and they are specifically trained to work together and take on strange extra terrestrial or otherwise threats. I think any of the human GL’s (except maybe Guy) can lead the team.  

Zatanna and GL  manage to stop the meteor. But in present timeline the Lord of Time ends up defeated by Superman (early on he got in a kryptonite trap set by the LoT but managed to escape) just as the time trapped Leaguers make their way back.      

Awww, a krytonite waterfall wasn’t that bad, Clark.    

Overall, the issue was alright. It does feel like placeholder (albeit a fun one) before the big #200 celebration issue (I posted some scans from that here). Come to think of it, the episode came off as filler as well, with the Western parts feeling like a fun romp and ultimately inconsequential to the arcs of the main heroes but the follow up portion set in the Batman Beyond timeline was more impactful and memorable.   

[argoscity]

ULTIMATE SUPERGIRL READING GUIDE

since i've been asked a few times in the past for various reading guides for kara, i thought i'd compile them all into one post for the sake of convenience!

this guide has reading orders for supergirl comics in PRE-CRISIS (1959-1985), POST-CRISIS (2004-2011), NEW 52 (2011-2016), REBIRTH (2016-2021), and INFINITE FRONTIER (2021-present).

if you have any questions at all don't be afraid to shoot me an ask!

for each section bolded comics are required, italicized comics are recommended, and everything else is optional!

[PRE-CRISIS]

ORIGIN AND MIDVALE ERA (NOTE: you'll have to flip to the back of each issue to get to kara's section!) action comics (1938) #252, 258, 267, 276, 278-282, 285, 295, 309-310, 313, 317

STANHOPE COLLEGE action comics (1938) #318, 366-368, 372, 374 world’s finest (1941) #169 adventure comics (1938) #381, 386, 391, 395, 397

K-SFTV REPORTER — SAN FRANCISCO adventure comics (1938) #406-407, 410-415, 419-424

VANDYRE UNIVERSITY supergirl (1974) #1-10

STUDENT ADVISOR — FLORIDA (NOTE: every member of the superfamily has a story in the superman family (1974), so you'll have to flip through to find kara's section!) the superman family (1974) #165, 168, 171, 174, 177, 180, 182 justice league of america (1960) #132-134 the superman family #183, 184-186, 187-189, 191-193, 194, 196-198, 199, 200, 201-202, 203, 204-205, 206-207

ACTRESS — NEW YORK the superman family (1974) 208-210, 211-214, 215-216, 217, 218 superman (1939) #373 (second story titled “an eye (and ear) on the world!”) detective comics (1937) #508-510 the superman family #219-222

THE GREAT DARKNESS SAGA (i recommend this storyline in it's entirety, but kara only appears in the last issue!) legion of superheroes (1980) #290-294

LAKE SHORE UNIVERSITY supergirl (1982) #1-12 (cw: nazi imagery in the brief interlude in #12)  supergirl (1982) #13-15 (cw: antisemitism, nazi imagery, depictions of the holocaust.) supergirl (1982) #16-23

LAST APPEARANCES AND DEATH legion of super-heroes (1980) #300-303 dc comics presents (1978) #28 tales of the legion of super-heroes (1984) #314-315 crisis on infinite earths (1985) #4-7

BONUS POST-COIE APPEARANCES christmas with the super-heroes (1988) #2 (last story titled “should auld acquaintance be forgot”) supergirl (1996) #49, 75-80 solo (2004) #1 (third story titled “young love”) convergence: adventures of superman (2015) #1-2

[POST-CRISIS]

ORIGIN superman/batman (2003) #8-13  (or you can watch superman/batman: apocalypse (2010) instead which I recommend! the art is a lot more tasteful and it's a very faithful adaptation of the comic so you won’t be missing out on anything.)

KARA WITH THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES supergirl and the legion of super-heroes (2006) #16-36

LOEB AND KELLY HELL ERA supergirl (2005) #1-5, 9-10, 19 (you don’t have to read any of this since it gets retconned anyway, but if you’re interested in kara’s early characterization, the beginnings of her friendship with cassie sandsmark, or her difficulty fitting in on earth then you’re welcome to read what i’ve provided.)

KELLEY PUCKETT ERA Amazons Attack! teen titans (2003) #47-48  amazons attack! (2007) #3  supergirl (2005) #20  amazons attack! (2007) #4  teen titans (2003) #49

supergirl (2005) #21-22  teen titans (2003) #50, 51-55  supergirl (2005) #25-33

Superman: Brainiac  action comics (1938) #866-870

GATES AND IGLE HEAVEN ERA supergirl (2005) #34

New Krypton (new krypton is one of my favorite events and i recommend it in its entirety, but for the sake of brevity I’ll only be listing the issues relevant to kara.) superman: new krypton special #1  superman (1939) #681  adventure comics special featuring guardian #1  action comics (1938) #871  supergirl (2005) #35  superman (1939) #682  action comics (1938) #872  supergirl (2005) #36  superman (1939) #683  action comics (1938) #873

teen titans (2003) #66  supergirl (2005) #37-42

Friends and Fugitives superman: secret Files 2009 #1  supergirl (2005) #43  action comics (1938) #881  supergirl (2005) #45  action comics (1938) #882  supergirl (2005) #46-47

supergirl (2005) annual 1, #48-50

Last Stand of New Krypton  adventure comics (2009) #8  superman: last stand of new krypton #1  supergirl (2005) #51  superman (1938) #698  adventure comics (2009) #9  superman: last stand of new krypton #2  adventure comics (2009) #10  supergirl (2005) #52  superman (1938) #699  superman: last stand of new krypton #3 superman: war of the supermen (2010) #0, 1-4 

supergirl (2005) #53-57, annual 2, 58-59

END OF SUPERGIRL VOL 5 supergirl (2005) #60-64 supergirl (2005) #65-67

[THE NEW 52]

ORIGIN and SUPERGIRL VS THE WORLDKILLERS supergirl (2011) #1-7

SUPERGIRL and SILVER BANSHEE supergirl (2011) #8-11

SUPERGIRL and SUPERBOY superboy (2011) #6

SANCTUARY supergirl (2011) #12, 0, 13

H’EL ON EARTH superman (2011) #13 supergirl (2011) #14 superman (2011) #14 superboy (2011) #15 supergirl (2011) #15 superboy (2011) #16 superboy (2011) Annual #1 supergirl (2011) #16 superman (2011) #16 superboy (2011) #17 supergirl (2011) #17 superman (2011) #17

SUPERGIRL and POWERGIRL supergirl (2011) #18-20

CYBORG SUPERMAN supergirl (2011) #21-23 action comics (2011) #23.1 supergirl (2011) #24

KRYPTON RETURNS action comics (2011) annual #2 superboy (2011) #25 supergirl (2011) #25 superman (2011) #25

SUPERGIRL VS LOBO supergirl (2011) #26-27

RED DAUGHTER OF KRYPTON supergirl (2011) #28-29 red lanterns (2011) #28-29 supergirl (2011) #30 red lanterns (2011) #30 supergirl (2011) #31 red lanterns (2011) #31-32 supergirl (2011) #32-33

SUPERMAN: DOOMED (this is a whole storyline but I'll only be listing the issues that kara appears in!) superman/wonder woman (2013) #9 action comics (2011) #33 supergirl (2011) #34 superman: doomed (2014) #2 action comics (2011) #35 supergirl (2011) #35

FUTURES END supergirl: futures end (2014) #1

JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED justice league united (2014) #1-5 justice league united (2014) annual #1 justice league united (2014) #6-10

CRUCIBLE supergirl (2011) #36-40

FINAL DAYS OF SUPERMAN (kara only appears in the issues i've italicized and bolded, but i put all the relevant issues if you wanted to read the full storyline!) superman (2011) #51 batman/superman (2013) #31 action comics (2011) #51 superman/wonder woman (2013) #28 batman/superman (2013) #32 action comics (2011) #52 superman/wonder woman (2013) #29 superman (2011) #52

[REBIRTH]

KARA IN NATIONAL CITY supergirl: rebirth #1

supergirl (2016) #1-8 batgirl (2016) annual 1 supergirl #9-12

supergirl (2016) annual 1 supergirl #13-20

world's finest: batwoman and supergirl #1-2

ROGOL ZAAR and THE SINS OF THE CIRCLE the man of steel #1-2, 3-6 supergirl #21-33, #34-36

LEVIATHAN and BATMAN WHO LAUGHS superman: leviathan rising special #1 supergirl #34-36 supergirl (2016) annual 2 supergirl #37-42

HOUSE OF KENT action comics (2016) #1022-1023 action comics (2016) #1024-1028

FUTURE STATE superman of metropolis (2021) #1-2 kara zor el, superwoman (2021) #1-2

[INFINITE FRONTIER]

action comics 2021 annual

WOMAN OF TOMORROW supergirl: woman of tomorrow (2021) #1-8

WORLD'S FINEST batman/superman: world's finest (2022) #2-6, 8, 12

A WORLD WITHOUT CLARK KENT and RED MOON (kara is featured in the back-up story! if you want the full context of this plot i recommend reading the full warworld arc in action comics [action comics #1030-1046, superman: warworld apocalypse #1]!) action comics (2016) #1044-1046, 1047-1049

DAWN OF DC action comics (2016) #1051-1053, 1055-1056 superman (2023) #1-3 power girl special #1 steelworks (2023) #1-3

KNIGHT TERRORS knight terrors: superman (2023) #1-2

DAWN OF DC (continued) action comics: doomsday special (2023) superman (2023) #7 hawkgirl (2023) #4 supergirl special (2023)

NEW WORLDS [this arc starts on action comics #1057—kara doesn't appear in that issue but I recommend reading it for context!] action comics (2016) #1058-1060 action comics 2023 annual

JOURNEY TO FERIMBIA powergirl (2023) #5, 6-7

HOUSE OF BRAINIAC action comics (2016) #1064 superman (2023) #13 action comics (2016) #1065 superman (2023) #14 action comics (2016) #1066 superman (2023) #15

UNIVERSE END action comics (2016) #1070-1072

UPCOMING: action comics (2016) #1073-1081 superwoman special #1 [out dec. 11]

[annah-kitathryne]

Helena Bertinelli/Huntress Reading List/Completionist Guide

Helena Bertinelli is the Huntress of Prime Earth. She has existed as a character since 1989, and has appeared in her own series as well as multiple other series throughout the years. Most well known for being a Bird of Prey, she has a long history that tends to be hard to track. Instead of hunting down all of the issues, this guide has every one of her appearances in the attempt to follow her chronologically, but where her movements couldn’t be followed the natural passing of time was used to follow the story. 

This is both a reading list and a completionist guide. This means there will be times when the issue only has a cameo of Helena. For a casual reader this list may be a little much. If that is the case click [here] for a shorter list that can get you started on Helena. 

Moving onto Content Warnings. 

There will be mentions and depictions of Sexual Assault of Adults and Minors, Slavery, PTSD, and Murder. These are some of the big Content Warnings. That being said let’s get started. 

[Start Here]

Huntress (1989) #1, #2 

Justice League America (1987-1996) #26 

Huntress (1989) #3 - #6 

Justice League America (1987-1996) #30, #31

Huntress (1989) #7 - #12

Justice League America (198-1996) #35 

Time Masters (1990) #1 

Huntress (1989) #13 - #19 

Justice League International Special (1990) #1

Justice League America (1987-1996) #42

Justice League International Special (1991) #2

Armageddon (1991) #2 

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #652, #653 

Robin III: Cry of the Huntress #1 - #6 

Justice League Europe (1989-1994) #47 - #50 

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #662

Showcase ‘93 (1993)  #9 , #10

Black Canary (1993) # 9 - #12

Green Arrow (1997-1998) #83 

Showcase ‘94 (1994) #5 

Robin (1993-2009) #6 

Showcase ‘94 (1994) #6 

Huntress (1994) #1 - #4

Robin (1993-2009) #17

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #686

The Batman Chronicles (1995-2000) #1 

Underworld Unleashed (1995) #2 , #3

Batman (1940-2011) #529

Batman: Shadow of the Bat (1992-1999) #49

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #698

The Batman Chronicles (1995-2000) #4

Batman: Shadow of the Bat (1992-1999) #53

Batman (1940-2011) #533

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #701

Robin (1993-2009) #33 , #34

Birds of Prey: Manhunt (1996) #1 - #4

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #703

Green Lantern (1990-2004) #81 

Robin (1993-2009) Annual #6 , #45

Genesis (1997) #1 - #4

Catwoman (1993-2001) #51 , #52 

Spectre (1992-1998) #62

JLA (1996-2006) #16 - #19 

Nightwing and Huntress (1998) #1 - #4 

Batman 80-Page Giant (1998/1999) #1 

Green Lantern (1990-2004) #103

Superman: Doomsday Wars (1998-1999) #1 - #3 

DC One Million (1998) #1 , #2 

JLA (1996-2006) #1,000,000 

DC One Million (1998) #3, #4

JLA Secret Files (1997-2000) #2

JLA (1996-2006) #24 - #26 

Hourman (1999-2001) #1

Nightwing (1996-2009) #26 - #29 

JLA (1996-2006) #27 

JLA/Titans (1998/1999) #1 - #3

Batman 80-Page Gaint (1998/1999) #2

The Batman Chronicles (1995-2000) #19

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #720

Batman: Huntress/Spoiler - Blunt Trauma (1998) #1 

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #721

 The Batman Chronicles (1995-2000) #14 

Robin (1993-2009) #65

Batman: No Man’s Land (1999) #1 

Batman: Shadow of the Bat (1992-1999) #83 

Batman (1940-2011) #563 

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989-2010) #116 

Batman: Shadow of the Bat (1992-1999) #84

Batman (1940-2011) #564

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #731

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989-2010) #117

Batman (1940-2011) #565

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #732

Batman: Shadow of the Bat (1992-1999) #86

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #733

JLA (1996-2006) #28 - #31

Martian Manhunter (1998-2001) #6 - #9

JLA (1996-2006) #32

Martian Manhunter (1998-2001) Annual #2

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989-2010) #119

Batman: Shadow of the Bat (1992-1999) #87

Batman (1940-2011) #567

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989-2010) #120

Nightwing: Secret Files and Origins (1999) #1

Batman (1940-2011) #568

Catwoman (1993-2001) #72

Batman (1940-2011) #570

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #737

Batman: No Man’s Land - Secret Files & Origins (1999) #1

Batman: Shadow of the Bat (1992-1999) #93

The Batman Chronicles (1995-2000) #18

Nightwing (1996-2009) #38 - #39

Batman: No Man’s Land (1999) #0

Batman (1940-2011) #573

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #740

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989-2010) #126

Batman (1940-2011) #574

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #741

Batman: Shadow of the Bat (1992-1999) #94

Batman: Gotham Knights (2000-2006) #1

Batman: Gotham City Secret Files and Origins (2000) #1

JLA: Foreign Bodies (1999) #1 

JLA (1996-2006) #34 - #41

JLA: Secret Files and Origins (1997-2000) #3

Azrael: Agent of the Bat (1994-2203) #63 - #65 

Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E (1999/2000) #8

The Batman Chronicles (1995-2000) #15

Batman: Gotham Knights (2000-2006) #7

Batman/Huntress: Cry For Blood #1 - #6 

Batman: Outlaws (2000) #1 - #3

Nightwing (1996-2009) #52

Wonderwoman (1987-2006) #164 - #167

Justice League: Justice League of Amazons (2001) #1

Justice League: JL? (2001) #1

Superman: The Man of Steel (1991-2003) #109

Batman (1940-2011) #586

Batgirl (2000-2006) #18 

Batman (1940-2011) #591 

JLA (1996-2006) #58

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #763

Joker: Last Laugh (2001) #5 

Robin (1993-2009) #95 

Joker: Last Laugh (2001) #6

JLA: Incarnations (2001-2002) #7

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #773

Batman: Gotham Knights (2000-2006) #34, #35 

Nightwing (1996-2009) #75

JLA: Welcome to the Working Week (2003) #1

Batman: Family (2002-2003) #2, #4, #8 

Batman (1940-2011) #609

Batman: Gotham Knights (2000-2006) #37 - #40 

Action Comics (1938-2011) #802

Batman (1940-2011) #617 , #619

Bird of Prey: Secret Files and Origins (2003) #1

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #57 - #61

Robin (1993-2009) #120

Batman: Gotham Knights (2000-2006) #48

Superman/Batman (2003-2011) #5 

Outsiders (2003-2007) #8 - #10

The Adventures of Superman (1987-2004) #623

Gotham Central (2002-2006) #17 , #18 

Batman: Gotham Knights (2000-2006) #50

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #64 - #66

Outsiders (2003-2007) #12

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #67 - #80

Teen Titans (2003-2011) #21

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #81, #82

The OMAC Project (2005) #2

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #83 , #84

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #809

JLA (2005-2008) #117, #119

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #85 - #87

Nightwing (1996-2009) #112

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #86 

JSA: Classified (2005-2008) #3

JLA (2005-2008) #121

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #88 - #91

Infinite Crisis (2005-2006) #5 , #7

Adventures of Superman (1987-2006) #648

Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special (2006) #1

52 (2006-2007) #1 

Robin (1993-2009) #148

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #92 - #99

Nightwing (1996-2009) #127

52 (2006-2007) #34

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #100 - #103

52 (2006-2007) #48 , #52

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #104 - #108

Justice League of America Wedding Special (2007) #1 

Green Arrow / Black Canary Wedding Special (2007) #1 

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #110

Green Arrow and Black Canary (2007-2010) #1

Detective Comics (19337-2011) #837

Gotham Underground (2007/2008) #2 , #7

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #111 - #115

Countdown to Mystery (2007/2008) #6 , #8, #9

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #116

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #117 - #119

Huntress: Year One (2008) #1 - #6

Manhunter (2004-2009) #33 - #36

Trinity (2008-2009) #9, #13 , #14 , #50

Final Crisis: Requiem (2008) #1

Final Crisis (2008/2009) #3

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #120 - #123

DC Universe: Decisions (2008) #3

Secret Six (2008-2011) #1 , #7

Batman and the Outsiders (2007-2011) #13

Birds of Prey (1998-2009) #124 - #127

Batman and the Outsiders (2008/2009) #4 , #5

Batman: Battle for the Cowl (2009) #1 , #2 

Batman: Battle for the Cowl: Network (2009) #1

Batman: Battle for the Cowl (2009) #3

Batman: Streets of Gotham (2000-2011)  #3 - #6 , #9, #13

Blackest Night: Batman (2009) #2

Batman (1940-2011) #693 - #695 , #697 

Azrael (2009-2011) #2

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #859 - #663

Justice Society of America (2007-2011) #38

Detective Comics (1937-2011) #864, #865

Red Robin (2009-2011) #12

Batgirl (2009-2011) #10 , 11

Birds of Prey (2010-2011) #1 - #4

Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne (2010) #3

Birds of Prey (2010-2011) #5 , #6

Superman/Batman (2003-2011) #78

Birds of Prey (2010-2011) #7 - #10

Brightest Day (2010-2011)

Birds of Prey (2010-2011) #11

Batman Incorporated (2011) #6

Secret Six (2008-2011) #36

Birds of Prey (2010-2011) #12 - #15

Batman (1940-2011) #713 

Convergence: The Question (2015) #1, #2

New - 52 

Batwoman (2011-2015) #2

Secret Origins (2014-2015) #8 

Nightwing (2011-2014)  #30

Grayson (2014-2016) #1 - #5 ,Annual #1 , #6 - #11

Batgirl (2011-2016) Annual #3

Midnighter (2015) #3

Harley Quinn (2014-2016) #20

Grayson (2014-2016) Annual #2 

Batman & Robin Eternal (2015/2016) #2 , #3

Titans Hunt (2015-2016) #1 

Grayson (2014-2016) #13 , #14 

Batman & Robin Eternal (2015/2016) #5 

Midnighter (2015) #8 

Batman & Robin Eternal (2015/2016) #17

Grayson (2014-2016) #16 

Midnighter (2015) #9

Batman & Robin Eternal (20115/2016) #18 - #20

Grayson (2014-2016) #17

Midnighter (2015) #10

Batman & Robin Eternal (20115/2016) #23 , #24 

Grayson (2014-2016) #18

Batman & Robin Eternal (20115/2016) #25

Midnighter (2015) #11

Grayson (2014-2016) #19

Midnighter (2015) #12

Grayson (2014-2016) #20 Annual #3

Rebirth 

DC Universe: Rebirth (2016) #1 

Nightwing: Rebirth (2016) #1 

Batgirl and the Birds of Prey: Rebirth (2016) #1 

Batgirl and the Birds of Prey (2016-2018) #1 - #4

Nightwing (2016-) #9 

Batgirl and the Birds of Prey (2016-2018) #5 - #13 

Nightwing (2016-) #26 - #28 

Batgirl and the Birds of Prey (2016-2018) #14

Nightwing (2016-) #30 , #31

Batgirl and the Birds of Prey (2016-2018) #15 - #22

The Hellblazer (2016-2018) #19 - #24 

The Unexpected (2018-2019) #3 , #4 

Green Arrow (2016-2019) #45

Aquaman/Justice League: Drowned Earth (2018) #1 

Detective Comics (2016-) #1000

Batman (2016-) #71 

Action Comics (1938-) #1011

Harley Quinn (2016-2020) #64 

Batgirl (2016-2020) #39 

DC Villains Giant (2019) #1 

Batman (2016-) #81 - #83

Birds of Prey: Sirens of Justice (2020) #1 

Birds of Prey (2020-) #1 

Batgirl (2016-2020) #50

Dark Knights: Death Metal (2020) #5

Infinite Frontier 

Infinite Frontier #0 

Detective Comics (2016-) #1034 - #1039

The Other History of the Dc universe (2021) #5 

Batman Secret Files; Huntress (2021) #1

Detective Comics (2016-) #1041 , #1042 , #1046

Robins (2021-2022) #4, #5

Detective Comics (2016-) #1047. #1049 - #1058 , #1061

Nightwing (2016-) #95

Batman: Dear Detective #1 

Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths (2022) #5

Batman (2016) #129

Nightwing (2016-) #98

Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate (2023) #1

[Current Present: July 2023]

Else Worlds and Others 

Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey (2020) #1 - #4

Superman and Batman: World’s Funniest (2000) #1 

JLA: Act of God (2000-2001) #1

Future State: 

Future State: Dark Detective (2021) #1 , #3

Future State: Nightwing (2021) #1 , #2 

DCeased: 

DCeaased (2019) #3, #4

DCeased: Unkillable: #1

DC vs. Vampires: 

DC vs. Vampires (2021-2023) #2 , #10 , #11

DCAU: 

Superman & Batman Magazine (1993-1995) #1 , #4

The Batman & Robin Adventures (1995-1997) #19 

Justice League Unlimited (2004-2008) #20 , #22 , #27 , #31 , #36

Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Two (2021-2022) #3

Injustice: 

Injustice: Year Zero (2020-2021) Chapter #1 , #2 

Injustice: Gods Among Us (2013-2016) #6 , #7 , #9 , #11 , 12

Injustice: Gods Among Us - Year Two (2013-2016) #3 , #6 , #7 - #11 , Annual #1

Injustice: Gods Among us - Year Three (2013-2016) #2 , #6 , #9 - #12

Injustice: Gods Among Us - Year Four (2013-2016) #1 

Flashpoint: 

Flashpoint: Emperor Aquaman (2011) #2 , #3 

Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies (2011) #2 , #3

Flashpoint: Lois Lane and the Resistance (2011) #2

Convergence (2015) #6 , #7 

Tiny Titans:

Tiny Titans (2008-2012) #45

Bombshells: 

DC Comics: Bombshells (2015-2017) #6 , #10 , #16 , #17 , #18 , #26 

Bombshells: United (2017-2018) #36

Batman: The Brave and The Bold:

Batman: The Brave and The Bold (2009-2010) #11 , #14

All-New Batman: The Brave and The Bold (2011-202) #4

Lil’Gotham: 

Batman: Lil’Gotham (2013-2014) #3 , #5 , #6 , #8 , #10 , #12

Scooby-Doo: 

Scooby-Doo Team-Up (2018) #34

The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries (2021-) #5 , #12

Other Appearances (Crossovers) 

Batman Versus Predator II (1993/1994) # 1 - #4

JLA/Witchblade (2000-2001) #1

Avengers/JLA (2003/2004) #4

Other Characters to hold the name, Huntress: 

Paula Brooks

Helena Wayne

Carol Danvers (Amalgamverse)

Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe

>~<>~<>~<>~<

To the Helena Bertinelli fans I hope you enjoy! 

@inkareds​ I finished the complete guide if you want to check it out. 

If I made any mistakes or forgot something leave a comment, or send me a message. I tried to include everything, but I could have messed up. I will also try to update this as new Huntress stuff comes out, so the list may grow. 

[zeequicks]

what issue are those barry/zee panels from? Im morbidly curious

aha, barry/zee also brings out the morbidly curious reader in me so I gotchu anon.

just a disclaimer, I don't own any of these issues - I found the panels through articles and other archives, so we will hope they were cited correctly, but from top to bottom:

Justice League of America #187 (Feb, 1981)

Justice League of America #206 (Sept, 1982)

The Flash #198 (April, 1970)

[shieracarter]

Nighthawk and Cinnamon Comic Appearances

"You'll be wandering right into a grave if you don't let go of my hand." - Justice League of America #198 and #199

[marvelthalia]

Artemis Of Bana Mighdall Reading Guide / Read List

(Things in brackets are things where she only has a minor role)

Bold is recommended reading

Pre First Appearance:

Wonder Woman V2 #29-35 (Bana Mighdall's first appearance, Artemis not seen)

Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity #1-3 (Set chronologically earlier than Artemis’ first appearance when she was a teen)

—

First Appearance + Wonder Woman:

WW V2 #90, #0, #91-93

Justice League America  Vol. 1 (1989) #97-99

(Guy Gardener: Warrior #29)

(Justice League America #100)

WW V2 #94-100

—

Demon Hunter Days:

Artemis: Requiem #1-6

Wonder Woman V2 (#121-122), #123-125

(JLA Vol.1 (1997) #5 + Aztek: The Ultimate Man Vol. 1 #10)

(Genesis #1-4)

(Wonder Woman #126-127)

Wonder Woman V2 Annual #6

(It was the 90s give them a break)

—

Trainer of Heroes:

Superman/Batman #9-10, #13

Wonder Woman V2 #128-136

Wonder Woman Secret Files and Origins #1

Wonder Woman #139-142, #144

DCU Holiday Bash III

WW V2 Annual #8

Wonder Woman V2 (#153), #156-159

Young Justice V1 #22

Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War #1 (one-shot)

—

Paradise Lost and Found:

(Wonder Woman Secret Files and Origins #2)

Wonder Woman V2 #164-169, (#172), #173-174

Wonder Woman V2 #177(-178, #186, #188)

(Wonder Woman Secret Files and Origins #3)

Wonder Woman V2 #191, (#195-197), #198-203

—

Infinite Crisis:

Wonder Woman V2 #208, (#218), #221-224

(Infinite Crisis #2-3)

(Wonder Woman 1,000,000)

—

Amazons Attack! Event:

Amazons Attack #1

Wonder Woman v3 #8

Amazons Attack #2

Wonder Woman v3 #9

Amazons Attack #3

Teen Titans v3 #48

Wonder Woman v3 #10

Amazons Attack #4

Teen Titans v3 #49

Wonder Woman v3 #11

Amazons Attack #5

Wonder Woman v3 #12

Amazons Attack #6

—

The Circle:

 Secret Six (2008) #10-14

Wonder Woman V3 (#22), #37-39 + #44 + #611 + #614

—

Injustice Universe:

Injustice: Gods Among Us Year 4 #5-8, (#9), #10-11, #13-14, (#15-#17), #18, #20, #23

(I’d suggest just reading the whole of Year 4)

—

Alternate Timelines + Universes:

- The Morrigan/Odyssey Timeline

- Wonder Woman V3 #606-612, #614

- Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1-3 (Very minor role)

- The Multiversity: The Just (Artemis as Wonder Woman, very very minor role)

- Wonder Woman v1 #250-251 (Orana is an alt version of Artemis)

- Wonder Woman 1, 000, 000

- Avengers/JLA Vol.1 #2

- Flashpoint:

Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies (2011) #1-2

Flashpoint: Lois Lane and the Resistance (2011) #1-3

Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies (2011) #3

—

Other/Misc/AU but more modern:

- Superman Giant Vol 1. #9-10 + #13 (2019)

- Wonder Woman 80th Anniversary 100-page Super Spectacular

- Robin 80th Anniversary 100-page Super Spectacular

- Dark Nights: Death Metal #7

- Sensational Wonder Woman #3-4 (Digital First)

- Sensational Wonder Woman #11-12 (Digital FIrst)

- Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace #14 (Digital First)

- Wonder Woman: Black and Gold Vol. 2

- Generations Shattered Vol. 1 + Generations Forged Vol. 1

- Red Hood: Outlaw WEBTOON (this is a good one)

——

DC Rebirth:

Dark Trinity + Trinity:

Red Hood and the Outlaws #1-7

Trinity Annual #1, Trinity #12-15

Red Hood And The Outlaws Annual #1

—

Who Is Artemis? + The Enemy Of Both Sides + Life of Bizarro:

Red Hood and the Outlaws #8-14

Wonder Woman #52-55

Red Hood and the Outlaws #15-20

(Batman: Prelude to the Wedding: Red Hood vs. Anarky #1)

Red Hood and the Outlaws #21-25

Red Hood And The Outlaws Annual #2

—

Outlaw + Generation Outlaws:

Red Hood: Outlaw #30-31 (flashbacks)

Red Hood: Outlaw Annual #3

Red Hood: Outlaw #37-50

—

Amazons United + Trials of The Amazons

Wonder Woman Annual #4

Wonder Woman #750 + #780-781

Wonder Girl (2021) #1-4

Trial of the Amazons #1

Nubia & The Amazons #6

Trial of the Amazons: Wonder Girl #1

Wonder Woman #786

Nubia: Coronation Special

Trial of the Amazons: Wonder Girl #2

Trial of the Amazons #2

Artemis: Wanted

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DC Universe Infinite Announces March Slate

DC Universe Infinite has announced it’s March slate in addition to five new titles the cover art of which can be seen below:

DC UNIVERSE INFINITE members get more DC content than ever! Head over to DC UNIVERSE INFINITE as the premium digital comic book service adds even more fan-favorite content in March of 2021!

Coming this March, DC UNIVERSE INFINITE subscribers receive early access to pre-order DC’s limited edition ZACK SNYDER JUSTICE LEAGUE FUNKO POP! four-pack collection, available exclusively in the DC SHOP! More details, including images, are forthcoming. Next, do you want to dive into all the great DC stories, but not sure where to start? You’re not alone! Starting this March, DC is launching the DC BOOK CLUB, a reading event happening on DC’s on-platform Community, designed to help fans at any level discover new favorites, dive deeper into the comics they love, and connect with a friendly, like-minded comic book community. Each month’s DC BOOK CLUB event will feature limited time free-to-read titles on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE, exclusive perks and copper-to-copper connections with special guest talent. Stay tuned for all the details! And then light up the Bat-Signal, because Detective Comics #1027 arrives on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE on March 23! In honor of Batman’s first appearance in Detective Comics #27, this special, oversized celebration brings the biggest names in comics to DC UNIVERSE INFINITE as they chronicle the most epic Batman adventures Gotham City and the DC Universe have ever seen! Fans eager to read more of DC’s Milestone (Dakota) Universe will get more issues of Static, Hardware, and Icon in March, as well as the chance to read Blood Syndicate #1 and #2 on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE. There’s something new to discover every week! March also sees the continuation of new series Let Them Live! landing first on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE, more Dark Nights: Death Metal tie-in one-shots, the launch of Hellblazer: Rise and Fall by Tom Taylor and Darick Robertson, the arrival of Challenge of the Super Sons #1 by Peter J. Tomasi and Max Raynor, and the beginning of the five-issue “Doom Metal” story in Justice League #53 by Joshua Williamson and Xermanico. And, every week in March has new chapters of “The Joker War” in issues of Batman, Nightwing, Detective Comics, Batgirl, Catwoman, and Red Hood: Outlaw. All this and more will be available to read on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE beginning this March: Week of 3/1

Let Them Live! 3

Batman (1940-2011) 207

Super Friends (1976-1981) 40

Wonder Woman (1942-1986) 111

Static (1993-1997) 6

Hardware (1993-1997) 6

Batman/Superman 11

Detective Comics 1026—tie-in to “The Joker War”

Legion of Super-Heroes 8

Red Hood: Outlaw 48—tie-in to “The Joker War

Teen Titans Annual 2

The Last God 8

Wonder Woman 761

Action Comics 1024

Amethyst 5

Batman Beyond 46

John Constantine: Hellblazer 9

Justice League Dark 25

Plunge 6

Suicide Squad 8

The Flash 760

The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage 4

Injustice: Year Zero 11

Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace 18

Batman: Gotham Nights 22

DCeased: Hope at World’s End 15

Week of 3/8

Batman (1940-2011) 233

Super Friends (1976-1981) 41

Wonder Woman (1942-1986) 113

Blood Syndicate (1993-1996) 1

Icon (1993-1997) 6

Batgirl 48—tie-in to “The Joker War

Batman 98—“The Joker War” part four!

DCeased: Dead Planet 3

Hellblazer: Rise and Fall 1

Justice League 52

Strange Adventures 5

The Dreaming: Waking Hours 2

Young Justice 18

Shazam! 14

The Terrifics 30

Injustice: Year Zero 12

Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace 19

Week of 3/15

Let Them Live! 4

Detective Comics (1937-2011) 111

Super Friends (1976-1981) 42

Wonder Woman (1942-1986) 123

Static (1993-1997) 7

Hardware (1993-1997) 7

Dark Nights: Death Metal Trinity Crisis 1

Nightwing 74—tie-in to “The Joker War

Superman 25

The Green Lantern Season Two 7

Wonder Woman 762

Batman & the Outsiders 16

Hawkman 27

Justice League Odyssey 24

The Flash 761

Wonder Woman 1984 Museum Mayhem 1

Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace 20

Batman: The Adventures Continue 15

Week of 3/22

Challenge of the Super Sons 1

Justice League of America (1960-1987) 112

Super Friends (1976-1981) 43

Wonder Woman (1942-1986) 143

Blood Syndicate (1993-1996) 2

Icon (1993-1997) 7

Batman 99—“The Joker War” part 5!

Catwoman 25—tie-in to “The Joker War

Detective Comics 1027

Justice League 53—“Doom Metal” part one of five

Metal Men 10

Teen Titans 45

The Batman’s Grave 10

Raised By Wolves 1

Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace 21

Batman: The Adventures Continue 16

Week of 3/29

Challenge of the Super Sons 2

Let Them Live! 5

Harley Quinn Black + White + Red 15

Harley Quinn Black + White + Red 16

Harley Quinn Black + White + Red 17

Justice League of America (1960-1987) 159

Super Friends (1976-1981) 44

Wonder Woman (1942-1986) 198

Static (1993-1997) 8

Hardware (1993-1997) 8

Batgirl 49—tie-in to “The Joker War

Batman/Superman 12

Dark Nights: Death Metal Speed Metal 1

Justice League Dark 26

Shazam! 15

The Last God 9

Action Comics 1025

Batman Beyond 47

Suicide Squad 9

The Flash 762

Aquaman 63

Injustice: Year Zero 13

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CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS HC BOX SET 

This box set includes these hardcovers: •  CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 1 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #21-22, 29-30, 37-38 and 46-47 •  CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 2 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #55-56, 64-65, 73-74 and 82-83 •  CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 3 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #91-92, 100-102, 107-108 and 113 •  CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 4 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #123-124, 135-137 and 147-148 •  CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 5 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #159-160, 171-172 and 183-185 •  CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 6 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #195-197, 207-209 and ALL-STAR SQUADRON #14-15 •  CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS HC Collects CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1-12 •  CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: ALL-STAR SQUADRON HC This new title collects ALL-STAR SQUADRON #50-60 •  CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: GREEN LANTERN HC This new title collects GREEN LANTERN #194-198, THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #16 and 18 and THE OMEGA MEN #31 and 33 •  CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: JUSTICE LEAGUE HC This new title collects THE FURY OF FIRESTORM #41-42, DETECTIVE COMICS #558, WONDER WOMAN #327-329 and THE NEW TEEN TITANS #13-14 •  CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: LEGENDS HC This new title collects THE LOSERS SPECIAL #1, SWAMP THING #44 and 46, LEGENDS OF THE DC UNIVERSE: CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1, BLUE DEVIL #17-18 and AMETHYST #13 •  CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: INFINITY, INC. HC This new title collects INFINITY, INC. #18-25, INFINITY, INC. ANNUAL #1 and JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #244-245 •  CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: SUPERMAN HC This new title collects DC COMICS PRESENTS #78, 86-88 and 94-95, SUPERMAN #413-415 and JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA ANNUAL #3 •  CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: BEHIND THE CRISIS This new title collects THE HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE #1-2, pre-Crisis appearances of the Monitor, behind-the-scenes material and more DIMENSIONS: APPROX. 12.5" high x 13.5" wide x 8" deep WEIGHT: APPROX. 28 lbs. * Dimensions and weight subject to change ART NOT FINAL        

[greenlanterncrops]

green lantern (1960) #87

justice league of america (1960) #110

green lantern (1960) #165, #181 - 183, #185, #187 - 189, #193 - 198

the green lantern corps #211 - 212, #224

action comics #601 - 606

cosmic odyssey

green lantern (1990) #1 - 9, #13 - 17, #19, #23 - 24

green lantern: mosaic

darkstars #21 - 24, #0, #25, #33, #35 - 38

green lantern (1990) #70, #73 - 75, #78

parallax: emerald night

green lantern (1990) #81 - 85, #91, #111 - #112, #129 - 134, #144 - 148, #155 - 156, #160, #167, #170, #178 - 179

green lantern: rebirth

green lantern (2005) #1, #21 - 25, #26 - 27, #36

blackest night #1

green lantern (2005) #40 - 42, #44 - 49

blackest night #6 - 8

war of the green lanterns

green lantern corps (2006) #61

green lantern corps (2011) - #1 - 12

rise of the third army

wrath of the first lantern

green lantern corps (2011) #20 - 23

lights out

green lantern corps (2011) #25 - 30

uprising

green lantern corps (2011) #34

godhead

green lantern corps (2011) #38 - 40

green lantern: lost army

green lantern: edge of oblivion

[aboutzatanna]

From JLA #198-199; Zatanna and Cinnamon have only known each other for less than half a day and yet their entire energy is basically ‘I’ll die for you”. 

Literal first meeting where Zee is amnesiac:

Meeting her friends:  

Teaming up with the Leaguers: 

And not wanting to to leave behind her new cowgirl friend to face danger alone and not be separated from each other:

The fact that Cinnamon was later revealed to be a reincarnation of Hawkgirl nearly two decades later adds another layer to this (although not the same Hawkgirl that Zee knew on JLA except for that times that it was....it’s.....complicated).  

Also this two parter may or may not have been the inspiration for the JLU episode ‘The Once and Future Thing Part 1: Weird Western Tales’.  

[biggoonie]

CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS BOX SET

written by MARV WOLFMAN, GARDNER FOX, ROY THOMAS, GERRY CONWAY and others art by GEORGE PEREZ, MIKE SEKOWSKY, DICK DILLIN, TODD McFARLANE and others box art by NICOLA SCOTT and JERRY ORDWAY Since the Justice League of America first met their Earth-2 counterparts, the Justice Society of America, the concept of a world-shaking “Crisis” has been a defining part of DC history. Now, for the first time, DC packs one incredible box set with every Crisis tale leading up to and including the industry defining CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS! This box set combines six previously existing CRISIS collected editions, printed for the first time in hardcover, with eight new CRISIS hardcover collections that spotlight the most important heroes of the 1980s CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS! Join the Justice League, the Justice Society, the All-Star Squadron, Infinity Inc., Superman, Green Lantern and countless other heroes as they give their all to save the DC Universe! This box set includes these hardcovers: • CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 1 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #21-22, 29-30, 37-38 and 46-47 • CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 2 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #55-56, 64-65, 73-74 and 82-83 • CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 3 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #91-92, 100-102, 107-108 and 113 • CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 4 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #123-124, 135-137 and 147-148 • CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 5 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #159-160, 171-172 and 183-185 • CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 6 HC Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #195-197, 207-209 and ALL-STAR SQUADRON #14-15 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS HC Collects CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1-12 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: ALL-STAR SQUADRON HC This new title collects ALL-STAR SQUADRON #50-60 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: GREEN LANTERN HC This new title collects GREEN LANTERN #194-198, THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #16 and 18 and THE OMEGA MEN #31 and 33 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: JUSTICE LEAGUE HC This new title collects THE FURY OF FIRESTORM #41-42, DETECTIVE COMICS #558, WONDER WOMAN #327-329 and THE NEW TEEN TITANS #13-14 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: LEGENDS HC This new title collects THE LOSERS SPECIAL #1, SWAMP THING #44 and 46, LEGENDS OF THE DC UNIVERSE: CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1, BLUE DEVIL #17-18 and AMETHYST #13 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: INFINITY, INC. HC This new title collects INFINITY, INC. #18-25, INFINITY, INC. ANNUAL #1 and JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #244-245 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: SUPERMAN HC This new title collects DC COMICS PRESENTS #78, 86-88 and 94-95, SUPERMAN #413-415 and JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA ANNUAL #3 • CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS: BEHIND THE CRISIS This new title collects THE HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE #1-2, pre-Crisis appearances of the Monitor, behind-the-scenes material and more ON SALE 11.06.19 $500.00 US | FC DIMENSIONS: APPROX. 12.5” high x 13.5” wide x 8” deep WEIGHT: APPROX. 28 lbs. * Dimensions and weight subject to change ISBN: 978-1-4012-9517-2 ART NOT FINAL

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 4.18

796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days. 1428 – Peace of Ferrara between Republic of Venice, Duchy of Milan, Republic of Florence and House of Gonzaga: ending of the second campaign of the Wars in Lombardy fought until the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, which will then guarantee the conditions for the development of the Italian Renaissance. 1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid. 1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland. 1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication. 1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros. 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid. 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements. 1783 – Three-Fifths Compromise: the first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution. 1831 – The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 1847 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico. 1857 – "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France. 1864 – Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement. 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. 1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria. 1902 – The 7.5 Mw  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800 and 2,000. 1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California. 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome. 1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City. 1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I. 1916 – White war on the Italian front (World War I): during a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army. 1917 – The II Italian Corps in France leaves from Italy for the western front: it will distinguish itself during the Third Battle of the Aisne and the Second Battle of the Marne, in Bligny and on the sector Courmas - Bois du Petit Champ, where it will considerably contribute to stop the German offensive on Eparnay, aimed to outflank Reims. 1923 – Yankee Stadium: "The House that Ruth Built" opens. 1925 – The International Amateur Radio Union is formed in Paris. 1930 – The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that "there is no news" in their evening report. 1939 – Robert Menzies, who became Australia's longest-serving prime minister, is elected as leader of the United Australia Party after the death of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons. 1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed. 1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France. 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island. 1945 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany. 1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands. 1949 – The Republic of Ireland Act comes into effect. 1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals. 1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt. 1955 – Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference. 1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency. 1983 – A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. 1987 – The New York Islanders defeat the Washington Capitals 3–2 in Game 7 of their Patrick Division Semifinal series. 1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II. 1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Qana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge. 1997 – The Red River flood begins and soon overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings. 1999 – Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time points scorer, plays his final game at Madison Square Garden as a teammate of the New York Rangers in a 2–1 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Gretzky recorded his final career point, an assist, bringing his career point total to 2,857. 2007 – A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251. 2008 – The inaugural season of the Indian Premier League kicks off with a match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore. During this match, KKR's opener Brendon McCullum "clobbered"[10] 158 not out off 73 balls, the highest score in Twenty20 history at the time. 2013 – A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65. 2018 – King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini. 2019 - A redacted version of the Mueller Report is released to the United States Congress and the public.

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DEVELOPMENTAL CONCERNS

[Note:  From time to time, this blog issues a set of postings that summarize what the blog has been emphasizing in its previous postings.  Of late, the blog has been looking at various obstacles civics educators face in teaching their subject.  It’s time to post a series of such summary accounts.  The advantage of such summaries is to introduce new readers to the blog and to provide a different context by which to review the blog’s various claims and arguments.  This and upcoming summary postings will be preceded by this message.]

Elsewhere, this writer has reviewed a view of America’s past and makes the claim the nation, through most of its history, has held federalism as its dominant view of governance and politics.[1]  But it is the contention of this writer that since World War II, the nation has looked, most predominately, to the natural rights construct for that guidance.  

That occurred after the political culture was subjected to a sort of competition between the two constructs in which federalism through the years lost influence and natural rights gained influence – natural rights finally won dominance in the years after World War II and that dominance has grown in the subsequent years.

         An additional word concerning that competition should be added:  that is, that competition highlighted the vying values between representative democracy – majority rule – and the protection of individual rights.  Through the years, those who were put in charge of making the relevant policy decisions were, to varying degrees, affected by this tension.  They continuously asked:  should policy reflect what the majority, through legislative representation, wishes or should the concern over individual rights be a significant check on what legislative bodies can do?

         Prior to the twentieth century, one can say the bias was toward legislative discretion and even with the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment that bias still held sway.[2]  But once the century turned, starting roughly with the case, Lochner v. New York,[3] 1905, concerning business interests and property rights, the courts began to tilt the scale of justice toward individual rights.  And then came the Warren Court (1953-1969) that blew open the concern for individual rights over majority rule in many areas of jurisprudence.

         Those areas included criminal defendant rights, civil rights (especially those concerning race and gender), cultural expressions, and others.  Of particular note, were issues relating to exclusionary legislation that aimed at depriving individuals and groups from equal access to opportunities and benefits.  And this was, to those favoring the turn, a positive aspect of the natural rights view.

This writer also welcomes that turn since he judges the many aspects of parochial/traditional federalism, the version that was dominant before World War II, was ironically not as federalist in many important aspects as its basic beliefs would indicate.  That included its definition of who was entitled to be included.  

In the history of the nation, more various European nationalities – not always smoothly – were included in the partnership. But what seemed to be the limits to such inclusion were the prejudicial beliefs and attitudes toward nonwhite people. Predominately, the antagonism was aimed at groups of African, Asian, and people of indigenous groups background.  Race was, and still is to a meaningful degree, the bugaboo of American history.

         But can one have a truer version of federalism, one that does not depend on nationalities, race, or other arbitrary limitations?  That would be a federalism that counts on individuals taking on a partnership role that was established by the nation’s and the various states’ constitutions.  This writer believes one can and that version of federalism can be called liberated federalism.  It adopts the basic notion of “foedus” (the Latin term from which “federalism” is derived) or being leagued with fellow citizens through its founding compact, the US Constitution.[4]  

Or stated more commonly, agreeing to being in a sacred partnership.  And under that association, one can consider the natural rights’ judgement that government interference (with its authoritative power) tends to be immoral, seems foreign. Yes, even a federated government, in structure and process, might be abusive, and it would not be acceptable if it abuses federalist values – one being the dignity of each individual making up the partnership.

But if the legislature does not abuse that and the other federalist values, it has a legitimate role in advancing the common good which along with federal liberty, includes efforts to establishing and maintaining a regulated equality.[5]  A current viable example of this debate or tension is the nation’s efforts to meet the challenge of providing medical care for all citizens.  

And these tensions are played out in schools as well as in any social arrangement dotting the American scene; but it should be formally addressed in the nation’s civics classrooms.  It – majority rule vs. individual rights – should garner an extensive look in civics lesson as those classes shift their concerns to the nation’s political culture.  Those lessons should definitely focus on the relevant contributions that political science provides – how that relevant academic field sees the above issues.  

And that is where this blog will take up this topic in the next posting, but one more word before closing this one.  One should remember that the goals of political scientists do not include making the job of civics teachers any easier. Their aim is to advance political knowledge, not to teach it to secondary students.

[1] That would be previous postings but instead of listing a set of those postings, the reader can get a sufficient overview from Robert Gutierrez, Toward a Federated Nation:  Implementing National Civics Standards (Tallahassee, FL: Gravitas/Civics Books, 2020) AND, more formally, Daniel J. Elazar, American Federalism: A View from the States, (New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1966) AND Daniel J. Elazar, Exploring Federalism (Tuscaloosa, AL:  The University of Alabama Press, 1987).

[2] Even after the Civil War and the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Slaughterhouse decisions upheld local ordinances that protected New Orleans’ establishment of a slaughterhouse monopoly at the expense of competing butchers. This case illustrates the bias toward representative, law-making bodies over the interests of individual citizens. One can interpret that bias as one reflecting a more federalist view.

[3] “Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905),” Justia, US Supreme Court, 198, n.d, accessed September 21, 2020, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/198/45/ .

[4] Admittedly, this writer is simplifying things a bit.  The initial segregation against “foreign” elements entering the partnership reflected the fact that federal leaguing first gained favor as it grew from religious practices among Protestant, Puritanical, congregational practices.  They formed their church-based communities through the utilization of covenants.  This tradition was established early – through the Mayflower Compact, 1620 – and they, the agreements, would commonly claim allegiance to the British crown and as such, were exclusionary by design.  For a more nuance overview of this process, see Donald S. Lutz, “Introductory Essay,” Colonial Origins of the American Constitution:  A Documentary History, edited by Donald S. Lutz (Indianapolis, IN:  Liberty Fund, 1998), xx-xl.

[5] Regulated as exemplified by laws establishing a minimum wage or minimum health care.

[neilmobile]

Here are all the new movies I saw in 2017, I bolded the good ones and italicized the terrible(I watched a lot of terrible garbage, sorry, also Bright is easily the worst fucking movie I saw all year), also some I have seen already but I put them on the list if it was a movie I hadn’t seen for a few years (to wit; Back to the Future 3):

1. The Triangle 2. Coherence 3. Masterminds 4. Legend of the Drunken Master 5. Jack Reacher 2 6. Neon Demon 7. Godzilla Resurgence 8. The Russia House 9. The Presidio 10. Fiddler on the Roof 11. Hacksaw Ridge 12. Elvis and Nixon 13. Blood Father 14. River 15. Hard Target 16. Big Trouble In Little China 17. Sign “O” The Times 18. The Infiltrator 19. Money Monster 20. Family Business 21. Blair Witch 22. Red Rock West 23. Terms of Endearment 24. Night Flier 25. American Honey 26. Edge of Seventeen 27. Fury 28. Silence 29. John Wick 2 30. Live by Night 31. Birth of a Nation (2016) 32. Justice League Dark 33. Paterson 34. Rush Hour 3 35. Entrapment 36. Moana 37. Frank and Lola 38. Finding Dory 39. Back to the Future 2 40. Back to the Future 3 41. Manchester by the Sea 42. In a Valley of Violence 43. Logan 44. Get Out 45. Gold 46. Bananas 47. Obsession 48. Gimme Danger 49. Police Story 50. Kong: Skull Island 51. I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore 52. Bon Cop Bad Cop 53. Beowulf & Grendel 54. Demolition 55. Fences 56. Double Life of Veronique 57. Kill Zone 2 58. Sukiyaki Western Django 59. La La Land 60. Moonlight 61. Perfect World 62. Hidden Figures 63. Morris From America 64. Mr Death 65. Standard Operating Procedure 66. Fast Cheap and Out of Control 67. Cinema Paradiso 68. Hunter Gatherer 69. Delicatessen 70. Reptilicus 71. Cry Wilderness 72. Wait Till Helen Comes 73. Phoenix 74. Blown Away 75. The Giver 76. The Time Travelers 77. Avalanche 78. The Beast of Hollow Mountain 79. Starcrash 80. The Land That Time Forgot 81. Manos: Hands of Fate 82. The Love of Hercules 83. Yongary: Monster from the Deep 84. Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 85. Carnival Magic 86. The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t 87. At The Earth’s Core 88. The Kingdom 89. Harry and the Hendersons 90. Hancock 91. Battleship 92. Furious 8 93. Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 94. From Russia With Love 95. Dr. No 96. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service 97. Spaceballs 98. Reindeer Games 99. Diamonds are Forever 100. Assassin’s Creed 101. Spy Hard 102. Horse’s Mouth 103. The Void 104. Fire Walk With Me 105. Beauty and the Beast (2017) 106. Alien: Covenant 107. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales 108. Cool Hand Luke 109. War Machine 110. Lego Batman 111. Free Fire 112. Wonder Woman 113. Life 114. Popstar 115. The Mummy 116. Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children 117. Power Rangers 118. Cure For Wellness 119. XXX: Return of Xander Cage 120. L’Avventurra 121. Ouija: Origin of Evil 122. Baby Driver 123. Spider-Man: Homecoming 124. The Patriot 125. Dunkirk 126. War for the Planet of the Apes 127. Keeping up with the Joneses 128. Atomic Blonde 129. Dark Tower 130. King Arthur: Legend of something who fucking cares 131. Blackcoat’s Daughter 132. Things To Come 133. Lost City of Z 134. Personal Shopper 135. Rings 136. Page Eight 137. Turks and Caicos 138. Salting the Battlefield 139. Bicycle Thieves 140. Logan Lucky 141. Death Note 142. Wind River 143. La Dolce Vita 144. A Prairie Home Companion 145. Good Time 146. War on Everyone 147. It 148. Colossal 149. Southland Tales 150. Fist Fight 151. Baywatch 152. Death Sentence 153. Kingsman: Golden Circle 154. Wilson 155. Fallen 156. The Little Hours 157. Transformers: The Last Knight 158. Near Dark 159. Blade Runner 2049 160. The Age of Shadows 161. Don’t Think Twice 162. Mother! 163. Sleepless 164. The Wailing 165. The Slumber Party Massacre 166. Top Hat 167. Once Bitten 168. Hocus Pocus 169. Motel Hell 170. Just Friends 171. Silver Streak 172. Thor: Ragnarok 173. The Stupids 174. Murder on the Orient Express 175. Uncle John 176. La Notte 177. The Outfit 178. Big Night 179. Justice League 180. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 181. It Comes At Night 182. Batman and Harley Quinn 183. The Shootist 184. The Odd Couple 185. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 186. Bad Batch 187. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 188. Seconds 189. Heist 190. All the Marbles 191. Psych: The Movie 192. Lady Bird 193. The Beguiled (Remake) 194. Always 195. Spielberg 196. The Brand New Testament 197. Star Wars: The Last Jedi 198. 20th Century Women 199. Age of Innocence 200. The Foreigner 201. The Age of Shadows 202. Sleepless 203. Brawl in Cell Block 99 204. Our Kind Of Traitor 205. American Made 206. Split 207. Lion in the Desert 208. The Mountain Between Us 209. Killing Gunther 210. Remains of the Day 211. Goon: Last of the Enforcers 212. Bright

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Where to start reading Jesse Chambers?

Her first appearance was in Justice Society of America v2 #1

Justice Society of America v2 (esp #4-5, 8)

The Flash v2 (eso #96-100, 101, 108-110, 112, 139-141, 145-150, 152-155, 157-159, 170, 172-173, 189, 198-200, Annual #11-12)

Impulse #10, 11, 22, 26, 67, 1000000

Flash 80-Page Giant 1

Showcase '96 #12

Wonder Woman Plus Jesse Quick #1

Titans Secret Files #1

Titans v1 #1-50 (esp #13, 17-20, 35-36)

Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day

Speed Force #1

JSA #34-35, 37, 52-54, 81

Justice Society of America v3 #1-54

Flash: Rebirth #1-6

Justice League of America v2 #44-60

JSA All-Stars #2-10

Blackest Night: JSA

[ericfruits]

SCOTUS grapples with the meaning of sex

HISTORY WAS made at the Supreme Court on October 8th. The word “transgender” made its debut in an argument and the chief justice repeatedly used the pronoun “they” to describe an individual. Under discussion was Aimee Stephens, formerly Anthony Stephens, who had been fired from her job as a funeral director in Michigan after announcing she would start living as a woman. Her boss, a conservative Christian who holds that biological sex is “an immutable God-given gift”, felt he could not condone what he considered a physical impossibility by allowing Ms Stephens to wear frocks to work. He also thought that the sight of a man dressed as a woman would discombobulate grieving customers. So he fired her. After an appeals court ruled in Ms Stephens’s favour, her boss took his case to the Supreme Court.

The case has received so much attention that it has at times threatened to overshadow the first gay-rights cases the court will consider since it ruled in 2015 that gay marriage is a constitutional right. The same day, the court heard arguments in the case of Gerald Bostock, who says he was sacked as a social worker in Georgia after officials learned he played in a gay softball league, and Donald Zarda, a sky-diving instructor in New York, whose lawyers claim was fired after he reassured a female customer, to whom he was strapped for a dive, that he was homosexual. Mr Zarda, who died in 2014, won his case at an appeals court; Mr Bostock lost.

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For gay and transgender employees across America the stakes in these cases, which the court is likely to rule on by the spring, could barely be higher. Despite successive attempts, Congress has declined to pass a federal law protecting workers from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or identity. Fewer than half of America’s states have such legislation. Research has found that gay and trans Americans report significantly higher rates of being treated badly at work and fired than their straight or non-transgender colleagues. An amicus brief filed by 206 businesses, including Amazon and Wells Fargo, in support of the cases before the court, argues that the absence of legislation makes it hard for businesses to recruit and retain the best employees.

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Eliding gay rights with transgender rights can jar. Sexual orientation and identity are essentially different, though they sometimes overlap. But the cases heard at the Supreme Court this week all hinge on whether the “sex” bit of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans employment discrimination on the grounds of “race, colour, religion, sex, or national origin,” protects such workers. Lawyers for all three argue that it does, because they would not have been fired were it not for their sex. Ms Stephens says she would not have been sacked had she been born female; lawyers for Messrs Bostock and Zarda argue that their attraction to men was considered a problem only because they were men.

The authors of the Civil Rights Act manifestly did not have gay and transgender workers in mind when they added “sex” to their list of banned grounds for discrimination. In 1964 gay sex was still illegal in most states and transgender Americans mostly kept quiet. But a textualist reading of Title VII—that is, one that focuses on the words of laws rather than the intent with which they were written—suggests that “sex” does indeed protect gay and transgender employees. That is supported by a ruling by the champion of textualism, the late Justice Antonin Scalia. In 1998 he wrote that a male worker could sue for harassment by other men because whereas “male-on-male sexual harassment in the workplace was assuredly not the principal evil Congress was concerned with when it enacted Title VII…statutory prohibitions often go beyond the principal evil to cover reasonably comparable evils.”

The cases are further bolstered by another, older precedent. In 1989 the justices sided with a female executive denied a promotion for being too “macho”. The court ruled that stereotyping—expecting workers to conform to the conventions of their biological sex—was a form of gender discrimination under Title VII. It would not take a giant leap of logic to conclude that discrimination against gay and transgender people is predicated on sex stereotyping—people should be attracted to the opposite sex and conform to the sex they are assigned at birth—and is therefore illegal.

Yet the Supreme Court never rules without an eye to the wider politics of such cases. During the hearings on October 8th, Chief Justice John Roberts, who could cast a swing vote if the justices vote along ideological lines, said he was worried a ruling in favour of gay and trans employees would leave religious employers inadequately protected. Justice Neil Gorsuch, an ardent textualist, suggested that “when a case is really close” it might be better to leave decisions that would cause “massive social upheaval” to Congress.

His questioning about single-sex bathrooms, an issue that has roiled America in recent years, suggests that he considers Ms Stephens’s case to be especially vexed. Conservative Christians are not the only Americans who consider biological sex to be immutable. YouGov, The Economist’s pollster, asked a sample of 1,500 adults to imagine they were meeting someone for the first time who was born male but identifies as female. Half (44%) considered such a person to be male, while half (44%) thought she was female. The rest preferred not to say. Some worry that a ruling for Ms Stephens could lead to the erasure of sex-specific rules at work, such as those governing the provision of single-sex bathrooms.

Transgender activists are often too quick to dismiss such fears. Responding to a question from Justice Sonia Sotomayor about how the law should respond to women who do not want to share bathrooms with people who look a lot like men, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing all three gay and trans plaintiffs, said this was not the question before the court. It could address it, he added, when it arose in a future case.

He also said that the available evidence so far showed “no upheaval”. Given that several states have already passed laws protecting trans employees from being fired, this is a more convincing response. The fear about shared bathrooms in part reflects how popular acceptance of transgender rights lags behind that of gay rights. That is not surprising. According to data from the Williams Institute, a think-tank at UCLA, there are around ten times as many gay, lesbian or bisexual Americans as there are trans ones. Gay marriage has largely been accepted because most Americans know a gay person; fewer have a transgender acquaintance.

Mr Gorsuch is right that such questions would be better hammered out by lawmakers who, unlike Supreme Court justices, are elected by the people. There, much will depend on the outcome of next year’s elections. If the Democrats flip the Senate they may pass the Equality Act, which would ban discrimination against gay and trans Americans in public and commercial life. This passed the House in May, but stands no chance of becoming law before 2020. In the meantime, gay and transgender Americans await the justices’ decision.■

This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Sextualism"

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