Reported on Mania:

• DC #1,000,000. This year's DC crossover will be handled by Grant Morrison and ties into the end of the Rock of Ages. See Moniter for more details.
• Octander on Manhunter It was posted on Usenet and confirmed by Mania that John Ostander (KENTS, SPECTRE) will be handling an ongoing Martian Manhunter series. See Moniter for more details.
• Eric Luke (GHOST) takes over from John Bryne as writer of Wonder Woman he is joined by penciller Yannick Paquette (WARRIOR NUN AREALA) while Walter Simonson is scheduled to replace Bryne on JACK KIRBY’S FORTH WORLD. John Bryne attributed his leaving of both books to the fact that he did not feel that he had enough new ideas to carry a new twelve month contract when it came up for renewal.
• Peter David has left AQUAMAN, a fill in team has been appointed while Eric Larsen (Savage Dragon) will wrtie and Erik Battle will do the art.
• There is a possibility of the sequel to JLA YEAR ONE. DC have asked Mark Waid and co. to do a sequel but they have tentative plans of their own for characters in question.
• Kevin Smith, the scriptwriter, has been brought on as the new writer to GREEN ARROW including a build up to the DC #1,000,000 event.
• Tangent is back for the July 5th skip week. Dan Jurgens will serve as the consultant. New titles to get the Tangent treatment will include, Power Girl, Superman, Batman and the JLA.
• Arnie Jorgensen and Dave Meikis the due who filled in for issue #17 are once again filling in with issues #20 and #21 written by Mark Waid.
• A second JLA Secret Files is in the works for June and will feature the back story behind the recruitment between JLA #15 and JLA #16. This will be followed in July by a Forth World Secret File.
• New titles: Birds of Prey by Chuck Dixon and co., Martian Manhunter by John Ostander and Titans (a replacement for Teen Titans) by Devin Grayson.

Last Updated: March 22st 1998
Updated/Added: See the Contents section for details on what has changed.

Occurrences of retroactive continuity so far:

JLA AGES

The JLA and JSA can be thought to exist as four discrete stages. The Golden Age (the JSA formation to HUAC dissolution), the Silver Age (JLA formation to the Crisis), the Bronze Age (Legends to the cancellation of the second JLA series) and the New Era (Midsummer Nightmare onwards).

WHAT IS THE JUSTICE LEAGUE?

It all began in the winter of 1940 with the third issue of ALL STAR COMICS. What it contained was a simple story by today’s standards - a group of heroes meeting together to discuss and swap stories. That story was the genesis of the shared universe comic stories that today form the foundation of DC, Marvel, Image and a dozen smaller publishers. ALL STAR COMICS #3 opened up the way for teams made up of characters from different titles, it also showed us the original archetype for those teams - the Justice Society of America (JSA)

The JSA introduced a slew of competitors such as the Freedom Fighters and the Seven Soldiers of Victory (both now contemporaries of the JSA due to the Crisis on Infinite Earths). As the superhero comic declined after the war the JSA disappeared with them. It was not to be the end of it for the legacy of the JSA was realised scant decades later by their original creator Gardner F. Fox as he introduced the world to the revamped heroes of DC, together as the Justice League of America (JLA)

Since the first appearance of the JLA in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #28 it has spawned three series of comics, five spin off series and nearly a dozen specials and mini-series. Upon this the JLA has appeared in a live action TV pilot, a classic animated TV series (the Superfriends & Aquaman), guest starred on the BBC Superman Radio Play, has it's own toyline (Total Justice) and had for a time it's own computer game.

Some might point out that the X-Men have done this and a whole lot more, but that is not the point. The X-Men are fighting against the establishment, the Avengers are the establishment, whereas the JLA are beyond the establishment. They are the pantheon against which all absolutes are measured. They existed first and when all others have crumbled it is only the icons of the JLA & JSA that will remain standing.

CREDITS

The following people have supplied corrections/comments that have been important to the growth of this website.

• Sean Mcquaid [mcquaid@server.uwindsor.ca] - Sean has also supplied a number of profiles on the Gerald Jones JLA group. These will be back sometime after Christmas.
• Michael "Rabbit" Hutchison [rabhutch@spacestar.net] Keeper of the Elongated Man Webpage.
• Alan Kistler aka Continuity Cop [XRorshack@aol.com] Look for his work in the Articles Section.

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