Who are the essential members of the JSA?

[Doctor Kent Nelson]

[TheRay]

Johnny Thunder and Alan.

[DrNewGod]

Which is weird considering Hawmans schtick tends to be "Angry conservative barbarian" so you'd expect him to be a bit more "gung ho" and disagree with intricate plans. Then again whilst not as uniformly nice as the Silver Age everyone was fairly chummy in the Golden Age

IMO, Hawkman's angry-barbarian-birdguy thing is a relatively recent advent. Wildcat and The Atom were always distinctive presences in the JSA as the bash-first-think-it-over-eventually characters in the group.

[CaptCleghorn]

IMO, Hawkman's angry-barbarian-birdguy thing is a relatively recent advent. Wildcat and The Atom were always distinctive presences in the JSA as the bash-first-think-it-over-eventually characters in the group.

Wasn't that schtick for Hawkman the Earth-One Hawkman? The JSA Hawkman always seemed to be level headed. At least pre-Crisis. Post-Crisis Hawkmen confuse me.

[DrNewGod]

Wasn't that schtick for Hawkman the Earth-One Hawkman? The JSA Hawkman always seemed to be level headed. At least pre-Crisis. Post-Crisis Hawkmen confuse me.

No, as I recall it, the angry-barbarian guy was pretty much a creation of Johns' JSA revived Hawkman. E1 Hawkman could be intense, but he was as as much an astute scientist as he was a cop; he got a bit of conservative leaning hung on him in his later E1 JLA interpretations so that writers could give Green Arrow someone to argue his socially progressive views against. Post-Crisis Hawkman was something of a battered intellectual idealist, but still a bit more sciencey than hair-trigger.

[warzon]

My JSA Team would be as follow.

Power Girl
The Huntress
Isis=a new Egyptian version
Lady Quark
Dr mid nite=new version African American meta woman with the ability to generate darkness n phasing ability
Green Lantern
Starman
The Flash
Dr Fate
Cpt Comet=always liked him and I got a thing for telepaths/telekinetics
Wildcat
Celsion=new character native American cousin to Celsius of the doom patrol.but powers work a lil different he can become flame form like Fire or ice like Iceman of the X MEN,
Mr Terrific
Hawkman
Nuklon=never cared to much for the name Atom Smasher

[j9ac9k]

Celsion=new character native American cousin to Celsius of the doom patrol.but powers work a lil different he can become flame form like Fire or ice like Iceman of the X MEN,

Wasn't Celsius south asian Indian? Seems odd to give her a cousin who's a native american Indian... good ideas other than that though.

[TheRay]

Fate
Mid-Nite
Flash
GL
Wildcat
Wonder Woman
Hourman

Why not Sandman?

[CaptCleghorn]

No, as I recall it, the angry-barbarian guy was pretty much a creation of Johns' JSA revived Hawkman. E1 Hawkman could be intense, but he was as as much an astute scientist as he was a cop; he got a bit of conservative leaning hung on him in his later E1 JLA interpretations so that writers could give Green Arrow someone to argue his socially progressive views against. Post-Crisis Hawkman was something of a battered intellectual idealist, but still a bit more sciencey than hair-trigger.

By the time Johns got hold of Hawkman, the original Earth-One character was gone and the main Hawkman was the one used for both JSA and JLA including the disagreements with liberal Green Arrow which came from pre-crisis JLA stuff.