Infinity Inc 2021 Appreciation

[maxax]

They could also be a team similar to TV Legends of the DCU in which they travel to different eras and dimensions to right wrongs. That way they would live up to their name. I would love to see Hector and Lyta Hall rescued from the Limbo they never should have been exiled to (due to a certain Vertigo editor throwing her weight around). They were born in the DCU -- not Vertigo -- and that's where they should be today!

Wow, I hadn't heard about any of this. What happened here?

[Digifiend]

How did Lyta even exist in the first place post-Crisis?

Sylvester seems to be someone who should have some role in whatever the DC universe looks like. The push for Stargirl brings that franchise to light.

Pat Dugan only had his belt, which Courtney inherited, because of the fact Sylvester was dead. His death is part of Courtney's origin story.

First, we have to get a JSA series out of DC.
Second, we have to see what we get, and whether or not the members of Infinity Inc. exist yet or not.

They do. Jade and Obsidian will appear in the Infinite Frontier one-shot with their father Green Lantern. And I believe we saw a few in Doomsday Clock?

[maxax]

How did Lyta even exist in the first place post-Crisis?

The universe made changes to her origin so that she was the daughter of someone who wasn't Earth-2 Wonder Woman.

[John Venus]

How did Lyta even exist in the first place post-Crisis?
Pat Dugan only had his belt, which Courtney inherited, because of the fact Sylvester was dead. His death is part of Courtney's origin story.
They do. Jade and Obsidian will appear in the Infinite Frontier one-shot with their father Green Lantern. And I believe we saw a few in Doomsday Clock?

She was the daughter of Fury/Helena Kosmatos who was created as the stand in for the golden age WW. Also Joan Dale/Miss America had some involvement in raising her.

[maxax]

They do. Jade and Obsidian will appear in the Infinite Frontier one-shot with their father Green Lantern. And I believe we saw a few in Doomsday Clock?

Al Rothstein and Jade were in Doomsday Clock, and weirdly enough, Brainwave Jr. was in the main universe as one of the telepaths Amanda Waller kidnapped. I have no idea how that works, though, and it was probably just an easter egg by the artist.

[DrNewGod]

They could also be a team similar to TV Legends of the DCU in which they travel to different eras and dimensions to right wrongs. That way they would live up to their name. I would love to see Hector and Lyta Hall rescued from the Limbo they never should have been exiled to (due to a certain Vertigo editor throwing her weight around). They were born in the DCU -- not Vertigo -- and that's where they should be today!

That's an interesting idea. If they're refugees from an alternative timeline, you get to gloss over all that messy stuff about which JSA and when, without having to eliminate it.

[CaptCleghorn]

Pat Dugan only had his belt, which Courtney inherited, because of the fact Sylvester was dead. His death is part of Courtney's origin story.

DC Comics are loaded with characters who were dead, then they're not. I can list some if you need any examples.

[kcekada]

Wow, I hadn't heard about any of this. What happened here?

Someone at Vergito -- I'm assuming the woman who started that line -- got pissy when Geoff brought back Lyta and Hector in JSA. She felt they were Vertigo properties. Note that Geoff didn't write the story in which Lyta and Hec 'died'. I believe that was by protest. Now, Vertigo doesn't even exist! It was a crappy decision -- probably on Levtiz's part. He was too wimpy to stand up to the Superman editors when they did a hatchet job on Legion by not allowing them to use Superboy -- even in its history!

[Johnrevenge]

Someone at Vergito -- I'm assuming the woman who started that line -- got pissy when Geoff brought back Lyta and Hector in JSA. She felt they were Vertigo properties. Note that Geoff didn't write the story in which Lyta and Hec 'died'. I believe that was by protest. Now, Vertigo doesn't even exist! It was a crappy decision -- probably on Levtiz's part. He was too wimpy to stand up to the Superman editors when they did a hatchet job on Legion by not allowing them to use Superboy -- even in its history!

Wow, that was extremely petty and low.

[Digifiend]

Someone at Vergito -- I'm assuming the woman who started that line -- got pissy when Geoff brought back Lyta and Hector in JSA. She felt they were Vertigo properties. Note that Geoff didn't write the story in which Lyta and Hec 'died'. I believe that was by protest. Now, Vertigo doesn't even exist! It was a crappy decision -- probably on Levtiz's part. He was too wimpy to stand up to the Superman editors when they did a hatchet job on Legion by not allowing them to use Superboy -- even in its history!

He only wrote one of the last ten issues of that JSA volume (the one he did write was a Stargirl focus), but I don't think it was protest - he was busy on Infinite Crisis and resumed JSA when it relaunched a few months later.

[kcekada]

I can't swear to it, but I'm fairly certain that I read he wasn't happy about the decision to pull them from JSA. That's why Keith Champagne, the inker, wrote that issue. He obviously wasn't building up their story just to end it that way.

[MajorHoy]

from Who's Who Update '87, Vol. 3 (October 1987)

[Thor-Ul]

That is really a nice view of the team. If we never saw them again as part of that team was because most of them became members of the JSA. The survivors, I mean.

Don't forget than between the original team and the Steel team, there was the Lexcorp founded team from the Everyman project, who had the merit of be the first version of the team in an animated series.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

I liked the Lexcorp funded team and I wouldn't mind if they make a return.

[wonder39]

Post Death Metal, i don't know how it works, but post Doomsday Clock, the real multiverse continued to exist, including the original Earth Two.

It's a pity none of this was built upon. With the original Earths ( plus new ones like post Crsis, nu52, Rebirth), DC could have created " houses" of comics that featured different Earths, such as

Earth Two: Infinity Inc
: Justice Society
: All Star Squadron ( set during WWII)

Earth 1985 ( formerly Earth One)
: Justice League of America
: New Teen Titans

Etc.... various titkes under various banners representing various Earths....