Not asking who your favorite team is. Just want to know what the best group-coming-together story there is.
Not just looking for first-time team formations, but also team reformations.
Not asking who your favorite team is. Just want to know what the best group-coming-together story there is.
Not just looking for first-time team formations, but also team reformations.
Justice League has New Frontier, so they win by default.
I always enjoy the Justice Society of America's original origin story
(which wasn't revealed until more than 35 years after their first appearance in All Star Comics #3).
Definitely, my choice would be...
The SuperBuddies
Hopefully this counts, but I'll always love how the SHAZAM!/Marvel Family were brought together.
It might have been a rough draft and subject to changes, but I think the Blackhawks had a fine origin story--which I first read in SECRET ORIGINS 6 (January-February 1974).
I also really liked the Marvel Family's origin story, which I first read in SHAZAM! 8 (December 1973).
But I wouldn't really count the origin story of the J.S.A. in DC SPECIAL 29 (August-September 1977), since that was written 37 years after the team got together--which gave the writers a lot of time to perfect what they thought should be the origin. I'd say the original origin story was the one in ALL-STAR COMICS 3 (Winter 1940), which I first read in FAMOUS FIRST EDITION F-7 (June-July 1975).
I'm detecting a theme here. 🧐
But All Star Comics #3 wasn't really an "origin". It was just a bunch of guys sitting around a table and telling stories about themselves to each other. It may have been the original story, but it wasn't their origin.
(And that origin story I posted the cover for is still over forty years old!)
"My name is Wally West. I'm the fastest man alive!"
I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter.