As of late I've started to think about a ridiculous idea for a DCU team: A team of characters who've proven they can hold a solo title for 100 or more consecutive issues. Sure, it'll be a logistical mess, but since it'll be a team chock full of proven winners, a team with these characters is sure to be a winner, right?
So here's who I've got so far:
Team Leaders
Superman
Batman
Wonder Woman
& John Constantine
Each of these characters have held down solo titles for 300 or more issues without pause. Superman and Batman have multiple instances of this.
Golden Agers
Flash (Jay Garrick)
Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel Jr.
Each of these characters had solo titles in the Golden Age that got over 100 issues before the original collapse of super-hero comics.
Silver Agers
Flash (Barry Allen)
Lois Lane
Jimmy Olsen
Putting two civilians on this team will make things weird, but not as weird as the next additions.
Bronze Agers
Sgt. Rock
Warlord
Firestorm
Swamp Thing
Man, the 70's were weird, amirite?
Although Rock debuted in the early silver age, his comic wasn't renamed until the 70's, and ran 100+ issues after that. I almost forgot about Warlord. Swamp Thing's long-running titles start in the late Bronze Age, and ran a loooong time. Firestorm, it seems, is the only Bronze Age super-hero to hold a solo title for 100 issues.
Post-Crisis
This is a long timespan, but let's go with it. Besides the aforementioned Jon Constantine, you have these guys:
Flash (Wally West)
Impulse
Robin (Tim Drake)
Superboy (Conner Kent)
Nightwing
Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)
Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)
Azrael
By the time the New 52 comes along, the Superman and Flash franchises have had four different characters added to the group. Batman has had five.
New 52 Onward
I am reasonably certain that no additional characters have been added to the 100+ club since the launch of the New 52. But I could be wrong.
So that's the team:
Superman
Batman
Wonder Woman
Jay Garrick
Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel Jr.
Lois Lane
Jimmy Olsen
Barry Allen
Sgt. Rock
Warlord
Firestorm
Swamp Thing
John Constantine
Kyle Rayner
Time Drake
Impulse
Conner Kent
Nightwing
Azrael
and Oliver Queen
That's a big team (21 characters), and I'm not sure what you do with 4 speedsters AND Sgt. Rock, but that group would sell like hotcakes, right?
Controversial Omissions
Catwoman - Her solo title only ran for 94 issues. But if you include the 0 issue, the 1000000 issue, and the various annuals, it squeaks over 100. Should she be on the team?
Hal Jordan - His Silver Age title only ran for 89 issues, and the last year of THAT was spent sharing the title with Green Arrow. Even after he got the title back to himself, he only held it for 60+ issues before being replaced by John Stewart. And even if you don't count that against him, the whole title switched over to a multi-GL focus in issue 201. So yeah, weird as it is to say, I don't think Hal's *ever* held a title buy himself for 100+ issues.
Plastic Man - In the Golden Age, Plastic Man was a feature in Police Comics, which was not a solo title. That said he was, after a few issues, the undeniable star of the book. That said, it didn't have his name on the cover, and I don't think he was the cover feature of 100+ issues. What say the masses?
Did I miss anyone else? Who should these guys fight? Is it weird that no new members have been added in a pretty long time now? Who do you think will be the *next* new member?