Justice Society of America Appreciation 2023

[Mantis-Ray]

Damn thats a lot of announcements, especially Sandman. Cool that he's getting a new series, off the heel of the Mystery Theater recollection.

Looking forward to these, hope they are great.

[D.Z]

Or it will be Zero Hour Legion vs Bendis Legion vs Retroboot Legion vs 3Boot Legion. Has it actually mentioned there will be an evil Legion? I think someone mentioned a Legion from Earth 3 would be cool then that turned into a rumor. I could be wrong though.

https://community.cbr.com/showthread...of-the-Legions

[Will Evans]

It seems every Golden Age JSAer now has more than 1 current legacy.

Green Lantern: Jade, Obsidian
Flash: Judy, all the rest of the Flashes
Atom: Atom Smasher and Damage
Dr Fate: Khalid, Salem
Spectre: Secret, um is Jim or Crispus current host
Black Canary: Dinah, Red Canary
Mr Terrific: Michael Holt, Quiz Kid
Dr Midnite: Dr Chapel, Dr Cross
Hourman: Rick, Android Hourman, Tick Tock
Wildcat: Yolanda, Tomcat
Hawkman: Hawkgirl, Hawkwoman
Starman: Mikel, Stargirl

Outliers
Sandman: Sandy

[M@Bowers2014]

https://community.cbr.com/showthread...of-the-Legions

Thanks. Been a long time since I read that. Couldn't remember if was rumor or from something in print. Ok so my revised prediction for the War of 4 Legions is Zero Hour Legion vs Bendis Legion vs Retroboot Legion vs Evil Legion.

[Will Evans]

Is XS and Gates still traveling with retroboot LoSH or are they back with Reboot LoSH?

[Doctor Kent Nelson]

Damn thats a lot of announcements, especially Sandman. Cool that he's getting a new series, off the heel of the Mystery Theater recollection.

Looking forward to these, hope they are great.

[Digifiend]

It seems every Golden Age JSAer now has more than 1 current legacy.

Green Lantern: Jade, Obsidian
Flash: Judy, all the rest of the Flashes
Atom: Atom Smasher and Damage
Dr Fate: Khalid, Salem
Spectre: Secret, um is Jim or Crispus current host
Black Canary: Dinah, Red Canary
Mr Terrific: Michael Holt, Quiz Kid
Dr Midnite: Dr Chapel, Dr Cross
Hourman: Rick, Android Hourman, Tick Tock
Wildcat: Yolanda, Tomcat
Hawkman: Hawkgirl, Hawkwoman
Starman: Mikel, Stargirl

Outliers
Sandman: Sandy

Jim Corrigan is back to being The Spectre, as shown in Lazarus Planet.

[Will Evans]

Jim Corrigan is back to being The Spectre, as shown in Lazarus Planet.

That’s too bad. I wished that wasn’t the case after Rebirth. The Spectre got a great ending in his own 90s ongoing.

[CaptCleghorn]

That’s too bad. I wished that wasn’t the case after Rebirth. The Spectre got a great ending in his own 90s ongoing.

The Corrigan Spectre is a close analogy to Marvel's Captain Mar-Vell. A cosmic character without a huge fan base gets a wonderfully done final appearance. Both companies have tried to put someone else in the role but where Marvel found a suitable replacement legacy, DC has reintroduced the original.

That Ostrander series was a fine piece of work.

[Digifiend]

Yeah, but DC's idea of a replacement was to kill off Green Lantern! That was doomed from the start, they were always going to return Hal Jordan to his classic status quo sooner or later.

And Marvel had multiple false starts with Captain Marvel. Monica Rambeau only ever had two one-shots and the role of Avengers chairperson. She wasn't a successful solo character. Then they introduced two clone children of Mar-Vell (Genis and Phyla), who each had turns with the mantle. Both were killed off. Then they tried a resurrection fakeout - it was really a Skrull. And only then settled on former love interest Carol Danvers, who'd been a superhero herself since the mid 1970s under several other codenames. She's probably going to have the role forever, unfortunately for Shazam, who's always had marketing woes caused by Marvel's Captains.

[Bruce Wayne]

Jim Corrigan is back to being The Spectre, as shown in Lazarus Planet.

They really need to put the character to rest. All he does is job in the next crossover (ex. Final Crisis/Blackest Nights) or gets turned into a villain (like in Days of Vengeance). DC pretty much did nothing with Crisus. It just shows the Ostrander run was the end for the property.

[Dataweaver]

The catch there is that if they don't do something with the character, he eventually falls into public domain. That's why just about every character DC owns eventually ends up reappearing at some point.

[CaptCleghorn]

The catch there is that if they don't do something with the character, he eventually falls into public domain. That's why just about every character DC owns eventually ends up reappearing at some point.

Do some out of continuity Black Label stuff. If Spectre has out"lived" (pun intended) his usefulness as part of the DC Universe, the "Wrath of God" character hopefully can inspire some talented writers to come up with a limited series or OGN every few years.

[Robotman]

They really need to put the character to rest. All he does is job in the next crossover (ex. Final Crisis/Blackest Nights) or gets turned into a villain (like in Days of Vengeance). DC pretty much did nothing with Crisus. It just shows the Ostrander run was the end for the property.

They made him so powerful over the years that’s he’s basically become useless.

They need to revert him back to his Golden Age power level.

[Mantis-Ray]

Do some out of continuity Black Label stuff. If Spectre has out"lived" (pun intended) his usefulness as part of the DC Universe, the "Wrath of God" character hopefully can inspire some talented writers to come up with a limited series or OGN every few years.

Man a Black Label Spectre book would be awesome