Hawkgirl/woman was the most descriminated member of the Satalite Era League EVER!
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In 1971, when rock was still considered too "subversive" a musical style for good, old-fashioned, wholesome superhero types, Hal claimed to be a Dixieland music fan when Ollie said he'd recently converted to rock 'n roll. Sounds hilariously quaint now in the era of Kanye and Drake.
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Buried Alien - THE FASTEST POST ALIVE!
First CBR Appearance (Historical): November, 1996
First CBR Appearance (Modern): April, 2014
I considered putting Captain Marvel in the line-up on that cover... but I realized that if Crisis was averted, he would still be on a different Earth.
As for why I chose the characters I did:
1. Vixen was the only Detroit Leaguer who had previously appeared in comics, and she was created by Gerry Conway. I've always felt that one of the Detroit League's hindrances was that it had too many new and unknown characters joining at once.
JLA (and Avengers up to about the same time) gained new members very rarely. It took them 20 years to grow to 16 members. And the members that did join were somewhat prominent.
So, out went Gypsy, Vibe and Steel.
2. I also think that if Supergirl hadn't died in Crisis, and if her movie had done better, she would have joined within a year of the issue she guest-starred.
3. John Stewart had been mentioned as a reserve member in the Who's Who.... which brings us to...
4. I wanted the new members to be analogues of the Big5 so that instead of removing them completely, as JLDetroit did, they could remain as reserve members. Since Firestorm was the last new member to join, he actually got used in my line-up as the Flash analogue.
Batman-Nightwing (I considered Batgirl because she was popular at the time, but went with Dick because he had been in the Superfriends for forever and I thought he should join first.)
Flash-Firestorm
Hal Jordan-John Stewart
Superman-Supergirl
Wonder Woman-Vixen
5. Atom got put in because I actually liked the design of his Sword of Atom costume and I wanted some more longtime members. With Nightwing and Vixen in the group, I didn't want to put Green Arrow and Black Canary in. And J'onn J'onzz and Red Tornado always seemed too similar in personality to me.
6. I felt the team needed another female, and there were only two to choose from. And I had already decided against Black Canary. So Hawkwoman got put in. She also added a bit more variety in skills. It also gives an interesting variation on the Atom/Hawkman pairing.
7. Other characters considered and why they didn't make it: Batgirl (explained above), Huntress (but decided against any non-Earth-1 characters), Booster Gold (too new at the time as he hadn't even appeared, yet, and his personality too close to Firestorm), Blue Devil (see Booster), Blue Beetle (see Huntress and Booster), Dr. Fate (Zatanna filled magic slot and see Huntress), Captain Marvel (see Huntress), Mister Miracle (came very close to being added but I didn't want to remove anyone else for him and the cover would be even more crowded), Cyborg (also very close, mainly because of his appearances in the Super Powers cartoon. However, I figured that Nightwing would eventually leave to go back and lead the Titans at some point, and I'd bring both Batgirl and Cyborg in then. So Victor got put on hold.)
Note: I changed the tint of the background because Supergirl and Hawkwoman had some yellow and needed a different background color to contrast against.
Last edited by Lee Stone; 02-18-2016 at 01:21 AM.
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