Comic Book Geekery -- The JLA/JSA Summer Team-Ups

[kybearfuzz]

After a long and stressful day at work, I decided to stop off at a local comic book store to see what new stuff is out. It isn't my usual comic shop that holds my books for me, so I didn't buy any of my usual comics, but looked to see if there were some one-timer buys for me. I also checked out the back issues for some good buys.



Even though I have all of the Justice League/Justice Society summer team-ups from the 1970's forward, I cannot resist a good buy. I have read some of mine to the point they are near tatters, so when I saw several team-up issues in the back issues for reasonable prices I had to buy them. I found JLA #'s 183-185 (JLA, JSA, and New Gods versus Darkseid and the Injustice Society) and JLA #'s 195 (above) through 197 (JLA and JSA versus the New Secret Society of Super-Villians).

I've loved these particular team-ups. JLA 183 sadly was penciller Dick Dillin's final issue, as he'd passed away suddenly from a heart attack, JLA 184 started a several issue run with my favorite George Perez doing the pencil work, and JLA 195-197 brought some great villians from the 1940's and 1950's to a new generation of readers. Mostly, these issues were favorite moments from my childhood in the early 1980's.

I'll put these copies in bags and boards to file away and continue to read my other issues over and over again, like usual. Hopefully, I'll be re-reading these when I am old and gray and telling those brats on the hovering bicycles to stay off my lawn while shaking my cane at them.

/geek :)

Comments

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it. When I saw this comic peering out from the back issues yesterday, I couldn't help but buy it. I loved this storyline, especially because I got to see the Golden Age Superman in action, who rarely appeared in comics in the 1980's it seemed.

You have them all the way back to JLA #21? I'm impressed. :)

[dendren.livejournal.com]

grrrr... I forgot to log in... ignore my anonymous comment if you would please Mark :)

YAY for the golden-age Superman. I do really love the way DC has created the "legacy of heroes" that unfortunately means he is booted out of continuity but I really really miss the excitement of those special Earth 2 stories of yesteryear.

And my JLA collection is pretty near complete, only missing about 5 issues total (including 2 of the 3 Brave and the Bold issues :) Finished the Flash a few years ago after searching many many years for the very elusive #106. I'm not sure which title I'll start working on when I find those last hard to find JLA's. Maybe Green Lantern. It was much easier growing up in the 70's, I remember picking up JLA #1 for about $50 and I got most the JLA/JSA's dirt cheap in the 80's. Things are a bit more difficult (and much more expensive) now :P

[dendren.livejournal.com]

**bows and scrapes at the master of collection....**

Actually, considering I have about 10,000 comics I think it's more like an obsessive/compulsive problem on my part LOL Ebay became my own personal addiction hell for a while. I knew I had a problem when I had a high with a terrible case of the shakes when I won an auction for the 60's Wonder Woman 178 & 179 (the beginning of the all new all different all mod Diana Prince Wonder Woman run woo-hoo). I avoid ebay at all costs now hehehe

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow.. that sounds serious. I admit I don't do the eBay thing much anymore.

I think the last comics I bought there was the two The Brave and the Bold issues starring Starman and Black Canary. I was the only one bidding on them because the seller had misspelled Black Canary as "Black Cherry," which threw off most people :)

[dendren.livejournal.com]

LOL LOL LOL... I do have to admit it used to crack me up when folks who knew zero about comics were selling on ebay. The descriptions they used without knowing what the hell they were really talking about were a hoot sometimes. Very cool on the Brave & the Bolds, those two have eluded me so far. I'm really looking forward to the new Waid Brave & the Bold, I always loved the team up titles :)

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

I like that Marvel made Marvel Team-Up not just Spider-Man and ______ every issue. Didn't realize B&B was coming back though. That's cool.

[dendren.livejournal.com]

I am actually really enjoying Marvel Team Up. The threading together of it all issue to issue is fun if not a bit odd (took some getting used to).

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

And my JLA collection is pretty near complete, only missing about 5 issues total (including 2 of the 3 Brave and the Bold issues

**bows and scrapes at the master of collection....**

I think the only comic series of which I have the complete run are Warlord and The New Teen Titans.

I do miss the Earth-2 heroes, like Superman, Wonder Woman, Huntress, and Robin. I used to get a charge seeing them in action.

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

I love the Earth 2 stuff too. I really need to find the old issues of Adventure Comics that were double sized and had all the JSA stories, like the death of Batman.

[dendren.livejournal.com]

I have those Adventure books, and they were WAY cool. I just re-read the death of the Batman story not too long ago. I think one of the biggest losses from Crisis was losing Huntress as Batman and Catwoman's daughter. Damn, I loved the old Doller Comics. I think Adventure Comics was the better than most (like World's Finest) partly because it had a lot of the stories that had been created but weren't published due to the DC Implosion... The JSA stories from All-Star, The Deadman ones from Showcase etc.

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and the E2 Robin who was a senator. (I think I have the JLA where he first appeared.) At least a lot of the JSA are still around though. I used to like the old All-Star Squadron title from (I think) the 80s too. We really need to get together and comic geek out. :)

[dendren.livejournal.com]

yep, Robin was a senator, altho, over on Earth 1, good ol' Babs (Batgirl) was a senator or congresswoman or something to that effect around the same time.

Oh, and Earth 2 Bats was Gotham's new Commissioner if I remember correct... yeah, more think about it, he was Commissioner Wayne when he died.

mmmmm... fun stuff :)

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

Think we can go back in time and convince them at the Crisis on Infinite Earths is actually a bad thing? (Don't even get me going on all the Supergirls!)

[dendren.livejournal.com]

that's the thing... I have to admit I really like (where it has been done correct like the Flash) the single timeline of the heroes. I do miss the old Earth 2 stories but it would be a shame to lose the legacy of heroes thing that is going on now with JSA etc.

The Supergirls thing, yeah that's fucked up. I personally would prefer if they had continued to make use of the Peter David version (I don't care what he says tho, I know Fallen Angel was originally Linda in his head). Bringing back Kara just serves to muck it all up.

The supergirls stuff ultimately I can live with. It's the Legion that really pisses me off. I mean, REALLY pisses me off. I am so bored with Waid's latest incarnation and that just saddens me to no end.

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I used to live the Legion back in the Adventure/Superboy days. The "5 years later" bit was a bit fucked up but ok. I even liked the SW6 batch and the new names. The next group wasn't as good. Monstress (or whatever her name was) annoyed me... and making Princess Projectra a snake?!? Now this is even worse with the Legion being enemies of the United Planets instead of with them and almost all kids being members and stuff? And Colossal Boy not being from Earth now and he shrinks, not grows? Tho I still have to say that Starboy being black when his future self is white (Is he related to Michael Jackson or something?) really pisses me off since I'm a big fan of the whole Starman legacy, which he is part of. AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!

[dendren.livejournal.com]

it flies in the face of so much that was so nicely created, Impulse and XS being cousins, the Starman legacy, etc. and was just a progression of the long legacy DC worked so hard to create. I actually liked the last incarnation, and was truly enjoying the last series until it was cut (after Monstress was gone and Projectra was morphed into something a little less snake like, altho Garth coming back as Jan? WTF???). It was also light for the most part. This new version just doesn't feel particularly fun to me and also feels lacking due to it's lack of connection to the rest of the DCU :(

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

Are you on Yahoo IM during the day? Figured I'd check before we fill up Mark's mailbox with replies and have to find some way to make it up to him. ;)

[dendren.livejournal.com]

LOL... sadly no, yahoo im is verboten here :( But I was thinking the same thing. Hopefully he doesn't get a copy of every single one of these replies (yikes).

you can drop me a line at dendren at sbcglobal dot net any time tho :)

Sorry Mark, we'll take our comic geeking off your board :)

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL.. no harm here, I wasn't sure what my comic posting would generate, I'm pleasantly surprised :)

.. and I have to say that I lost interest in the LSH after the Magic Wars thing. Sensor Girl was my favorite, I thought that story line was incredible, but then things got too strange for me :)

[dendren.livejournal.com]

oooooh the sensor girl storyline... I truly believed (or wanted to believe) she was Supergirl pulled from the past by Brainy or someone. I was much more easily fooled by red herrings way back then.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was way off with my guess. I was leaning towards Supergirl too, but it would have been too obvious. Projectra was completely out of left field in my mind, though the clues were there. I was shocked when I turned that last page :)

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of those Adventure Comics issues, it was great to read the JSA stories there. I didn't know that those stories were hold overs from the DC Implosion. I have to agree with you, I was sad to see the Huntress go. At least Wolfman and Perez gave Robin, Huntress, and the Earth-2 Superman a lot of "screen time" in the Crisis, which I thought was a decent send off.

[dendren.livejournal.com]

yep, most of the issues that were completed but got caught up in the DC Implosion ended up somewhere in one form or another. Firestorm #6 partially ended up as flashbacks in Flash, and the Odd Man showed up in Detective etc etc. The one that I really really wish they printed somewhere was Secret Society #16-18. It just became a footnote in the JLA issues (but how cool that it is playing such a significant part of storylines now :)

I used to have a link to Cancelled Comic Cavalcade where someone posted all the art from the issues that appeared there. Was pretty cool cause I got to print out SSOSV #16 and read synopsis of the next two issues. I'll have to look for that site and pass it on if I can find it.