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]

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.