Friday, January 24, 2025

Great Silver Age JLA Trade, but Missing 4 Important Member Stories

As a comics fan since the mid-1970s, the Justice League of America has always been my favorite group. That run from the 1960s until the early 1980s (known as the Silver Age) was my favorite run of stories of the team. No run of JLA since has ever equaled it. One great collection of stories from that age is about when new members were elected, and this collects those with the exception of 4 important members.  

The Trade Paperback  "Justice League of America Hereby Elects" is a great collection from the first and classic (Silver Age) run of stories from the Justice League of America- but it didn't include 2 big members that actually joined. Instead, it included one that refused membership. 

It should have included Firestorm, the Atom, Hawkman and the Phantom Stranger who actually joined the JLA, unlike Black Lightning, who refused membership. Still, the other stories, of  Green Arrow, Black Canary, Elongated Man, Red Tornado (my favorite), Hawkgirl and Zatanna were great. I'd love to see an updated revision that includes the other characters and their stories of accepting membership.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Membership in the World's Mightiest Super-Team is earned in these classic stories from JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #4, # 75, #105-106, 3146, #161 and #173-174 as Green Arrow, Black Canary, Elongated Man, Red Tornado, Hawkgirl, Zatanna and Black Lightning prove they have what it takes to join the JLA! 

THE ATOM-  In Justice League of America #14, the JLA inducted the Atom into their membership, providing him with a special floating miniature chair and miniature emergency signaling device.**********

HAWKMAN - In JLA #31 in 1964, Hawkman accepts to invitation and is taken to JLA headquarters and given his membership plaque as well as a JLA emergency signal.  

FIRESTORMFirestorm first joined the Justice League in Justice League of America #179. 


THE PHANTOM STRANGER - After a vote of the majority of the team in Justice League of America #103, they offered him membership, with Superman declaring the Stranger "a member" without qualification. 



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