#Atom (Al Pratt)

[chernobog13]

Jerry Ordway's re-creation of the historic first meeting between the Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America, from Justice League of America (vol. 1) #21 (August, 1963).

[justicesocietyzine]

I made this meme to help promote the Zine but now that I have it I'm not entirely sure what my end goal was.

Anyway! Applications open till March 16th! Looking for artists and writers!

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[evilhorse]

My favorite kind of villain to beat.

(Jay Garrick: The Flash #3)

[cootiekid]

JSA x Keith Haring by Christian Fattorusso

[splooosh]

Justice

Paul Smith

[dcbinges]

All-Star Comics #4 (1941) by Everett Hibbard & Gardner Fox

[johnvenus]

And thats why we love them.

[dailyjsa]

JSA Returns: All-Star Comics #1

Writers: James Robinson and David S. Goyer

Artist: Michael Lark

Inkers: Wade Von Grawbadger and Doug Hazlewood

Colors: John Kalisz

[comic-art-showcase]

All-Star Squadron by Jerry Ordway

[inhousearchive]

House-ad for America vs. The Justice Society (1985) four-issue miniseries. Art by Rich Buckler.

[chernobog13]

Justice League of America (vol. 1) #92 (September, 1971). Cover art by Neal Adams.

When DC decided to make Solomon Grundy their version of the Hulk.

If my faulty memory serves, this the only JLA/JSA crossover where the teams consisted the Golden Age and Silver counterparts of each hero.

[lesbiandinin]

The Atom Fam

[evilhorse]

Justice Society of America house ad from August 1992

[dcsnextgaycharacter]

[onlylonelylatino]

The Justice Society of America by Mike Parobeck

[cantsayidont]

Winter 1940. Often ballyhooed as the first superhero team, the Justice Society of America was originally just a framing device, a lodge meeting at which members would recount their most recent solo adventures in individual chapters written and drawn by the same creators as each member's solo strip. This was conceived as a promotional booster for less-popular characters, so in the early years, as members like Green Lantern and the Flash earned their own titles, they had to relinquish their JSA slots for honorary membership status! As a promotion, it ultimately worked better than original editor Sheldon Mayer could have dreamed. Without the JSA, the likelihood that modern readers would have ever heard of characters like Hourman or the original Atom (who did not have any shrinking powers — he was a just a short, temperamental college student who put on a masked luchador outfit to beat people up) seems very low. Johnny Thunder, incidentally, did not officially become a JSA member until ALL-STAR COMICS #5, but he was hanging around from the beginning as comic relief, which is why his name is listed on the cover even though he's not at the table.