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I really enjoyed it and Paraobeck was an excellent artist. Plans for Zero Hour doomed it despite decent sales is my understanding.
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^ Agreed. It was a nice attempt to make the JSA relevant and fit in the DCU of that era.Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!Comment
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No. They tried to make the JSA look old and dopey looking. I remember Al Pratt having a balding head and Wildcat was fat and old. The artist for that book series sucks. It reintroduces the JSA into the DC universe after they had been gone for awhile. Superman had to guest appear in that book to get people to even bother to read it. Don't bother picking it up, you're welcomed to all of mine if you want them. Disappointing.More custom Mego madness on Facebook right here...
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I liked that JSA series...Mike Parobeck was a great artist. It's too bad he died young, as his style really fit into the Bruce Timm inspired stuff that came along just a few years later. People like Amanda Conner, Darwyn Cooke...He would have fit into a book like Brave & Bold easily. Nice clean art- it's truly harder to draw in that simplified style than the over drawn Image type of work.Comment
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My thing with the JSA has always been about time. If these guys were the heroes of the 1940's then how is it they are physically able to be heroes today? Shouldn't they be in their mid to late 80's now?
And a side note: Parobeck was a brilliant artist and one of my inspirations when I was in highschool. I'm a big fan.Comment
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>I wished DC at least kept about 10 titles in the old universe.
I'm kind of surprised they didn't, but I'm betting they don't want to split the brand.
>I think the difference of the changes made after Crisis and those done now versus those done in the late fifties and early sixties ,was that superhero comics were almost dead then. only supes bats and ww were still around 5 comics basically. so they decided to update the older ones who were no longer around for 5 or so years. Yes the average age of readers were 6 to 10, not 16 to 55! and a new audience was expected every 5 years.
Yeah, I can see this. I think Crisis was their response to the long term fans; a house cleaning that'd let them realign everything and start over with a new attitude. Problem is, it doesn't work for long. I also think Crisis was them unifying the brand, to make the transition to other media smoother. The two become conflicting fairly quick: movies take a lot longer to make than comics, so changes in the book during production of the film can be seen as "confusing" to the percieved audience. And you've still got to deal with time in a perpetual story. Any solid refrences to the real world will date a story.... but by NOT tying it into real world developments you can quickly alienate the reader.
>publishers know that now it's different, but refuse to accept that.
I don't know if they refuse, or can't; given the nature of their publications.
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I think if it was up to me, I would have the story take place IN the 40's. Why not? It was when they were created and the time they were intended for. I wouldn't be worried about integrating them with modern times.Comment
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I wish they would bring back All Star Squadron!!! That was the best book out there! I don't care what people say! I collected it as a kid, that's what got me into the JSA (and also got me in trouble with my History teacher when I wrote something about Green Lantern and the Flash on my WWII history exam) but anyway.....I have picked up the adobe acrobat versions off eBay awhile back and have went back to re-read alot of the early All Star Squadron books.
Though hard to come by in that form
some of the early books were impressive when the heroes like Hawkman and others took off their costumes and enlisted in the Army to fight in the war as Americans. Those are true heroes and that's what made me like the original series of All Star Squadron.
Who could forget the Captain Marvel crossovers with Mr. Mind?
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And let's not forget what a dumb *** Dr. Fate was who felt the helmet of Nabu was controlling him so he takes it off and makes his own version and cuts it in half only allowing him the use of half his power. It was DC's way of watering down a very powerful character.
But then what about the Spectre? He was watered down also because I remember him running around and beating up thugs with his bare hands. I never did understand the story about watering down two of the most power team members but I guess if you want a book to sell without two characters dominating a book without it being boring.
Superman guest starring in the book was interesting. It was obviously done for sales back then. Remember Superman was dominating during this time due to the movies (1980s).
Since the All Star Squadron was based on ret-conned stories from World War II they would sometimes (alot more then they should have) have old Superman (from Earth II but most kids didn't get that part) on the cover or make and appearance to jolt sales. It really worked for me seeing Superman, I actually think that is what got me interested in the series.
I remember some kid I used to hang out made a comment about Superman being "that old?" Meaning, Superman was in World War II during the All Star Squadron....etc. I'm sure there were a lot of kids who probably didn't get the Earth 2 thing and assumed the same thing. I couldn't imagine what some felt when they saw Batman.
I liked this one Annual that came out during the run. It had Flash Jay Garrick and Hourman Rex Tyler. In the same issue, I saw Tarantula (whose outfit was out there), and the more freaky cat-faced Catwoman. The issue is a classic in my mind. It was basically all the heroes who have saved the lives (unknown to them) of people who would one day become Presidents of the country. Pretty awesome, fun, and freaky when you saw the news clippings at the end of Carter, Reagan, Ford...etc.
Lets not forget the telling and the only origin of Dr. Fate that I will ever consider to be the "Real deal." After this story was published, years later DC would retell Dr. Fate's origin about 4 or 5 times but this book was my favorite and it gave you a good idea where and how his powers operated before he took off his mask and made a copy of it and hack sawed the copy in half because of Kent Nelson's paranoia of Nabu. Get over yourself Nelson, I would give anything to have that kind of power!
Don't forget, we got to see Plastic man once in awhile and also in this story once again the Justice Society is beset by the onslaught of Captain Marvel, who is now in thrall to Adolf Hitler and has orders to attack the Allied nations and Superman specifically. In London, the All-Stars meet a boy and girl who say magic words and are transformed into Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel, Jr.
...and yes, even Libby Lawrence gets a little PMS once in awhile.
Don't forget DC Comic's failed attempt to replace Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Robin and Aquaman after the Crisis fused the multi-verse into one Earth. Can you say dog****? The Golden Age Fury? Huh?
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