JL #14, "The Story of the Justice League!" History

The History of the JUSTICE LEAGUE
 (Major Events Only)

* The Justice League is founded by AQUAMAN, BATMAN, THE FLASH, GREEN LANTERN, MARTIAN MANHUNTER, SUPERMAN, and WONDER WOMAN. They almost immediately face the super-powered robot AMAZO, the alien starfish STARRO, and VANDAL SAVAGE for the first time. (The founding members are shown here.)

JL #14, "The Story of the Justice League!" Friends

FRIENDS OF THE JUSTICE  LEAGUE

"Friends of the Justice League" are divided into the following three categories.  

RESERVE MEMBERS

Batgirl, Supergirl, and Mera are the current three reserve members. When the Justice League is very busy or when there is a danger where the League needs assistance, these are the super-heroes they call first. Also, because the Reserve Members are Batman's ally Batgirl, Superman's cousin Supergirl, and Aquaman's wife Mera, they are very easy to contact during an emergency.

HONORARY MEMBERS

These are the super-heroes who are more difficult to contact than the Honorary Members or who are not full-time super-heroes. Currently the main Honoary Members are The Phantom Stranger (the League is unable to contact him easily), Zatanna (a part-time super-hero),

JL #14, "The Story of the Justice League!" Foes

THE JUSTICE LEAGUE's MOST DANGEROUS FOES

There are many mortal enemies of the Justice League, but the following are the most dangerous they have ever faced.
AMAZO (#12)
He is a robot that has absorbed all of the super-powers of all of the Justice League members.
STARRO (no appearance in this series yet)
A super starfish alien from outer space. He has stronger mental telepathy than Martian Manhunter.
CHRONOS (#11)
A villain armed with various time-themed weapons.
FELIX FAUST (#10)
The most powerful black magic sorceror in the world.
DR. DESTINY (next issue!)
A mad scientist with a dream machine that can make nightmares come true.
VANDAL SAVAGE (#11)
An immortal scientist with an evil heart. His body faded awa the last time he fought the JLA, but is he really dead?

JL #14, "The Story of the Justice League!" AFTERWARD

So, what did you think?

Given that my premise was to create a sort of "behind the stories" story, I think it succeeds. However, every time I have re-read it since it was printed I thint that I should have succeeded *better.*

JL #14, "The Story of the Justice League!" Satellite Map

This issue marked the debut of an actual group shot "masthead" for my series. From this issue onward, whenever I had a page that explained vocabulary terms or cultural items, I re-printed this JLA group shot on the top of the page. For those of you who are long-time JLA fans it is obviously a reference to the old JLA letter column masthead. I based my design on the illustration by Dick Dillin and Dick Giordano & Tex Blaisdell, who originally based their design on an illustration by Murphy Anderson who based *his* design on a panel by Mike Sekowsky. For the whole history of the JLA Mail Room masthead, click here to go to my buddy Rob Kelly's JLA Satellite Blog.

JL #14 "The Story of the Justice League!"

JL #14, "The Story of the Justice League!" FORWARD

Last issue, you may recall, Hawkman and The Elongated Man were inducted into "my" Justice League in what I consider to be one of the worst if not THE worst story I ever wrote! So...if you missed it, you literally didn't miss much. The framing sequence was ten of the world's greatest super-heroes sitting around. No, you read that right. All they were doing were talking. Blah!

JL #14, "The Story of the Justice League!"

The current membership dwarfs the original seven members.