America vs. The Justice Society is a 4-issue comic book limited series starring the Justice Society of America which was first published by DC Comics between January and April 1985. DC Comics (originally called Detective Comics, Inc. ... The limited series is a term referring to a comic book series with a set finite number of issues. ... The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a DC Comics superhero group, the first team of superheroes in comic book history. ... Roy Thomas (born November 22, 1940, Missouri, United States) is a comic book writer and editor, and Stan Lees first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. ... Dann Thomas is a wife of Roy Thomas and has at times worked with him. ... Rafael Kayanan (born September 13, 1962, Manila) is a Filipino-born naturalised American artist of comic books. ... Cover to Daredevil #131. ... The covers of both the hardcover and the softcover versions of the Power of Shazam! graphic novel by Ordway. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... The limited series is a term referring to a comic book series with a set finite number of issues. ... The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a DC Comics superhero group, the first team of superheroes in comic book history. ... DC Comics (originally called Detective Comics, Inc. ...

The series was written by Roy and Dann Thomas and featured artwork from Rafael Kayanan, Rich Buckler and Jerry Ordway among others. Roy Thomas (born November 22, 1940, Missouri, United States) is a comic book writer and editor, and Stan Lees first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. ... Dann Thomas is a wife of Roy Thomas and has at times worked with him. ... Rafael Kayanan (born September 13, 1962, Manila) is a Filipino-born naturalised American artist of comic books. ... Cover to Daredevil #131. ... The covers of both the hardcover and the softcover versions of the Power of Shazam! graphic novel by Ordway. ...

The series was set on Earth-Two and began with the discovery of Batman's diary (The Batman of Earth 2 was dead at that point) which implicated that the Justice Society was guilty of treason. In DC Comics, the Multiverse is a continuity construct in which multiple fictional versions of the universe exist in the same space, separated from each other by their vibrational resonances. ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man, and still sometimes as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to ones nation or state. ...

The group is put on trial and their history is reviewed, which eventually reveals that the diary is a forgery created by Per Degaton. Degaton is apprehended by the Justice Society and he apparently commits suicide at the end of the story (though he would return in later stories). In legal parlance, a trial is an event in which parties to a dispute present information (in the form of evidence) in a formal setting, usually a court, before a judge, jury, or other designated finder of fact, in order to achieve a resolution to their dispute. ... Per Degaton is a supervillain in the DC Universe who can travel through time. ...

One major part of the story (#2, "Trial by Congress") depicted for the first time in detail the events which surrounded the retirement of the Justice Society in 1951. It showed how the team chose to disband rather than appear in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which demanded that they unmask themselves. Those events were first briefly explored in a back-up story in Adventure Comics (vol. 1) #466 ("The Defeat of the Justice Society!"; December, 1979) by writer Paul Levitz. Throughout the series many other past Justice Society of America stories were similarly retold as part of the examination of the Justice Society's history which took place at their trial. HUAC hearings House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC or HCUA) (1938-1975) was an investigating committee of the United States House of Representatives. ... Adventure Comics was a comic book published by DC Comics from 1935 to 1983. ... Paul Levitz (1956 - ) is an American comic book writer, editor and executive. ...

External link

• The Grand Comic Book Database entry on America vs. The Justice Society