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Encyclopedia > Hall of Justice (comics)

The Hall of Justice is the earth-based headquarters of the Justice League. Apart from the Watchtower, it is the League's most well-known headquarters. A cutaway of the JLA Watchtower on the moon. ...


The Hall's most well known appearance was on the cartoon series, Super Friends. It was designed to seems a striking resemblance to the Union Terminal building in Cincinnati, Ohio. Once a train station, it is now a museum. It seems likely that the animators copied the design from this or a similar building. Super Friends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 1973 to 1986 on ABC as part of its Saturday morning cartoon lineup. ...


The Comic's Hall of Justice

Following the events of the Infinite Crisis & One Year Later the Hall of Justice was re-introduced, this time in the comics. After the previous Watchtower was destroyed and the League had disbanded, one year later, the JLA reformed and with it a new Satellite Watchtower was constructed in space, along with an updated version of the Hall of Justice on Earth. The newest Hall is located in Washington D.C. on top of the location of the former bases of the Justice Society of America and the All-Star Squadron. Infinite Crisis was a seven-issue limited series of comic books published by DC Comics, beginning in October of 2005. ... One Year Later event logo. ... The Justice League satellite as depicted by George Pérez in Justice League of America # 195. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a DC Comics superhero group, the first team of superheroes in comic book history. ...


The Hall was designed by Green Lantern, John Stewart and Wonder Woman and was financed by the Batman. Unlike the Super-Friends Hall, it is not designed to be the central Headquaters for the heroes, but rather more a museum of sorts so as to allow the public to witness first hand what the heroes of the earth do. There a many exhibits and such set up, including trophey rooms of weapons used by villans and heroes (all of which were dismantled and made useless by Batman). However, it does have a primary meeting hall in which many JLA meetings are held, with Black Canary as Chairperson. The Hall also works as a transfer station for the Heros in which it is is connected, via Slideways teleporters, to the League's latest Watchtower, which is consider a more secure location for the JLA to assemble. John Stewart is a fictional comic book superhero in the DC Universe, and a member of the intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps. ... Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... Black Canary is a fictional character, a DC Comics superheroine. ... Teleportation, or teletransportation, is the process of moving objects (or more likely with present techniques, fundamental particles) from one place to another by encoding information about the object, transmitting the information to another place, such as on a radio signal, and creating a copy of the original object in the...



 

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