The Justice League of America, featuring the Flash, Superman, Aquaman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Martian Manhunter, and Green Lantern. Art by Alex Ross.

The Justice League of America, also often referred to as the Justice League or JLA for short, is a DC Comics superhero team. In most incarnations, its roster includes DC’s most popular characters and thus many of the most recognizable superheroes in pop culture. The Justice League from the cover to JLA: Liberty and Justice. ... The Justice League from the cover to JLA: Liberty and Justice. ... Rosss rendition of the Golden Age Batman and Robin. ... The current DC Comics logo, adopted in May 2005. ... A superhero is a fictional character who is noted for feats of courage and nobility and who usually has a colorful name and costume and abilities beyond those of normal human beings. ... Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ...

The original, and arguably most popular, line-up is Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, and The Martian Manhunter. The League has also included Captain Marvel, Plastic Man, Green Arrow, Hawkman, the Atom, Elongated Man, Black Canary, Firestorm, Zatanna and dozens of others. Superman, nicknamed The Man of Steel, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938 and eventually became one of the most popular and well-known comic book icons of all time. ... The comic book character Batman (originally referred to as The Batman, and occasionally as The Bat-Man), is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine. ... The Flash is a DC Comics superhero possessing super-speed. ... Cover to Green Lantern: Rebirth #6, art by Ethan Van Sciver. ... Aquaman is a DC Comics superhero. ... Jonn Jonzz, the Martian Manhunter, is a comic book superhero appearing in DC Comics. ... Captain Marvel is a comic book superhero. ... Plastic Man is a DC Comics superhero (originally published by Quality Comics). ... Green Arrow (Oliver Ollie Queen) is a DC Comics superhero. ... Hawkman is a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe. ... The Atom is a superhero created in 1941 for All-American Comics, and recreated in 1962 in a self-named title, a part of DC Comics Silver Age of Comic Books. ... The Elongated Man (Ralph Dibny) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the DC universe. ... Black Canary is a female superhero published by DC Comics. ... Firestorm the Nuclear Man is a DC Comics-owned super-hero, created in 1978 by writer Gerry Conway and artist Allen Milgrom. ... Zatanna Zatara, usually known simply as Zatanna, is a DC Comics superheroine. ...

The team first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #28 (1960). Although series featuring the League have occasionally gone stale and been subjected to ill-fated experiments, the team has been fairly popular since inception. The Brave and the Bold was a DC Comics superhero comic book which was published from August 1955 to July 1983. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The team’s concept was loosely adapted into the cartoon series Super Friends (1972-85) and more directly into the series Justice League (2001-04) and Justice League Unlimited (2004-present). Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a... Super Friends is an animated series about a team of superheroes which ran from 1973 to 1985. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cover art for Justice League Adventures #1, by Bruce Timm and Alex Ross. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Justice League Unlimited promotional image. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s, the team had also gone by the names Justice League America and Justice League International. Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ...

History

Silver and Bronze Age

The cover of Brave and the Bold #28, 1960, featuring the first appearance of the Justice League. Art by Mike Sekowsky.

The original team first appeared in The Brave and The Bold #28 (1960) as a revival of the Justice Society of America (or "JSA") under a new, more dynamic name of "League" and soon gained its own title that same year. The creator was a writer named Gardner Fox, who was inspired by the Justice Society to create a similar, contemporary concept, and who decided upon the word "league" influenced by the National Football League and Major League Baseball. The artist for the first five years of the comic was Mike Sekowsky. This image is the cover of an individual issue of a comic book. ... The Brave and the Bold was a DC Comics superhero comic book which was published from August 1955 to July 1983. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a team of fictional superheroes whose adventures have been published by DC Comics. ... Gardner Fox (May 20, 1911 – December 24, 1986) was an American writer born Gardner Francis Fox in Brooklyn, New York. ... NFL logo The National Football League (NFL) is the largest and most popular professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities. ... MLB logo Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ...

During this period, the team operated from a secret cave outside of the small town of Happy Harbor. They also had a team "mascot" that tagged along on some missions, a teenage sidekick named Snapper Carr, noted for speaking in "hipster" dialect. Snapper had earned this status in the team's first appearance, after helping them to defeat the villain of that story, Starro the Conqueror (a giant starfish bent on conquering Earth). Alternate meanings: Cave (disambiguation) The outside world viewed from a cave A cave is a natural underground void large enough that some portion of it will not receive daylight. ... A separate article is about the punk band called The Adolescents. ... Don Quixote and Sancho Panza unsuccessfully confront windmills. ... Snapper Carr is a fictional supporting character in the DC Multiverse. ... NON TECHNICAL AND OF LOW INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER USER CALLING TECH SUPPORT. SEE S.E.C.S. ALSO This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

The JLA comic was initially amongst the most popular of DC Comics' publications, but by the end of the 1960s, it had become overshadowed by Marvel Comics' equivalent super-team, the Avengers, in sales and quality. Various changes were made as an attempt to boost sales; the first of these changes included dropping Snapper as a "mascot." As told in Justice League of America #77 (December 1969), Snapper was tricked into betraying the secret location of the cave headquarters to the Joker, which resulted in his resigning from the team in shame. After this, the Justice League was shown moving into a new orbiting space station "satellite" headquarters (in Justice League of America #78, February 1970). The 1970s would present the team's membership as occasionally varying in makeup and size. This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1960s. ... Marvel Comics - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... The Avengers are a Marvel Comics superhero team, comprised of many of the Marvel Universes most popular and powerful heroes and the Marvel Comics counterpart to DC Comics Justice League of America. ... December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... The Joker can mean any of the following: The Joker is a comic strip character, also included in movies and television programs based on the comic strip. ... A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live on in outer space. ... A satellite is an object that orbits another object (known as its primary). ... February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ...

Those involved in producing the Justice League of America comic during the 1970s included writers Cary Bates, E. Nelson Bridwell, Steve Englehart and (longest of them all) Gerry Conway, while the art chores were primarily handled by Dick Dillin. The JLA comic had a brief spike in popularity in 1982 when artist George Pérez stepped in following Dillin's death, but the commercial success was short-lived. Steve Englehart (April 22, 1947 - ) is an American comic book writer, known for his work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, particularly in the 1970s. ... Gerry Conway is an American writer of comic books. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... New Teen Titans #1, the most famous series George Perez drew for. ...

In 1984, in an attempt to emulate the success of DC's most successful comic at that time, The New Teen Titans, an editorial decision was made to have most of the regular members leave the team, to be replaced by young unknowns. It was also decided to have the team move from its orbiting satellite headquarters into a new base located in Detroit, Michigan. This move was highly unpopular with readers, who dubbed this period of time the "Justice League Detroit" era. Created by Conway and artist Chuck Patton, this version of the Justice League was eventually disbanded by writer J.M. DeMatteis and artist Luke McDonnell. The final issue of the original Justice League of America series was #261. 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Teen Titans (also The New Teen Titans, The New Titans, and The Titans) is a team of comic book superheroes in the DC Comics universe. ... City motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) City nicknames: The Motor City and Motown Location in the state of Michigan Founded July 24, 1701 County Wayne County Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 370. ... This article refers to the largest city of Michigan. ... John Marc DeMatteis is an American writer of comic books. ... Luke McDonnel is an American artist of comic books. ...

Modern Age

Justice League members, both past and present. Art by Alex Ross.

The team was rebuilt in the 1987 company wide crossover miniseries, Legends. This new team was given a less America-centric mandate than before, and was dubbed the Justice League International (or "JLI" for short); the new comic was written by Keith Giffen and DeMatteis, with art by Kevin Maguire. This new and very popular series added a quirky sense of tongue-in-cheek humour to the stories, with an occasional slant toward excessive silliness. Download high resolution version (525x780, 126 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Justice League ... Download high resolution version (525x780, 126 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Justice League ... Rosss rendition of the Golden Age Batman and Robin. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... Legends was a six issues comics miniseries published in 1986 by DC Comics. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government Official website of the United States government - Gateway to governmental sites White House - Official site of the US President Senate. ... Keith Iath Giffen (November 30, 1952 - ) is an American writer and artist of comic books. ... Humor (humour in British English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to invoke feelings of amusement in other people. ...

The Justice League titles expanded to a total of five by the early 1990s: Justice League America (formerly Justice League International), Justice League Europe, Justice League Task Force, Justice League Quarterly, and Extreme Justice. By the 1990s, however, with the departure of Giffen as writer, the humor prevalent in the early JLI-era had disappeared in favor of more serious stories, and as the commercial success of the series faded, each of the titles were cancelled. Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ... Justice League Europe was a DC Comic book run that was a spin off of Justice Leauge International (which was renamed Justice League America at the time. ... Justice League Task Force is a western Super NES tournament fighting game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by the now-defunct Acclaim. ...

In 1996, a new Justice League series titled JLA debuted, written by Grant Morrison and with art by Howard Porter and John Dell (though the new version of team first appeared in the miniseries JLA: A Midsummer's Nightmare, written by Mark Waid and Fabian Nicieza). This series, in an attempt at a "back-to-basics" approach, used as its core the original and most famous seven members (or their character successors) of the team: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash, Green Lantern, and the Martian Manhunter. Added to this core roster was the character Plastic Man, as well as a new headquarters for the team, the "Watchtower", based on the moon. Morrison introduced the idea of the JLA allegorically representing a pantheon of gods, with their different powers and personalities. Since Morrison left the title, other writers and artists have taken over, though none with the success of Morrison's version of the Justice League. 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Grant Morrison (1960 - ) is a Scottish comic book writer and cartoonist best-known for his non-linear narratives and counter-cultural leanings and often acclaimed as one of the most creative writers ever to work in mainstream comics. ... Mark Waid is an American comic book writer. ... Fabian Nicieza is the name of a comic book writer. ... Superman, nicknamed The Man of Steel, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938 and eventually became one of the most popular and well-known comic book icons of all time. ... The comic book character Batman (originally referred to as The Batman, and occasionally as The Bat-Man), is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine. ... Aquaman is a DC Comics superhero. ... The Flash is a DC Comics superhero possessing super-speed. ... Cover to Green Lantern: Rebirth #6, art by Ethan Van Sciver. ... Jonn Jonzz, the Martian Manhunter, is a comic book superhero appearing in DC Comics. ... Plastic Man is a DC Comics superhero (originally published by Quality Comics). ... Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0. ...

In 2003, Giffen, DeMatteis, and Maguire returned with a separate miniseries called Formerly Known as Justice League with the same humour as their Justice League run, and featuring some of the same characters in a team called the "Super Buddies" (which parodies the Super Friends). A follow up miniseries entitled I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League! soon began to be prepared, though it was delayed due to the events shown in the Identity Crisis limited series. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... Super Friends is an animated series about a team of superheroes which ran from 1973 to 1985. ... Identity Crisis #7, the conclusion. ...

In 2004, Morrison teamed with artist Ed McGuiness to produce a miniseries called JLA: Classified. The story involved Batman's efforts to stop Gorilla Grodd's subjugation of humanity while the rest of the core JLA pursued a mission inside a cubical "proto-universe". Following the three-part Morrison story in JLA: Classifed, the delayed I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League! finally saw print in this series, reteaming the "Super Buddies" for one more adventure. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gorilla Grodd is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics, primarily as an opponent of The Flash. ...

Also in 2004, George Perez and Kurt Busiek came out with a Justice League/Avengers crossover miniseries, an idea that had been delayed for 20 years due to various reasons. In this miniseries, the Justice League and the Avengers were forced to find key artifacts in one another's universe, as well as deal with the threats of villains Krona and the Gamesmaster. George Pérez (born June 9, 1954 in The Bronx, New York) is a Puerto Rican-American illustrator and writer of comic books. ... Kurt Busiek (born September 16, 1960) is an American comic book writer. ... The Avengers are a Marvel Comics superhero team, comprised of many of the Marvel Universes most popular and powerful heroes and the Marvel Comics counterpart to DC Comics Justice League of America. ... This article is about the Swedish unit of currency. ... GamesMaster was a British show, screened on Channel 4 from 1992 to 1998, and was the first ever UK television show dedicated to video games. ...

Origin of the JLA

The Justice League's origin, according to 1962's Justice League of America #9, began when Earth was infiltrated by various competing alien warriors sent to the planet to see who could conquer Earth first, as a means of determining who would become the new ruler of their home planet. Each alien warrior possessed a different power or ability, and attacked a different portion of Earth, which drew the individual attention of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash, Aquaman, and the Martian Manhunter. While most of the invaders were defeated by the superheroes individually, the heroes themselves fell prey one by one to a single competitor's attack; they soon discovered that only by working together could they defeat the competitor. Afterwards, the group decided that they should form a permanent organization to confront menaces that required a similar pooling of resources, and dubbed themselves the Justice League of America. 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Earth, also known as the Earth or Terra, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ... Aliens are foreigners to their surroundings. ...

Related teams

• The Justice League occasionally has worked with its predecessor, the Justice Society of America. Between 1963 and 1985, a popular annual series of teamups between the two teams to tackle some sort of mutual threat was seen.

• A team originally formed by the teen sidekicks of a few Justice League members (and thus known as a "Junior Justice League" of sorts) is called the Teen Titans.

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Other media

The JLA comic has been adapted for television numerous times.

• The first television appearance of the League was as a segment in the 1960s animated series The Superman/Aquaman Adventure Hour.

• The longest-running television version of the Justice League was a loosely adapted animated series called the Super Friends, which ran in various incarnations from 1972 to 1985.

• Legends of the Superheroes were two live action adaptations of the Justice League that appeared in the 1970s, and saw Adam West, Burt Ward and Frank Gorshin return to their fabled roles of Batman, Robin, and the Riddler (respectively) from the 1960s live-action Batman television series.

• A live action television series pilot in the mid-1990s that was produced failed to sell, possibly a result of the series using less well-known characters to avoid dealing with licensing issues surrounding Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman.

• Cartoon Network's Justice League animated series debuted in 2001 and lasted for two seasons. In July 2004, the original series was replaced by a successor series, Justice League Unlimited.

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See also

• List of Justice League members

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External links

• The Justice League Library
• Justice League Resource
• Justice League: The Animated Series at toonzone.net
• The Captain's Unofficial Justice League Homepage
• Knightmare6.com, Justice League