Lets do a little examination of the romances of the Justice League.

Superman has Lois Lane.

Wonder Woman has Steve Trevor.

Aquaman has Mera.

Batman has.. well..

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, bad example.

Lets talk about the lady loves of the JLA.

Flash’s first wife Iris West is a reporter in the vein of Lois Lane and Flash is always there to help get her out of trouble in the nick of time.  Iris is also the aunt of Wally West, who would become Kid Flash and the Flash’s sidekick.

Iris and Barry married, but one of Barry’s villains, Professor Zoom killed Iris leaving Barry to mourn his love.  While brief romantic flings occured with Fiona Webb and a near disastrous pairing with Zatanna, Barry’s heart remained with Iris, who was revealed as not having been killed, but living in the future.  At the end of The Trial of the Flash, where Barry was put on trial for killing Professor Zoom, Barry was exonerated and went into the future to live with Iris.. for a time.

For Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, love never seemed to be in the cards.  He worked many jobs over the years but his most stable was as a test pilot for Ferris Aircraft and was instantly under the sway of the boss’ daughter, Miss Carol Ferris.

Carol and Hal flirted for ages, with that whole “co-workers don’t date” hanging over Hal’s head but Carol grew tired of Hal not being able to commit and when she was offered a violet power ring, she became the Star Sapphire, one of Hal’s biggest enemies.

Hal also had a best friend in Tom Kalmaku, nicknamed Pieface, the Inuit mechanic often covered for Hal when he was forced to leave on Green Lantern business.

When it comes to tiny problems, that was an understatement for The Atom and Jean Loring.  Physicist Ray Palmer had a hard time juggling academia, super heroics, and his marriage.  The marriage suffered and Jean being the good lawyer she is, divorced him and took most of his intellectual property with her.  Ray became despondent and discovered a small tribe of humanoids 6″ tall and went to live with them for a bit.

After attempting reconciliation the two finally parted as amicable friends…

Martian Manhunter lost his wife and children on Mars in a fiery telepathic plague which leads him to being a truly lonely figure amongst the Justice League, but J’onn is also the JLA’s soul center.

For Elongated Man and Sue Dibny it was love at first sight, and the two became the Nick and Nora Charles of the DCUniverse.  Always jetting off to solve crimes at the first twitch of Ralph’s nose.

And Sue Dibny only has eyes for the stretchable sleuth, Ralph Dibny.  There’s is truly a charmed love affair.

While Green Arrow and Black Canary date and Hawkman and Hawkwoman are married, that leaves us with Red Tornado who met an employment case worker when he was trying to assimilate into human society, Ms. Kathy Sutton.

John Smith (Red Tornado) and Kathy Sutton befriend and adopt a little girl named Traya and all three of them form a wonderful little nuclear family which feeds into Red Tornado’s need to feel more human.

Zatanna flirted with the Flash briefly and she had a stage manager named Jeff for a bit that there appeared to be some.. familiarity with, and both she and Vixen briefly fought over the attentions of Mr. Dale Gunn in the Detroit JLA run, however the Mistress of Magic has yet to settle on a suitor.

For Firestorm, Danette Reilly, Firehawk seems the obvious choice for his love interest and she is for a bit, for a bit.

Next Up:  I have been teasing this for a while, and now it is time.  We begin discussing CRISIS talk starting with the JLA and JSA team up from Justice League of America #21 & 22.  Put on your multiverse helmets, its going to get Ka-RAZY!!!!