Posts tagged Felix Faust

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Crisis On Earth-Two

Jan 10th

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At the end of the last issue the Justice League and Justice Society both finally meet up and decide to trade worlds in order to defeat their home turf villains who had also traded worlds.

Doctor Fate sent the Justice Leaguers to Earth-Two and the Justice Society stayed on Earth-One, while the Green Lanterns both went off together to find each team’s Flash, both of whom were missing.

Hourman and the Atom run off and appear to tackle the Fiddler, who quickly attacks the pair by animating the taxidermy samples in the mammal hall.  Hourman manages to set off a beep that interferes with the sonic resonance of the Fiddler’s fiddle and the two heroes give him the old “high-low” maneuver.

The Icicle meets his match as he attempts to encase Doctor Fate in a wall of ice, but the Doctor’s magic is too strong and it looks like it is going to be lights out for Icicle when he hits a wall.

Hawkman and Black Canary meet the Wizard outside and the Wizard commands Hawkman’s wings to take off, taking Hawkman into outer space, while the Wizard animates a bunch of rocks into fighting the Black Canary.  The Canary has a trick of her own More >

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Crisis On Earth-One

Jan 6th

Posted by darren in Comics

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As is the tradition it’s time for the ROLL CALL:

Justice League of America – Atom, Aquaman, Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, J’onn J’onzz(Martian Manhunter), Superman, and Wonder Woman

Justice Society of America – Atom, Black Canary, Doctor Fate, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, and Hourman

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The Crime Champions – Chronos, Doctor Alchemy, and Felix Faust of Earth One and on Earth-Two Fiddler, Icicle, and Wizard

Firmly set at the bang up beginning of the Silver Age of Comics, this comic is the one that started the “Crisis” stories that would involve these two teams teaming up and fighting the good fight against common threats, more importantly it also gave us a few more ideas about what the idea of the multiverse means.

We had seen the two Flashes meet, and in the interim other team ups occurred, including the two Green Lanterns and the two Atoms, etc.., but this is the time when we get a bit more information on the status quo of Earth-Two.

The only Justice Leaguer who is missing from this story is Snapper Carr, who is away at college while the JLA are meeting due to challenges being issued to them by Chronos, Doctor Alchemy, and Felix Faust.

Lets just take a moment and remember the good More >

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The True Origin of the Black Canary

Jun 1st

Posted by darren in Comics

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In the history of the Justice League of America, since issue #21, the JLA has teamed up with the JSA for a team-up which would usually involve a “Crisis” (there’s that word again) and that Crisis would frequently involve one world’s issues bleeding into another.

However, DC also has a practical problem, one that plagues them today as well.  Characters from the Golden Age of Heroism are still wandering around in your 1984 comics as if they are still 40 years old.  Even if the original Flash or Green Lantern was 18 when they started their careers as heroes earlier in 1941, that would mean that they were born in 1923.  It is now 1984.  These characters are now 61 years old and still are functioning as heroes, which is fine on Earth-Two.

They had another problem too, only Wonder Woman was a popular female character and due to story reasons she has exited the Justice League.  The League had become a “boys only” club, and there were no good female candidates to take Wonder Woman’s place who did not already duplicate other characters like Supergirl or Batgirl.

There was this ONE character though from the 1940s, the Black Canary, a beautiful judo expert who might fit in More >

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Demons Three and Felix Faust

Mar 25th

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Back in the world of the Justice League they are wrapping up a meeting at the JLA Watchtower when they five of their members are set against their old foes The Demons Three.

The three higher ranked demons of what passes for Hell in the DCU are called Abnegazar, Rath, and Ghast.  They were originally summoned up in an old JLA tale by a more recurring foe, a Felix Faust.

Felix, you see, is a man who above all else craves power and dominion, not over petty things such as money, but knowledge, for all knowledge is power.  Felix gathered the three mystical items required to summon the demons up from the earth in exchange for knowledge and the power that mystic knowledge would give.  The Green Bell of Uthool, The Red Jar of Calthyos, and the Silver Wheel of Nyorlath.

The demons raised Felix found himself with power enough to cause the early Justice League some significant challenges…

The JLA of course take care of the demons and all returns right with the world, which of course we as readers know because the story is being told in flashback by a dad to a son who is visiting The Flash Museum.  Apparently the dad and son are descendants More >