Posted by Darren in Crisis
Another Crisis opens on Earth-2 as the Justice Society are conducting a meeting where they are bemoaning the fact that there is no criminal activity requiring their attention at this current moment, which of course jinxes the JSAers as Hourman’s new “Crimecaster” promises to forecast where the next criminal activity will turn up the JSA are interrupted by a thunderous boom as the Red Tornado makes an appearance.
Red Tornado claims he wants his membership back, but wait, Doctor Fate conjures up an image of the real Red Tornado, Ma Hunkel and that image and the new visitor to the JSA Headquarters do not match up. Well, then the new Red Tornado informs the JSAers all about their personal lives, and how could that happen if there was not some intimate knowledge of their activities? The JSA unmask the Red Tornado and discover that there is no face under the mask. But before that mystery can be solved the Crimecaster has completed its calculations and the JSA take off to fight these soon to be performed crimes.
The Red Tornado joins the JSA and the group comes across a group of androids that are stealing a museum and they have no faces, just like Red Tornado. While the JSA attempt More >
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Roll Call: JLA: Superman, Green Lantern, Flash, Green Arrow
Roll Call: JSA: Hawkman, Wildcat, Mister Terrific, Hourman, Wonder Woman, Robin, Johnny Thunder & Thunderbolt
VS.
How Chu, Gem Girl, Money Master and Smashing Sportsman
The JSA and JLA have assembled after the Negative Universe’s race of Black Spheres invaded the Positive Universe and four of their number possessed normal human beings turning them evil and imbuing them with super powers. The heroes were defeated on Earth-Two and summoned the JLAers to assist only to discover that they had the same problem on Earth-One.
Together the heroes cobble a plan together to find the rest of the Black Spheres and to absorb the energy into the strongest of them to see if that helps them become less vulnerable to the powers of the villains. After absorbing the energy though the heroes become evil and Hourman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern turn on their comrades in the midst of their missions. During each of these encounters the heroes discover beings imbued with negative energy are vulnerable to water, Chinese wisteria, wood, and laughter of all things.
Once the villains are overcome by their individual vulnerabilities the heroes make very quick work of them and the Negative Energy beings are expelled from More >
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Before I get into this issue, lets talk a little bit about that Robin outfit. Wow, its just.. bad, isn’t it? Anyways, to the action at hand.
Roll Call: JLA: Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, and Superman JSA: Hawkman, Hourman, Johnny Thunder & Thunderbolt, Mister Terrific, Robin, Wildcat, and Wonder Woman.
It is a fairly normal day on Earth-Two when these black spheres begin to fall from the sky and four of them manage to touch human beings and be absorbed by the humans. These individuals then begin to act out of character and become evil. A Chinese man becomes a marauding bandit known as How Chu. A simple office worker becomes Gem Girl, obsessed with stealing precious jewels. A former baseball star sidelined by arthritis becomes insanely jealous of those able to play the sport and begins busting up a stadium in the midst of a game. A British businessman decides to take drastic shortcuts to profit by robbing banks directly of their cash.
The scene switches to the Justice Society of America’s headquarters where we see the JSA induct Robin into their ranks as a full fledged member. This introduces a very important concept in the DCU, that of Legacy.
Legacy. def 2 - More >
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Notice anything “odd” about the “Justice League” on the cover above?
No?
Well let me help you out.
First off, that’s NOT the Justice League, that’s the Lawless League.
Let’s recap from last time.
On Earth-Two, a Johnny Thunder and his magical Thunderbolt had a disagreement, but Johnny still controls the genie like Thunderbolt and commanded Thunderbolt to take him to Earth-One to meet his counterpart. What Johnny and the Thunderbolt had not counted on was that the Johnny Thunderbolt of Earth-One was an evil counterpart and E-1 JT knocked out E-2 JT and took over control of the magical Thunderbolt.
When the Earth-One Flash, Barry Allen foils a plot of Johnny Thunder, JT of E1 gets the idea to have the Thunderbolt go back in time and prevent the Justice League from coming into being, which he does. No Justice League, then Johnny Thunder is able to plunder with absolutely no obstacles in his path.
The JSA are waiting on Johnny Thunder at their headquarters meeting on Earth-Two and when he does not show on time, the JSA investigate through Dr. Fate’s mystic powers and discover what has occurred prior. They go to Earth-1 disguised as the now missing members of the Justice League of America. The Thunderbolt reveals the JSA’s plan to the More >
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Our story opens on Earth-Two where Johnny Thunder is receiving a message via the mail (snail mail that is) inviting him to a meeting of the Justice Society of America. Once Johnny is excited about the prospect, but then realizes he needs to patch up his relationship with the mystical Thunderbolt, his partner in crime fighting.
Johnny summons the Thunderbolt by saying “Cei-U” and the Thunderbolt appears but reluctantly so. The apologizing goes badly as Johnny flubs it and Thunderbolt threatens to go to Earth-One where that Johnny Thunder would not treat him so callously. Johnny calls Thunderbolt’s bluff and wishes for Thunderbolt to take him to Earth-One to meet his doppelganger. There, the two heroes of Earth-Two discover that the Earth-One Johnny Thunder is evil and quickly knocks the Earth-Two Johnny Thunder unconscious and takes control of the Thunderbolt. With the Thunderbolt as his lackey, Johnny Thunder begins his crime spree only to find Thunderbolt come up against The Flash of Earth-One.
Johnny Thunder gets a good idea and decides to send the Thunderbolt back in time with the command to prevent the Justice League from becoming heroes. Thunderbolt intercepts the lightning bolt that created The Flash and then stops Krypton from exploding by changing the core of More >
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We wrap up our JSA Golden Age roll call with six new members, though some seem like we have seen them before. Let’s also keep in mind the JSA had Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman on its rolls, however Supes and Bats were reservists and WW served as the secretary. Since there are no changes in those three characters, they aren’t going to receive separate entries here. The only difference in them at this point is the era that they are active which begins in the late 1930s onward. With that said, here we go.
Dr. Charles McNider is an accomplished surgeon which is amazing since he’s blind. Well, he wasn’t blind when he learned how to be a doctor, he was working on a gunshot victim when one of those wily ubiquitos mobsters lobbed a grenade in, killing the victim and permanently blinding Charles. One evening an owl crashed into Charles’ window at home (just like what happened to Bruce Wayne, isn’t it?) Charles discovered that while he was fairly blind in the light he could see perfectly in darkness. Charles’ “sidekick” is the owl Hooty, making him one of the few heroes to have an animal as a crime fighting partner. More >
