Comments on justice league of america: Justice League of America #124 - Nov. 1975

i knew that, don't know why i wrote it. comment de...

2008-03-25T21:37:00.000-04:00

i knew that, don't know why i wrote it. comment deleted, post-Crisis style.

I really think this story would have worked better...

2008-03-25T21:23:00.000-04:00

I really think this story would have worked better if 1. more of the JSAers had appeared (What? You mean six of our number have died??) and 2. Black Canary and Red Tornado had been given bigger (or any) roles. It's funny how you can compare JLA 75 with real drama and death, and this, which is basically kiddie drama. Not the JLA or the JSA's finest moments. PLUS, it got me all psyched for the brand new ALL STAR COMICS "coming soon" that ended up not being ANYTHING like this cast of characters. Boo, hiss.

Rob, Marty Pasko wrote JLA #122, not Elliot Maggin...

2008-03-25T21:19:00.000-04:00

Rob, Marty Pasko wrote JLA #122, not Elliot Maggin.

Maggin also wrote some lousy issues of "Shazam!" a...

2008-03-25T20:53:00.000-04:00

Maggin also wrote some lousy issues of "Shazam!" around this time. I don't know much of his work; did he write anything that was good or just schlock like this?

Put me in the camp that really dislikes this one. ...

2008-03-24T08:04:00.000-04:00

Put me in the camp that really dislikes this one. Other than my boy Earth 2 Robin getting the prime cover spot, its sloppy stuff. Bates and Maggin did some great comic stories, but his ain't one of them. Maggin admitted in All-Star Companion Vol.3 (just released) that he and Bates banged the script for part 2 out in a record-setting minimal amount of time. It shows.

Chris

I sorta enjoyed this when I was 10, but I do remem...

2008-03-23T15:53:00.000-04:00

I sorta enjoyed this when I was 10, but I do remember being disappointed that the JSAers were such a weak group and that they had such small roles--after all, they were dead most of the time. And where were the rest of the JSAers? I'm thinking "Cary Bates--the arch-fiend who's been terrorizing the Earth" would have been somewhat less effective against, say, Doctor Fate or Green Lantern.

All of you who thought Bates and Maggin were really slacking may enjoy this:

http://www.geocities.com/cheeksilver/jlashame4.htm

Unca Cheeks' old website used to have lots of scans, but unfortunately the newer version is lacking the scans. Still, his commentary is quite hilarious.

I also saw it as lazy egotism!

2008-03-23T13:40:00.000-04:00

I also saw it as lazy egotism!

I got sucked in by the cover of this as a teen and...

2008-03-23T09:20:00.000-04:00

I got sucked in by the cover of this as a teen and was horrified to find Cary Bates flying around in it. Some find it fun I'm sure, I saw it as lazy egotism.

This was my first JLA crossover! Since I had read ...

2008-03-23T09:12:00.000-04:00

This was my first JLA crossover! Since I had read Flash 228, where Cary Bates visits the Flash, I was pretty much on top of things here... This was the first time that this 7-8 year old felt like a comic expert! I loved Earth Prime stories. As a kid I used to think that maybe, just maybe, there was a dimension where I could get to meet Supergirl some day!

George

"none of the heroes ever know how they died and ca...

2008-03-23T08:10:00.000-04:00

"none of the heroes ever know how they died and came back to life"

...and on that note, Happiest of Easters, to those who observe same!
-Craig Wichman

This was the very first comic book I ever bought. ...

2008-03-23T00:19:00.000-04:00

This was the very first comic book I ever bought. With all that crazy Earth-2, Earth-1, Earth-Prime stuff, I have no idea how my 7-year-old self understood any of it, but I was hooked.

Thanks for taking me back to my first comic book rack!