FORTRESS OF BAILEYTUDE

Hey, all!  Justice Society of America Week might be over but I am not done yet.  I have scans to share.  Lots of scans.  I have a whole mess of magazines and books and such related to the Justice Society and I thought it might be fun to post a bunch of them here.

First up, something that probably flew under the radar because the series these images appeared in did not get a lot of press.  In 1990 DC revamped their Who’s Who in the DC Universe concept by switching from a comic book type affair to a loose leaf binder format.  The initial sixteen issues were rather popular and I snapped most of them up at the time but I was totally unaware that there was a two issue Update ’93 until a few years back when I found them on eBay.  Imagine my surprise that the Justice Society actually got an entry.

Ah Mike Parobeck.  Sweet.  Here’s the actual entry.  Click on the image for a larger version.

This next thing is something special.  Back in the mid-eighties a publisher called the Independent Comics Group put out a series of indexes covering a variety of DC’s comics.  Series covered were Justice League of America, Legion of Super-Heroes, Hawkman,  Teen Titans, Doom Patrol and even indexes covering the Crisis on Infinite Earths and Millennium.  This one is the first and I believe only issue of the All-Star Index.  Most of it covers the members and history of the team before indexing the first few issues of All-Star Comics.  I wish they had done more of these.  I also wish I had the two issues of the Legion index as they are the only ones I don’t currently own.

There have been a whole buncha magazines with the Justice Society on the cover.  I tend to buy them.  Here is a smattering of those covers.

Alter Ego has had many Justice Society covers.  This isn’t surprising considering that Roy Thomas is the editor of that magazine.

Both Mayfair and West End Games gave you the chance to actually be a member of the Justice Society.  The first cover is from the Mayfair DC system and is more of a World War II sourcebook than anything else but it covers most of the DC Golden Age chacters.  The second is an out and out JSA sourcebook and that cover is by Tom Grummett and I love me some Tom Grummett art.

Finally I have an early trade paperback.  Collected editions were few and far between in the seventies but the ones that were released are kind of cool.  This one is from 1976 (the year I was born, by the way) and while it may not seem to be related to the Justice Society this book reprints the origin stories of the main DC heroes.  This included the Golden and Silver Age versions of the characters, so Alan Scott, Jay Garrick, Carter Hall and Al Pratt all had their origin stories reprinted in this book.  Beyond that it is just a neat trade to have.

And that is it.  Justice Society of America Week is over.  Like I wrote the other day I may do something like this again soon and stay tuned for an announcement related to the Justice Society in the very near future.

More to follow…