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I find it curious that we- I did it too when I made my little list posted below- are putting teams as back-ups to team titles and individuals as back-ups to solo titles.
Makes me want to see a solo act appear as back-up in a team title, with the star eventually joining the headlining team. TEEN TITANS is sort of doing that, though Ravager has already been a member.
Or a smaller team, like CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN or SEA DEVILS or YOUNG HEROES IN LOVE getting a back-up to a solo-starring title.
I loved the idea of FREEDOM FIGHTERS backing up JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA. If I were choosing, I'd feature one SOCIETY member teamed up with one FREEDOM FIGHTER each issue until all the FFers were highlighted. Then, I'd want to read FF adventures sans the JSA.
Mainly because so many JSAers need even more fleshing out than the FFers.
Other properties I'd like to see as back-ups:
BLACK ORCHID (following THE QUESTION in DETECTIVE? A back-up to WONDER WOMAN? SECRET SIX? ZATANNA? Isn't Zee getting an ongoing soon?)
SEA DEVILS (to AQUAMAN, assuming he gets a new book, much less a new life, after BLACKEST NIGHT) or maybe in one of the SUPERMAN books. I loved Windward House, invented in Busiek's run on AQUAMAN and would like to see it used as a setting.
ATOM and HAWKMAN could share a title, either rotating lead/back-up or rotate appearing at all, with characters like Shayera, Ryan Choi and Golden Eagle getting back-up exposure.
Earth-whatever-the-main-one-is's version of Duela Dent, making her heroic/gray-shaded/nuisance villain debut... maybe in SIRENS OF GOTHAM?
HARLEQUIN (Molly Mayne) returning to action as a costumed heroine in an Alan Scott GL title, exploiting her old FBI ties.
What I'd really like to see is something like Wednesday Comics move from the newsprint to regular comics paper featuring four 8-page stories. One or two of them could be ongoing perpetually, with whatever hits making it into a rotation, with one spot always a 'new' character/team. I know, anthologies traditionally fail, at least recently, but one with a clear vision might not...
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