Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly The Non-Legion Comics Trivia Thread Pt 5

Whatever happened to those gorillas?

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OK, question time:

Everyone knows that the 'Justice League of America' first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #28 in 1960, right? WRONG!

A 'Justice League of America' actually first appeared in a DC comic way back in 1942!

Who were the members of this first JLA?

re Gorillas, their good deeds helping Diana were recognized by Gorilla City. they were forgiven for being misled by Grodd, and were welcomed home as heroes

first JLA:

Martian Manhunter
Batman
Superman
Wonder Woman
Green Lantern
Flash
Aquaman
Rex the Wonder Dog

Good Q&A on the gorillas!

All of the Newsboy Legion?

^ None of the characters in IB's guess or TL's, but TL is on the right track.

Sgt. Rock and Easy company?

Law's Legionnaires?

Also known as the Seven Soldiers of Victory.
Also known as... the Justice League of America (in one issue of Leading Comics back in 1942 anyway)!

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Leading_Comics_Vol_1_2

Pretty weird bit of trivia but I guess it was common to recycle names and concepts back then.

Over to you TL.

Wow! That's so weird.

^ Ooh well found! And I know, right?!

I'm gonna be all shooked and be all like "MIND. BLOWN."

You broke the Internet today!

**suddenly, in a moment of lucidity**

Help me! Help me! I've been brainwashed by all those influencers on social media! They've got me talking like them! No, please, put me out of my misery!

Elsewhere in Leading #2, the Star Spangled Kid tells Stripsey…

"This isn’t an ordinary crime, Pat, and it calls for extraordinary measures. Looks like we’ll have to call a meeting of the Legionnaires."

The writer & editor of Leading Comics #2? One Mort Weisinger, editor of Adventure #247.

Green Arrow makes an appearance in both Leading #2 and Adventure #247.

Gasp, they're taking the Legionnaires name too!

And then there's that scene where the Shining Knight says, "Verily, the brave Star-Spangled Kid and the daring Speedy hath sallied forth like two Teen Titans!"

Okay, maybe I made *that* one up...

It's just before the panels where Justin tells the others... "And if our brave comrades doth fall, they shall be avenged." Vigilante adds "...and we shall be the Avengers!"

It's a ridiculously influential issue from the Golden Age... even without our add ons…

For example, Ollie Queen appears as a Laws Legionnaire, who was later overlooked (just) for inclusion in the Justice League which he was also already a member of, as seen here. So he could only stare at the League HQ for a few issues, just like his descendant (or just a time travelling Ollie), has to do as a tour guide outside Legion HQ.

Don't forget when Star-spangled Kid says, "Wait, do we really want to avenge? Shouldn't we defend, as Defenders instead?"

Then there was the time Green Arrow, Speedy and Vigilante were thought dead. And the Crimson Avenger says... "and now we are four. A Fantastic Four!"

A bit that actually is in the comic is that the villain uses Black Light rays, tying him into the Phantom Lady who first appeared the year before. The villain was the Black Star. Later, it was established that
Starman and the Phantom Lady were related. But was the Black Star another member of the Knight family? More importantly, where is the lost Roy Thomas script that details the connection, as I don't believe there isn't one?

Gosh! I hope someone posts a question....

D'oh it's me... back soon...

Scarlet Traces is a comic book sequel of which famous novel?

Scarlet Letter?

It is not.

Hmmm Les Miserables?

No although it is a novel from that century though.

*tries to desperately recall high school literature class, and realizes we hardly ever covered this stuff*

Erm.... Frankenstein?

Dracula?

It's slightly more Frankenstein than Dracula in genre and, like them, the novel has also crossed over into other media.