![]() ![]() So how do you reconcile the need to have Superman on the team with the need to NOT have Superman involved very often? That was the challenge that Gardner Fox had to deal with every other month for years until DC relaxed their standards and Superman and Batman suddenly were featured just as prominently as everyone else in the League.īut we’ll take a look at how Fox (who was working with artists Mike Sekowsky and Bernard Sachs for this run – with Joe Giella lending a hand in the first two Justice League stories,as well) kept Superman from outshining the “main” cast of the series (Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter – plus later Green Arrow and Atom). However, they still needed to have Batman and Superman on the team, to give the book the attention that it deserved for having DC’s greatest heroes on the team. You see, when the Justice League of America debuted, the idea was to spotlight the lesser characters – the newer heroes who were not as established as Batman and Superman (Martian Manhunter, Flash and Green Lantern) and the older heroes who never quite got as famous as Batman and Superman (Wonder Woman and Aquaman). Today, we see how early issues of the Justice League deal with Superman being too powerful! ![]() Knowledge Waits is a feature where I just share some bit of comic book history that interests me. You Are Reading : How Did Early Justice League Stories Deal With Superman CSBG shows you how the writer handled Superman in the first 25 issues! In the early days of the Justice League, Superman was just too powerful. How Did Early Justice League Stories Deal With Superman?.
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