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jude_rookI picked up a copy of this today on a whim. It includes Justice League of America #66, which if memory serves was only the second superhero comic I ever bought in my life (the first was Green Lantern #66). Coincidentally, it was also the first issue written by Denny O'Neil. If things had gone a little differently and I'd picked up a Gardner Fox issue, I wonder if I would have been as eager for more. (On the other hand, is a villain named "Demmy Gog" any more clever than one named "T.O. Morrow"?)
It's interesting to see some of the seeds of the "social relevance" issues of Green Lantern being planted here... in O'Neil's first story ("Divided -- They Fall!"), Green Arrow is arguing with some of the other members about whether they should take on cases that involve ordinary people, not just ones where they get to save the world. Naturally GA, even though he hasn't lost his fortune yet, is on the side of the regular folks. This anticipates the famous "orange skins... purple skins... black skins" scene in GL that would appear a year or so later.
On the minus side, while I give full marks to O'Neil for giving the JLA a kick-ass new female member when he could no longer use Wonder Woman... did he really have to keep referring to her in the narration as "the lovely" Black Canary? Different times, different times.
It's interesting to see some of the seeds of the "social relevance" issues of Green Lantern being planted here... in O'Neil's first story ("Divided -- They Fall!"), Green Arrow is arguing with some of the other members about whether they should take on cases that involve ordinary people, not just ones where they get to save the world. Naturally GA, even though he hasn't lost his fortune yet, is on the side of the regular folks. This anticipates the famous "orange skins... purple skins... black skins" scene in GL that would appear a year or so later.
On the minus side, while I give full marks to O'Neil for giving the JLA a kick-ass new female member when he could no longer use Wonder Woman... did he really have to keep referring to her in the narration as "the lovely" Black Canary? Different times, different times.