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“Justice League Detroit”! THE RETRO COMICS EXPERIENCE! t 201 2 A ugus o.58 N . 9 5 $ 8 . d e v r e s e R s t h ® g i R l l A . s c i m o C C IN THE BRONZE AGE! D © & THE SATELLITE YEARS M T a c i r e INJUSTICE GANG m A f o e MARVEL’s JLA, u g a e L SQUADRON SUPREME e c i t s u J UNOFFICIAL JLA/AVENGERS CROSSOVERS 7 A SALUTE TO DICK DILLIN 0 8 2 “PRO2PRO” WITH GERRY 6 7 7 CONWAY & DAN JURGENS 2 8 5 6 And the team fans 2 8 love to hate — 1 “JUSTICE LEAGUE DETROIT”! The Retro Comics Experience! Volume 1, Number 58 August 2012 Celebrating the Best Comics of the '70s, '80s, '90s, and Beyond! EDITOR Michael “Superman”Eury PUBLISHER John “T.O.” Morrow GUEST DESIGNER Michael “BaTman” Kronenberg COVER ARTIST ISSUE! Luke McDonnell and Bill Wray . s c i m COVER COLORIST o C BACK SEAT DRIVER: Editorial by Michael Eury .........................................................2 Glenn “Green LanTern” WhiTmore C D © PROOFREADER & Whoever was sTuck on MoniTor DuTy FLASHBACK: 22,300 Miles Above the Earth .............................................................3 M T . A look back at the JLA’s “Satellite Years,” with an all-star squadron of creators a c i r SPECIAL THANKS e m Jerry Boyd A Rob Kelly f o Michael Browning EllioT S! Maggin GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD: Unofficial JLA/Avengers Crossovers ................29 e u Rich Buckler g Luke McDonnell Never heard of these? Most folks haven’t, even though you might’ve read the stories… a e L Russ Burlingame Brad MelTzer e c i T Snapper Carr Mi ke’s Amazing s u J Dewey Cassell World of DC INTERVIEW: More Than Marvel’s JLA: Squadron Supreme ....................................33 e h T ComicBook.com Comics SS editor Ralph Macchio discusses Mark Gruenwald’s dictatorial do-gooders g n i r Gerry Conway Eri c Nolen- r a T s DC Comics WeaThingTon , ) 6 J. M. DeMaTTeis MarTin Pasko BRING ON THE BAD GUYS: The Injustice Gang .....................................................43 7 9 1 Rich Fowlks Chuck PaTTon These baddies banded together in the Bronze Age to bedevil the League . g u Mike Friedrich Shannon E. Riley A ( 6 WalT Grogan Zach D. RoberTs 4 - COSTUME PARTY DEPT.: You Know You’re a Justice Leaguer When ....................46 C Andy Helfer Philip Schweier # n o A mirthful, MADcap look at the Monitor Duty dudes and dames i Dan Jurgens t i d E HeriTage Comics AucTions ’ s r o Grand Comic-Book DaTabase t c e FLASHBACK: Justice League Detroit .......................................................................49 l l o C The hard life of Gerry Conway’s street-smart JLA d e t If you’re viewing a Digital i m i L Edition of this publication, r o f PRO2PRO: Writing Justice League, Then and Now ................................................65 T r a PLEASE READ THIS: Gerry Conway and Dan Jurgens compare notes r e v o c This is copyrighted material, NOT intended o for downloading anywhere except our n a d BACK TALK ...............................................................................................................73 r website. If you downloaded it from another o i G website or torrent, go ahead and read it, Reader feedback on our Gods and Liberated Ladies issues k c and if you decide to keep it, DO THE i D RIGHT THING and buy a legal download, or a printed copy (which entitles you to the BACK ISSUE ™ is published 8 Times a year by TwoMorrows Publishing, 10407 BedfordTown Drive, free Digital Edition) at our website or your Raleigh, NC 27614. Michael Eury, EdiTor-in-Chief. John Morrow, Publisher. EdiTorial Office: BACK local comic book shop. Otherwise, DELETE ISSUE , c/o Michael Eury, EdiTor-in-Chief, 118 Edgewood Avenue NE, Concord, NC 28025. Email: IT FROM YOUR COMPUTER and DO [email protected]. Six-issue subscripTions: $60 STandard US, $85 Canada, $107 Surface NOT SHARE IT WITH FRIENDS OR InTernaTional. Please send subscription orders and funds to TwoMorrows, NOT to the editorial office. POST IT ANYWHERE. If you enjoy our Cover arT by Luke McDonnell and Bill Wray. Cover characTers are TM & © DC Comics. All RighTs publications enough to download them, Reserved. All characTers are © Their respecTive companies. All maTerial © Their creaTors unless oTher - please pay for them so we can keep wise noTed. All ediTorial maTTer © 2012 Michael Eury and TwoMorrows Publishing. BACK ISSUE is a producing ones like this. Our digital TM of TwoMorrows Publishing. ISSN 1932-6904. PrinTed in China. FIRST PRINTING. editions should ONLY be downloaded at www.twomorrows.com JLA Issue • BACK ISSUE • 1 22 ,300 After years of maintaining the status quo, Justice League of America entered the Bronze Age MILES with a renewed energy, thanks to new creators, new members, and the introduction of an orbiting ABOVE headquarters. Following is a closer look at the writers, artists, and sto - rylines that turned the Justice League into true icons. EARTH KEEPERS OF THE JLA CASEBOOK A Look Back at the JLA was forTunaTe To have a number by S h a n n o n E . R i l e y of TalenTed wriTers guiding The JLA’s “Satellite Years” book ouT of The Silver Age and inTo The ’70s. AfTer charTing The Team’s advenTures for almosT nine years, wriTer Gardner Fox lefT The series, making way for Denny O’Neil, who Took The reins wiTh issue #66 (Nov. 1968). Says O’Neil, “I didn’T know unTil abouT 20 years laTer why There were assignmenTs available, includ - ing JLA . ([Fox] had been dumped by managemenT over an insurance hassle.) Julie offered me The gig and There was no reason noT To accepT.” O’Neil ushered in signifi - canT changes fairly quickly: MarTian ManhunTer lefT in search of his peo - ple; Wonder Woman losT her pow - ers and was given a leave of absence; Black Canary migraTed from EarTh-Two, joined The JLA, and gained her Trademark “canary cry”; and a Joker-influenced Snapper Carr beTrayed The Team. DoveTailing ouT of The Joker’s discovery of The SancTuary’s loca - Going Up? The League heads norTh—22,300 miles norTh!—in The firsT Bronze Age issue of JLA, Justice League of America #78 (Feb. 1970). The issue guesT-sTarred The VigilanTe. Cover arT by Gil Kane. TM & © DC Comics. JLA Issue • BACK ISSUE • 3 Tion in issue #77 (Dec. 1969), The Team broughT wiTh him a youThful exuberance abandons Their EarThbound cave and The and enThusiasm for The characTers, as The Magnificent saTelliTe headquarTers makes iT firsT well as an acuTe awareness of The poliT - Seven appearance in JLA #78 (Feb. 1970). ical climaTe of The Times and a sTrong Was O’Neil was influenced by a cer - sense of social jusTice. Friedrich DC’s Golden Age B- Tain William ShaTner/Leonard Nimoy reveals ThaT “The firsT [ JLA ] assign - Team, The Seven TV show, or perhaps The Space Race menT came aT The end of AugusT of beTween The US and The SovieTs? NoT 1970, as I was abouT To reTurn To Soldiers of VicTory, so, says O’Neil. “I don’T Think I was California for my senior year of col - reTurned in The JLA’s waTching Star Trek aT The Time and I lege. My memory was ThaT I was sur - cerTainly wasn’T Thinking abouT The prised by The assignmenT, since I Three-parT anniversary Cold War. I jusT ThoughT ThaT a saTel - hadn’T worked on a regular feaTure epic from wriTer Len liTe was way cooler Than a prosaic, MIKE FRIEDRICH yeT. I don’T remember asking for iT in earThbound headquarTers.” O’Neil’s advance.” UnforTunaTely, There Wein, commencing in inTroducTion of The orbiTing saTelliTe would be no guidance or menTor - issue #100 (Aug. seT The sTage for unlimiTed sTory possibiliTies … and The ship from O’Neil, as Friedrich noTes ThaT he “didn’T wriTers ThaT followed him would Take full advanTage. have much Time To Talk wiTh Denny before I reTurned 1972). Cover by Nick Mike Friedrich, Then jusT a college sTudenT, Took To California, so There wasn’T any discussion regarding Cardy. over from O’Neil wiTh issue #86 (Dec. 1970). His firsT sTorylines. He haTed wriTing The series, while I was more sTory, “EarTh’s Final Hour,” saw The Team dealing wiTh enThusiasTic.” TM & © DC Comics. The ThreaT of exTincTion-level global sTarvaTion. Friedrich Aside from The world hunger sTory noTed above, Friedrich dealT wiTh polluTion in “Plague of The Pale People” in JLA #90 (June 1971), uniTy and under - sTanding beTween differenT generaTions (and aliens) in #91–92 (Aug.–SepT. 1971), and The horrors of war in “The PrivaTe War of Johnny Dune” in #95 (Dec. 1971). In his Justice League Companion inTerview wiTh Michael Eury, Friedrich Touched on The age gap beTween himself and Julie SchwarTz. As a college sTu - denT in The early ’70s, Friedrich cerTainly had a unique perspecTive and ouTlook on The world—and iT showed in his sTorylines. However, was iT one ThaT differed significanTly from SchwarTz’s? NoT necessari - ly, said Friedrich. “Julie was remarkably supporTive of my poliTical concerns (I realize now ThaT he probably shared Them, Though we didn’T have Those kinds of conversaTions), buT he was clear ThaT They had To be parT of an enTerTaining sTory.” Friedrich’s lasT JLA sTory was “Seeds of DesTrucTion!” in #99 (June 1972), and he explained his exiT Thusly: “I impulsively decided To go work for Marvel and jusT as impulsively, DC decided I was off The book. How I made This TransiTion is one of my embarrassing career momenTs.” NeverTheless, Friedrich remains posiTive abouT his experience on The book and offers, “The fun of wriTing JLA flowed from The fun I had of reading iT as a fan earlier—having all These greaT characTers in The same panels and The same sTories was an enjoyable challenge.
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