Butler University Digital Commons @ Butler University Graduate Thesis Collection Graduate Scholarship 2017 Superfriends for Life: An Analysis of the Relantionship Between the DC Comics "Trinity" in the "New 52" Justice League Justin Welty Butler University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Welty, Justin, "Superfriends for Life: An Analysis of the Relantionship Between the DC Comics "Trinity" in the "New 52" Justice League" (2017). Graduate Thesis Collection. 490. https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/490 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate Scholarship at Digital Commons @ Butler University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Thesis Collection by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Butler University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. SUPERFRIENDS FOR LIFE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DC COMICS “TRINITY” IN THE “NEW 52” JUSTICE LEAGUE by Justin Welty Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English to the Department of English Language and Literature at Butler University. March 2017 ii Table of Contents Introduction: Super Beginnings.…………..……………………………………………... 1 Chapter One: The Origin Story.…………………………………………...…..…………23 Chapter Two: Super Friends….....…………………………………………………….....43 Chapter Three: Membership Drive…………………………………………………...….70 Chapter Four: Members Down………………………………………………...………...87 Chapter Five: Gods Among Us………………………………………………………....106 Conclusion: The End is the Beginning…………………………………………...…….126 Works Cited……………………………………………………………………….……134 1 Introduction: Super Beginnings Superheroes have been a fixture in the lives of Americans since 1938. The superhero exists in nearly every medium of popular culture. They adorn everything from food to toys, to clothes, to TV shows, to the silver screen where just having a superhero in your film almost always means box office success.