Big Society

It could be trance. It could even be Trock. Whatever it is, it's woken me up. Unwelcome alarm call from Eastern Europe.

 The TV show -inspired E-2 Robin and the Neal Adams version

 So, previously, I had posted my fantasy Justice League, eight DC comics stars pulled from different eras -even different media. At this early stage, fanmen are debating whether the rebooted DCU will feature the Justice Society, the Golden Age originators of the super-team concept. I think, since nature abhors a vacuum, there simply has to be a forerunner of some kind. In any case, Geoff Johns introduced or revamped so many characters over the last decade-plus that it would be a pity not to showcase them; perhaps on a parallel Earth...
First, here are the core members:

 Hawkman was the chairman of the Golden Age JSA and appears here in his early 60s Kubert incarnation. Wildcat was a cult favourite throughout the 70s and Power Girl is a Women's Lib product who has had a chequered past like her Marvel counterpart, Carol Danvers. They could all be on the Justice League but they feel like the heart of the Justice Society.

 Mr. Terrific will be getting his own comic this year but I am dubious about its longevity. If the preceding trio are the Society's heart, he is its head. Dr. Fate and Stargirl appeared on tv's Smallville and for that startling feat alone, they're on my team.

  In the late Sixties and early seventies, Black Canary and the android Red Tornado migrated from Earth-2 to Earth-1. To my knowledge, no character ever made the journey in the opposite direction. I'm redressing the balance with Ryan Choi, who was killed off in a sensationalised storyline and with the government agent codenamed Mlle. Marie.

Unlike the JLA, my JSA have a ground crew to support them. I liked that idea very much in the late 80s Avengers. Dr. Midnight is the team's combat medic; Red Tornado is their Jarvis -housekeeper, confidante and
advisor; and Jakeem Thunder is their archivist.

 Next, four guest-stars: Mikaal Tomas, the alien Starman from E-1; Hourman, an android from the far-flung future; Sandman, the mysterious precognitive dreamer (not the Grainy Gladiator with silicon powers); and the tragic, supernatural Crimson Avenger.
 I am very tempted to include a cameo for the 70s Sandman and Dr. Destiny from JLA seems an appropriate villain :

 A new take on the Injustice Society seems inevitable:

...but whose side is Brain Wave really on?

 I also like GA villains who seem silly and harmless, like the Prankster and Toyman, but who are subsequently revealed to be lethal. Hence the Fool and the Dummy.  Finally, one of the JSA's most persistant antagonists: the Ultra-Humanite, in all his anthropoidal glory:

 Imjustice Unlimited debuted in the late, lamented Infinity Inc comic in a storyline that folded in E. Nelson Bridwell's Global Guardians (originally featured in Super Friends, in the mid-70s).

Here's my take on that international team:

 Captain Atom, Lionheart, Fire, Ice, Rising Sun, Terra and the Seraph

 Thoughts? Comments?

 Next: The Mark of Kane

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