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#TAP10 | The Ultimate Top Ten Superhero Teams
Smells like team spirit.
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8. Justice Society of America
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The forerunner for the Justice League as we know it today was sure the JSA – the Justice Society of America. The team initially included: Doctor Fate, Hour-Man, the Spectre, the Sandman, the Atom, the Flash, Green Lantern (Alan Scott), and Hawkman, who led the team for the most part.
The JSA’s popularity waned with the end of the Golden Era of comics sadly. However, their resurgence came with a creative narrative tidbit explaining their disappearance. Most of the Society chose to disband and retire rather than appear in front of the Joint Un-American Activities Committee, which demanded that they unmask themselves. Sounds like a nice precursor to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen run.
JSA charm comes when they gave fans the concept of ageing heroes, some who matured way into their 50s. Seeing them fight side by side with the Justice League also gave DC Comics their greatest cross-over comic events to date.
