But these aliens have a secret, a secret tied to one of the JLA’s members, and which only Batman knows. In the first arc, alien heroes called the Hyperclan come to Earth offering to solve all of its problems, making the JLA seem like ineffective heroes.

Writer: Grant Morrison / Artist: Howard PorterĪfter years of various spin off titles like Extreme Justice with C and D list heroes, DC hired writer Grant Morrison and artist Howard Porter to bring back the original “Big 7” of the League once again, for the first time in over a decade. I can’t think of one story arc here that encapsulates it all, so I suggest getting the recently released Justice League International Omnibus. No other creative team has really been able to make a line up of the League mostly populated with C-list heroes ever really work, with this notable exception. DeMatteis and artist Kevin Maguire became a huge hit, and spawned a spin-off book Justice League Europe. Justice League #1-7, Justice League International #8-24, Justice League America #25-30, Justice League Europe #1-6 (1987-89)īy focusing on comedy and hilarious and heartfelt team interactions, the Justice League under this creative team of writers Keith Giffen and J.M. This is as good as Bronze Age era JLA gets.

The all star artist line-up featured chapters drawn by several comics legends, with the rest of the issue illustrated by George Pérez, who provided the amazing wrap around cover. The super-sized JLA #200 honored two decades plus of stories by pitting the team up against the aliens from their 1960 origin story, and features a showdown between the original seven Leaguers and their teammates who joined later.

Writer: Gerry Conway / Artists: George Perez, various others The storyline was finished by new series artist George Perez. Issue #183 was the last issue of the series drawn by Dick Dillin, who had drawn 115 issues of JLA since 1968, due to his untimely death. In this three part story, Darkseid attempts to destroy the JSA’s home of Earth-2 and replace it with Apokolips. And it took the combined forces of the Justice League of America along with the Justice Society and the New Gods of New Genesis to stop him. Ten years after Jack Kirby created him, Darkseid finally made his presence known to the Justice League.

JLA by Mark Waid