Justice League Detroit is one of those weird things that you know happened but always have to go back and check to see if they did. As a concept, they were only around for 2-1/2 years and would be unceremoniously cleared out (and mostly killed off) during the Legends event to make way for what's …
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Justice League of America # 198, 212, 217, 218, 219, 220
Before I get to the review of these comics, I am going to offer up some commentary about writing reviews of comics for this blog and the blog itself. I mean, I'm sure this could be its own post entirely and maybe I'll expand on this point in another reflection, but I was prepping another …
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Green Lantern Corps #207 and Firestorm #55
Two comics that aren't from the same title get reviewed here because they're both Legends crossovers and were published pretty close to one another (GL Corps is "Chapter 3" of Legends and Firestorm is "Chapter 7) and I believe that puts them in the first third of the series, although I think that GL Corps …
DC’s 5-Star Super-Hero Spectacular
Man, this was a treat. I fished this out of a cheap bin at a a comic convention a few years ago--I wasn't looking for it and it's in pretty terrible condition, but it was cheap and the Neal Adams cover was enough for me to throw it on the pile. It's a dollar comic …
Secret Origins #2
This is the last issue of Secret Origins I'm reading for a while--I've decided to dive into some other comics in my longboxes--and was one that I kind of shrugged at both before and after I read it. And it's not that I have anything against any version of the Blue Beetle; I think that …
Secret Origins #1 and #6
I'm going with a two-fer this time because out of all of the issues of Secret Origins that I have read so far, these have been two of my favorites and for very specific reasons: they feature the origins of the Golden Age Superman and Batman. Oh, there's an origin of Halo from The Outsiders …
Cosmic Boy (1986) #1-4
A while back, I began a conscious effort to collect crossovers related to the 1986 DC crossover Legends. I think the idea was that I was going to read every single issue in order of the "chapter" number on the cover and then probably sell the entire set on eBay. That never came to pass, …
Secret Origins #11
Roy Thomas' reconciling of what he lost as a result of the erasure of Earth-2 as a result of Crisis continues in this issue and also gets a little help from Paul Kupperberg, who provides Power Girl's new origin along with a retelling of the origin of the Golden Age Hawkman. Moreover, this is still …
Secret Origins #7
So far, when I've looked at these Secret Origins issues with two stories, I've found one story to be outstanding and the other to be okay but ultimately underwhelming. This one, which features Guy Gardner and the Golden Age Sandman is the first exception to that rule. Steve Englehart and Ernie Colon (with Rodin Rodriguez …
Secret Origins #10
Another one of my "Legends Crossover" purchases, this is a "multiple choice" origin story that features four different stories by four different creative teams. Most Comics Readers Who Read Superhero Stories By Very Important Writers will probably gravitate to the fourth story in this book, which written by Alan Moore with art by Joe Orlando, …
The Uncollecting 