FUN COVERS AND COMICS

THE ONLY TIME SUPERMAN AND BATMAN SHOWED UP IN A JSA ADVENTURE IN THE ORIGINAL RUN OF THE SERIES.

THEY HAD A NUMBER OF WHAT I GUESS YOU WOULD CALL SOCIAL ISSUE STORYLINES FOR A NUMBER OF THEIR ISSUES - CRIPPLED WAR VETS, DISEASE FIGHTING, WAR ORPHANS AND SUCH. WHEN YOU LOOK BACK AT THE VARIOUS COVERS FOR MANY DIFFERENT COMIC BOOKS, YOU WON'T FIND AS MANY SUCH STORYLINES ON THE COVERS AS THERE WERE HERE IN ALL STAR COMICS.

AS YOU CAN SEE, BLACK CANARY WAS INTRODUCED IN JOHNNY THUNDER'S COMIC STRIP IN FLASH COMICS. SHE STARTED OUT AS A CROOK, WHO STOLE FROM OTHER CROOKS, BECAME A HEROINE. THEN TOOK OVER JOHNNY'S SPOT IN FLASH COMICS AND REPLACED HIM IN THE JUSTICE SOCIETY IN ALL STAR COMICS AND HE FADED AWAY.

THE GREEN TURTLE WAS A VERY INTERESTING CHARACTER AS HE WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST NON-WHITE SUPERHERO TO APPEAR IN HIS OWN STRIP AND GET THE COVER. IT IS NEVER SAID THAT, WE NEVER KNOW HIS IDENTITY BUT HIS ADVENTURES ARE SET IN CHINA AND THERE ARE NO WHITE MEN IN THE STORY SO IT IS ASSUMED THAT HE IS CHINESE.