Justice League of America Archiv Edition, Vol. 2

Justice League of America Archives #2

by Gardner Francis Fox

In the eighth installment of this Archive collection, the World's Greatest Heroes continue their mission to protect the world from all villainous threats. But as a direct reflection of the growth and maturation of science fiction in the 1960s, these classic tales exhibit greater levels of imagination and creativity. Featuring Superman, Batman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash, this book reprints some of the Justice League of America's most classic and thought-provoking adventures as these timeless icons transform from simple action and adventure characters into universal heroes.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Gardner Francis Cooper Fox was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. Comic book historians estimate that he wrote more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics.
Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes the Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate and the original Sandman, and was the writer who first teamed those and other heroes as the Justice Society of America. Fox introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics in the 1961 story "Flash of Two Worlds!"

Pseudonyms: Gardner F. Fox, Jefferson Cooper, Bart Sommers, Paul Dean, Ray Gardner, Lynna Cooper, Rod Gray, Larry Dean, Robert Starr, Don Blake, Ed Blake, Warner Blake, Michael Blake, Tex Blane, Willis Blane, Ed Carlisle, Edgar Weston, Tex Slade, Eddie Duane, Simon Majors, James Kendricks, Troy Conway, Kevin Matthews, Glen Chase

Reviews

[John Yelverton · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you're not a fan of classic graphic novels, you'll hate it; but if you can appreciate them, you will realize what a great work of literature this book is.

[Gene · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of JLA issues from the early 1960s, replete with stilted dialogue and plots. A look back at a bygone period that should remain bygone.

[Steven Heywood · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great fun from the early sixties.

There's a huge energy to Gardner Fox's stories, so many ideas are brought along for the ride it would be exhausting without the changes of pace for human interactions.

Mike Sekowsky's art gives us people with human clumsiness and proportion rather than the impossibly-proportioned gods favoured these days, which works wonderfully with the exuberant implausibility of the stories.

And the cover to issue 10 is astonishingly creepy!

[Jeff Schmitt · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection includes issues 7 through 14 of the orignal run of the JLA series. In true "Sci-Fi 60s" fashion, all but one issue (#14) deals with either an alien menace or supernatural beings (or both, in one case!). Still fun to read these old adventures!