Justice League
The Justice League (including Justice League, Justice League of America or JLA or shortly JL ) is an in 1960, # 28 based in the comic The Brave and the Bold superhero team from DC Comics. Conceived the idea of justice league of Gardner Fox.
History
The Justice League first appeared in 1960 in The Brave and the Bold # 28. Despite the meager sales of the magazine, the team enjoyed great popularity, which is why the Justice League in the same year got its own comic offshoot. The enormous popularity of the team is based on the crossover of many popular DC heroes.
Founding members of the Justice League were the first Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern and the Flash.
In the late 1980s the founding history of the Justice League has been rewritten in the wake of Crisis on Infinite Earths. Since then, Black Canary is in lieu of Wonder Woman as a founding member, as Wonder Woman, according to new historiography in the "world of men " came only after the founding of the JLA. The team included over the years also Green Arrow, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, The Atom, Zatanna, Captain Marvel, Blue Beetle, Plastic Man and dozens of other DC heroes.
The group experienced in the late 1990s a revival with Superman, Batman, the then current Flash (Wally West), the then current Green Lantern ( Kyle Rayner ), Wonder Woman, Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter.
The author Grant Morrison left the new team cosmic adventures of galactic dimensions experience. Highlights his years of work were the comic Events DC 1,000,000 and his farewell album The 3rd World War.
Over the years the team or a part of it was also known as Justice League America, Justice League Europe, Justice League Task Force or Justice League International. Therefore, it refers in the original to all the heroes team simply as the Justice League ( without further addition ).
Antagonists were the members of the Society for the injustice ( Injustice League). These, recruited by Agamemno in cooperation with Lex Luthor to destroy the Justice League. To this end them dominion was promised over the earth, because Agamemno hoped that by destroying the Justice League, the conquest of control of the universe. " Reconquest " in his view, this was because his father was until his assassination - the first intelligent beings in the universe.
After the reboot of the DC Universe in September 2011, there are still several Justice League team. Once the classic " Justice League " then " Justice League Dark", the " Justice League of America " and the " Justice League of Canada". In addition, the books series "Justice League International ", which was however discontinued after 14 issues started.
In other media
TV series
Already 1972-1985 the idea of justice league was loose in the animated series The Super Friends ( original: Super Friends ) adapted and later in more detail in the series Justice League (original: Justice League and Justice League Unlimited 2001-2004 2004-2006 ).
- See main article: The Justice League
1997, there was a live-action adaptation for American television. This is a feature film that was to be the pilot of an eponymous television series originally. The film with the title " Justice League of America " was in 2005 in Germany and was sent from RTL. The Justice League sat there from the hero J'onn J'onnzz, Flash, Green Lantern (Guy Gardner), Atom, Fire and Ice together. As an opponent of the Weatherman acted.
Real films
In 1997, a little more successful live-action film was produced under the name Justice League of America. Félix Enríquez Alcalá was directed by. As a superhero Green Lantern only ( Matthew Settle ), Ice (Kim Oja ), The Atom ( John Kassir ), Fire ( Michelle Hurd ), Flash ( Kenny Johnston ) and the Martian Manhunter (David Ogden Stiers ) came before. The film was to be the beginning of a series that was not produced due to lack of success.
It is to produce talking always a live-action cinema. However, the plans have not yet konkretiert despite various interim statements. The Green Lantern movie in 2011 was back at the box office behind expectations, pointing in the epilogue scene also only a story arc for a potential sequel to rather similar to the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe a first step towards shared adventure of the protagonist with to put another hero. In addition to the films Christopher Nolan is currently running a very successful Batman film series, which also produces no connection to other DC heroes. Even the currently in production remake of the Superman material that comes out in theaters in 2013 is to remain completely independent, after initial announcements. Thus all current activities are DCs of the announcement to bring the publisher's own heroes in a common justice league movie on the big screen, contrary.
Animation films
- Justice League: New Frontier (2008) - Told in a settled in the 1950s story of how it came to the establishment of the Justice League.
- Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010) - Here is fighting the Justice League ( Justice League of America ) against the Crime Syndicate of America, which is a criminal counterpart from a parallel dimension, Earth 2, and from the evil counterparts of the Justice League Heroes ( as is, among other things Ultraman → Superman, Owlman → Batman ).
- Justice League: Doom (2012 ) - The Justice League fights against a new opponent, the help of some ancestral enemies of the Justice League Heroes ( Metallo, Bane, etc.) to Batman's emergency plans (which has this been designed for the case that once one of the Justice League heroes against them turns ) could go to the exclusion of individual justice league heroes and this is now using against the justice League to turn it off so and to be able to take over the world.