Trivia / Justice Society of America

• Author's Saving Throw:
  • Cross-franchise example, but prior to joining the JSA book, Jesse Quick was, until recently beforehand, part of the Titans (1999); under writer Devin Grayson, she was set up to be The Lancer and protege to team leader Nightwing and was an Ensemble Dark Horse. Until, the creative team changed and writer Jay Faerber took over, who for some reason just didn't like her^note per his own claim, he saw her as the 'outsider' of the team who didn't fit with the others, and she suddenly became moody, impulsive, and a Butt-Monkey who ended up in an adulterous affair with her mother's fiance which indirectly got him killed. Fans of her character, from both Grayson's run and her previvous role in The Flash, were not amused by how she was treated, so in the pages of Flash, Geoff Johns (also the writer of JSA), had Jesse give up her powers in a Heroic Sacrifice, quit her job, join the JSA as a business manager, and then as a supporting character here got re-railed, and then get serious Character Development as she took over her mother's legacy and found love in Hourman II. While some Flash fans weren't happy about her codename change (she later reverted back anyway) and shippers didn't like how out of nowhere her and Rick's marriage was, the sudden improvement to her treatment allowed that chapter with the Titans to easily fall into discontinuity.
  • New 52 Alan Scott's homosexuality was deemed this by James Robinson, as a means to compensate for his gay son Obsidian's erasure from existence. This carried over to the post-Doomsday Clock/Death Metal Alan Scott who was restored to life as part of the restoration of the Justice Society to the DC Universe, which also saw his son Obsidian return too. As a result of this, Alan’s past difficulties with his son’s sexuality (which had often been a controversial aspect of his character), was recasted in retrospect as a reflection of his own insecurities due to being in the closet himself.
• Executive Meddling: Neil Gaiman is to blame for Hector Hall being killed off and the issues using Lyta Hall in JSA. Neil Gaiman despises the two characters, resulting in their horrible fates in the Sandman series and was pissed that Geoff Johns wanted to bring Lyta back; forcing a haphazard retcon that it was Dove II not Lyta who gave birth to Hector to resurrect him and a hasty and nonsensical return of her from a vague dimensional exile during the Black Reign saga. When Neil found out about Lyta's return, he threatened to stop working with DC if Lyta and Hector were not killed off and forced to stay dead, resulting in their hasty and reviled death scenes in the lead-up to Infinite Crisis.
• Referenced by...: The Golden Age based "heroes" in Marshal Law's Cast of Expies are in a team called the Jesus Society of America based on the JSA.
• Screwed by the Network: The early-'90s series, because DC editorial believed that no one wanted to read about senior citizen superheroes. David Goyer and Geoff Johns later proved them wrong.
• What Could Have Been: Magog's role as the JSA "All-Stars" trainer/field leader was originally going to be Hawkman. It's not hard to see the parallels or the massive character shift he undertook.
  • "The Justice Society Returns!" was an event used to bring attention to the revived series using new #1s of old comics (such as All-Star Comics and Adventure Comics). These were also purportedly used as an audition piece to see who would take over as David Goyer's co-writer after James Robinson left. Geoff Johns eventually won out, but some of the others included Tom Peyer, Mark Waid, Ron Marz, Tony Bedard and Chuck Dixon.