What is in the JLA trophy room?

[johnreiter902]

Based on all the different times we have seen the JLA trophy room pre-crisis, what trophies do they have? I'm working on a new list, and I want to make sure I don't miss anything obscure.

[redsycorax]

When they shifted from their mountain hideaway after Snapper outed that location, were there any artefacts forgotten or left in the mountain establishment? And when the satellite was destroyed, how many artefacts were lost then? Or ended up in repositories like the Fortress of Solitude or the Batcave or on Themiscyra? Or were salvaged by the Hols' Thanagarian starship in orbit? I imagine some of them must have had priority storage status because they were reminders of particularly challenging cases.

[dans]

I think Amazo is stored somewhere? I suspect when they left the mountain, they took everything. With Superman, J'onn, and Green Lantern to scour the cave for artifacts, it seems unlikely to me that they missed anything. It does seem possible that some kind of artifact might have 'infected' the stone of the mountain, so there may be traces of them (magical 'residue', lingering radiation...) but probably nothing physical. (Hmm... suppose that some kind of magical artifact gave 'life' to the mountain, and it got lonely, and magically recreated EVERYTHING in the cave?)

[johnreiter902]

May 30, 2024 10:59:17 GMT dans said:

I think Amazo is stored somewhere? I suspect when they left the mountain, they took everything. With Superman, J'onn, and Green Lantern to scour the cave for artifacts, it seems unlikely to me that they missed anything. It does seem possible that some kind of artifact might have 'infected' the stone of the mountain, so there may be traces of them (magical 'residue', lingering radiation...) but probably nothing physical. (Hmm... suppose that some kind of magical artifact gave 'life' to the mountain, and it got lonely, and magically recreated EVERYTHING in the cave?)

Amazo is, I believe, no longer stored int he Satellite, but in the Fortress of Solitude.

In fact, the Demon's Three did trick Green Arrow into leaving the Bell, Jar, and Wheel behind in the cave, and replaced them with duplicates. Later, however, the Demons were defeated and the originals re-confiscated by the  JLA

[redsycorax]

Except that we know from later continuity that when the satellite was destroyed, the Demons Three's containers fell back to Earth and were retrieved in 2975, when the Justice League, Justice Society and Legion of Super Heroes had their first three way team-up. At which point, they manipulated the three groups into retrieving them and warred between each other, leaving only one survivor, who was then imprisoned in the recreated JLA satellite until the end of time in Universe-One.

[johnreiter902]

I know this is from a post crisis comic, but it is a picture of the original trophies room from the Secret Sanctuary, so all of them should be from pre-crisis comics. How many trophies in this room can people identify? I know some of them, but I think I will have to re-read all the 1960s Justice League comics to be sure. I could use some help

EDIT: I tried to post a picture here, but it didn't work, so I attached it in a word document

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[redsycorax]

It's odd that there wasn't an insert in one of the original Justice League comics depicting the Sanctuary's layout and identifying the trophies. I can still see Dr Destiny's Materioptikon and Starro the Conqueror, but I'm afraid the other ones are new to me.

[johnreiter902]

Jun 3, 2024 22:25:07 GMT redsycorax said:

It's odd that there wasn't an insert in one of the original Justice League comics depicting the Sanctuary's layout and identifying the trophies. I can still see Dr Destiny's Materioptikon and Starro the Conqueror, but I'm afraid the other ones are new to me.

I think I got most of them, except the two helmets, and the weird scepter in the exhibit box net to the picture of the Tornado Tyrant. It looks very familiar, but I'm not sure from which story

[lawrenceliberty]

I think the helmet is Lord of Time's. Is the scepter either Queen Bee's energi-rod or the one Kanjar Ro used?

[redsycorax]

It seems relevant to note that most of the items we've cited thus far refer to early Justice League cases. One wonders if that meant that they stopped collecting trophies from subsequent cases at some point?

[johnreiter902]

Jun 5, 2024 3:54:17 GMT redsycorax said:

It seems relevant to note that most of the items we've cited thus far refer to early Justice League cases. One wonders if that meant that they stopped collecting trophies from subsequent cases at some point?

I'm most of the way through, and I agree. I'm much more familiar with teh JLA in the 60s then in the 70s, but it does seem to me that they collected many fewer trophies during the Satellite era.

[johnreiter902]

this is what I have found so far, looking at as many different pictures of the JLA trophy room in the Secret Sanctuary and the JLA Satellite (leaving out trophies I know were destroyed or removed).

Amnesium
Artificial Kryptonite
Merlin's Crystal Ball
a Mother Box
Gamma Gong
body-swapping statue
Royal Flush Gang playing cards
an exhibit of Batarangs
the Bell, Jar and Wheel
Despero's chess board
a Green Lantern Battery
Brainstorm's helmet
a Starro drone
Dr. Light's light-wave weapon
Kantar Ro's rod
Xotar's robot
Dr. Destiny's Green Lantern costume
Materioptikon
Lord of Time's Helmet
Helmets of Terrus and Aerio
Horn and pipes of the Guardian of the Bell, Jar, and Wheel
Kryptonite Ray
Panacomputer
Slave-Ship of Space
Spaceman X robot
Star Diamond
The Maestro's pipe organ
Libra's Energy Transmortifier
Angellaxian probe
Wheel of Misfortune
chips from the wood Appellaxian
Mr. Memory's bomb globe

the Key's radiation rifle

alien bomb

alien death ray

Nekron's corpse

[dans]

Wow - it should be against the law to put that much dangerous stuff in one place!

[redsycorax]

Well, one logical reason some stuff might have been redeployed elsewhere is (a) the scale of the Justice League satellite compared to their first mountain headquarters- there simply wasn't enough room, so some of the more dangerous material was safeguarded by Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman in the Fortress of Solitude, Batcave or on Themiscyra; (b) I imagine some particularly potentially dangerous material was destroyed outright; (c) the Flash may have dumped it in Earth's distant, uninhabited future if it wasn't temporally volatile (c) a Green Lantern Corps detachment might have conveyed it to remote, uninhabited space (such as one of the immense voids between groups of galaxies (d) Superman or Green Lantern threw it into a blue giant's chromosphere, incinerating it. Extrapolating somewhat, (e) Superman asks help from the LSH's Brainiac 5 to insure that some of the trophies cannot be subjected to transtemporal theft through time locking.

[johnreiter902]

One funny thing I realized as I was putting this together

In Justice League of America #147, Mordru reached back through time from the 30th century to try and steal the Bell, Jar and Wheel of the JLA trophy room. He was stopped, and accidentally brought the JLA and JSA to the 30th century. But what nobody realized at the time, was that the Bell, Jar and Wheel in the trophy room at the time were fakes, planted by the Demons Three. The real talismans were still in the Justice League's old Secret Sanctuary.

I just think it's funny that everybody was going to so much trouble, fighting over a bunch of fakes. Of course, nobody knew it at the time. Still, just imagine if Mordru had actually managed to bring the phony Bell, Jar, and Wheel to the 30th century, only to find out that they were worthless to him.