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Post by redsycorax on Oct 10, 2020 0:02:05 GMT
Am I the only one who wonders what the Justice League would have been like with the active participation of more female superheroes? Granted, Marvel's Avengers only had the Wasp and then the Scarlet Witch as well at the beginning, and the X-Men only had Jean Grey, but the Legion of Super-Heroes had several early female members- Saturn Girl, Phantom Girl, Triplicate Girl, Shrinking Violet and Lightning Lass, the strongest character of whom was undoubtedly Saturn Girl from a commendably early stage. So, apart from Wonder Woman and Black Canary, who else could have made the line-up?
Most obviously:
Supergirl
Batgirl
Hawkgirl
Bat-Woman
Mera
Zatanna
But also, possibly:
Nubia (Wonder Woman)
Elasti-Girl (Doom Patrol)
Element Girl (Urania Blackwell, Metamorpho)
Lady Blackhawk (Zinda Blake)
Thorn (Rhosyn Forrest)
Dolphin
Madame Xanadu
Enchantress (June Moone, albeit an alternate version where her good side retains ascendancy?)
I've restricted this list to super-heroines active in the sixties and seventies. Can anyone think of other Silver Age female superheroes who might have joined a more equitable version of the Justice League?
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Post by dans on Oct 10, 2020 0:28:56 GMT
Well, they _could_ have rebooted some of their female characters like they did with the Flash and GL. So Liberty Belle and Hawkgirl. There weren't that many others...
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Post by redsycorax on Oct 10, 2020 0:32:16 GMT
True, a lot more came along in the seventies compared to the sixties, probably due to the spread of US feminism.
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Post by dans on Oct 10, 2020 0:59:36 GMT
Lana could have become Inset Queen, or maybe Gravity Girl or Sky Girl. I would really like to see the further adventures of either Gravity Girl or Sky Girl (who were pretty much the same character).
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Post by redsycorax on Oct 10, 2020 1:43:22 GMT
In order, the additional heroines debuted at these points
Lady Blackhawk (1959)
Elasti-Girl (1963)
Enchantress (1966)
Element Girl (1968)
Dolphin (1968)
Thorn (1970)
Nubia (1970)
Madame Xanadu (1978)
As for Lana Lang as Gravity Girl (1961) and Insect Queen (1965),
yes, they'd also fit. I couldn't find any information about Skygirl,
unfortunately.
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Post by dans on Oct 10, 2020 2:03:21 GMT
Sky Girl and Gravity Girl are the same story with the same powers for Lana and the same resolution - Superboy decides Lana's powers aren't good enough and convinces (read: forces) her to give them up. The big difference is, in one story the powers came from an alien belt her father found on an expedition to Africa and in the other they come from a magical belt her father found on an expedition to Easter Island. Neither belt would fit an adult but both fit Lana perfectly. You can probably find Adventure Comics 189 online somewhere. dc.fandom.com/wiki/Adventure_Comics_Vol_1_189. I think Superboy threw the magical belt into space and destroyed the alien belt, but been a while since I read the stories...
It is hard to believe what a jerk Superboy was shown to be, over and over again. He forced Lana to give up her Gravity Girl identity because she had a force field that stopped bullets but wouldn't stop wood. She was probably the second most powerful being on Earth at the time; she was definitely more powerful than ANY of the girls in the Legion of Super Heroes at the time, and most of the boys, and Superboy NEVER told any of them they had to give up their powers.
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Post by johnreiter902 on Oct 10, 2020 15:08:37 GMT
Maybe there could be a story where we see an alternate universe where only female heroes and villains exist, and these were the founding members of the JLA
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Post by dans on Oct 10, 2020 18:23:41 GMT
Perhaps with the chance to join the JLA, Star Sapphire might have reformed...
There was an Aquagirl (Lisa Morel) in 1959, Bonnie King Arrowette in 1961, Lady Blackhawk (1959), June Robbins from Challengers of the Unknown
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Post by redsycorax on Oct 11, 2020 2:21:56 GMT
So, it'd be akin to the Bombshells and Earth-11 AUs in current continuity. I wonder what Earth-11's Golden Age was like, for that matter?
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Post by dans on Oct 15, 2020 0:39:59 GMT
So Gravity Girl's available for the 'more female' Justice League now  |
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Post by dans on Oct 16, 2020 0:18:20 GMT
The Sky Girl story is even more similar to the Gravity Girl story than I remembered. Sky Girl's belt was also an alien artifact; it wasn't magic. I like Sky Girl's red costume more than Gravity Girl's white costume, actually. I think Gravity Girl looks a little younger than Sky Girl, too. I wonder if maybe Invisible Kid's package might have contained an alternate costume, and Lana might switch costumes every once and awhile after she gets back to Smallville?
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Post by dans on Oct 16, 2020 21:46:33 GMT
Diana Dare first appeared as Queen Arrow in Adventure 241 in 1957. She rescued GA and Speedy several times. It turned out she was in a trance from some rare South American drug. Green Arrow cured her of her trance, and then, when Diana didn't remember her Queen Arrow adventures, GA didn't tell her her because it was "too dangerous for a girl"... eventually, she might have remembered her adventures, and returned to Queen Arrow action, and been around to join the equal representations Justice League!
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