CREATOR
Name: DC Comics.
Personal dates: See under Comments and Main Story.
Other creations (not counting individual comic book characters): Justice League.
Successors: None.
Comments: DC (Detective Comics) was started by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1934 as a merger between three companies. Later Maxwell 'Max' Charles Gaines became the better known and more influential main editor.

 

 

MAIN STORY
The series premiered in 1940.

DC's flagships were superheroes with their own comic books such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and several more. Justice Society was a collection primarily consisting of superheroes without their own comic books, and the members of the society (with the motto 'For America and Democracy') changed through time.

First members/year of first appearance/primary creator:
The Flash/1939/Gardner Fox, Hawkman/1939/Gardner Fox, Green Lantern/1940/Martin Nodell, The Atom/1940/William 'Bill' O'Connor, Doctor Fate/1940/Gardner Fox, The Spectre/1940/Jerome 'Jerry' Siegel, The Sandman/1939/Gardner Fox, Hourman/1940/Kenneth 'Ken' Fitch.

The full title of the series is Justice Society of America.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTERS

The Flash
(Jay Garrick)
Hawkman
(Carter Hall)
Green Lantern
(Alan Scott)
The Atom
(Al Pratt)

Doctor Fate
(Kent Nelson)
The Spectre
(Jim Corrigan)
The Sandman
(Wesley Dodds)
Hourman
(Rex Tyler)

 

 

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