Some concept art of the JSA and influential characters to the 1930s-1940s era of my DC Universe. The Themyskyrans are heavily influenced by Scythian and Ossetian culture with the idea of their isolation being a process of occult technology.
Excerpts from my work-in-progress worldbuilding doc
“The Justice Society is an alliance of patriotic heroes from across the allied forces having come together under a U.S. directive to end the war in Europe in 1940. The team consisted of;
Guāng Lǐ(The Emerald Sentinel), a gay railroad engineer bonded to an experimental verdant energy source. OSS files refer to him as “the living reactor.” These experimental procedures would be later studied by Cadmus.
Jay Garrick (The Crimson Comet), a chemist working in the early stages of the Manhattan Project alongside Oppenheimer before his atoms were rushed at an incredible speed after an accident with an accelerator, making him a living blur.
Diana of Themyskyra (Wonder Woman) a mysterious foreign ambassador with little to no historical record or official explanation, though witness testimonies report “inhuman strength” and an incident with a “golden lasso.”
Carter Hall (Hawkman), an archaeologist having discovered the ancient vault of Pharaoh Khufu in the dunes of Egypt, harboring technologies made out of an alien mineral known as Nth.
Inza Nelson (Doctor Fate), a theosophist who claimed to own a helm possessed by “extra-dimensional entities” and an amulet carrying the spirit of her deceased husband, though many believe her to be America’s first state-sanctioned schizophrenic.
The team is most notable for their storming and destruction of Wewelsburg Castle (currently under the occult-psychosis reign of Baroness Paula Von Gunther) in 1942, a fierce battle with the Reich Commander of the SS, Vandal Savage, who apparently committed suicide to escape justice in 1944, as well as the execution of Adolf Hitler before he could commence the release of the catastrophic doomsday-weapons known as War Wheels in 1945.”
“By 1951, the JSA was investigated by HUAC and brought before a committee for interrogation, resulting in the team officially disbanding. The Hall of Justice would be built in Metropolis, Delaware, in 1973, both a shrine and a sanitization effort by the Eisenhower administration; it presented the Justice Society as mythological patriots, sanding down the trauma into noble nostalgia. Today it stands as a museum dedicated to the heroes, attempting to display the history in all of its ugly glory.”
“The Themyskyran Isles are an isolated matriarchal Scythian warrior civilization in the Black Sea having survived into the modern day through their pagan/occult technologies. They are governed by a legal council of Enaree who advise Queen-Enarei Hippolyta, an equestrian noble warrior who brought life to a clay child through divine prayer to the Old Gods.
Diana of Themyskyra is a legendary hero of the JSA, having vanished into the shadows following the war, long before her comrades would eventually be placed on house arrest by the 1951 “The Matter of Meta-Humans” committee, while remaining in contact with similarly self exiled Inza Nelson, Diana also kept up relations with Steve Trevor of the Blackhawks and family members report a love affair with then british intelligence administrator of Checkmate, Etta Candy. Throughout history, however, the Wonder Woman would continue to strike down upon injustice, involved in the 1954 exposure of MKUltra scientist Dr. Edgar Pszyko, having radicalized from research collected from Wewelburg; standing alongside black orphaned twins, Billy and Marie Batson (who had been chosen by an ancient mystical council to become “Captain Lightning” and “Lady Thunder” as tabloids called them) during the 1967 riot of Fawcett, Illinois; as well as the 1984 raid of a super-security complex manufactured by Maximo Cabellero. Diana would later act as the Themyskyran Ambassador to the United Nations when it was officially integrated in 2017 as a result of the Atlantis crisis.”
