#super squad

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Earth-2: World's Finest

Art by Joe Staton

[splooosh]

Back!

Wally Wood

[elizabeth-forbes]

legacies meme: free theme ━ magic

[evilhorse]

Doctor Fate will not live through the night!

(All-Star Comics #62)

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Josie, angrily: ARE YOU—

Hope: fucking

Josie: KIDDING ME?!

Freya: What in the name of Valhalla was that?

Hope: Josie legally cannot say ‘fuck’, so I’ve volunteered to say it for her

Alaric: I think you just like saying ‘fuck’

Hope: That doesn’t make my job any less important

[inflashback]

“no, transformers are robots in disguise” juan ruiz I would fight a thousand armies for u

[pzyii]

Super squad/coming of rage trio wear too much layered clothing to be cis

I mean look at these ppl

[chernobog13]

All-Star Comics #60 (June, 1976). Cover by Ernie Chia (aka Ernie Chan).

The first appearance of the obscure Justice Society of America villain Vulcan, Son of Fire.

Originally an American astronaut named...wait for it...Christopher Pike (!!!!!!!!!), Vulcan was created when his spacecraft plunged into the Sun and his spacecraft melted into a shell around him. A friendly alien saved Pike from dying, but instead of being grateful Vulcan killed him.

When Vulcan returned to Earth he took on the JSA, which he blamed for inspiring him to become an astronaut in the first place (huh?). Vulcan managed to hold his own against the team, and in the second part (in the next issue) critically injured the original Doctor Fate. Don't worry, he got better.

Vulcan had a few appearances a few years down the road, but for all intents and purposes has disappeared. I always thought it would be fun for him to go up against the hero Son of Vulcan (one of the Charlton characters that DC bought in 1983 and has mostly neglected). I envisioned Son of Vulcan and Vulcan battling it out on a Maury Povich-type TV show, with the former trying to establish the latter is really his father.

One of the best things about the revived All-Star Comics, other than presenting new adventures of the Justice Society, was Wally Wood's inking. He was the regular inker from the series' relaunch with issue #58 and, no matter who the penciller was, the book looked like a Wally Wood production. Right before he left the series, he provided the full art for a two-parter in issues #64 and 65, when the JSA went back to Arthurian times to battle Vandal Savage.