Forgotten Justice League - Day 16

Day 16 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague
Killer Frost

Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 16 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

Killer Frost was created by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom in June of 1978. The original Killer Frost was born Crystal Frost and while she was studying to be a scientist in Hudson University, she fell in love with her teacher, Martin Stein, part of the hero known as Firestorm. While working on a project in the Arctic, Frost was upset to learn that Stein did not reciprocate her feelings (for his part, Stein told a fellow researcher that he had noticed that Crystal was a withdrawn student of his and he merely tried to draw her out of her shell, which Crystal completely misinterpreted). Frost accidentally locked herself in a thermafrost chamber but survived, being transformed in a way in which she was able to absorb heat from a living being and project cold and ice. Calling herself "Killer Frost", she began her murderous crusade against men and clashed with Firestorm on many occasions. Killer Frost eventually died after she absorbed too much energy from Firestorm. Crystal has been identified as one of the deceased entombed below the Hall of Justice.

Dr. Louise Lincoln is the second incarnation; she first appeared in Firestorm (vol. 2) #21 (March 1984) and used the "Killer Frost" name in Firestorm (vol. 2) #34 (April 1985). Lincoln was a colleague and friend to Crystal Frost.. After her friend's death, she decided to repeat the experiment as a last respect to her former mentor, and became the new Killer Frost. She became just as ruthless as her predecessor and began her own personal vendetta against Firestorm, whom she blamed for Frost's death. She briefly served as a member of the Suicide Squad and sold her soul to Neron for more power.

The third, and current, Killer Frost is Dr. Caitlin Snow, a scientist sent to S.T.A.R. Labs Outpost #72 in the Arctic to work on a thermodynamic engine whose creator had committed suicide. Snow soon discovered the place had been infiltrated by H.I.V.E.agents. When they tried to kill her inside the engine, Snow frantically ripped off the coolant system, merging her body with ice. Transformed into a heat vampire, she killed the H.I.V.E. agents out of revenge. She then wandered out into the cold until she came across a Norwegian camp and took their heat too. Hijacking a helicopter, she made it back to her hometown Pittsburgh. She even created a suit that helped her retain heat for longer.

She later encountered the superhero Firestorm and discovered that his powers could temporarily heal her mutation. She tried recreating the Firestorm Nuclear Matrix several times only to fail with each attempt. When Firestorm and the Justice League were declared dead by the Crime Syndicate, she lost hope for a cure to her condition.

Killer Frost later has a scientist named Byte track down Martin Stein, the original creator of the Firestorm Matrix, to his secluded cabin while he had gone into hiding during the Crime Syndicate's takeover of Earth. She encountered Steve Trevor who was sent there on a mission to try to find the Justice League who were imprisoned inside Firestorm. Learning he was alive, Snow allied herself with the two men to find them. Soon they were attacked by supervillains Multiplex, Black Bison, Hyena, Tempest and Plastique for betraying the Syndicate. While fighting them off, Stein, Trevor and Frost teleported to another A.R.G.U.S. base where they learned that to free the Justice League, they needed Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth. Discovering Cheetah was keeping it as a trophy, they found her and her Menagerie but were subdued. Doctor Light (Arthur Light) suddenly appeared and blasted everyone except Frost and Trevor unconscious. After defeating him, they managed to deliver the Lasso of Truth to Cyborg who successfully used it to free his teammates.

In the DC Rebirth series Caitlin Snow is taken to Belle Reve Penitentiary where she is introduced to the Suicide Squad and offered a place on the team by Amanda Waller. She accepts and joins the team. She helps the Suicide Squad in their fight against the Justice League, but subsequently assists them against Maxwell Lord when he is possessed by Eclipso, whose attempt to tap into her 'darkest desire' only unlocks her desire to make a difference. Afterwards, Waller is forced to release Snow into Batman's custody. She then joined the new Justice League of America made up of Batman, the Atom, Lobo, Black Canary, Vixen, and the Ray.

Danielle Panabaker portrays Dr. Caitlin Snow / Killer Frost, a series regular on The Flash TV series, set within The CW's Arrowverse family of related shows.

Forgotten Justice League - Day 17

Day 17 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague
Fire

Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 17 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

A version of Fire (also known as Green Fury) first appeared in Super Friends #25, (October 1979), and was created by E. Nelson Bridwell and Ramona Fradon. Beatriz da Costa had originally been bequeathed her powers due to Brazilian mysticism and was the president of the Brazilian branch of Wayne Enterprises. She possessed an array of abilities which included the power to exhale vast quantities of mystical green fire. She could also fly, alter her clothing at will, and displayed a limited capacity to project hallucinations.

In her first appearance, she confronted and battled Superman, who was controlled by the "puppet master" Overlord, Sandor Fine. In her next appearance, Green Fury called The Super Friends to help defeat the villain Green Thumb (Fargo Keyes), and months later revealed her secret origin to them to thwart the demons from a green hell.

Shortly after changing her name to Green Flame, the Guardians' United Nations funding was withdrawn in the wake of the formation the Justice League International. Beatriz convinced her teammate and best friend Icemaiden into joining her to apply for Justice League Internationalmembership. Remarkably, in the wake of Black Canary's resignation and the abduction of several members, the short-handed JLI took them on. Eventually, she once again changed her heroic name, this time to Fire in affinity with Icemaiden's shortening of her name to simply Ice. As a result of the "gene bomb" detonated by the alien Dominators, Fire's powers were dramatically increased, but were less reliable for a time.

Fire appeared in the short-lived television series Powerless in her "Green Fury" alias, portrayed by Natalie Morales.

Forgotten Justice League - Day 18

Day 18 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague
Blue Beetle

Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 18 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

The original Blue Beetle was created by Fox Comics and later owned by Charlton Comics. The first Beetle was Dan Garret (later spelled Dan Garrett), who initially gained super powers from a special vitamin, which was later changed to gaining powers from a "sacred scarab". The original Blue Beetle was featured not only in his own comic but also a weekly radio serial.

The second Blue Beetle was created by Charlton and later taken over by DC Comics, the successor to Dan Garrett known as Ted Kord. Kord "jumped" to the DC Comics universe during the Crisis on Infinite Earths alongside a number of other Charlton Comics characters. The second Blue Beetle later starred in his own 24 issue comic. Kord never had any super powers but used science to create various devices to help him fight crime. He became a member of the Justice League of America and was later killed during DC Comics' Infinite Crisis cross over.

The third Blue Beetle, created by DC Comics, is Jaime Reyes, a teenager who discovered that the original Blue Beetle scarab morphed into a battle suit allowing him to fight crime and travel in space. Over the years Reyes became a member of the Teen Titans and starred in two Blue Beetle comic series. In DC Comic's "New 52" reboot, Jaime Reyes was the primary Blue Beetle character, only occasionally referring to past versions. However, with the subsequent continuity revision "DC Rebirth", the previous versions were restored.

Forgotten Justice League - Day 19

Day 19 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague
Green Arrow

Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 19 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

Green Arrow is Oliver Queen. Thanks to the television series Smallville and Arrow on the CW network many know about the Green Arrow, but before television fame, the character was once likened to a Robin Hood version of Batman, a billionaire vigilante with many gimmicks and tricks, the most famous of which is a boxing glove arrow. A skilled archer, Green Arrow has been around since 1941. Oliver "Ollie" Queen was introduced in More Fun Comics issue 73 in November of 1941 having been created by Mortimer Weisinger and George Papp. Green Arrow, and his sidekick Speedy, were introduced in issue 73 but it would not be until issue 89 before their origin stories would be told.

The character is one of the few to survive into what is known as the Silver Age of Comics joining the Justice League of America in issue 4 of that title. The history of the character is long and varied. He shared a comic book series with the Hal Jordan Green Lantern, both of the characters becoming close friends.

The live action versions of the Green Arrow began in season 6 of Smallville portrayed by Justin Hartley appearing also in season 7 but a series regular in seasons 8 through 10. In 2012 a new series began, Arrow, and Stephen Amell was cast as the Green Arrow. This series is currently in its sixth season and has spawned the spin-offs The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow along with the animated series Vixen and the upcoming The Ray.

Forgotten Justice League - Day 20

Day 20 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague
The Atom

Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 20 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

The Atom was created by Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox, and Gil Kane when he first appeared in October of 1961. There was an earlier character called "The Atom" that appeared in 1940, but this character was related in name only to the 1960s character. T he Atom is physicist and university professor Raymond Palmer, Ph.D. (He was named for real-life science fiction writer Raymond A. Palmer, who was himself quite short.) After stumbling onto a mass of white dwarf star matter that had fallen to Earth, he fashioned a lens which allowed him to shrink down to subatomic size. Originally, his size and molecular density abilities derived from the white dwarf star material of his costume, controlled by mechanisms in his belt, and later by controls in the palms of his gloves. Much later, he gained the innate equivalent powers within his own body.
There would later be other people to claim the "Atom" name and abilities, the most important of which was Ryan Choi, a young hotshot professor that fills the void left when the original Ray Palmer disappeared, only recently returning to comic books. An important member of the Justice League, which he joined in Justice League of America, volume 1, issue 14 in the 1960s. Currently, there is a live action version of The Atom which has appeared on many of the CW network's shows based on DC Comic characters including originally on Arrow then on The Flash and is a current member of the Legends of Tomorrow portrayed by Brandon Routh, who also once played Superman in the movie Superman Returns

Forgotten Justice League - Day 21

Day 21 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague
Firestorm

Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 21 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

Firestorm first appeared in March of 1978; created by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom the character was the result of an accident that melded high schooler Ronnie Raymond and physicist Martin Stein. Ronnie was in control of Firestorm but Stein was a disembodied voice in Raymond's head that assisted by helping Ronnie to control their combined powers which include Superhuman strength, endurance, speed, durability, senses, and self-sustenance, Nucleokinesis, Nuclear pyrokinesis, Flight, Molecular transmutation, Intangibility, and Matter manipulation.

Over the years, Firestorm as a character has had its ups and downs. Originally added to the Justice League in issue 179, the character has seen Martin Stein killed off only to return, Ronnie Raymond was also killed and returned and at one point Stein was replaced with Jason Rusch.

On television, a version of Firestorm appeared with Ronnie being played by Robbie Amell & Dr. Martin Stein played by Victor Garber on the series The Flash from the CW network. This character also appeared in the CW's Arrow series before undergoing a transformation. Ronnie's character was killed off and a new character brought in to share the Firestorm persona with Stein. Jefferson "Jax" Jackson, played by Franz Drameh, was also affected by the accident that caused Ronnie & Martin to become Firestorm and was brought in to join and become the new Firestorm. This version of the character joined the CW series DC's Legends of Tomorrow and has been a cast member since the beginning. In the current comics, the Ronnie Raymond-Jason Rusch version is being featured.

Forgotten Justice League - Day 22

Day 22 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague - Steel

Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 22 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

The original Steel was Hank Heywood and the character was created by writer Gerry Conway & artist Don Heck for the self-titled series which began in March of 1978. However it was his grandson, Hank the 3rd which joins the Justice League in 1984's Justice League of America Annual number 2, when Aquaman forms a new team. This version of Steel, a character with indestructible skin and super-strength was created by original writer Gerry Conway with Chuck Patton as artist.

The Hank the 3rd character was the grandson of the original Steel, but he would later die during a battle with Professor Ivo's creations.

His cousin, Nathan Heywood, would later join the Justice Society, the 1930s-1940s precursor to the Justice League, in 2007 created by Geoff Johns and Alex Ross.

Nathaniel "Nate" Heywood / Steel appears in the second season of Legends of Tomorrow portrayed by Nick Zano while his grandfather Henry Heywood / Commander Steel is portrayed by Matthew MacCaull. Initially a hemophiliac, he is injected with a super serum provided to the Nazis by Eobard Thawne after it is modified by Ray Palmer, turning Nate into a metahuman with an ability to transform himself into a steel-like form in addition providing him superhuman strength. Having obtained his powers, Nate starts calling himself "Steel", although one of his original suggestions is "Citizen Steel". It's later revealed by Obsidian to Nate that his grandfather went on a mission with his team excluding himself, and never returned home in 1956, a year after Nate's own father was born.

Forgotten Justice League - Day 23

Day 23 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague
Vibe

Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 23 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

Paco Ramone first appeared as Vibe in Justice League of America Annual number 2 in October of 1984 as one of the new Justice League members when Aquaman forms a new team. The original character was killed off in Justice League of America issue 258.

Created by writer Gerry Conway & artist Chuck Patton, Paco Ramone began his career as Vibe shortly after Aquaman disbanded the original Justice League. When young Cisco heard that a new Justice League was forming in his own hometown of Detroit, he decided to give up his position as the leader of a local street gang, Los Lobos, to join.

What made Ramon a candidate was his metahuman ability to emit powerful vibratory shock waves. Vibe's presence on the team caused Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter to harbor some strong doubts about the new JLA, particularly after he got the League involved in a rumble with a rival gang. Vibe soon proved his mettle during the League's battles against Cadre, Anton Allegro, and Amazo.

He stayed with the League through the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover, when his powers played a vital role in defeating Despero. During Darkseid's assault on Earth during the Legends mini-series, the Justice League of America was disbanded and Paco left his JLA comrades to seek the familiar solace of the streets. Vibe was attacked by one of Professor Ivo's androids, and became the first Justice League member to be killed in the line of duty.

The Martian Manhunter brought Vibe's body back to the League's mountain sanctuary, where Vibe was laid to rest in a cryogenic chamber. Paco's dead form has twice been resurrected by evil-doers.

Carlos Valdes portrays Cisco Ramon, a name used in the New 52 series for Vibe in The CW's Arrowverse appearing primarily on The Flash but also on Arrow & Legends of Tomorrow. This version of the character is a mechanical engineering genius at S.T.A.R. Labs with known metahuman abilities to detect anomalies within reality and sonic manipulation.

Forgotten Justice League - Day 24

Day 24 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague
Black Lightning

Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 24 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

Black Lightning is the alter ego of Jefferson Pierce & is another Forgotten Justice League member. The character will also get a live action series this coming season. He debuted in Black Lightning issue 1, April 1977 and was created by writer Tate McRae with artist Trevor Von Eeden.

A gold medal-winning Olympicdecathlete, Jefferson Pierce returned to his old neighborhood in the Suicide Slum section of the city of Metropolis, with his wife Lynn Stewart and his daughter Anissa to become the principal of Garfield High School.

Southside, as it was once known, was where his father - renowned journalist Alvin Pierce - had been murdered. Guilt over this event was a factor in his decision to leave the city of Metropolis. Suicide Slum was being torn apart by a local organized criminal gang called the 100, shady corporations, and crooked local politicians like Tobias Whale. A family friend and tailor, Peter Gambi, had taught a much younger Jefferson how to suppress his inborn metahuman abilities so that he would not accidentally hurt any of the people he cared about. Upon his return, Gambi suggested to Jefferson that he should use his powers to help the neighborhood, and refers him to a plaque with the paraphrased Milo Sweetman quote "Justice, like lightning, should ever appear to some men hope, to other men fear." (the original text of which was "Justice, like lightning, ever should appear to few men's ruin, but to all men's fear. Of mortal justice if thou scorn the rod, believe and tremble, thou art judged of God.") Appalled by the public murder of Earl Clifford, one of his more promising students, Pierce tried to intervene on behalf of the schoolchildren, but quickly learned that the 100 objected violently to any interference.

Pierce adopts the costumed identity "Black Lightning". Years later, he would tell fellow African American superhero Mister Terrific that he chose the name Black Lightning because he "was the only one of us around" at the time, and he "wanted to make sure everyone knew who they were dealing with."

Years ago, Green Arrow brought Black Lightning to the attention of the Justice League of America, who extended an offer of membership to the protector of Suicide Slum. He turned down the offer, preferring to work as a loner and focus on street-level crime, though he did offer to become a reservist. Years later, when all of the JLA reservists where called in to fight a newly revived Amazo, Black Lighting was one of the heroes called, confirming that the League had accepted his offer. Most recently, however, Black Lightning has joined the JLA, once again appearing with a modified costume. He appears to be primarily based in Washington DC again. Black Lightning assists the JLA with intelligence gathered from the criminal community.

Forgotten Justice League - Day 25

Day 25 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague
Hawkman

Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 25 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

Hawkman was created by Gardner Fox and Joe Kubert, he first appeared in The Brave and the Bold issue 34, February–March 1961.

Hawkman's real name was Katar Hol and was the imperial prince of his home planet of Thanagar. His father was Paran Katar, renowned ornithologist and inventor. When Katar Hol was eighteen, an alien race called the Manhawks invaded Thanagar and began looting the planet. Paran sent young Katar Hol to infiltrate their nest and bring back information on the aliens. Using this information, Paran created a hawk-like battle suit containing advanced technology like his "Nth metal". Katar used this hawk-suit and Paran's advanced weaponry to drive the Manhawks away from Thanagar. That, however, was not the end of the problem. Some Thanagarians had learned the concept of stealing from the Manhawks. Due to the amount of crime, the Thanagarian government created a police force. In honor of Paran Katar and his achievements, the new police force began using his hawk-suit and equipment. Paran headed this new police force, named the Hawk-Police (or Wingmen), and his son became one of the first recruits.

Katar soon became one of the most skilled of the Hawk-Police. When a group called the Rainbow Robbers began committing crimes, Katar was teamed up with rookie Shayera Thal to track and apprehend the criminals. During the case, Shayera saved Katar's life, and the two soon fell in love. A few weeks later, Katar proposed to Shayera and the two got married, working together as partners-for-life in the Hawk-Police.

After ten years of marriage and in the force, the pair were sent to Earth to capture the shape-shifting Thanagarian criminal Byth. During their mission, they meet George Emmett, commissioner of the Midway City Police Department, and told him their alien origin. With Emmett's help, the pair took over his retiring brother Ed's place as museum curators. They adopt the identities as Carter and Shiera Hall. After capturing him and sending him back to Thanagar, they elected to remain on Earth to work with authorities to learn human police methods. The two acted publicly as the heroes Hawkman and Hawkgirl, later Hawkwoman.

Katar joined the Justice League of America, where he befriended the Atom. As Hawkman was a conservative, he frequently verbally sparred with his fellow leaguer Green Arrow, a left wing liberal.

Forgotten Justice League - Day 26

Day 26 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague
Booster Gold

Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 26 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

Booster Gold was the first new character introduced after 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths megaseries. Created by Dan Jurgens & launched in his own self-titled comic in 1986, Booster Gold was the superhero name of Michael Carter. Born into poverty in 25th Century Gotham City, Carter managed to capitalize on his athletic ability to get a scholarship to Gotham City University and played football as their star quarterback, at least until their father came back into his sister, Michelle, and his lives. A gambler, their father convinced Michael to throw the games to profit, which led to the younger Carter to get expelled and demonized when the plot was made public. Working as a night watchman at the Metropolis Space Museum where he studied the lives & exploits of the superheroes & supervillains of the 20th Century. Eventually Michael steals advanced technology including a Legion of Superheroes flight ring and a special suit giving him other powers including super strength and a force field to protect the wearer.

Carter travels to the past and appears to save President Ronald Reagan from an assassination attempt, when giving his superhero name to Reagan, Michael mixes his nickname "Booster" and "Goldstar" (his chosen 20th Century superhero name) and President Reagan dubs him "Booster Gold", a name which sticks.

Often seen as bumbling and a vainglorious self-promoter that is in it all for the money, taking corporate sponsors & using both future tech & a flying computer named Skeets with knowledge of history to stop crimes, Booster is actually an important figure. Known to audiences, but not to Booster himself, he is the future father of Rip Hunter, the greatest of the Time Masters, a group tasked with protecting Time from those who seek to corrupt it.

Only the Batman knows some of the truth and knows there is more to Booster than what the public sees, and Booster was a member of the Justice League often pairing with the Ted Kord version of the Blue Beetle, a team called "Blue & Gold".

Forgotten Justice League - Day 27

Day 27 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague
Vixen

Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 27 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

Vixen, Mari Jiwe McCabe, fist appeared in Action Comics issue 521 in July 1981, although she was originally created to be the first African hero in DC to get their own title in 1978, however that fell through and the character did not debut for three more years.

She wears a totem that gives her the powers of any animal. The character made sporadic appearances until the Justice League of America was reformed by Aquaman and she applied & was given full membership.

Forgotten Justice League - Day 29 (Zantanna)

Day 29 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague
Zantanna


Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 29 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

Zantanna Zatara was created by Gardner Fox, Julius Schwartz and artist Murphy Anderson in issue 4 of Hawkman, October-November 1964. She is both a stage magician & an actual magician that is the daughter of Giovanni "John" Zatara. As such she has many of her father's powers relating to magic, typically controlled by speaking the words of her incantations spelled backwards.

She appeared in many stories after her debut. She briefly was featured in backup features in Adventure Comics and Supergirl from 1971 to 1973. Zatanna assists the Justice League of America on a few missions before being elected to membership in Justice League of America #161 in December of 1978.

Forgotten Justice League - Day 30

Day 30 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague
Doctor Fate

Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 30 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

Doctor Fate, in 1920, archaeologist Sven Nelson and his son Kent go on an expedition to the Valley of Ur. While exploring a temple discovered by his father, Kent opens the tomb of Nabu the Wise and revives him from suspended animation, accidentally releasing a poisonous gas which kills Sven. Nabu takes pity on Kent and teaches him the skills of a sorcerer over the next twenty years before giving him a mystical helmet, amulet & cloak. In 1940, Kent meets Inza Cramer and Wotan in Alexandria, Egypt on his way back to America. After arriving back in the United States, Kent begins a career fighting crime and supernatural evil as the sorcerer and superhero Doctor Fate and sets up a base in a tower in Salem, Massachusetts.

He is a founding member of the Justice Society and later, after Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985, a member of the Justice League. Since his creation by Gardner Fox in 1940, there have been several incarnations of Doctor Fate, most of which share genetics with Kent Nelson, the original Doctor Fate, as either grandnephews or other relatives.

Forgotten Justice League - Day 31

Day 31 - Forgotten #JusticeLeague

Elongated Man


Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 31 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.

The Elongated Man was another John Broome & Carmine Infantino creation first appearing in Flash issue 112 in 1960. He was created as a supporting character for The Flash (and will make his live action television debut this season on the CW's series, The Flash) and eventually married & gave up his secret identity. The character was moved as a back up story for Detective Comics and made out to be a detective himself, searching for odd cases around the country with his wife, Sue. He would encounter other superheroes and eventually joined the Justice League and would feature in their monthly stories from 1973 to the mid 1990s.

In story, Ralph Dibny was fascinated with sideshow contortionists & discovered a drink all popular & successful contortionists used, gringold which using his chemistry skills he turned into a potion which gave his elasticity like Plastic Man or Marvel's Mister Fantastic from the Fantastic Four. He was the first DC Silver Age hero to marry his love interest & to give up his secret identity.

In 2004, DC's Identity Crisis story was framed around the murder of Sue Dibny, the Elongated Man's wife. The murder ends up revealing a soap opera type story involving magically removing memories from super Villians & the morality of such, along with ins and outs that finds Ralph trapped in a plot to resurrect his dead wife & the magical villain Doctor Faust, running into DC's 52 series which ends with Ralph's own death, trapping Faust and reuniting him with his wife as ghosts investigating the supernatural realm.

Day 32 - The Forgotten Justice League :: Red Tornado

Day 32 - The Forgotten Justice League 
Red Tornado #JusticeLeague 
Forgotten Justice League members:

The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 32 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about. 

The name Red Tornado was originally used in the Golden Age of comics but writer Gardner Fox (longtime comic writer that helped form the myth is of Batman as an early writer for the character & whom created the concept of a multiverse with the very first Earth-2 story "The Flash of Two Worlds") reused the name for a brand new character, a sentient android with wind based powers that allowed it to fly & create powerful tornados out of its hands. 

In story, Red Tornado was created by intelligent super villain Thomas Oscar Morrow (T.O. Morrow...tomorrow? Get it?) to act as a Trojan Horse of sorts to infiltrate the Earth-2 Justice Society of America. Red Tornado eventually breaks the evil programming and becomes a full member of the JSA. Red Tornado eventually emigrated to Earth-1 and joins the Justice League of America. He assumes a human identity to learn more about humanity, as John Smith, becoming a teacher when not fighting to save the Earth or Universe. He is constantly being destroyed & coming back in new android bodies or having his programming corrupted by his creator or others.

First appearing in Justice League of America issue 64 in August of 1968, the popular character would get their own monthly title and figure into many of the top stories of each decade since, however since the Flashpoint and New-52 comic events he has been absent. A new Red Tornado has appeared on the new Earth-2 that is a feminine android that houses the consciousnesses of Lois Lane.

Justice League Trailer | 'Heroes' Trailer

Wonder Women & Super Men (Test)

Various women and men watching them walking in and out of doctor's office

Older lady with cart and broken leg, strong independent

Men...one father with young son by them selves

HFA (Hot from Far Away) Mom little big, with flowery billowy top, husband, a worker with work shirt with name tag and business name, bearded (much respect taking wife and son to doctors appointment

Mom (or lover) walking 2-3 steps ahead, power walking, as she goes to car and he follows behind

Why Wonder Women, Why need Super Men

Over grown Boy Scouts

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No Dark Knights

Having Dark Nights

Batman popular since 1980s movies

Superman is needed,

Wonder Woman is needed

Styx - Renegade

Visions of the Eighties

Visions of the Eighties

Reagan Trump

Ronald J Donald W

So many similarities to see,

            B-List at Best Actor versus C-List Celebrity Game Show Host

            Snake Oil Salesman and his Jelly Bean forbearer

Terror on the Streets

Foreign and Domestic

            Middle Eastern Quagmires, Soviet Russian Issues

            Foreign Threats & Attacks from Homegrown Terrors

Jokes & Insults

Division & Hatred

            NFL, Confederate Statues, Lies, Fake News

            Police Violence, Violent Violence, Racist Violence, Mass Shootings

Genesis & Revelations

Alpha & Omega

So what should we do,

            Study the patterns, notice things, pay attention, stop being lazy

            Read more than just headlines, form your own opinions

Surprised?

Should Not Be

            Had We the People been paying attention, taken notice

            We the People would not be divided, but United

Change is Constant

Good & Bad

            Turmoil, Revolution, Give Peace a Chance Signs, Cults, Protests

            Enlightened & Frightened, Rise Up, Be Heard, Do Not Go Gentle

Jackson & Carter

Wilson & Teddy R

So where do WE go from here;

            Backwards, Forwards, Side-Ways at times, Hold on Tight

            The Road is Long, Humanity Will Continue, What Part do We Play?

Vote/Volunteer

Lead/Follow/Get Out of the Way

            We are The Change, We Are The Revolution, How do You Want Your Statue

            Warrior, Poet, Protester, Rioter, Helper, Mentor, Student, Leader or Anarchist?

Ups & Downs

Evil Never Wins

            Hurtling through Time & Space, WE are HUMAN, WE will ENDURE

            Be Part of that Future, or Be Part of the Hateful Past & Present – YOU Choose.