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.
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