Membership: Burly Billy
First appearance: All-Star Comics#3 (Winter 1940)
Abilities: Sailors
Worst act: Attempted theft, attempted murder
Created by: Gardner Fox (script), E.E. Hibbard (pencils)
This year we'll be looking at the first super group, the Justice Society of America! Looking back at the stories, one can't help but notice the sheer difference in storytelling. Nowadays the book would have all the assembled heroes fighting their foes at once, but back in 1940 All-Star Comics worked more as an anthology, with each heroes telling the reader of their separate yarns.
So, with the first issue and the first chapter, what's it all about? We have the Flash (Jay Garrick) telling a gatecrashing Johnny Thunder about an adventure he just had.
A Spanish galleon sank off the coast of Panama, its hold heavy with Aztec gold. A friend of Jay's girlfriend Joan is trying to salvage the gold, but the ship the Nancy K and its roughneck crew are making it clear they'll let the gold be salvaged first, then they'll be taking it.
Thankfully Joan knows a guy who can run at supersonic speed. The Flash jogs down to Central America and easily slaps the would be pirates around.
A pretty basic story but then again most of the stories in All-Star run about seven pages so one is not going to bogged down with a crazy amount of details. Technically I suppose these guys should be considered Flash foes but for this month we'll be looking just at the villains that popped up in the JSA stories at this time frame.
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