The title says it all... Well not exactly, but when you finish reading this post you will understand. To begin with, I know absolutely nothing of the dc comic universe, as opposed to what Marx has told me, and let's face it. His knowledge is rather limited. It is always better to get a second opinion from others, and by doing this, I m getting so many more opinions, so it can only be good. Marx has told me of the Young Justice, Teen Titan's, and Outsider's team, but I shall be asking of those later on, to make sure he wasn't being too vague. I know if I ask you of all this without specifity, then the responses will be all over the place. So to begin with, I ask for information on the JLA. On any particular person? As of right now no, I simply want to know of the main heroes of the DC universe.

So, you may reply now, the basic question right now is what can you tell me of the JLA, either the JLA itself or the members within it.

lol. Well, you asked for it...

In the Post-Crisis Universe, the JLA was founded by Black Canary, Maritan Manhunter, the Flash II, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) and Aquaman. They had joined together to battle the bigs bads that were too much for one hero.

Over the years the team's ranks swelled, with the additions of Batman, Superman, Atom, and hundreds more.

The Team then split into sub-teams such as the Justice League International, The Justice League Task Force and others. But after a while all the Justice League Teams disbanded.

Several years back, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner), Flash III, Martian Manhunter and Aquaman reformed a new JLA in order to combat invading White Martains. Afterwhich they built the Massive Watchtower on the Moon, overlooking the earth.

Since then the team has gone through major changes, with the additions of Oracle, Steel, Huntress, Plastic Man and many others. But after World War 3, the team's ranks broke down to the inner circle of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner), Plastic Man, Aquaman, Flash III and Martian Manhunter.

The team suffered some problems over the years, such as when Batman's contingency plans were stolen by Ra's Al Ghul and used to defeat the entire JLA. Batman was temporarily kicked off the team since they were his files, until Superman begged him to return.

The current roster is back to the central seven, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (John Stewart), Flash III, Aquaman, and Martain Manhunter.

Does this help some? Or do you want some more specifics on certain JLA members?

Yes, I always did wonder why there was a Justice League Task Force. You've made things so much more clear ^^Now to continue the explanations. This is only the tip of the iceburg.

Well, lets see... How about the centeral JLA heroes...


SUPERMAN: He is the body of body of the League. As the World's Greatest Hero, he is the hero everyone tries to live up to. His skills and strength had lead him to become the chairman of the team.

BATMAN: He is the mind of the League. He is the World's Greatest Detective and one of the greatest analytical/tactical minds on the planet. Almost every plan the JLA uses to win the day comes from him (such as the time he found the way to defeat the White Martians, while everyone else was captured), though he is often at odds with everyone else, due to his aloof personality.

WONDER WOMAN: The heart of the League. She is a royal ambassador, who works as the emotional center of the team. She is the hero who works from the stance of peace over violence. She is usually the one who speaks on behalf of the league to the governments of the world. But this doesn't make her a light-foot, since she is one of the strongest warriors amongst them.

MARTIAN MANHUNTER: He is the Soul of the Team. His wisdom has been an important thing in every incarnation of the Team. He is the oldest member of the team, and has thus seen it all. But as the last Green Martian, he still feels a constant distance between himself and his friends.

FLASH III: Wally West is the third speedster to be called Flash. He fights on behalf of his dead uncle Barry, and as one of the Original Teen Titans, Wally has been fighting longer than most heroes his age. Yet despite his experience, his temper and emotions get the best of him from time to time.

GREEN LANTERN (John Stewart): John was the fourth GL of Earth, but after many losses in his life he was left crippled from several years until Kyle Rayner as Ion helped returned him his life. When Kyle left earth to find himself, he gave John a new Green Lantern Ring, and thus John took his place as the JLA's Green Lantern.

AQUAMAN: This exhiled King has never fully fit into the JLA, but he has proven to be a strong leader and powerful ally for the League. His new powers and abilities thanks to the Lady of the Lake has made Orin more powerful than ever before and he has at last agreed to return to the JLA.

You know for some reason I expected you to bet the one to answer my questions Alan ^^

Anyways now you have told me of the people of the current league and their relationship with it. Now, I know this question my need more of an answer, but I would like to know of the individual heroes lives. You can pick who ever you want, you can start with the hardest and trickiest, or the easiest, it doesn't matter to me^^

lol. What can I say? I'm the Oracle of the YJUTT.

Let's just go in order...

SUPERMAN (Clark Kent, Kal-El) -Superman's story is a familar one that starts on the planet Krypton. Kal-El was born to the planet's greatest scientist Jor-El and his astronauht wife, Lara.

For aeons the Kryptonian civilization had evolved from humble beginnings, through vast planetary wars and a flowering of both cultural and scientific thought to become one of the most technologically advanced cultures in the Galaxy.

Jor El was One of Krypton's greatest thinkers for generations iand t was he who finally diagnosed the strange "Green Death" that was killing the population. He discovered that the ancient wars of Krypton had slowly taken a toll on the structure of the planet unleashing tremendous forces that were fusing the native elements into a new a radioactive compound.

It was the radiation from this Kryptonite that was killing his people. However the ruling body would not believe Jor El's prediction that the continuing synthesis of Kryptonite would cause a chain reaction that would destroy the planet.

Knowing that the end was near for his planet Jor El and Lara had worked together to create an intergalaxtic space craft to take them to a safer place. But they hadn't the time to create one big enough to carry their family and opted to save their only son Kal-El. Kal was loaded into the craft, which blasted off mere moments before Krypton was destroyed.

The craft that carried Jor El's son was programmed to head for our solar system where it finally crashed landed on the back water Kansas farm of Martha and Jonathan Kent. Finding the child in the capsule they rescued him and due to a freak snow storm were able to announce the child, young Clark Kent, to the world as their natural born son.

Clark was not like the other normal children in Smallville, the differences were not immediate to start with, but as he grew into a teenager he found that he possessed powers and abilities that were far beyond those of his fellow mortal men. It started off with super-speed, invulnerability and ehanced hearing, but grew to include heat vision, ice breath, x-ray vision, and at the very last, flight.

Upon graduating from High school he revealed his abilities to his childhood sweet heart Lana Lang and left to explore the world. He roamed the world, helping in secret, developing contacts and sources that would stand him in good stead for a future career.

Upon reaching Metropolis, Clark entered Metropolis University where he majored in Journalism completing the course in a fraction of the time that it took most students. While there he fell in love with Lori Remis only to lose her when he found out that she was from the Atlantian city of Tritonis and that he thought that she was dead.

With an interview lined up for a position of the Daily Planet, Clark was waiting around in Metropolis enjoying the two hundredth anniversary celebrations and went down to the airport to watch the new NASA space plane come into land. Near tragedy struck when a small plane crashed into the Space Plane. In an instant Clark knew what he had to do. Using his superpowers to catch the falling plane he at last revealed his existence to a watching world. Moving at superspeed he was able to save the plane and make a get away (bar a brief encounter with the reporter Lois Lane).

Clark returned to his parents in Smallville to seek their advice over what to do next. The world had seen him as a superhero, but had not yet made the connection to Clark Kent. It was Jonathan Kent who came up with the idea of a costumed identity of Superman modelled on those of the mystery men from the Justice Society of America who were reknowned during WW2.

Disguised himself while as Clark Kent he returned to Metropolis where he was able to deliver to Perry White the inside scoop on Superman beating Lois to the story (something that she did not easily forgive him). With Perry, Lois and young photographer Jimmy Olsen, Clark was able to build up for himself a second family in Metropolis. All the while Superman patrolled over head fighting the forces of evil that threatened the world and the city.

As Superman he became the focus for the superhuman activity on Earth, his appearance prompted J'onn J'onzz to go public and many other superhumans to use their abilities for the greater good. He worked closely with the Justice League and grew to be the spokesperson for the metahuman community.

His closest allies of course were Batman and Wonder Woman, who together they formed the Super-Hero Trinity that all others look to for guidance.

Over the course of a decade Clark cultivated his circle of friends including the docker/bar owner Bibbo, the absent minded Professor Hamilton, Jose Delgado a.k.a. the Gandbuster, Guardian and the genetic whiz's from the Cadmus Project, fellow reporter Cat Grant and the otherworldly creature Matrix who would be the first Supergirl.

At the same time he also made numerous enemies including the billionaire Lex Luthor who had once been a childhood friend and the Apokolips sponsored crime cartel of Intergang. Clark also fell in love with Lois and over time she grew to love him to the extent that they agreed to be married (after he revealed that he was secretly Superman to her).

Superman eventually met his match in the form of Doomsday, an alien powerhouse trapped for millennia deep beneath the Earth. Freed Doomsday caused a trail to destruction that headed straight for Metropolis. In a grandstand battle Superman was able to defeat Doomsday, but in the process both combatants lost their lives. In the vacuum left by Superman's death four would be heroes emerged Superboy (a clone created by Cadmus), Steel (an engineer who designed battle armour to rid the city of a weapon of his own design now being used by the street gangs), the Last Son of Krypton (later to be revealed to be the Eradicator) and the mysterious Cyborg who actually claimed to be the reanimated corpse of Superman.

Brought back from the other side by a combination of advanced Kryptonian medicine and a near death experience by his father, Jonathan Kent, Superman was not in time to stop the Cyborg (in truth a vengeful former enemy) and the alien tyrant Mongul from destroying Coast City. With the help of his stand-in's, Supergirl and Green Lantern Hal Jordan he was able to defeat the bad guys.

The time that he had been dead caused a number of problems, including competition at the planet from new reporter Ron Troupe. An old figure from his past nearly caused him to lose his cover identity and he obtained the Bottle city of Krandor to look after. However he was to face another challenge when the Sun was blotted out by the Sun Eater. Without the Sun's energy Superman quickly lost his powers and was left powerless. A condition that did not improve when Parallax gave his life to destroy the Sun Eater.

Superman was able to regain his superpowers with the help of the New Gods however not everything was the same as it had been. Kent slowly started noticing an ongoing mutation in his powers and physical existence in a process that came to a head when he mutated totally into an energy based being. It was only Professor Hamilton using Kryptonian circuitry and Lex Corp. experimental cloth that saved Superman by creating a containment suit that allowed Kent to control his new powers. Shortly afterwards he was split into two different beings by the Cyborg, the impulsive Superman Red and the more thoughtful Superman Blue. In an interesting development, when he was Clark Kent he was totally human. As an energy being he was later split in two, and for a while there were two Supermen - Superman Red and Superman Blue. Following his selfless sacrifice for the world during the Millennium Giants crisis, he became his old self again.

Since then Clark has been returned to his duty as Chairman of the League and the World's Mightest Hero. He and Lois remain happily married despite a few problems with Parasite kidnapping Lois and possing as her, not to mention Lana Lang's constant interferance at trying to steal Clark from Lois. Clark has also discovered that he is not the only Krytonian left in the universe, by meeting Kara Zor-El. Another Krypton orphan who is also his cousin and now the new Supergirl.

BATMAN (Bruce Wayne): Bruce Wayne had a short but very protected childhood. Born to the wealthy parents Thomas and Martha Wayne, Bruce grew up knowing the ideal life only experienced by few boys. The only son of the very wealthy industrialist Dr. Thomas Wayne and his socialite wife Martha, young Bruce was insulated from the harsher troubles of the world as he played on the grounds of stately Wayne Manor outside the rat race of Gotham City.

Thomas taught Bruce that a man's greatest asset was his intellect. That brute strength and violence were no match for reason and self-discipline. He tried to instill the old values of duty and respect for the law into Bruce's young mind.

Martha set an example of compassion for Bruce as she devoted time and energy to charitable causes. She helped him to understand the nobility of aiding those who were weak and helpless rather than exploiting them.

Having little contact with other children, Bruce found a friend and constant companion in Alfred Pennyworth, the Wayne major domo... The Wayne’s had hired Alfred because his extensive education made him qualified to act as a sort of tutor to young Bruce, while his military training in combat medicine meant that he'd be the perfect person to have around should some accident befall their precious son.

While playing on the grounds, young Bruce fell into a cave opening. Inside the cave were very large bats, who'd might as well have been demons or monsters for the effect they had on the child.

The sheer terror of this brief incident would leave an indelible mark on Bruce's mind, although he would seem to forget the event shortly afterwards.

When Bruce was around seven years old, the Wayne’s took him on a rare excursion into the city. The old theater in Gotham's Park Row neighborhood was playing the Mark of Zorro, which Bruce wanted to see. Although Thomas wished his son would idolize a more intellectual hero like Sherlock Holmes, he indulged the boy this once. Park Row had once been a socially elite neighborhood, and that's how Thomas and Martha tended to think of it despite the gradual decline it had been undergoing recently. So noone gave it a second thought when Thomas took his little family for a short walk after the movie.

As the Waynes passed Chryme Alley (originally named after a family, a clerical error would later designate it as "Crime Alley", which would become the popular name for the entire neighborhood), a man with frightened, hollow eyes and a voice like broken glass being crushed would accost them. In his robbery attempt Joe Chill would shoot both of Bruce's parents to death. Bruce Wayne saw his parents gunned down in Crime Alley in front of his eyes, an event which scarred him for life. Although the mugger's bullets didn't touch Bruce, they killed him as surely as they destroyed his universe. Violence had destroyed Reason. Brute force had destroyed Compassion. All sense left Bruce's life. All that remained was rage. A need to avenge his parents' murder... To make the mugger pay.

Following their death, Bruce made an oath to devote his life to the elimination of crime and evil in all its many forms. Vowing to protect the innocent and bring killers and other criminals to justice. Some small part of Bruce found a reason to go on living in that. To avenge the victims of crime... To make all criminals pay... To put things right. An utterly impossible task, but one to which Bruce dedicated his existence.

At age 14 he embarked on his global sojourn, attending courses at Cambridge, the Sorbonne and other European universities. Beyond academia, Bruce acquired more practical skills. Frenchman Henri Ducard made him an apprentice in man hunting. The ninja Kirigi schooled Bruce in stealth and the ways of the shadow warrior. African Bushmen taught hunting techniques, while Nepalese monks revealed healing arts.

As he grew up, Bruce studied and practiced anything and everything he thought might serve him in his task. He mastered various forms of martial arts as though possessed by a demon. He traveled the world to train under the greatest fighters, hunters, detectives, and even magicians he could find. His lack of attention to formal classroom studies gave Bruce's regular teachers the impression that he was lazy and not very bright... His frequent disappearances to pursue his personal training goals lead people to assume that the teen-age Bruce was off on hormone-driven misadventures. Bruce learned to use this to his advantage, allowing people to think he was AWOL from boarding school to chase a little redhead in Paris or a blonde in Barcelona, when in fact he would be participating in a judo tournament in Japan under an assumed identity or learning to control his heart rate in a Buddhist monastery in India.

So it went for 12 years as Bruce matured into manhood, eventually returning to Gotham City, place of his birth. Bruce returned to Gotham to begin his fight. But he knew something was missing. He needed something to bring all his training and special weapons together... But he didn't have the patience to wait for it. Dressed in a nondescript disguise, Bruce went on a "recon" mission, just to see how bad Gotham had become.

The city had degenerated into a veritable cesspool, with most of the police force on the take, and the city officials in the pockets of organized crime. On the street level, criminal scum hunted anyone weaker than themselves like sharks hunting guppies. It wasn't long before Bruce found himself stupidly getting involved with a pimp who was manhandling a child prostitute. In no time Bruce was in the middle of a street brawl with the pimp and his stable of hookers, which ended with a gunshot from a trigger-happy cop. Bruce barely made it home alive. In his shock-induced delirium, Bruce mocked himself for "putting the fear of God" into the criminals... Then he realized that fear was the key. He had to find a way to make the criminals terrified of him from the first glance. Home, in the study that had been Thomas Wayne's, within easy reach of the bell that would summon Alfred, who could stop the bleeding before it was too late, Bruce resolved that he would die if the answer didn't come to him then and there.

As a toddler, Bruce had fallen into the bat infested limestone caves beneath Wayne Manor. As an orphan child those same bats haunted his nightmares with the rush of leathery wings. Only in adulthood would Bruce embrace the bat as inspiration.

Without warning it came. The same image that had struck him dumb with terror so many years before. The unearthly, flying predator of night. The bat. He would become a bat! After years of study and training, the Batman was born.

Here he began to work for the better of the city, both by setting up the charitable Wayne Foundation, and as a costumed vigilante, Batman, who inspired fear in criminals and respect, eventually friendship, in police captain James Gordon.

After recovering from the gunshot, Bruce began his career as Batman in earnest. Starting with the street scum, he worked his way up to the upper echelons of the criminal world. Along the way he ruined many bad cops, finally including the corrupt Police Commissioner.

In addition to Alfred, Batman had other important help in his crusade. Assistant District Attorney Harvey Dent was his original "inside man". Police detective Lt. James Gordon was originally in charge of hunting down the Batman, but instead developed a working relationship with the Dark Knight by the time he became Captain and later commisioner.

A couple of years after becoming Batman, Bruce took in Dick Grayson, who became his first Robin. Dick was good for Bruce, since teaching Robin to use his head first and fists second reminded the Batman of the same thing. As often happens with maturing boys and their guardians, Dick and Bruce eventually had serious disagreements about Dick's future. In his late teens, Dick went off to pursue a life and super heroic career separate from Bruce's as Nightwing, leader of the Teen Titans.

Not long after, Bruce discovered a kid named Jason Todd (whose father had been murdered by the villain Two-Face, and whose mother died of illness) living on the streets. Batman took the boy in, and eventually trained him to replace Dick as Robin. This Robin was later murdered by the insane, deformed criminal known as the Joker.

The death of Robin left Batman barely in control of his rage. And he took this rage out on himself as much as the criminals who crossed his path. He pushed himself needlessly, took unnecessary risks, and sustained too many injuries. This behavior even prompted Dick Grayson, now acting as Nightwing, to intervene. Bruce's pain was beyond Dick's power to heal, but some degree of reconciliation was achieved between the two.

Batman definitely did not want another Robin, but one was sort of imposed on him in the form of Tim Drake. When he finally stopped resisting the idea, Batman discovered that Tim was a great Robin, and, like Dick, was good for the Batman.

Just as Tim was getting established as Robin, Bane came into the picture. Bane was a criminal mastermind. He had his physique, strength, and constitution enhanced to superhuman proportions by a chemical called Venom that was periodically injected into his brain by a wrist-controlled device, but was clever enough to know that this alone did not make him a match for Gotham's defender. So he blew up Arkham Asylum and let all of Batman's most insanely dangerous foes loose at the same time.

When the Venom-fueled Bane destroyed Arkham Asylum and unleashed its inhabitants on an unwary Gotham, Bruce Wayne learned that his obsession might be more than he can endure. Driving himself past the point of exhaustion to capture Arkham's most dangerous inmates, Batman led himself right into the clutches of Bane, who had deduced his identity and invaded the sanctity of Wayne Manor and the Batcave. There, surrounded by all the trophies and weapons of his crusade, Bruce Wayne was defeated, his back broken and his spirit destroyed. Crippled and wheelchair-bound, the humbled Wayne left Jean Paul Valley his costume and began an arduous quest to regain his strength and will to fight, including calling upon the beautiful but deadly Lady Shiva to retrain him in the fighting skills he had spent years mastering.

Restricted to a wheelchair, and needing to go overseas to track down Tim Drake's kidnapped father, Bruce appointed Jean-Paul Valley to act as Batman in Gotham. Valley had been subjected by the Order of St. Dumas to a series of subliminal training sessions called "the System". Valley was completely unaware of this training until the System was activated to make him into St. Dumas' enforcer knight, Azrael. Batman had defeated Azrael and learned the basic nature of the innocent Valley's conditioning. Hoping to put the System to good use rather than evil, Batman had taken Valley in to train for heroic duties... In his weakened, injured state, Bruce made the mistake of thinking that Valley was in control of the System, and could use it to act as Batman.

With Bruce Wayne out of the picture, Jean-Paul Valley began to remake the Batman, with a great deal of influence from the System. Soon "Batman" was a heavily armored, flamethrower-wielding, borderline maniac. One of his first actions was to nearly kill Bane. After that, Valley became more and more savagely out of control.

Upon learning that Valley had become a darker, more violent vision of Batman, Wayne returned to Gotham to forcibly reclaim the mantle of the Dark Knight. Shortly thereafter, Bruce Wayne departed Gotham once again, leaving the city's custodianship in the hands of his former partner Dick Grayson for a brief time. After recovering from his spinal injury, Bruce would have to undergo an extreme form of martial arts re-training to regain his confidence and prowess. After this, he was able to defeat the now insane Valley and resume his place as Batman.

When Wayne finally did return, it was for good, adopting a darker look and stronger arsenal to reflect the changes in his body and mind Bane's attack had wrought upon him. Since that time, he has returned to the Gotham night and attempted to rebuild his life as both Bruce Wayne and Batman, in addition to reaffirming his relationships with Tim Drake, Dick Grayson and Alfred. In the aftermath of Bruce Wayne's flight from the law as an accused murderer, Batman and his crime fighting crew have become a stronger fighting unit than ever.

Though regarded by many Gothamites as an "urban legend" built on superstition and fear of the city's darkened streets, Bruce Wayne knows all too well that the Batman is a cold, hard reality of his own fabrication. Since his parents' death in Gotham's dreaded "Crime Alley," Wayne has spent his life in pursuit of physical and mental perfection in order to wage unrelenting war on crime. Watching over Gotham's streets from its gargoyles and parapets, the Dark Knight is the city's last best hope against evil. And it is this obsession that drives the Batman, for Wayne has vowed that no innocent should suffer the pain he has endured.

Batman has also worked with various teams of super-heroes, most recently the JLA, often accused of being uninterested in his team-mates and of keeping too many secrets, he recently astounded his team-mates by revealing his identity to them in order to regain their trust.

Batman has one of the keenest intellects in the world, and is practically unbeatable in unarmed combat with a 'normal' human. The bumbling playboy Bruce Wayne is his least real identity, serving largely to act as a diversion from his real self and to provide an ethical employer and charitable foundation in Gotham. His weakness is his intense dedication to the fight for justice to the exclusion of his friends and his feeling that Gotham is 'his' city and his alone.

WONDER WOMAN (Princess Diana): In the age when men were hunter-gatherers, existing as small tribes, an injury to a dominant hunter could mean that his family starved, it meant being ostracised from society and generally being made the scapegoat. One unfortunate was teased and goaded by his fellows into such a rage that he ended up killing the one person that cared for him, his poor unsuspecting wife. In savagery and pain she died, yet her spirit did not pass onto the other side, it was intercepted by the earth goddess Gaea and like thousand of female souls to come it was held and nurtured deep in the realm of Hades in the Cavern of Souls.

The Olympian goddesses foresaw a time when men would forget the old gods that they themselves would fade into the distance without followers. They decided to create a society of women to act as guides and teachers to spread the world of Olympus far and wide. Zeus was neutral on the scheme, while Ares was openly hostile to the idea. However Athena, Aphrodite, Demeter and Hesta lead by Artemis with the help of Hermes travelled to the Cavern of Souls and used their power to release the souls there contained. The female souls rained down upon a remote lake in Greece where new bodies formed from the clay in the mud at the bottom of the lake. Thus were born the race of the Amazons.

The first two too emerge from the lake were the sisters Hippolyte and Antiope, they ruled the Amazons as Queens. As a sign of trust they were given two girdles of Gaea to wear. The Amazons spread their message, but many local rulers felt threatened by this society of freedom and legends of brutality and violence was spread about the female race. Their reaction was to withdrawal, stepping back from the work that the goddesses had given them.

It was still an age of myth and the demi-god Herakles bidden by Hera on his twelve labours found himself compelled to obtain one of the girdles of the Amazons. Goaded by the agents of Ares he battled Hippolyte and was defeated. The Amazons welcomed Herakles and his men into their city in good faith but Herakles drugged Hippolyte. While he made his way to Troy his men enslaved the Amazons. Hippolyte was freed by Athena and led her people in an uprising against their enemies.

In the aftermath the Amazons split into two groups, half followed Antiope in rejecting the Olympian gods while the other half led by Hippolyte remained loyal to their gods and bid by Athena made their way to the seashore. There they were met by the goddesses and informed that despite their loyalty that their previous sin of withdrawing from their destined line was to be punished. They were to become the defenders of the world against the darkness of Tartarus on the far Paradise Island and while they succeeded in their task they would be immortal and gifted.

For thousands of years the Amazons kept the gateway to Tartarus closed and succeeded in their duties. They were also charged with rescuing females drowning at sea. Via this route they rescued Diana Trevor a USAF pilot who died by their side keeping the evils of Tartarus captive, she was honoured by a statue in the Temple of Ares. The Amazons mistakenly took the winged insignia and star-spangled flag on her clothing by her insignia and so honoured them.

With due course Hippolyte felt the calling of her unborn daughter whose soul still resided in the Cavern of Souls. So the goddesses let her craft a form from the clay on the shoreline of a baby. As the unborn soul was infused into the clay form it was blessed by the goddesses and sprang to life as a new born child. Named Diana after Diana Trevor she was raised by all the people of Paradise Island and excelled at almost every activity.

But something was missing in the life of a young princess. Princess Diana (who would later become the super-heroine, Wonder Woman) grew lonely. Her mother, Hippolyta, had many responsibilities as queen, and furthermore, being the only child on Paradise Island, Diana longed for a companion her own age. The Amazon sorceress Magala heard the young Princess' plea. Using her magics, she created a magical double of Diana, using an ancient spell. The queen would not look favorably on this, so Diana's new playmate remained a secret for six months.

Meanwhile, the evil sorceress, Dark Angel, came to Paradise Island to exact a horrible revenge on Hippolyta, who was her most bitter enemy. (Hippolyta made an enemy of Dark Angel when she traveled back in time as the Golden Age Wonder Woman). Unaware of Magala's spell, Dark Angel abducted Diana's doppleganger, who she mistook for the real Diana. Believing this to be Hippolyta's real daughter, Dark Angel placed a horrible curse on the girl. She sent Hippolyta's "daughter" through a cascade of multiple lives, each ending in a horrible tragedy. The effect of these multiple tragedies was an attempt to exploit Hippolyta's bond to her daughter -- and feeling each tragedy would eventually drive Hippolyta insane. But this would not be so. Since "Donna Troy" (as she was called through each lifeline) was not Hippolyta's true daughter, Dark Angel's spell had no effect on the Amazon queen. Instead, Dark Angel's curse had another effect. It is said that what does not destroy us makes us stronger. In Donna Troy's case, this was literally so. The magical duplicate of Diana should have faded in time, but each new lifeline strengthened Donna's soul -- she not only survived, but grew stronger. More pure.

In one of these multiple lifelines, Donna Troy became the super-heroine known as Wonder Girl, who Diana would be reunited with years later.

Meanwhile the plans of Ares continued in man's world and it became necessary that the Amazons should send a champion to stop his plans. A contest was called and Diana entered against her mothers wishes, disguising herself with a full mask like the other contestants. Diana won with ease and despite her maternal feelings Hippolyte was forced to respect the result. Diana was equipped with a costume based on the insignia of Diana Trevor. Journeying to man's world she eventually found Ares mad scheme to destroy mankind. With the help of Steve Trevor (Diana Trevor's son) and others, Diana confronted Ares and ensnared him with the Lasso of Truth (forged from the Girdle of Gaea) which forced him to realise that if he destroyed mankind then there would be nobody to worship him and his own power would dwindle.

Diana remained in mans world as an ambassador from the Amazons to fulfil the original duties set down by the gods to spread the virtues of peace and love to mankind. She befriended Julia Kapatelis and her daughter who took Diana in and taught her English. She also befriended Myndi Mayer a publicist who worked to promote Diana's message across the world, she came up with the name Wonder Woman based on the double-W on Diana's costume, she also launched promotional lines and merchandise. In also most no time at all a massive media campaign had transformed Wonder Woman into one of the most recognisable names in the country.

There were set backs along the way. Mayer died of a drug overdose and a cult sprang up to Wonder Woman in Greece prompting many right wing religious groups to brand her cause pagan. Despite this a world tour and the setting up of a Wonder Woman Foundation to promote peace did a lot of good. While never a superhero as such, Diana participated in the Darkseid Anti-hero riots and served as a reserve member of the JLE. After an mistaken first encounter she has grown close to Superman and each recognises that in another situation they might have been lovers.

The sorceress Circe devised a plan to throw the various pantheons of gods into war as a means of achieving power of her own. She was eventually defeated by a collation of both the superheroes of Earth and Wonder Woman. In the aftermath of the war the Olympian gods left this dimension for their new home of New Olympus.

Queen Hippolyte found herself stricken with a vision of the future where she foresaw the death of Wonder Woman. In desperation she declared that Diana had failed and that a new contest should be held. The Amazon Artemis from the tribe of Antiope joined the contest. Hippolyte had a spell cast that when Artemis and Diana were present together, part of Diana's skill and power went into Artemis. Via this manipulation Diana lost the mantel of Wonder Woman, but she continued acting in man's world under her own name and as the leader of the Justice League.

Eventually Artemis died in battle and Diana reclaimed the costume of Wonder Woman. She fought Darkseid in a battle that cost the lives of twelve hundred Amazons. She also battled Morgaine Le Fay who sought to steal Diana's immortality little realising that she had forsaken it when she left Paradise Island. It was only after many months while battling the Cheetah that the effect of the god's departure became evident. Diana and her Amazon sister were reverting to the clay from which they were formed without the backing of their gods' presence. With the help of Harold Champion Diana travelled to Paradise Island where it was revealed that he was actually the god Herakles who had secretly fallen in love with Diana.

Herakles alerted the Olympian gods to the plight of the Amazons and after a debate the gods returned Olympus to this dimension atop its namesake mountain This restored the Amazons and Wonder Woman to full health. Meanwhile Artemis had been restored to life and via the manipulations of Neron sought to kill Jason Blood who was at that time assisting Diana. Via a series of events Diana, Hippolyte, Blood, Artemis and their friends found themselves the captives of Neron. Artemis managed to wound Neron allowing them to escape but not before be blasted Diana into a coma as revenge.

While the Justice League and the New Gods battled Ares at the source wall to stop him absorbing the so called "Godwave", Diana lay near death in a Gateway City hospital. Even the combined talents of Superman, J'onn J'onzz and Green Lantern could not help her. The efforts of rogue Dr Zuel to switch minds with Diana so that she might possess her body went a stray and caused the death of both of them.

The Olympian gods decided that they could not allow their most trusted follower to simple die so they resurrected her by the most convenient method. They raised her up to be equal to their own, as Diana Goddess of Truth. In her place as Wonder Woman the Amazons placed Hippolyta. Diana was forbidden to contact her human friends for the next one hundred years, but when her friends ended were trapped in hell during a battle against Dark Angel, Morgaine Le Fay and Merlin, Diana helped her friends as by giving them inspiration. But this was still enough to invoke Zeus's wrath who then revoked Diana's transgression and returned her to her mortal form, after which Diana once again assumed the identity of Wonder Woman.

Returning to her life as an Amasador, many troubles have befallen Diana. During OUR WORLDS AT WARS, Dian's Mother, Queen Hippolyta was killed in battle, leaving Diana briefly disillusioned. Following Hippolyta's dead was that of her mirror sister, Donna Troy AKA Troia at the hands of a Superman Robot.

Yet Diana did not give up. She has since then written a book to further teach the Amazons beliefs of peace. The book has been recieved with mixed opinions. Recently Diana was forced to battle Medusa onces again, and during the battle forever blinded herself with snake venom so as to defeat the mad creature.

MARTIAN MANHUNTER (J'onn J'onzz): Ma'aleca'andra, the fourth planet of the Terran system is known by the Humans of Earth as Mars after one of their ancient war gods. To their science it is barren and devoid of life. An endless wasteland of red rocks beneath a pale sky that is wrapped in a tenuous atmosphere, a remote forbidden place. It was not always so!

The race that others would know as the Martians rose aeons ago evolving from glorious winged creatures that flew free in the skies of Mars, while life on Earth was still in its infancy, they survived the wars and other threats that seek to destroy civilizations and rose to be a complex and very open society. This was based on the very physical nature of the Martians, they displayed physical powers that placed them on a par with Kryptonians and Daximates but they also were in complete command of their bodies that allowed them to shift form and function with a very thought.

Battle for those ancient Martians was not like the brutal and brawling battle of other races but was more of the dance of Martial Arts where the Martians would shift from one "battle" form to another with standard forms with such names as the Flesh Vortex and the Storm of Hammers. As is the way for many civilizations a split formed within Martian society between the more philosophical Green Martians and the militaristic Pale Martians. In retrospective any differences between one Martian and another are purely philosophical such distinctions as race and gender have little true meaning for a race that can shape shift between male and female or pale and green, only the underlying psychological aspects truly remain.

Matters between the two factions came to a head when the Pale Martians while using Earth as a source of materials upset the natural evolution of the Human race towards being a seeming race of superbeing to rival the Martians the themselves. The effect was that only a fraction of humanity would ascend to the position of a superbeing. For this crime of destroying the evolutionary possibility of another race, the Pale Martians were sentenced to eternity in the Still Zone. The Still Zone, the Phantom Zone call it what you will, is a dimension that exists apart from our normal space time continuum that has been used in ancient days by long forgotten titanic races as a prison for things best forgotten - it was in this endless eternity that the Pale Martians were imprisoned until the day when they would one day escape as the Hyperclan.

The remaining Martians consolidated their civilization into a utopian existence that lasted millennia. They were philosophers, artisans, performers and listeners. The gift of telepathy opened up their society so there were no secrets, on very level, every aspect took on a spiritual aspect and the worship of their gods played an integral part of their lives. Chief amongst their pantheon was H'ronmeer god of death and C'eridyall goddess of life, while behind all was the Unnameable One. They were a people at peace with each other, their gods and their environment. A peace that tragically would be shattered by a Ma'alefa'ak, a rogue Martian.

Ma'alefa'ak, J'onn's twin brother and shadow self, had committed the crime of mind rape and as punishment he was stripped of his memory, his telepathic abilities were shut down and a new identity and history was created for him. He was then sent off to begin his new life as priest/scientist of the central power cathedral on Mars. However, although his memory had been wiped out his hatred for the rest of the Martian race had not and slowly his memory came back and he plotted his revenge. Telepathically drawn to the uncontrolled image of chaos Martians had a weakness to fire that was both physical and phychological as their thoughts would be consumed by the fire causing all physical functions to shut down. Knowing this and that he was the only Martian not possessing telepathic abilities Ma'alefa'ak created a plague, known as H'ronmeer's Curse, that would not only make set the Martians' minds on fire but their bodies as well.

During the early days of the Great Plague the few Martians that were still unaffected gathered to determine what or who had caused tha plague as they had faound that it was artificially created and not a natural phenomenon. Believing it to be the work of Ma'alefa'ak, the only Martian whose mind was not open to the rest, they decided that he should be put to death. J'onn who believed the evidence against Ma'alefa'ak to be cicumstantial at best challenged the decision and was vharged with learning the truth in his role as manhunter. J'onn then sought out Ma'alefa'ak at the central power cathedral on Mars only to learn that the others were right and that he was indeed determined to wipe out the entire Martian race.

When Ma'alefa'ak took refuge in a fortress of fire J'onn returned home to be with his family and try to prevent them from being claimed by the plague as well. Knowing that the curse spread from mind to mind he tried to convince M'yri'ah to shield her thoughts but when their daughter who was already affected by the curse called for her mother, M'yri'ah opened her mind to her daughter and was herself affected by the curse and they both died. Having witnessed the death of his wife and daughter J'onn returned to the cathedral to kill Ma'alefa'ak even if it would result in his own death as well. Ma'alefa'ak seemingly died in the insuing battle and J'onn began wandering the cities of Mars sometimes morphing himself into his fellow Martians to convince himself they were still alive.

On Earth, separated from the Martian race by both time and distance the self taught scientist and dreamer Doctor Saul James Erdel sought to create a machine that would reach across space and the dimensions to seek other intelligent life. He had more failures than success, but at some point in the 1950's he reached the point of no return and initiated the machine. Much to his surprise the machine finally worked, transporting alien life to him in the form of a male alien apparently carrying the body of little alien girl. The alien collapsed, and regained his consciousness after Erdel had buried the girl. In an instant the minds of Erdel and that terrified alien brushed against each other telepathically and all was laid before the stunned scientist.

The alien Erdel found was actually J'onn J'onzz and the girl was actually a part of J'onn's body given the form of his daughter. After J'onzz was nursed back to physical health, Erdel offered to send him home but the Martian still broken inside by the memories of the plague and the death of his wife and daughter destroyed the equipment rather than be sent back. Afterwards J'onzz mind just shut down to protect him from any further emotional injury. In this catatonic state Erdel used the telepathic bond between the two to craft a new identity for J'onn, to paper over the cracks in his shattered mind and to craft the personality of the Martian Manhunter based on stuff he borrowed from old pulps. Although Erdel believed himself to have fabricated J'onn's new identity entirely from scratch, it was actually more of a combined effort as J'onn subconciously inserted various bits and pieces from his actual life on Mars, such as his beetle-browned humanoid form as well as his profession as manhunter, while other bits were left out as J'onn subconciously wanted to leave behind the hurt of his past.

J'onn now believed himself to by J'onn J'onzz military leader of the desert dwelling Martians in a civil war against the pole dwellers lead by General Blanx (imagery drawn from the ancient myths of the Pale Martians). Defeated underhandedly in single combat by Blanx John was exiled from Mars, while in the intervening period Blanx destroyed the rest of the Martian race forcing J'onn to permanently adopt Earth as his new home. After leaving J'onn with a function grasp of language and custom Erdel staged his own death to force J'onn to build a new life for himself out in the wide human world. The exact circumstances of Erdel's "death" have not yet been revealed, but it is known that Erdel blew up his lab and that a body was found and identified as Erdel soon afterwards.

One of the officers to investigate the explosion and death of Dr. Erdel was police detective John Jones, who impressed J'onn so much that he decided to stick close to him in his invisible form in order to learn more of Earth and the humans. About a year later John was killed by a fellow officer who had been bought off by a crimelord that John was about to testify against. Having learned everything about John during that year J'onn decided to take his place in order to bring the crimelord to justice. Seeing the good he could do in his role as John Jones, J'onn decided to keep the identity for himself after that.

As John Jones, J'onn became a one person crime fighting force as the fully fledged detective right down to the fashionable suits. The subconscious memories of the plague still lingered leaving him stern and unsmiling. For almost a decade J'onn maintained the identity of the detective only rarely using the form that be believed to be his true face to battle more powerful evils. When he was not working as John Jones kept much to himself watching hours of television an artform that facinated him a lot. As a Martian he was used to be able to use his telepathy to peer into the mind of the story teller and experience the story first hand, but with the television he encountered a medium that brought back the element of surprise. As Erdel before him J'onn staged his own death from the police force in 1968 to protect his friends from the enemies of the Martian Manhunter after his police partner learnt the truth about him (J'onn also wiped the memory from the mans mind but would years later lift the wipe to renew the friendship).

Following the death of his John Jones identity J'onn created the identity of the Bronze Wrath and became a member of the Justice Experience. J'onn's involvement with the team came to a quick stop in the early 1970's when Doctor Trapps, the untimate foe of the Justice Experience, captured the Bronze Wrath as part of his vendetta against the community of superheroes and villains, whom he believed responsible for the death of his wife. J'onn's encounter with Trapps left him without any memory of who or what he was for a two-year period. During this time he wandered the streets of America as a homeless. When his memory returned he found that all his teammates in the Justice Experience had been murdered by Doctor Trapps and as the Bronze Wrath, J'onn then assisted the JSA in bringing Trapps to justice.

The grief over the death of his newfound friends made him vow never to openly play the hero part again and he abandoned his Bronze Wrath identity. The following years he created a number of other identities for himself throughout the world. For a time he took the identity of Marco Xavier and battled more powerful menaces, yet still he kept himself hidden from the world at large. When Superman made his public debut and started a new heroic age J'onn thought it might be time to once again go public, this time revealing himself to the world at large in his Martian form as the Martian Manhunter. On his first public appearance as the Martian Manhunter he helped out Green Lantern, Flash, Aquaman, and Black Canary in fighting off an alien invasion. Afterwards the five heroes decided to stay together as the Justice League of America. Over the years J'onn became one of the longest serving members and the practical back bone of the group. Years later he would return to the identity of John Jones when he became a private detective.

From the Justice League of America to the Justice League International, J'onn remained with the League, to him it became perhaps the only family he had and he became very protective of team mate Gypsy treating her like a daughter. In one of the first cases of the JLI J'onn battled a sentient virus and via the magic of Dr Fate is was held prisoner in J'onn's alien cells. For months he held it save inside himself unaware of the effect that he was having on him.

The strain of containing the virus started wearing away at the mental block about his true path, this was boosted by the intercession of H'ronmeer the Martian god of fire. The terrified J'onn ran from the fire god straight into the home of Erdel who revealed the truth of J'onn's passage to Earth. Then using his rebuilt machinery he sent J'onn back to Mars to fully confront H'ronmeer. In a game of cat and mouse J'onn came to understand that H'ronmeer was not the dark god of death that humans might imagine but rather was the protector of the dead who had sought J'onn out to remove the mental block and allow the dead of Mars to rest in peace without J'onn's subconscious mind hanging desperately onto them.

When he returned from Mars J'onn had changed, there was an inner peace to him, he truly knew who he was and where he was from. When the JLI dissolved during its period of Breakdowns, J'onn resigned and took the chance to leave planet and meditate on his future. When he returned J'onn encountered the magician Bloodwynd who was having trouble with his Bloodgem when J'onn tried to help him he found himself mentally dominated by the Gem as Bloodwynd was sucked inside.

Under the control of the Gem, J'onn masqueraded as Bloodwynd for months even to the point of joining the League as Bloodwynd it was only the suspicions of the Blue Beetle and the help of the Atom and Ray that eventually freed Bloodwynd and J'onn from the mutual trap. Shortly afterwards J'onn was recruited by the UN to head up the Justice League Task Force.

The Task Force was initially conceived as a group of superheroes from the Leagues roster's hand picked for each mission on a rotating basis. J'onn was reunited with Gypsy during this time and later when the Task Force became the youth training arm of the League he adopted a sterner facade in order to better deal with the rebellious charges under him.

When the villain Dr Destiny and the entity Know Man tried to blanket the Earth in a form of dream reality J'onn found himself in an artificial recreation of Mars with his wife and daughter. Yet to him it was as real as the original when his friends tried to persuade them otherwise he signalled his intentions to remain in the dream paradise until it was destroyed by a gang of Know Man's agents. The strain of loosing his family (even and illusionary family) a second time took a large toll on the Martian Manhunter alienating from those that had been his friends and slightly undermining the peace that he had previously obtained.

Later when a group of White Martians initiated an invasion of Earth by disguicing themselves as an other-worldly group known as the Hyperclan and gaining respect around the world before initiating the actual attack, J'onn let them think that he betrayed the JLA and then he attacking the group from within. This incident combined with the battle with the forces of Heaven took a strong toll on J'onn who found himself under more pressure than ever from the world and his team-mates, and his reaction to this was to pull back slightly, making him seem more alien than ever to those that do not truly know him.

In more recent days, J'onn attempted to gain control over his one true weakenss. Fire. But during his training with the villain Blaze, J'onn went mad, as an ancient 'defect' in the Maritan body took control. It took the joint power of the JLA and bringing in retired hero Plastic Man to bring him back to normal. J'onn must now try to regain his sense of control, after losing it and nearly destroying the earth.

FLASH III (Wally West): Infant Iris Allen was sent to the 20th century from the 30th century by her parents to spare her from almost certain nuclear war. She was found and adopted by the West family. She grew up a child in the 20th century, and moved to Central City, where she got a job as a reporter for the Picture News and met Barry Allen (the Flash).

Iris' nephew, Wally West, was president of the Blue Valley chapter of the Official Flash fan club. Wally's Aunt Iris was dating Barry Allen (the Flash) at the time. Barry claimed he ‘knew' the Flash through his job as a police scientist. Wally was exited at the proposition of meeting his idol. Ironically, Wally thought very little of Barry upon meeting him (and unaware of his dual identity at the time). When Wally met Barry at his police lab, a seemingly freak accident occurred; A bolt of lightning struck chemicals which spilled on Wally granted him super-speed powers similar to Barry's. This was the exact same way in which Barry received his powers! Wally would later find out that the Speed Force used these accidents as a cover to grant super-speed powers to both him and Barry.

Barry revealed his dual identity to Wally and a new partnership was forged. Wally became Flash's sidekick, Kid Flash. Initially, Wally wore a costume mirroring Barry's. As a strategic decision during a battle, Flash altered Wally's costume to a primarily-yellow design. After the battle, Wally chose to keep the costume, and wore it through his whole career as Kid Flash.

A few years later, Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad joined together to stop the menace of Mr. Twister. It was the first time the sidekicks joined forces. Their second meeting was more eventful: Robin,Kid Flash, Aqualad, now joined by Wonder Girl and Speedy, fought against their mentors, who had been possessed by the evil Antithesis. At this second meeting, the five youngsters decided to become a team... and the Teen Titans were born! Robin naturally became the leader of the original Teen Titans. The sidekicks would continue to operate with their mentors, as well as spending time with their peers in the Teen Titans.

Kid Flash eventually left the group to focus on school, while also continuing a part-time solo career and partnership with the Flash on a handful of cases. Wonder Girl eventually persuaded him to rejoin the team. Wally had a crush on Donna and made a halfhearted attempt to date her, even though she was involved with Speedy at the time. Nothing ever came of this attraction. After a case involving Titans West, this incarnation of the team disbanded and Wally returned to Blue Valley to continue his college career.

Some months later, Raven banded together of group of New Teen Titans to help her battle her demon-father, Trigon. Initially, Wally was disinterested in joining the team. Raven used her emotion-manipulating powers to make Wally fall in love with her – and in turn, he joined this new group of Teen Titans. Wally was consistently protective of Raven, and came to blows with Robin when he challenged her true motives.

After an encounter with the Justice League, Zatanna revealed Raven's manipulation of Kid Flash. He was angry and heart broken. Even though the Titans eventually came to her aid and ultimately defeated Trigon, Wally had a hard time dealing with Raven's deception. Complicating matters, even without her influence, Wally realized he really was in love with Raven.

Shortly after this, Wally's high school sweetheart, Frances Kane, reentered his life. Frances' mother believed she was possessed by a demon; In truth, she had mutant magnetic powers. The Titans were able to deduce this although her mother still rejected her, fearing what her daughter had become. Frances resolved to learn more about controlling these powers. She also revealed to Kid Flash that she knew he was Wally West.

Wally grew increasingly unsure of his decision to continue as a member of the Titans. His discomfort with Raven and Frances' encouragement led him to leave the team and return to school in Blue Valley.

Wally also learned that his super speed powers were slowly killing him. Since his powers were acquired as his body was maturing, it caused metabolic changes that did not happen to Barry. The more he used his powers, the faster he would die. Wally still used his powers in extreme circumstances, such as the Crisis on Infinite Earths. During the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a bio-energy blast from the Anti-Monitor changed Kid Flash's metabolism – in effect, curing him of his condition.

It was also during the Crisis that Barry Allen gave his life in an effort to save the universe. Now cured of his condition, Wally assumed the mantle of his mentor and became the Flash. Thus, Wally was the first teen sidekick to ‘graduate' to assume the identity of his mentor.

Wally began a solo career. He won the lottery, which gave him time to become a full-time adventurer. Shortly after this, Wally and Frances Kane ended their relationship. It was at this time that Wally began a string of short-lived relationships (including one with Star labs scientist, Tina McGee). Wally also became a member of the Justice League and flirted heavily with its female members. Eventually, Wally lost his fortune.

Wally then discovered that his supposedly late father, Rudolph West, was actually a Manhunter agent. Wally had thought his father died in a Dominator invasion. Rudolph had actually feigned his own death.

Wally would return to aid the Titans on a few cases, such as an encounter with Cheshire and the final battle with Brother Blood. But he elected to not return as a full-time member.

Wally eventually met Linda Park, a plucky reporter who was initially turned off by Wally's arrogance. Eventually, Linda saw through Wally's facade, and the two began a serious relationship.

Wally's Aunt Iris traveled to the 20th century for refuge for herself and her grandson, Bart Allen. (Iris West returned to the 30th century and was reunited with her husband Barry Allen just before his death). Iris sought help for Bart, who had accelerated super-speed and was aging rapidly. Wally was able to cure Bart, who went on to become Impulse, a superhero in his own right.

Shortly after Iris's arrival, the evil organization Kobra threatened Keystone City. Bart, Iris and Linda Park aided Wally in defeating Kobra, with the help of other fellow speedsters, including Jay Garrick, Max Mercury and Jesse Quick.

In an effort to teach Bart responsibility, Wally named Jesse as his successor. This was actually a deception by Wally to get Bart to rise to the challenge and take adventuring more seriously. Jesse was furious when she learned that Wally duped her, and it became a sticking point between the two of them. Wally would eventually try to make amends, and his nomination of Jesse as a member of the Titans reflected this.

It was also during the battle with Kobra that Wally learned of the Speed Force. The Speed Force was a mystical power source that all super-speedsters drew power from. Upon their deaths, Speedsters would become one with this mystical force. Max Mercury knew of its existence, but was unsuccessful at his attempts to encounter it. Wally was the first speedster to ever enter the Speed Force and return. Wally was able to use his love for Linda as a beacon to draw him out of the Speed Force. When he emerged, he had enhanced super-speed powers, including the ability to lend super-speed to other objects.

The Justice League, which had been through many permutations, eventually reformed and Wally joined the team again.

Then, a galactic threat came to earth, reuniting former members of the Titans. The Titans gathered together to save their former member, Victor Stone (Cyborg) – and prevent him from putting the earth in jeopardy. They came into conflict with their mentors and friends in the JLA, but were eventually able to come to a truce and save Cyborg while preserving the safety of the planet. After this adventure, the group decided to reform, and Wally became a full time member of the Titans once again. Wally divided his time as a member of the Titans and Justice League, while also carrying on his solo career.

Shortly after this, Wally planned to wed Linda Park. At the wedding, however, Linda was abducted by Abra Kadabra, who sought revenge on Wally for a past defeat. Kadabra was able to erase Linda from everyone's memory (except for Bart, who remembered Linda since he came from a different time period). At the same time, Wally came into conflict with Cobalt Blue, who was revealed to be Barry Allen's twin brother. Cobalt Blue felt Barry had the life he should have had. He found a way to acquire super powers through black magic and sought to erase the Flash legacy. This meant killing various people who would carry on the Flash legacy through the 30th century! Super-speedsters past and present joined forces (including Wally's idol, Barry Allen) and eventually defeated Cobalt Blue.

After the battle, however, a mysterious new Flash emerged in Keystone City. Other heroes were initially wary of this new mysterious speedster. He entrusted his identity to a select few, including Superman and Donna Troy, who vouched for him. Thus, this mysterious Flash served as a member of the Titans and the Justice League. This Flash was revealed to be a alternate future version of Wally West, who was ten years older than ‘our' Wally. The real Wally emerged and the alternate-Flash returned to his true his true time and place in hypertime.

The speedsters also deduced Abra Kadabra was behind Linda's abduction. Wally was able to rescue Linda and restore everyone's memories of her. Wally and Linda resumed their relationship – and their wedding plans. The wedding of Linda Park and Wally West was celebrated by friends and family, including Dick Grayson serving as best man.

Wally also rightfully resumed his membership in the Titans. Shortly afterward, Wally stepped down as a member of the team to allow Jesse Quick a chance to shine as the lone speedster of the group.

When Wally's friend Hunter Zolomon became the new Professor Zoom, he sought to teach Wally a lesson about loss and responsibility. Although Zoom was defeated, Wally's public identity made Linda a target, resulting in the deaths of Wally's unborn twins at the hands of Zoom. Following that tragedy, the Spectre granted Wally's request for everyone to forget Wally West was ever the Flash.

The wish had unforeseen results; His Flash identity remained a secret to even Wally himself. And by pulling this temporal thread, Wally's past was changed as well. He now works for the Keystone Police Force in the auto repair division. Upon discovering his Flash identity, Wally is learning again what it takes to lead two lives.

GREEN LANTERN (John Stewart): Hal Jordan was Earth's GREEN LANTERN--a collective of heroes throughout the galaxies, each entrusted with an amazing weapon for good: a power ring. In case anything happened to Hal, there had to be someone who would carry on the cause of justice.

The first alternate Guy Gardner was injured and The GUARDIANS OF THE UNIVERSE--creators of the ring--told Hal he had to train another GREEN LANTERN. That person was John Stewart. John was both fearless and honest, the two main requirements for being a CORPS member, and he learned fast.

The first thing John did was abandon the mask, for he had nothing to hide. indeed, John had always been an outspoken defender of the underdog. Brought up in one of the lower income neighborhoods in Los Angeles, he stood up for what he believed in, no matter the odds.

In the course of his initiation, Hal learned as much from John as John did from Hal. Hal trained John in the hows and whys of being GREEN LANTERN, though they often differed on the whys--John being of the mind that such power gives you the right to use it to take action against moral wrong. John is a compassionate, caring, giving man.

Driven by his own strong set of ethics, John Stewart doesn't take well to authority. He has frequently looked upon orders from the GUARDIANS as demands of the elite, and was not afraid to say so.

John also had a wife, a beautiful red-skinned woman from the planet Korugar named Katma Tui, a GREEN LANTERN as well. After the CORPS was disbanded, John and "Kat" moved to Earth. It seemed John would be happy until Star Saphire, brutally killed Kat in an act of revenge.

His greatest failure occurred when he was trying to keep an entity from destroying the planet Xanshi. John was overconfident, stubborn, depending too much on the ring. Xanshi and it millions of people died. John never forgave himself. His dreams are haunted by Xanshi crying out in the soundless vacuum of space.

When the peoples of the world were finally returned to where they belonged, he left the Green Lantern Corps behind him and started up his own peacekeeping group to fill the void; the Darkstars.

After a brutal attack by Grayven, son of Darkseid, the Darkstars were disbanded and Stewart was emotionally crippled. Later Kyle told John that he could walk and that is was because of Hal magic that he thought he could not He returned to Earth and Today, John has founded Shining Light Architecture, and advised the Current Kyle Rayner as best he can.

After deciding that he need some time to find himself again, Kyle Rayner gave a new GL ring to Joh, requesting that he step in as Earth's and the JLA's Emerald Guardian.

AQUAMAN(Arthur Curry Orin): The mysterious sorcerer Atlan was father by Queen Atlanna of Atlantis to the adventurer known as Aquaman and by an Eskimo woman to the villain known as Ocean Master. Thereby he satisfied the ancient Atlantis prophesy that two brothers will always be battling over the fate of Atlantis.

When Aquaman was born as Orin, he was left by King Trevis to die on Mercy Reef, so called because it was used by the water breathers to leave others of their kind to die as the waters receded with the tides exposing them to the open air. However Orin was no normal child, abandoned because of a disturbing similarity between Orin and an ancient Atlantis monster known as Kordax. It was this Curse of Kordax, of having fair hair, that caused the abandonment of Orin to the air.

As the waters drew back Orin was nurtured by the warming effects of the Sun. He was truly of both worlds able to breathe both water and air. He was raised by the dolphin named Porm and wandered with her pod across the oceans. While a teenager Orin was found by the lighthouse keeper Arthur Curry. It was this kindly lighthouse keeper that was to be Orin's first prolonged exposure to humanity. Arthur raised him as he was his own son, teaching him the ways of the surface world and how to read.

After Arthur Curry disappeared Orin took the name as a mark of respect. Orin swam north and lived for months above and below the water avoiding all human contact until one fateful date he saved a young Eskimo woman by the name of Kako from a rampaging polar bear. Perhaps it was destiny that had drawn Orin there but it brought about the first meeting between him and his half brother Orm who was deeply jealous of Orin and Kako. He set in motions that would lead to Orin being driven out of the settlement.

Orin returned to the seas, he crossed paths with humans from time to time but for the most parts he stayed well out of the reach of humanity. Until one fateful day Orin happened on the city of his birth. Quite by accident he had found Atlantis. He was captured by the then dictatorial government of the city and placed in the prison camp. He was help with another prisoner Vulko who taught Orin the language and ways of the Atlantians.

A clear screen separated the male from female prisoners and through it he kept getting glances of a woman that he instinctively knew as his mother. When see appeared at the screen no more he knew that she was dead, there was no longer anything to keep Orin in this foreign city. He broke out and fled back to his endless oceans.

As time passed Aquaman took more of an interest in the surface world. The media began to call him a superhero and he was christened Aquaman by Barry Allen (aka Flash II). Not long afterwards he became a founding member of the Justice League of America. When he eventually returned to Atlantis he found that via his escape the citizens had been inspired to free themselves and that Atlantis was now a free city. He was recognised as the son of Queen Atlanna and so he became the King of Atlantis.

Times were happy for Aquaman, the new ruling house of Atlantis slowly reintroduced it to the outside world and the society and it ruler grew together in peace. There were those that would oppose his rule and the supervillian called the Shark deposed Orin for a time. Once the Shark was defeated Aquaman refused to take up the throne once more preferring to act more as the traditional superhero (a title what he would come to hate). The cost was high when the villain Black Manta succeeded in killing Aquaman's young son.

The death of Arthur Jr. put a rift between Orin and Mera so they tried relocating to a flooded city on the East Coast as a change of scene. It was during this time that as Aquaman he sought to reform the Justice League. Actually going in front of the United Nations he disbanded the Justice League and later reformed it only taking dedicated individuals and four new young heroes in the guise of Vibe, Vixen, Steel II and Gypsy. Accustomed to the rank of monarch his leadership style has harsh and caused authority problems with some of the younger members. Eventually Aquaman would leave this League.

Mera had been driven insane by grief and had been committed to an asylum in Atlantis. Shortly afterwards an alien force took the city. Orin was forced to save the city and in the process was hampered by an escaped Mera who personally blamed Orin for the death of their son. In a fit of rage she left this dimension. After Atlantis was freed Orin remained tied to the city. For a time he served as it's representative to the United Nations but always finding himself thrust into the superhero role. Becoming more and more of a workaholic and solitary figure he returned to the oceans where he eventually learnt the truth (from the old Chronicles of Atlantis that he how keeps) about his birth and the Ocean Master was actually his half brother.

Spurred on by Aqualad, Orin was forced to return to action where he lost his hand. The shock caused him to become delirious he experienced dreams filled with portents and omens, of things to come and things' past. Shortly afterwards he adopted a harpoon in place of his hand (later to be upgraded to advanced STAR labs psionically controlled model) and set out to protect the seas in his own way. Making friends along the way he started a romance with the mysterious girl named Dolphin, little knowing that she was being controlled by the monster Kordax in an effort to kill him.

Lost of all diplomacy, Orin found himself fighting former allies such as Superboy and even gaining the respect of Lobo of all people. He found himself reacting to the world around him rather than acting, discovering he had a son in the form of Koryax and that his former lover Kako had become the latest fire elemental. Meanwhile behind his back King Thesily the current monarch of Atlantis was plotting to kill Orin out of jealously due to the place that Aquaman had in the hearts of his subjects. In the end Thesily was killed during an earthquake, one of the many that forced the Poseidonians to flee to Tritonians as the city began to rise to the surface.

Koryax lead the Poseidonians away as Orin returned. Orin was forced to deal with the aftermath of his meeting with Thanatos (who had been using Atlantian equipment to broadcast threats in the guise of Aquaman) by battling the current Justice League who had come to investigate with the now floating city of Poseidonis. Not long afterwards Orin bonded with the ancient cybernetic entity that the Hunters had left to observe Atlantis. In the process he learnt of the impending return of the Hunter/Gathers and so began an epic struggle to gather together the ancient cities of Atlantis under one banner. He united all the undersea forces and many of the water related superheroes while at the same time having to contend with the return of Kordax who was telepathically controlling the citizens of Poseidonis.

The Hunter/Gathers had returned to Earth and had begun wooing the surface world around to their overtures of peace. However only the undersea forces of Aquaman knew the truth. Assembling a task force of undersea superheroes Aquaman took the battle to the Hunter/Gathers at the Whitehouse. They tried to convince Aquaman of their worth by allowing him a glimpse of future powers, but he refused and tricked them into revealing their plans to the world. The Hunter/Gathers were then forced to retreat. During the battle with the Hunter/Gathers Orin had become more and more the Monarch of Atlantis. However there was a difference, whereas before he had been only acting what he thought that a king should do, he now was truly acting as a king should, ruling the subjects below him.

The change did not sit easily with Orin. Having a magical heritage and destiny he began to feel the inner conflict physically. His body became mutated, his hands webbed and his skin scaled. It took help from the Swamp Thing to awaken Aquaman to his true nature via a form of vision quest into the past of Atlantis. He saw the origin of Kordax as a frightened young boy and not the monster that he became. Aquaman's increasing acceptance of his role as King frightened those around him and the physical transformation frightened his subjects. The matter came to a head when Poseidon forced him to battle his son, Triton, for dominion over the ocean. Aquaman won (partially because Triton let him win) and Poseidon forced on him a fraction of the powers of a sea god. Instantly blinded Aquaman discovered that Poseidon has opened a link between Aquaman and the Clear (the unified life energy field of all ocean life). His sight slowly returned and with the help of Animal Man he discovered that he also possessed the ability of echo location.

The new abilities that Aquaman now possesses reinforces his dominion over the creatures of the sea and it's inhabitants. He has established the position of Poseidonis in the surface world (even to the extent of a trial period where he opened it up to tourists). However his actions have not won universal acclaim amongst the people of the city. Vulko in particular feels as if he is out the decision making loop now that Aquaman is making his own decisions as King. Troubles brew for Aquaman in every corner, Triton recently killed his father and now sees Aquaman as his main obstacle between his goal of supreme command of the element of water.

During the events of the Imperiex War, Aquaman had sacrificed himself and his people, trapping them thousands of years in the past.

The Atlanteans were enslaved by their sorcerous ancestors for more than fifteen years before Aquaman - aided by the JLA - returned them to the present. To effect the rescue, Aquaman was forced to re-sink ancient Atlantis. For this, he was deposed as king and once more banished from the seas.

Barely alive, the outcast King of the Seas was visited by the Lady of the Lake. She restored his health and appointed him "Waterbearer" - a role whose full depth Orin has only begun to explore.

...Whoa.

Wow, Alan, that was a lot of stuff, I feel my knowledge of the comic heroes growing ^^ That must have been quite a bit of a workout for you. The next team will be the JSA I suppose, but I wont ask you to do it right away.

The JSA... Now that's a challange.

Well, lets see...

The JSA was formed in what is called the Golden Age of Heroes, when the world's heroes Hawkman, Green Lantern I (Alan Scott), Black Canary I (Current Black Canary's mom), Sandman, the Specter and Flash I (Jay Garrick). Formed at team to stand for truth, justice and freedom, during World War 2.

The would call themselves the Justice Society of America.

As the years passed the JSA took on a many number of other heroes, such as the Star Spangled Kid I, Wonder Woman III (Queen Hippolyta who is actually the third Wonder Woman, but travled back in time to WW2 during a point where Diana had died and been transformed into the Goddess of Truth), Hourman I, Doctor Mid-Nite I, Mister Terrific I, and Jonny Thunder and his Thunderbolt Genie.

The JSA battled evil and nazis for many years until 1951, when the JSA disbanded due to pressure from the House Un-American Activities Committee. The Government had felt that a group of super-heroes who hid their identities where surely communists, unless they divulged their true names.

Many of the heroes such as the original Black Canary, Doctor Mid-Nite, Mr. Terrific and so on passed away while many others such as Flash I, Green Lantern, and Wildcat retired.

For year there concept of hero-teams was but a memory but until the Justice League of America was formed.

But then several years back a major crisis forced a new team to be reformed. Or rather an old team.

Sentiel who had once been the original Green Lanter, along with Jay Garrick the Flash, Black Canary II (Dinah Lance), and the Android Hourman of the Future chose to reform the JSA.

Together they assemled a whole new team comprised of: Atom Smasher II, Dr. Mid-Nite II, Doctor Fate IV, Hawkgirl II (Reincarnation of Hawkgirl I), Mr. Terrific, Sand (Formerly Sandy, the teen sidekick of the Original Sandman), Starman VI, and finally Star-Spangled Kid II.

The Golden age of Heroes had returned to the world.

Over past few years they took on new teammates such as Captain Marvel, Jakeem Thunder and the Thunderbolt Genie, Hourman I and II, Powergirl, Hawkman, and even the villain Black Adam.

And since then the Society had been battle alongside the newer heroes of the world.

Hm... If that was a challeneg Im assuming this will be an even bigger one. The JSA Member explanations!^^

Well considering how big of a team the JSA is, yeah... it is.

DOCTOR MID-NIGHT (Pieter Cross): Cross was born in Norway in 1962 to Dr. Theodoric Cross, a colleague of Alfred Nobel, and his wife. Pieter was a gifted kid who quickly became interested in medicine. At an early age he went to the United States where he graduated from Harvard Medical School at age 19. He then became a gifted surgeon, who developed advanced techniques in limb grafting. At some point he became involved in a well-publicized battle over insurance fraud that led to Cross' loss of residency. Although lawsuits were threatened they were never filed. Following the scandal Cross went underground and began operating outside the realm of the established medical community. He set up a free clinic in Portsmouth City to treat those who didn't have the money to get treatment elsewhere. Every night he went to the slums of the North East Side of the city where he helped out in any way he could, such as supplying the prostitutes with condoms, and delivering fresh spikes and gallons of bleach to the Mercy Mission for its needle exchange program. His nightly prowls soon earned him the nickname "the Midnight Doctor". Although he had no direct ties to the F.D.A. he has often unofficially helped out the government in various cases, and he also unofficially helps out at some of the larger hospitals in the city.


Recently Cross got involved in a case regarding the drug A39, an accidental derivative of the Venom serum which got stolen from a government lab. When the drug suddenly turned up all over the streets Cross helped out the F.D.A. to get hold of a sample. However the heads of Preada Industries who were behind the mass-production of A39 learned of Cross' meddling in their business and became determined to get rid of him. Using one of their agents they managed to give Cross the drug which kicked in while Cross was driving home and as a result he lost control of the car and crashed. When he woke up he realized that he had lost his eyesight as a result of the blast from the crash, but he also found that the drug had interacted with some other chemicals in his bloodstream enabling his eyes to see the infrared spectrum. Cross then fashioned some special lenses that focused the other spectrums into his narrowed range. Determined to use his newfound abilities to the common good, he designed a costume for himself and adopted the identity of "Doctor Mid-Nite" out of respect for the Golden Age hero and began operating under the cover of darkness to protect Portsmouth City against sinister agencies such as Praeda Industries.

Doctor Mid-Nite is surrounded by a number of assistants, consisting of a number of persons whose eternal friendship Cross has earned by helping them out in their time of need. One of these is Camilla Marlowe, a young woman Cross came into contact with during the whole A39 affair, who has become a close confidant of the doctor and has set up the "Dr. Mid-Nite Web Site", a site that free advice for the cyber-patients among other things. Other noteworthy assistants include Nite-Lite and Ice Sickle.

Doctor Mid-Nite later helped out the Justice Society of America on a case. Impressed with his work he was invited to join and he accepted. He temporarily had a relationship with Dinah Lance, the Black Canary, but the two recently agreed to remain friends only.

BLACK CANARY II (Dinah Lance): Dinah Lance idolized her mother, Diana Drake Lance. Her mother was one of the great mystery women of her age, the Black Canary, who operated on her own as well as with the Justice Society of America and teamed-up with the first Starman. Dinah was raised around all these heroes as aunts and uncles, and she wanted to be just like them. Unfortunately, her parents wanted something else for her.

Diana and Larry did not want young Dinah following in her mother’s footsteps. But Dinah was insistent. She trained in hand to hand combat with Ted Grant, the golden age hero Wildcat, and with a sensei in Japan. When she discovered she was a metahuman, with the power of a sonic scream, her path was set. She took her mother’s old costume, a blonde wig, and at the age of nineteen, she became the new Black Canary.

On one of her earliest outings, Dinah was drawn into a battle with four other new heroes: the Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, and the Martian Manhunter. The four decided to stay working together, and they formed the Justice League of America. Their ranks grew, and they even gained the approval of the Justice Society, although Dinah’s mother was still not happy.

During her early days with the JLA, Dinah met Ollie Queen, the hero called Green Arrow. While originally put off by his brash exterior, Dinah eventually fell for him, and the two began a passionate affair. These early adventures lead to tragedies in Dinah’s life, as her father died to save her, and her mother passed away from cancer, but not before giving her daughter her blessing. Dinah became part of a group within the League that took it upon themselves to wipe the memories of villains who learned the identities of heroes. This eventually led to the attempted rewiring of the mind of Dr. Light, an action that reverberates to this day.

When Green Arrow left the League, Dinah stayed for a time, but eventually left to join Ollie and Hal Jordan, the current Green Lantern of Earth, in their travels across America. Dinah helped Speedy, Roy Harper, Ollie’s old sidekick, break his addiction to heroin. Ollie and Dinah’s relationship grew rocky, and they fought and split up on occasion, but they always seemed to find their way back together.

When the JLA was reformed after Darkseid’s attempt to destroy Earth’s heroes, Dinah rejoined it. She stayed with the team for a time, but she eventually moved on. She found her way to Seattle, where she set up a flower shop called Sherwood Florist with Green Arrow. One night, while patrolling Seattle on her own, Dinah was taken by a group of drug dealers and tortured. Before Green Arrow could arrive and save her, her throat was cut, mangling her vocal chords and causing her to lose her sonic scream and to make her barren.

Ollie and Dinah attempted to stay together, and they did for a time. Dinah continued to fight crime after she recovered from the torture, with or without Ollie. He would disappear for months at a time, and she stayed in Seattle, working and fighting crime. But eventually, his infidelities grew too much, and Dinah left him. He went to travel, and she stayed fighting crime in Seattle.

Dinah seemed to have lost her purpose. She spent a brief time teamed up with the new Ray, and they had a fling, something she also regretted. When Sherwood Florist was burned to the ground, Dinah was truly at ends. And when Connor Hawke came to tell her that his father and her old love Ollie Queen had died, Dinah did not know what to do.

But purpose found her, in the form of Oracle. Barbara Gordon, the heroic information broker called Oracle, needed an agent to go and do the deeds she could not. Giving Dinah a new costume and hair dye so she no longer needed the wig, Dinah began her new life. Oracle remained distant from Dinah for many of their early adventures, not revealing her identity, but eventually the forces of Blockbuster began hunting Oracle, and Dinah was called to help. The two met face to face for the first time in years, having met once during Babs’s time as Batgirl, and they have remained the closest of friends since.

While vacationing, Dinah encountered a strange man who she began a whirlwind romance with. What she didn’t know was that this man was Ra’s al Ghul, the immortal eco-terrorist and nemesis of Batman. Ra’s was seeking a woman to give him an heir, and he had decided on Dinah. When she told him she could not bear children, he offered her one of his Lazarus Pits. She refused, but in Oracle’s attempt to free her from al, Ghul, she was mortally wounded, and was submerged in the pit anyway. Coming out of it, she found that her Canary Cry was restored, and she set out with a new purpose.

While still working with Oracle, Dinah was given an honor that she had always hoped for and joined the newly reformed JSA. She began a relationship with the new Dr. Mid-Nite, but that was halted when Ollie Queen returned from the dead. While the two began taking tentative steps, they eventually fell back in love with each other.

Dinah began splitting her time between adventures with Ollie and his son Connor and her assignments with Oracle. She aided Oracle in her attempts to exonerate Bruce Wayne for the murder of Vesper Fairchild, and continued to operate with Gotham as her home base. Recently, while on assignment for Oracle, she was kidnapped by the blackmailer know as Savant, and her legs were broken. While she was saved by the Huntress, Dinah was haunted by the similarity between this and the last time she had been captured.

The Huntress joined her and Oracle as a part of their group, mainly at Dinah’s urging. Shortly afterwards, Dinah was called away to the home of her old sensei, who was dying, There she met Lady Shiva, another of the sensei’s old students, and they went to hunt down his killer, the assassin known as Cheshire, the mother of Dinah’s goddaughter. The three fought across three continents, eventually arriving in America, where their paths crossed with a corrupt senator who had kidnapped Oracle.

Dinah’s relationship with Ollie Queen finally came to an end after she found she could not deal with all the secrets he was keeping. Returning to Gotham, she found that Oracle had set her up with a new florist shop, and that she, Oracle and Huntress were now a smooth crime fighting machine.

The most recent events in Dinah’s life have been trying. She joined with another group of Leaguers in the hunt for Dr. Light after the death of Sue Dibny. They were forced to face down the events of the night when they attempted to mindwipe him. Also, with the destruction of Oracle’s Clocktower, the Birds of Prey are now headquartered out of an old Blackhawk jet. Where their adventures will take them, only time will tell.

Black Canary is one of the premier hand-to-hand fighters in the world. She is also a capable investigator, especially with Oracle’s computer network as back up. Her meta ability is a Canary Cry, a sonic scream that can do anything from stun an opponent to doing actual physical damage to enemies and property.

SENTINEL (FORMERLY GREEN LANTERN 1)(Alan Scott): In 1939 Alan Scott survived a train crash which killed everyone else on board. He awoke to find that he was holding a mysterious green train lantern. Realising it was this that saved his life he fashioned a ring out of part of it and discovered that he could use it to grant him fantastic power. In reality the lantern had been crafted out of part of the Starheart, a magical entity which has been imprisoned by the Guardians of the Universe and had escaped to Earth. It was the Starheart that mentally persuaded Alan to make the ring and subconsciously influenced him to take up the name Green Lantern, a name that the Guardians used for their intergalactic peace keeping force. Alan used the ring to tap directly into the Starheart’s vast magical power. Alan fought crime in Gotham City alongside his long-time sidekick Doiby Dickles and occasionally alongside Streak the Wonder Dog.

Alan’s crime fighting career was one of the first to hit the United States and his high-profile activities helped him to form the original Justice Society of America. The group were instrumental in keeping the States safe while the war waged though Alan and his team mates were unable to assist in the war as Hitler had managed to capture the Spear of Destiny, a magical artefact that would kill any JSA member who entered Europe. After the war, Alan started to pursue a journalistic career as a broadcast executive. He continued adventuring as the Green Lantern and started a flirtatious relationship with the villainess known as the Harlequin. In reality this was actually Alan’s secretary, Molly Maynne. Eventually Molly turned over a new leaf and left Alan’s life without confessing her true identity or real feelings for him. Alan continued to plough himself into his journalism and his adventuring until the HUAC forced the JSA to retire from crime fighting or reveal their identities. Left with just his journalism, Alan started to turn his skills to business and managed to purchase WXYZ. He renamed this company Gotham Broadcasting Company and took an active role in its day to day running. Soon Alan met and married a young woman named Alyx Florin. Alan again was unaware of the dual identity of his romantic companion who was in fact the criminal known as Rose Canton, or The Thorn. Rose had reformed after being a long-time enemy of the Flash but she was infact a schizophrenic. All of this was unknown to Alan who progressed happily with the wedding. However, on the wedding night Rose started a fire in their honeymoon suite which led Alan to believe she had died when in fact she just fled. Rose feared that her Thorn personality would come to the fore again and she would harm the man she loved. Rose discovered that she was pregnant with Alan’s twins and moved to Wisconsin to have them. There they were given up for adoption and raised by separate foster families. Rose was taken away to the Amazons’ Reformation Island.

Alan’s children had developed superhuman powers due to their father’s connection to the Starheart. Sometime during their adolescence the two met and realised they were related. Adopting the costumed identities of Jade and Obsidian they discovered that Alan was their father. Confronting him Alan had no idea he had children and was further surprised by the re-emergence of Molly Maynne in his life. Discovering her criminal past, the pair finally acknowledged their long-time attraction. However, during this time Rose Canton also resurfaced and Alan met her along with their children. Rose was scared that the Thorn side of her personality was coming through again and would hurt more people. Before she took her life she revealed that she was Jade and Obsidian’s mother and that Alan was the father. Following this Alan married Molly and the two lived for some time.

For a time the Justice Society had reformed following the appearance of a new generation of superheroes. Alan again adventured alongside them but was separated from his new wife when the team were banished to Limbo. For two years Alan and the rest of the JSA battled demons to try and prevent Ragnarok. Eventually succeeding they returned to find that their families thought them dead. Alan was reunited again with Molly and the two continued to have a happy marriage. While Alan was in Limbo, Molly used her own money to fund a “super-channel” based in Los Angles which became a full fledged cable network known as Scott Telecommunications Inc. Upon Alan’s return he took up fulltime presidency of the company.

Alan’s life took a turn for the worse when the Starheart made itself known and started to take a direct presence in Alan’s life. It de-aged him so that he appeared to be in his 20’s which caused great strain on his marriage to the now 60+ year old Molly. Alan took a new name and costume, looking to distance himself from the Green Lantern persona. Calling himself Sentinel he first fought a mysterious new Harlequin. This new villainess appeared to be a manifestation of the Starheart’s malevolent side. During the Zero Hour crisis, Alan saw three of his close friends die at the hands of Extant and following an encounter with Parallax his ring and lantern were depowered. Alan found instead that the Starheart was inside his body and, even after it was destroyed, he could focus its energies free of the ring and lantern. Changing back to his older costume and aging somewhat to appear to be in his mid fifties, Alan again retired from the costumed life.

Alan remerged with the reformation of the JSA. As a corner stone of this new group Alan served as a father figure to the younger generation of heroes under his care. Serving them much better than he did his own children, Alan continued to fight alongside his old friends and his new charges. Early into the team’s formation Alan had to fight against his son, Obsidian, who had given into the darker side of his personality, possibly suffering from schizophrenia like his mother. Alan was forced to beat his son into submission. Later it was clarified that Alan had become the living embodiment of the Starheart and as such was essentially immortal. Any changes to his physiology were psychosomatic and he was one of the most powerful magical beings alive. Eventually Obsidian returned in alliance with Mordru and Eclipso. After Alan and Jade were initially beaten by Obsidian, Alan managed to rally and banish his don’s dark powers. Seeing that ignoring his heritage was never going to help him mend his past mistakes Alan reforged a ring and lantern and took the name Green Lantern again. Todd was placed into custody of the D.E.O. and vowed to atone for his actions. Alan’s new attitude has led to him becoming increasingly over bearing and protective of the younger JSA members who he sees as his own children.

Alan Scott is the living embodiment of the Starheart entity. This grants him a host of magical powers. Firstly he is immortal though not invincible. He can use the Starheart’s energies to construct anything he wills into existence for as long as his willpower can maintain. He can also use the energies to fly and to survive in space. Alan’s one weakness is wood and this can still kill him. Were Alan to die the resulting after effect caused by the Starheart’s perishing would wipe out most of existence. Alan’s body is no longer human and is totally constructed of Starheart energy. When he was Sentinel he manifested the power without aid. Now that he is Green Lantern again he has limited himself to focusing the energy through his ring which needs recharging from his lantern every 24 hours. This limitation is self imposed and Alan can still manifest Starheart energy without the ring should he need to.

SAND (FORMERLY SANDY)(Sanderson Hawkins ): Sanderson was a big fan of the Sandman comic strips that were appearing during World War II. When his parents died in an accident, Sanderson was taken in by his aunt, Dian Belmont. What Sandy didn’t know was that Dian was lover and confidant to Wesley Dodds, the real life Sandman. When Sandy became involved in one of the Sandman’s cases and discovered his identity, Wesley decided to take the young man in as his partner.

Wesley decided to adopt a brighter costume, and so he and Sandy began fighting crime together. They had a resounding success, and became members of the All-Star Squadron. When the junior branch of the team, the Young All-Stars formed, Sandy chose to join to watch out for the less experienced heroes. While initially condescending towards them, he eventually grew to respect the other heroes.

During one adventure, Sandy was exposed to a new chemical agent devised by Wesley Dodds as a crime fighting chemical. The reaction was horrible, turning sandy into a giant rampaging monster. Wesley imprisoned Sandy, and left him there while he sought a cure. Eventually he escaped, and it was revealed that his initial rampage was just a reaction to the gas, and he was now mentally stable. Wesley began funding more experiments to cure Sandy, but only after another accident involving the super villain the Shatterer was Sandy apparently cured.

Years went by, and Sand (as he now preferred to be called) lived a normal life. But when Wesley Dodds died fighting Mordru, the prophetic dreams that had been a part of his life for so long were passed on to Sand. At Wesley’s funeral, Mordru attacked again, and sand rallied the heroes there to combat him. The decision was made to start a new JSA, and Sand was made its inaugural chairman. He also discovered that he was no longer strictly speaking human. Even though cured of being a monster, Sand was now a silicon based life from with super powers.

Sand lead the team through many of its early adventures, including conflicts with a new Injustice Society, Green Lantern’s rogue son Obsidian, Kobra, and Extant, the being responsible for the deaths of many of the old JSA. After their battle on Thanagar, Sand stepped down as chairman, but stayed active with the team. He also made his romantic feelings for the new Hawkgirl known, but she didn’t feel that way about him, so they decided to stay friends.

When the Ultra-Humanite took over the world using the Thunderbolt, Sand was one of the heroes freed by Jakeem Thunder to help bring down the Humanite’s regime. Teaming with Jakeem, Rick Tyler, the new Hourman, and they do their best to stop the Ultra Humanite while dealing with their other teammate, the villain Icicle. In the end, Sand and his team were able to free the JSA and defeat Ultra-Humanite.

When Mordru returned to destroy the world, teaming with Eclipso and Obsidian, the JSA proved the front line of the world’s defense. As part of their plan, the Earth’s tectonic plates began shifting, and the Earth began shaking itself apart. Sand merged with the Earth, saving it, but apparently dying in the process. Recently, with the aid of Dream of the Endless, the JSA found out that Sand was not dead, but his body was deep within the Earth, and his mind trapped in the Dreaming. The JSA split up, one group retrieving his body, the other saving his mind from the rogue dreams, Brute and Glob. Returned to Earth, Sand rejoined the JSA, looking forward to more adventures.

Sand is a silicon based life form, who has many abilities. He can alter the shape of his body, travel through the Earth as sand, and has certain controls over Earth’s tectonic plates. He does require some respiration, although much less then a normal human, and wears a gas mask like that of Wesley Dodds. He uses one of Wesley’s gas guns, and also one of his grappling hook guns. When he was Sandy the Golden Boy, Sanderson had extensive hand to hand and gymnastics skills as well as an arsenal of sleeping gas bombs and grappling guns.

FLASH I (Jay Garrick): Jay Garrick was just your average college student, studying chemistry and physics at Midwestern University. He dreamed of being a football star, but his coach and teammates called him, “Leadfoot.” No matter what Jay did, he couldn’t be as fast as he wanted to be. Jay spent his afternoons at practice, being harassed by his coach, and his nights in his lab, trying to analyze a heavy water compound. One night, the fumes from the compound overtook him, and Jay passed out.

He awoke three weeks later, having been pulled out of his lab before any serious damage could be done by his friend Eliot. Jay realized that, somehow, he had been granted super speed abilities, and used them to show up his coach one time before quitting the football team. He transferred to Keystone University, where he received a masters in his chosen fields, and became the defender of Keystone City, the Flash.

After graduation, he took a job as a chemist at Keystone Labs. Jay began developing his own rogues gallery, and began seeing the war in Europe develop. One day, he met another of the world’s new defenders, Green Lantern, and the two became friends. They drew in other heroes, and they formed the Justice Society of America, where Jay served as the first chairman.

After the war, Jay stayed active as a super hero until HUAC demanded the members of the super hero community reveal their identities. Unlike many others, Jay did reveal his true name, but retired anyway. Jay married his college sweetheart Joan Williams, but the retirement didn’t stick, and he became active again in less then a year. One of his greatest regrets occurred when the evil Spirit King possessed him, using his body to kill fellow Society Member, Mister Terrific. Although the Spectre told Jay he was free of guilt, it took Jay years to actually believe it.

It was shortly after this time that three of his more powerful enemies, the Thinker, the Fiddler, and the Shade used their powers to wipe the knowledge of Keystone City from the world, and hide the city. A few years later, a new Flash, Barry Allen, found the hidden city and he and Jay saved it, returning it to the world. Jay and this new Flash became close friends, Jay acting as a mentor of sorts for Barry and his young partner, Wally West, and he even joined up with his old friends from the Justice Society to check on these new heroes in their Justice League.

Jay continued working with the Justice Society occasionally, up until the Crisis, when the death of Barry Allen saddened him deeply. He came out of retirement to aid Starman in the battle against his old foe, the Ragdoll, who had gathered a mad cult around himself, and again to join his teammates in their extra dimensional conflict with the Norse Gods managing to prevent Ragnarok. Jay disappeared for years, and when he returned he had a tearful and joyous reunion with Joan.

Jay worked with Wally West, who was now the Flash, when Barry Allen supposedly returned from the dead. Along with Johnny Quick, another speedster from the golden age of heroes, he tracked down Max Mercury, the zen master of speed, to aid them against a Barry they believed had gone mad. In the end, it was revealed that “Barry” was really Eobard Thawne, The Reverse Flash, Barry’s arch-foe, and Thawne broke Jay’s leg before he could be stopped. Jay’s speedy metabolism helped heal him quickly, and he came out running as fast as ever.

When the rest of the JSA was aged to their full ages by Extant during the Zero Hour crisis, Jay was one of the few who remained active. He helped Wally West defend Keystone City against the forces of Kobra, and when Wally disappeared into the Speed Force a second time, he helped new speedster John Fox learn the ropes. All along he served as the father figure to Wally, helping him through all the problems of being a super hero and all the problems that come with living.

When many members of the old Justice Society were called to aid the JLA in a battle involving Johnny Thunder’s old Thunderbolt/genie, Jay answered the call. Shortly after, he joined with the rest of the active old time heroes to help form the new JSA, one that would honor the legacy of the heroes that came before it, and teach the next generation. Jay served as the team’s heart, the kind voice that stood in contrast to the harsher one of his old friend Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern. When a new Injustice Society appeared, Jay was thrust into battle with Rival, an old foe with super speed he thought long gone. Jay defeated him again, and Rival was thrust into the Speed Force, thought gone forever.

Jay was struck another blow when he found out that his beloved Joan had cancer. The two moved to Denver, where she could get treatment, and they took with them Bart Allen, the young speedster called Impulse, who they would come to love and raise as the son they never had. In Denver, Jay and Impulse found out that Rival was not gone, but had instead been disguising himself, hiding as Joan’s doctor to prolong her treatment, keeping Jay out of the superhero game, and that he had taken possession of Max Mercury’s body. Impulse defeated Rival, but at the cost of Max, whose body was lost in the timestream. However Joan made a full recovery, and they all moved back to Keystone happily.

Jay has remained active with the JSA, helping them against the unified forces of Mordru and Green Lantern’s mad son, Obsidian, as well as Black Adam’s rogue heroes in Khandaq. When the Spectre, now tied to the soul of Earth’s second Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, agreed to strip the world of the memories of Wally West and Barry Allen’s secret identities, he made an exception for Jay and his family. Since Wally’s return to heroing, he has not spent much time with Jay, but Jay is still there, waiting for when his young friend needs his support.

Jay Garrick is tied to the extra dimensional energy source, called the Speed Force, allowing him many powers. He can run well beyond the speed of sound, is able to vibrate at a rate that allows him to pass through objects and obscure his face. While he’s not as fast as he was in his prime, he is still one of the fastest men on Earth. He is also one of the senior statesmen of the super-hero community, respected by all, and sought out for his council by many.

DOCTOR FATE IV (Hector Hall): Hector Hall was born to Carter and Shiera Hall, the first adventurers to take the name Hawkman and Hawkwoman, in Cairo. However, the Hall's had been plagued eternally by the curse of Hath-Set. This curse culminated in their first born, Hector. Hector was born without a soul, destined instead to become a vessel for Hath-Set's spirit of vengeance, the Silver Scarab. After returning from Egypt, Shiera retired from crime fighting although Carter remained active. Hector however received little attention from his parents as they were frequently away on archaeology digs, leaving him with countless baby sitters. Hector felt greatly neglected by his parents and instead found solace in the plight of his peers, the other offspring of the Justice Society. Hector was further distanced from his parents when the family travelled to Feithera to visit the Hall's godson, Norda. Hector was left to watch jealously as Norda flew with his parents, leaving him grounded and alone.

Hector started to create a suit, desperate to fly with his parents. The suit was made entirely of the mysterious Nth metal that gave the Hall's their flying powers. Hector's suit also had some solar power improvements. Hector enrolled at UCLA and soon met his friend, Lyta Trevor. The two quickly fell for each other and began to date. Lyta wished to follow in her mother's footsteps and become the next Fury, and Hector shared the secret of his Silver Scarab suit with Lyta. The two decided to apply for membership in the Justice Society of America. Before they did they invited Al Rothstein, godson of the Atom, to apply with them as well as Norda, codenamed Northwind. All four were turned down due to their age and lack of experience. Instead the four applied again with Jade and Obsidian. This time the Star Spangled Kid felt for them and set up a splinter group with the six plus himself, Power Girl and Brainwave Jnr, calling themselves Infinity, Inc.

Hector publicly unmasked at one of the team's first press conferences following the Ultra Humanite learning his identity. He then announced his engagement to Lyta. However, he also revealed his father's secret identity which put even more strain on their relationship.

Hector and Lyta had little time to enjoy their happiness as the entity that had remained within him since birth rose up. The reincarnated Silver Scarab fought Infinity, Inc. alongside Hath-Set. The heroes managed to win but at the cost of Hector's life. As he died he learnt that Lyta was carrying his child.

Hector's story did not end there though. His consciousness had been cast into the Dreaming where he was found by Brute and Glob. The pair had made a dream world of their own, hidden within the dreams of a young boy and separated from the rest of the Dreaming. They aimed to replace Morpheus as ruler of the Dreaming with a puppet king that they controlled. They soon convinced Hector that he was heir to the role of Sandman after Garrett Sanford died. Hector unwittingly became a pawn in the games of his two "sidekicks." While in the Dreaming, Hector was able to spy on Lyta while she slept. Hector didn't want to reveal himself for fear of harming their unborn baby. Eventually his nightly visits were discovered by Nuklon, who forced Hector to unmask. He explained to Lyta his new role and he asked her to marry him again, despite his only being able to stay out of the Dreaming for one hour at a time. Lyta accepted his proposal and returned with him to the Dreaming, the pair getting married before they left.

Eventually Morpheus discovered Brute and Glob's disappearance and managed to capture the pair. Finding no use for Hector and his wife he sent Hector to the realm of the dead and Lyta to the land of the living.

Hector returned again though. This time his soul and consciousness was returned to the realm of the living when he was literally reborn as the child who would become the next to assume the mantle of Dr Fate. Hector was threatened straight away by the Dark Lord Mordru who captured him after Hawkgirl attempted to rescue him. However, he was saved by the new Star Spangled Kid after Mordru attempted to assume the power of Fate himself. Instead Hector was aged to full manhood by the Star Spangled Kid touching with his old Silver Scarab.

Hector became the new Dr Fate instantly and managed to trap Mordru inside the Amulet of Anubis. He then joined the newly formed JSA. Hector had many adventures with the team showing great power as he fought. However, Hector was always plagued by the fact he had no idea where his wife was. Hector though her dead but when the team journeyed into his amulet, Mordru revealed she was alive. Hector handed in his resignation from the JSA and set out to find his wife.

Hector returned to Vancouver where he was reborn to see his comatose "mother." Hector realised though that Mordru had cast a spell of deception over the woman and that in fact it was Lyta. Hector returned to the JSA, seeking aid in reviving his wife from her coma. Leaving Lyta under the supervision of Dr Mid-Nite, Hector travelled to Thangar to rescue Hawkgirl and also witness the resurrection of his father. The two briefly reunited but there was still no emotional attachment between father and son. However, Carter did warn Hector not to let the mantle of Fate overwhelm him.

Hector tried to wake Lyta with his magic but this proved unsuccessful. Instead he returned to his tower to research. Eventually Hector learnt from Nabu that he must journey to Gemworld to unlock the secret behind Mordru's spell on Lyta. Travelling there he met Flaw. Flaw promised to take Hector to Cutter, the creator of the Amulet of Anubis. Cutter informed Hector that Nabu came from a world known as Cilia and that the amulet is all that remains of the planet. He also revealed that Mordru is not a corporeal being, rather a collection of body hopping energy. Hector left Gemworld after taking with him the skull of Lord Wrynn, a man who had been consumed by Mordru. Hector started to prepare for the ritual involving the skull but was rebuked by Nabu for neglecting his studies.

When the JSA battled the Injustice Society, they were confused when the villains used strange discs to remove the older heroes from the battle. The remaining JSA captured one of the discs and were told by the Spectre that they had to fight a demon named Legacy after healing their past emotional wounds. Hector journeyed to Salem where he met Nabu in a bar. Existing both in the bar and in the astral plane simultaneously, the two talked. Hector started to see the fates of everyone including himself. His own fate appeared to end with him killing Hawkgirl before his father killed him. Hector refused to accept this and instead pledged to forge his own fate. Hector and the rest of the JSA confronted Legacy who turned out to be the old villain the Wizard and he was soundly beaten.

Fate returned to freeing Lyta. Using the skull he undid one of Mordru's spells but found another in his path. Lyta was not actually Lyta but instead was Dawn Granger, the deceased adventuress known as Dove. Hector was furious and imbalanced. Joining the JSA he lashed out at protestors and became verbally abusive to his team mates. Hawkman would not stand for Hector's insubordination and ordered him to remove his helmet. To their shock, the JSA saw that Mordru had managed to replace Hector under the helm of Fate. Hector was actually trapped in Mordru's prison inside the Amulet of Anubis. He was rescued by the Agents of Order who had passed on before him. Hector was taken to the Nelson house within the Amulet where he learnt much. The voices speaking to him had been Mordru rather than Nabu and that Mordru was inhabiting the body of the Lord of Order, Arion. Hector was also told to accept that his wife was dead. This pushed him too far as he lashed out at the house. Nabu appeared telling Hector that his imagination crafted this realm and that he knew inside that Lyta was dead.

Hector gathered his strength and managed to return to reality to confront Mordru. The JSA were unable to help Hector as he threw up shields around him and Mordru while they fought. Hector drew on every realm of magic that he commanded and forced Mordru to face his own fate, that of continual defeat and embarrassment for millennia to come. Hector imprisoned Mordru within the Rock of Eternity at the end of the universe.

Fate travelled with the JSA and his father to fight in Khandaq against the forces that Black Adam had assembled. While on route to Khandaq, Hector was drawn again into the Amulet of Anubis by Nabu. Nabu chided Hector for blindly following his father. Hector responded by telling Nabu not to interfere anymore. Nabu was fighting the JSA's while Hector struggled within the house that Nabu had placed him in. Only when the other Agents of Order and his wife returned to him did he have the strength to reclaim his body. Hector and Lyta are now looking to start again, residing in Salem in Fate's Tower, with the protection of their son, Daniel who took over from Morpheus as Dream. Recently Lyta, Hector and some of the other Society members travelled into the Dreaming to try and locate Sand. They were confronted by a figure wearing Hector's old Sandman costume. Who this is and whether their son has anything to do with it is unknown.

As Dr Fate, Hector is the primary Agent of Order. He has vast magical powers and no longer receives misleading or confusing information from Nabu. Hector wields a variety of spells and artefacts in combat including the helmet, amulet and cloak that are essential to becoming Fate. He is still learning his full potential but has shown new confidence. As Sandman, Hector had enhanced strength, the power of flight and inhabited the Dream Stream. When here Hector could travel to the waking world for an hour each day. He could also travel anywhere almost instantaneously through the dream stream. As the Silver Scarab, Hector's suit allowed him to fly and fire solar powered concussive blasts.

HOURMAN II (Rick Tyler): Rick Tyler was born to a successful hero and business man. However, Rex was not a very good father. His adventuring was as addictive for Rex as the drug he used to adventure, Miraclo. Rick rarely saw his dad. On one birthday in particular, Rex was out on patrol but managed to stop at the family home to leave a happy 8th birthday card. Unfortunately it was Rick's 11th birthday.

Rick progressed into a well balanced teenager but always longed for his father's guidance and teaching. Rick was at an age where his role models were essential. However, it was at this time that Rex disappeared along with the rest of the Justice Society of Ame