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Circa 2007. In addition to founding members, the roster includes Red Tornado, Vixen, Hawkgirl, Red Arrow (the former Speedy) and Black Lightning. Black Canary, in some tellings, is also considered a founding member.

Justice League, also known as Justice League of America and the JLA, is a DC Comics team of fictional comic book superheroes.

The Justice League of America was a comic book series created in the late 1950s/ early 1960s during what is referred to as the "Silver Age of Comics". At the time, DC (or National Comics, as it was known then) was recreating new versions of many of its more successful super-hero characters that were popular in the 1940s, such as the Flash and Green Lantern. Paying homage to the classic of the 1940s, The Justice Society of America, (the original "mystery man" team comic book series), a similar idea was tried with the Silver Age versions of the heroes, and The Justice League of America was born.

The first appearances included Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Martian Manhunter (then a relatively recent DC creation with roots in the 1950s Sci-Fi comics genre), and Aquaman. In Modern Age retellings, Black Canary was added to the list of founding members. The comic was an instant success and its ranks soon increased to include the Green Arrow, Hawkman,and Atom.

Known sometimes as "The JLA" or "The Justice League", the book has continued to this day, with many incarnations of the team with a variety of rosters over the years.

Circa 1960. The original members.

Animated TV-Series

• Justice League (TV series) (animated) (2001-2006)

• The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians animated TV-series (1986)

• Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show animated TV-series (1984)

• The World's Greatest SuperFriends animated TV-series (1979)

• Challenge of the SuperFriends animated TV-series (1978)

• The All-New Super Friends Hour animated TV-series (1977-1978)

• Super-Friends" animated TV-series animated TV-series (1973-1977)

Other Adaptations

• Justice League (TV pilot): unsold 1997 live-action pilot
• Justice League of America (movie) (2009 or 2010)

A gathering of all heroes who were ever members of the JLA, up until 2005.

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