Showing posts with label jla/jsa team-ups. Show all posts
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Friday, July 1, 2011

Making a Splash: Dick Dillin's Annual JLA/JSA Team-ups, Part Two

We're back with more great summertime/JLA/JSA/Dick Dillin memories, Groove-ophiles! Today we're covering 1973-1980, and things get bigger and better than ever! After bringing the Seven Soldiers of Victory out of limbo (literally!) in their 1972 team-up and rescuing Earth-X and the Freedom Fighters in '73, our two super-teams supreme spent most of the rest of the Groovy Age meeting other groups of heroes from different times and/or earths.  SHAZAM! and the Fawcett heroes. The Legion of Super-Heroes. A time-displaced group featuring Jonah Hex, Enemy Ace, and the Viking Prince. The New Gods. Even writers Cary Bates and Elliot S! Maggin and editor Julie Schwartz! That was some great run of comix!

And still, good ol' Dick Dillin was there to make these ca-razee stories, not only work, but look cool! It was fitting that when Mr. Dillin passed away in 1980 he'd finished the first part of a JLA/JSA summer team-up. It featured the New Gods and Ol' Groove thinks that final story might've been Dick's best work ever.
















Thank you, Dick Dillin, for making all those summers even more special.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Making a Splash: Dick Dillin's Annual JLA/JSA Team-ups, Part One

When you think about it, DC has had an annual "crisis" since the Silver Age. Thing is, back in the Silver and Groovy Ages, those crises only occurred in the summer issues of Justice League of America. Throughout the Groovy Age itself, the true hero of each of these crises was penciler Dick Dillin, who year after year handled the task of drawing a dozen or more super-heroes in action for up to three issues (not even taking into account the other issues that filled each year with JLA-ers--plenty of those all the time!). Writers, inkers, and even editors came and went, but we could always count on dauntless Dick Dillin to be there, juggling all of those characters, keeping things cosmic--all the while keeping the story flowing and easy to follow. Ol' Groove doesn't think the man ever got enough kudos for accomplishing all of that. It wasn't summer without a good JLA/JSA team-up, so let's get this summer started!

















Stay tuned for Part Two next week! Meantime, what are some of your faves from this batch?
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