Saturday, March 5, 2011

Justice League and Superhero action Characters

By Andy Ainsworth


Justice League hero figures! At first glimpse, you could get the impression that these are targetted as toys for the adolescent, but if we take a closer review of the demographics of whose buying Herocharacters (and comics), we see that a decidedly significant # of buyers are in fact adults. Justice League Hero figures in particular appear to attract a more worldly fan base. Why is this? Well collections normally have a tendency to be about creating importance in things, in particular anyplace where we have fond memories. That is why the Justice League Hero characters phenomenon makes sense as the heyday of this particular series was in the 70s & 80s, which means that the children who were brought up with Hero figures & comic books, are now in a demographic that has major disposable resources.

Justice League comic books were created in the 1950s (it was established as the Justice Society) in 1960, the freshly appointed author (Gardiner Fox) altered the name to the Justice League (he was a fan of the NFL & baseball leagues), essentially creating franchises that still exist now. The initial team consisted of 7 characters that have grown into iconic creations of today's pop culture (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter & Aqua Man)

The premise of the Justice League is that a body of superheroes band together to resist enemies that they have the ability to bring about transnational calamity. Each individual member of the Justice League has insufficient power to cope with this adversary, & only by banding together, are they able to succeed & continue to safeguard the Earth. As with all sterling superhero series Justice League has a hidden headquarters, in fact, during the years they've had a # of secret bases, including a secret cave in Rhode Island, a moon base, an orbiting satellite base & infamously (in 1984) a secret base in Detroit, Michigan.

Moving to Michigan was an attempt on the part of DC Comics to refresh the series using the original concept. The endeavor failed, because all of the original characters were replaced by newer, hypothetically, more fast-moving characters, this in due course cost the series much of its original charisma. In 1996, a spin-off was launched, entitled Justice League America, which has proved to be the most popular incarnation of the franchise. JLA ran for approximately ten years before it was finally closed with a storey called infinite crisis. The storey is a great deal too enjoyable for me to reveal here, please go check it out you will be glad that you did.

So where are we at present? & More crucially, when will the next Justice League Superhero figures will be ready? Well there are traces, in 2008, Superman, Batman & Wonder Woman reformed Justice League (this time using the Batcave as a classified command center) & rumors abound of a live-Superhero movie happening shortly.




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