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First Appearance (Golden Age): All-Star Comics #36 (November 1947) First Appearance (Post-Golden Age): Justice League of America #123 (July 1975) Pre-Crisis Fate: Active in various iterations Post-Crisis Fate: Active under new leadership, many original members deceased |
Fragmenting into individual efforts, the ISW launched strikes are government facilities around the nation, each with his own private army of convicts. In additional to furthering their primary aims, the villains were each assigned to capture a member of the JSA in anticipated resistance. To ensure that the JSA showed up, the villains notified the heroes of their plans. In due course, Hawkman was captured by Vandal Savage and Dr. Mid-Nite was apprehended by Degaton. The Flash fell victim to his long-time foe, the Thinker and the Atom was snared by the Gambler. After an encounter at a government nuclear facility, the Brain Wave left the Green Lantern for dead at the bottom of a ravine. Hearing of Degaton's capture of Dr. Mid-Nite in Washington, Wonder Woman and Johnny Thunder left the JSA HQ to intervene, only to be captured themselves.
Bringing the JSA to trial before Judge Thinker, the heroes are quickly convicted for plots against evil and sentenced to death. The villains are thwarted however, when the the Thinker is revealed to be the Green Lantern, not quite so dead as assumed by the over-confident Brain Wave. Quickly liberating his colleagues, the JSA turns the tide against the villains. All are handily captured save the Wizard, who flees into the street only to be captured by a group of children who idolize the Justice Society. (All-Star Comics #37).
Not satisfied with this outcome, the Wizard abandoned his fellow members in prison and re-organized the Injustice Society a few months later with new, less megalomanical members including the Fiddler, the Icicle, the Sportsmaster, the Huntress and the Harlequin. After recruiting the Harlequin, the Injustice Society learned that Green Lantern's "enemy" had no intention of joining the group. Instead, they learned from a diary she dropped, she intended to betray them. Followed covertly by the Sportsmaster, the Harlequin alerted the JSA to the villains' plan only to be felled with the heroes when the Sportsmaster launched a grenade in the form of a lacrosse ball.
The Harlequin was thrown under a table by the blast and went undetected
as the Sportsmaster lugged the JSA members out to captivity. When the Black
Canary arrived later for membership induction, she found the ersatz villainess
and together, the two were ambushed by the Icicle. Taken back to the Injustice
Society headquarters, the two found the JSA brainwashed and working as
slaves for the villains. Before they could join their comrades in slavery,
the Black Canary revived the JSA and each member set off in pursuit of
the individual ISW members, each of whom had targeted a national monument
to steal. Unfortunately, the heroes had been subject to a post-hypnotic
suggestion that would return them to a mindless state when they heard the
snap of fingers. As each intercepted their target, the villains handily
re-captured them and carted the heroes and the monuments back to their
lair.
To determine who had committed the best theft, the
villains planned to ask a large crowd of captured Americans to judge them.
To make sure the JSA was no longer a threat, they were dropped in their
automaton state into a deep mine shaft along with the recaptured Harlequin
and Black Canary. Trapped in the bowels of the earth, the heroines worked
feverishly to convince the JSA of their true identities. With constant
urging, the two convinced Green Lantern to employ his ring, freeing the
JSA from their stupor. The team then rocketed up the shaft and confronted
the ISW, who had reached a murderous level of frustration with their captive
judges. Suprising the villains, the heroes quickly rounded up the team.
The ISW was deposited in jail and Black Canary was then inducted into the
Justice Society (All-Star Comics #41)
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The activities of the formal organization of the Injustice Society
after 1948 are unknown for many years. Many Societymembers were active
up until the 1950's, when many either retired or were captured. When heroes
re-emerged in the so-called "Silver Age of heroes", many villains became
active again, though often in splinter groups such as the Crime Champions.
In the 1970's, several recorded cases of the Injustice Society were recorded. When an other-dimension comic book writer found himself thrust in the Injustice Society's world, he contacted several members of the Injustice Society |
Golden Age Appearances
All-Star Comics #37
All-Star Comics #41
Post Golden Age Appearances
All-Star Comics #63-66
Justice League of America #113 - reprints All-Star
Comics #41
Justice League of America #123-124
Justice League of America #183-185
Justice League of America 100 Page Spectacular #1 - reprints
All-Star
Comics #41
JSA #10
Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant #1