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Reviews of:
Seven Soldiers: The Manhattan Guardian #3
Justice League of America #18 (April 1963)
Justice League of America #19 (May 1963)
Seven Soldiers: The Manhattan Guardian #3(4 out of 5 stars)- Here is some excellent storytelling by Morrison as he weaves a single-issue story into the greater fabric of the Seven Soldiers. This issue reminded me of everything that was good about the silver age....without the bad dialogue. Morrison writes whatever fantastic idea comes to his mind and in this issue it is the global village of the Earth represented and acted out by 100 androids. The Guardian quickly finds himself in a Westworld-like scenario and even when that is taken care of, he finds things aren't going well at home either.
Justice League of America #18 (2.5/5)- What's worse than Snapper Carr? Snapper Carr saving the day. It's been a while since comic's most annoying sidekick has gotten to go along with the JLA on one of their cases, so he's disappointed when he arrives at a scheduled meeting to find that his super-buddies have gone on without him once again. Unknown to him, the JLA has actually been shrunken down to subatomic levels where a planet exists. They have been asked by the android protectors of that planet to help them by destroying the androids. The androids are invulnerable and are programmed to continue protecting the planet but that same thing that makes the android invulnerable is killing teh people who live on the subatomic planet. The JLA fight them and lose until they realize that they are unable to beat the robots because the world has a gas that makes them susceptible to suggestion and because the androids told the JLA they were invulnerable, the JLA know believes they can't beat them and are subconciously holding back. So, they get the one member of the JLA who has not been told the androids were invulnerable: Snapper. Let's face it, this story was weird and a silly even for Silver Age JLA. The weirdness can be fun, so I gave this book an average rating.
Justice League of America #19 (3/5)- Wonder Woman is defeated by a "Super-Wonder Woman." The Green Arrow is defeated by a "Super-Green Arrow." Superman is defeated by a "Super-Superman!" This book starts with the whole Justice League getting defeated by even more super copies of themselves (ones that do not have the weaknesses of the originals) and things get worse as the evil clones go on a crime spree. Little do they know that these evil clones were ceated by Dr. Destiny from their own dreams! When the police go to arrest them, Jean Loring comes to defend them in court and they plea bargain to be exiled from Earth rather than sent to prison. On the rocket-ship, the Justice League reveals their secret identities to eachother and plan to return to Earth in their secret identities (since the exile did not include their alter-egos. They return to Earth and manage to defeat the evil Justice League as the Atom shrinks into their brains and performs some brain surgery on them to make them unable to control their muscles. The evil clones are hauled off to jail and the Justice League are cleared of all charges! Unfortunately, they revealed thier secret identities to the world, but Superman has the answer: Amnesium! With this stuff, they can wipe eachothers memories and the memories of the world....so their identities will once again be secret! Batman, who seems awfully upset about the whole mindwipe thing going on right now in DC comics, seemed all-too happy to go along with this mindwipe....of the entire planet!!! This story had a lot of energy and almost no Snapper, so it wasn't too bad. However, this issue makes me realize that Ollie was on to something all the times he accused the JLA of playing gods and that at one time he was right with them. "Brain surgery on the bad guys? Let's do it! Mind-wipe the planet? No problem!"
