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My best guess is that each of the books was created (or co-created) by an author with two first names:

1) Roy Thomas
2) Peter David
3) Tony Isabella

And each of the issues shown was also written by the respective author, although Isabella’s name doesn’t appear on the BL cover.

(I was going to guess that the central character on each cover was created by the respective authors, but a little Wikipedia research suggests that David didn’t create Arrowette.)

My All-Back From the Dead JLA:
1. Green Arrow
2. Metamorpho
3. Superman
4. Elasti-Girl
5. Guy Gardner
6. Zauriel
7. Donna Troy

As for the cover challenge, I’ll guess that the characters prominently featured on the cover all share surnames with women’s tennis stars- Jefferson Pierce/Mary Pierce, Cissie King/Bill Jean King, Wil Everet/Chris Everet.

forgive my poor spelling on the previous post

I believe Arrowette was created by Mark Waid during his Impulse run.

I could tell that was a Michilinie panel because of the fact that the last word of the previous panel’s sentence appears in the panel with the punch. He had an annoying habit of always starting a sentence in one panel, but saving the last word of the sentence for the next panel accompanied by a punch, kick or blast, for example

Panel One: “Must shoot him–”

Panel Two: “—NOW!” FA-ZASH!!

I think he was really pleased with himself when he did that tic, he used it every chance he got for decades.

I am a dirty Wikipedia cheater so I don’t feel right posting the answer to the cover theme game. That’s what I get for not reading DC comics in my youth. :/

Justice League of (re-)Animation

Superman
Wonder Woman
Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
Steel (John Henry Irons)
Hawkgirl
Green Arrow
Metamorpho

(course, I could just cheat since Joe Kelly killed and resurrected all of the big seven in the Obsidian Age story).

All the covers feature characters created by the respective writer (who all happen to have the two first names thing working).

Is the cover a reference to Brave and the Bold 193?

I am a dirty Wikipedia cheater so I don’t feel right posting the answer to the cover theme game. That’s what I get for not reading DC comics in my youth. :/

Very nice of you, carpboy. Tell ya what, if no one else guesses it in a week, you can come back and claim the points, okay?

The two-name thing is a good bit, Michael. It’s an interesting enough answer that I’ll give you a bonus cool point!!

The actual answer, though, is a lot more straightforeward than that!!

“Next, the issue where they go to the Ice Dancing show. Possibly my favorite comic book issue. Sooo funny.”

That is my favorite “Date with Density” one–Booster & Beetele were in fine form.
And even the title was a great play on words.

As for the covers I thought there might be some sort of Golden Age retro thing going on with the main characters on the cover.

All three characters were Olympic athelets; Amazing Man competed with Jesse Owens on Earth-2, Arrowette competed in “The Games” in Zandia, and Black Lightning was in the decathelon.

I confess I knew the first two immediately but had to double-check for Black Lightning.

Hooray for Zack!! To go further, all three were Olympic MEDALISTS, actually, but the key word is “Olympics,” everything else is just fluff.

Horray I feel better now.

I must confess that’s it’s amusing seeing actual Olympic athletes, given that a fair number of superheroes are described as being “olympic-level”.

Justice League Necropolis is:

Superman
Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
Red Tornado
Metamorpho
Green Arrow
Dr. Fate
Donna Troy

Damn, and I was going to say “Hero goes ballistic and almost kills somebody, and another hero has to intervene.” That issue of YJ lead to Cissie King-Jones hanging up her costume out of guilt of almost killing a guy who murdered her psychologist. While the firm of David, Nauck & Stucker specialized in the goofy (especially with Impulse), that was a powerful issue.

One day, I hope DC finds a way to show what the female YJers are doing. Robin’s still Robin, Conner’s dead, and Bart’s the living Speed Force or somesuch shit…but what about Cissie? Is Greta still a “warder” after Darkseid changed her from Secret to a normal human being? Empress was seen in Day of Vengeance Special, but 1. she barely did anything, and 2. she was colored white. And what about her parents…are they still babies?

I dunno who created the original Arrowette that appeared in [i]World’s Finest[/i]…I actually got the three issues she appeared in, but I don’t feel like pawing into them tonight. The modern-day version popped up in [i]Impulse #27[/i], right after Waid left. If I remember correctly, it was a fill-in from Tom Peyer. Good issue. And that concludes my obssessive geekery.

Defenders #16 — unless that in itself is an homage as well.

http://www.langesports.com/tom/l0443.jpg

“Defenders #16 — unless that in itself is an homage as well.

http://www.langesports.com/tom/l0443.jpg ”

I’d say that’s a homage as well – only because I think I’ve seen the composistion on older comic before.

I’m thinking Justice Society Of America or early Justice League.
(Justice League would fit in with the rest of the column though).

Also, you’ll notice that each cover has someone wearing a turtleneck-type of collar.

I’m starting to think the homage is to a cover where both the Justice Society and Justice League met up.

Justice League of the Undead:

1. Superman
2. Green Arrow
3. Donna Troy
4. Metamorpho
5. Guy Gardner
6. Firestorm (does he count?)
7. Booster Gold (when he inevitably comes back from the dead… c’mon, you know he’s coming back!)

Cover homage:

Obviously not the original, but another tribute:

G.I. Joe Special Missions, #26.

Best version I’ve seen, IMO

http://www.yojoe.com/comics/sm/sm26.shtml

The “alive again” JLA member I can’t believe no one’s mentioned (although Steven came close) is Hawkman.

I’m sure there must have been a JLA story sometime in which a bunch of members died so they could go on some mission beyond the veil, and thus technically came back to life. I think there was one such during Steve Englehart’s run in the 70s, but the only member I can recall who definitively died in that issue was Superman, who of course qualifies due to other events.

It’s from an old issue of Daredevil. DD v.1 #53, I believe? But the basic idea was used in a bunch of Golden Age comics splash pages and covers.

Superman
Flash (Wally West)
Green Arrow
Green Lantern (Guy Gardner. Or Kilowog. Ha!)
Metamorpho
Jean Grey
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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