1) She’s hot, even pushing 50
2) She got an Oscar nomination once
3) She’s had the good sense to change her career to professional poker.

In every JLA meeting scene, they always show Atom in his shrunken(is that even a word?) form. And, as you showed us, they even made him a special chair for meetings. WHY DIDN’T THE GUY JUST STAY NORMAL-SIZED FOR THE MEETINGS?!?!?!? I’m just sayin’…

It would be like the Martian Manhunter staying invisible for every meeting and forcing the group to come up with some special goggles for everyone to wear in order to see him.

Oh, and as far as the CK/Superman glasses disguise: I normally wear contacts, but one night I walked into a favorite bar wearing my glasses and EVEN MY FRIENDS didn’t recognize me at first.

So it’s not completely unreasonable.

These guys are legends, and they’re not going to be around forever. I only got to meet Julius Schwartz once. I treasured it, but I feel like I could have talked to him so much more. So yes, go talk to the great creators. Listen to their stories, of when giants walked the earth (like Jack Kirby.) It can be a heck of a fun experience.

But I could never forgive Lois and Perry for not seeing it. Aren’t these two supposed to be the sharpest investigative reporters in America?

OK, so Lois pursued it for years, but more based on the “Clark’s never around when Superman is here” angle. And they did some nice scenes occasionally with shape-shifters helping Clark get photographer with himself.

In the back of my mind, I’ve always explained Perry by assuming that he’s known since Day One, but respects Clark so much that he politely doesn’t mention it. “He’ll tell me when he wants to tell me. As long as he does a good job.”

I’m old enough that he still feels like one of the new kids to me. But feel free to insert your own candidate in his place; I think the point still stands.

I predate him in the industry too, and remember when he was the hot thing. Ed Benes maybe?

Not to belittle your point about the classic creators, but your use of Jim Lee is a bit dated. He’s been a major artist in the industry for 20 years now.

I’m old enough that he still feels like one of the new kids to me. But feel free to insert your own candidate in his place; I think the point still stands.

The JLA Mail Room logos are really cool– I never thought about how DC production staffers kept retouching it as the League’s membership kept changing

Actually, looking at it again, it’s been completely redrawn by Murphy Anderson but using the exact same composition Mike Sekowsky used! That’s brilliant.

Not that I’m defending it, but the hang-up for people is that Chekhov wasn’t in the crew of the ship until the next season; it’s more than just that he wasn’t in the episode, or never interacted with Khan onscreen.

The thing is, I had been reading comic books all my life and I was *23 years old* when I finally made the connection. Which goes to show you: if I can suspend my disbelief for that long then Superman must be doing something that works!

The JLA Mail Room logos are really cool– I never thought about how DC production staffers kept retouching it as the League’s membership kept changing (and yet everyone has the same pose!) I love how they swap out Jonn Jonzz with Batman and Black Canary with Snapper Carr!

Were they just so anal they couldn’t accept it unless it came from an “official” source?

That’s the theory I’d go with.

Excellent point regarding the older creators in general and Nick Cardy in particular.