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In 2003 Kurt Busiek and George Pérez created a serial publication that would fulfill the dreams of one thousand thousand of comic Word fans , teaming up DC’sJustice Leaguewith Marvel’sAvengers . But was thisJLA / Avengerscrossover technically canon ? The answer is more complicated than fans might call up .
Coming off of Busiek and Pérez ' collaboration onThe Avengers , the crossoverJLA / Avengerswas a tribute to everything fans have sex about superhero comic strip . With a plot that took its heroes from the dinosaur - live Savage Land to the even stranger inhabitants of Monster Island to a fort made from the armour ofGalactus , it add together nearly every character either company had ever published .
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The cover to issue # 3 alone might be Pérez ' masterwork , include every single hero who had ever been on any incarnation of either team , somehow unifying that chaotic plenty of character into a geometric order , a work so intricate Pérez literally injured himself create it .
A Story Too Big For Just Marvel or DC
The artwork and chronicle is packed full of all the geeky goodies you could ever anticipate from this kind of mashup , from Wonder Woman arm hand-to-hand struggle Wonder Man , to Dr. Doom imprison in the Source Wall , to Mar - Vell and Shazam both responding to"Captain Marvel"at once , to Superman exert bothThor ’s hammerandCaptain America ’s shield . And that ’s on top of the plentiful inside trick Busiek cast from across both teams ' histories . Hawkeye give the axe the Justice League as belt - offs of theSquadron Supreme(a squad who ’d been introduced as parodies of the Justice League ) . When their universes unite , the League central office includes a painting immortalize their first squad - up with the Avengers based on the cover of the first squad - up between the Justice League and their predecessors in the Justice Society .
The plot of land pertain Krona , a member of the coinage who would becomeGreen Lantern ’s Guardians centuries later , and whose fatal experiment to find the line of the universe had break it into the Multiverse . Since then , he ’s been roaming around the universe , destroying universes in guild to find the answers to his questions . In order of magnitude to salvage the Marvel Universe , theGrandmasterproposes a game pitting the Justice League against the Avengers in a kind of cosmic magpie Leigh Hunt for each globe ’s most powerful artifacts . But Krona decide he does n’t want to fiddle fair and assail the Grandmaster before examine to collide the two universes into each other , until the JLA and Avengers vote out him and save them both . realness tax return to normal , and since it ’s unbelievable the two companies would work ever together on this scurf again , you ’d gestate it all to be delete from continuity . But was it ?
How It Changed the DC Universe
Well , no . After his defeat , Krona ’s energies constrict into a " cosmic egg . " Busiek would make this token central to hisTrinityseries with Mark Bagley , where the classic Justice League foeman Despero team up up with the fabled witch Morgaine Le Fay and Enigma , a parallel - cosmos version of the Riddler , to use the cosmic egg to rewrite history . But Krona escaped , until he was imprisoned again by the alien Controllers . He revenge by destroying their satellite , and discovering that he had released its awareness , he decide he would " innocent " other planet the same fashion . He succeeded in destroy the earth , but Batman , Superman , and Wonder Woman ( the " Trinity " of the title ) restored it and incarcerate Krona in an earth of his own in another universe .
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The serial begins with Pérez paying tribute to his own preceding employment onCrisis on Infinite Earths , which , likeJLA / Avengers , showed the serial publication ' baddie ruin the earth of the JLA ’s evil counterpart , the Crime Society . JLA / Avengersintroduced a new furrow , though . Since Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely ’s graphic novelJLA : Earth 2had retconned the Crime Society into residents of the antimatter world or else of a parallel material one , Busiek pitted them against Green Lantern ’s classic anti - matter enemy the Weaponers of Qward . The battle between Qward and the anti - matter earth became the basis for Busiek’sJLAstorylineSyndicate rule , where the Crime Syndicate trick the Justice League into helping them fight the Weaponers ' Void Hound .
How It Changed the Marvel Universe
A couple universes over , Marvel confirmedJLA / Avengersas canon in the nextOfficial Handbook of the Marvel Universe , with appropriately attorney - favorable vagueness : the Grandmaster ’s life history describes a conflict with an unnamed extradimensional being . It also seems to have affect the pattern of one of the artefact that form the base of the Grandmaster ’s biz . Tracking the Infinity Gauntlet , the two super - teams discover it has been claimed by the malevolent god Darkseid ( who , not coincidentally , is frequently cited asthe intake for Thanos , the Gauntlet ’s usual owner ) .
Fortunately , he lose interest in it when he discovers it does n’t work outside its aboriginal universe . This plot point returned in Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham’sFantastic FourstorySolve Everything . That arc precede the Council of Reeds , versions of Mister Fantastic from other universes who had pool their resources , including a compendium of Infinity Gauntlets . Just as inJLA / Avengers , they do n’t work outside their rest home dimensions , so the Reeds unfold dimensional portals in social club to habituate the Gauntlets to stand off attackingCelestials . Captain America would learn this lesson the hard agency in Hickman’sNew Avengers : when he tries to uses the Gauntlet to prevent another solid ground from colliding with his own , the gems shatter .
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In all these ways and more , JLA / Avengershas continued to bear on the history of both the universes it combined . But canyon or not , it remain a Hellenic compounding of everything fans love in a superhero story . After all , as Alan Moore put it in another classic comic , Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?:“This is an imaginary story . Are n’t they all ? "
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