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4. JLA: Age of Wonder

…the JLA existed in the late 1800s and early 1900s?”

I was totally blown away by how much I liked this one when I went back to re-read it for this article. I remembered it being okay, but it’s really kinda fantastic. The kinda fantastic that has Lois Lane say, “Bully for you” in its opening scene. If there’s one thing I love as much as superhero comics, it’s old timey dialogue.

So in this story, Superman first makes his presence known at the centennial exhibition in 1876 and winds up touching off the superhero boom at the turn of the century. We get weird and cool versions of the Flash, Starman, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, the Atom, and so many more.

The sheer imagination on display is impressive to say the least and it finds itself perfectly at home with some of the best Elseworlds stories on my shelf. So incredibly worth a read, I can’t recommend it highly enough.