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TheJustice Leaguemay be one of the most illustrious coalitions of superheroes ever imprint , but even they have idols they look up to . As an skirmish with the far - futureLegion of Superheroesand their penny-pinching worship of the League shows , every team venerates those who come before . The Justice League , however , has the privilege and honour of still being able to ferment with their predecessors in theJustice Society of America- and freely acknowledge the Society ’s momentous achievements .

Having debut inAll Star Comics # 3by Isabella Stewart Gardner Fox and Sheldon Mayer , the Justice Society is the first superhero team to be write and was implemental in lay down the tone of the Golden Age of comics . Not only did the Justice Society process as the guide for the future Justice League , but it also introduced other versions ofkey characters not yet officially own by DCsuch as Green Lantern ( Alan Scott ) , and The Flash ( Jay Garrick ) . While many diminished cartoon strip publisher had their characters fade into obscureness as they were bought and fold into large companies , the Justice Society has always entertain a particular position in the DC Universe where its poor boy often act as mentor , guides , and the moral foundation to subsequent generations .

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The League has a small but touching moment of expressing their fear and gratitude toward their predecessors inJustice League vs. The Legion of Superheroes # 5 , by Brian Michael Bendis , Scott Godlewski , Ryan Cody , and Dave Sharpe . Here , the Justice League and the Legion have been thresh together by a temporal phenomenon known as the Great Darkness , which threaten to consume all of clip . As they equate their experiences of being thresh about back and onward throughout the timeline , the LegionnaireGold Lantern ( who handle the ‘ purest ’ Lantern Ring)mentions that he met Alan Scott ; Hawkgirl notes that he meet " the original Green Lantern , from therealage of heroes . "

This on the face of it lowly wisecrack mean so much more given the context of use of the Legion of Superheroes . As the " Justice League " of the 31st C , the Legion of Superheroes play as an interplanetary peacekeeping mission force-out in a future where the appendage of the Justice League and their time stop - the " Age of Heroes " - are shrine as the beginner of Legion ’s way of life . What Hawkgirl is quietly sayingto Gold Lantern is that the Justice League looks upon the Society with all the reverence and reverence that the Legion bestows upon the League ; as such , it follows that the Legion ’s praise of the Justice League actually deserves to go to the oft - overlook Justice Society .

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The Society continues to this day , with theJSA officially return to the DC spotlight . Figures such as Alan Scott , Ted Grant , and Jay Garrick still work alongside the League and make themselves uncommitted to the ever - growing family of grinder . With the death of the Justice League , the Justice Society has step in to fill up the nothingness and stick out the elbow grease of the greatly demoralized vernal heroes . It ’s this form of constant support that makes the Justice Society worthy of all their admiration , and why theJustice Leaguewill always look up to them .

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