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Jonah Hexmight have been a boxwood power collapse for DC , but theJustice League’slatest adventure just confirmed that Hex has a huge role in DC traditional knowledge . DC is by all odds most well cognise for its iconic Justice League hero sandwich like Batman , Superman , and Wonder Woman . This does n’t mean they ’re the first wedge in DC persistence , however , and now a major villain has corroborate that Jonah Hex is the fable that ushered in the " Age of Heroes . "
Created by John Albano and Tony DeZuniga , Jonah Hex debut in 1972 , chronologically long after DC ’s celebrated trinity of Batman , Superman , and Wonder Woman . His escapade , though , are primarily set in the 1800s ; a character made for Western narrative , Jonah Hex is a ugly bounty hunter with an exacting moral code . His knobbed facial scar sets him apart from other , more typically and idealistically " beautiful " heroes . He does n’t often appear alongside the modern-day heroes of the Justice League , but neither is his legacy draw a blank by his heroic descendants . Despite being narratively stranded in the wild West of the 1800s , Jonah Hex is a major hero in his own right hand , and even the31st century ’s Legion of Super - Heroes knows it .
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Jonah Hex ’s substantial encroachment on DC lore is reassert by none other than Vandal Savage inJustice League vs. the Legion of Super - Heroes#5 by Brian Michael Bendis , Scott Godlewski , Ryan Cody , and Dave Sharpe . The Justice League and the Legion have been attempting to come up and destroy the reservoir of the encroach Great Darkness , and Vandal Savage reveals himself and his attempts to put down the Age of Heroes from its origin stretching forward to the Legion itself . In a conversation with Batman , Legion member Rose Forrest mentions , almost off - hand , that the Age of Heroes in reality does begin with Jonah Hex .
TheJonah Hexfilm from 2010might have been a huge box power disappointment , but that is n’t stopping DC from re - affirming the quality ’s importance in the DCU ’s continuity . In fact , this moment give Hex a young role in the mythos that is the " Age of Heroes " : he ’s the descent detail , and from him now descends the like of the Justice League . In other words , he ’s now regard the first major hero in DC Comics , and is now the most prominent precursor to the wedge in the Justice League and even , in the upstage future , the Legion of Super - Heroes .
DC ’s film and television end product has historically been hit or miss — and the late intelligence about DC lively - action mechanism media continues this style — but even that ca n’t hold on Jonah Hex from make his mark on DC ’s rendering of the wild west , nor his German mark on DC lore at large . Vandal Savage is threatening , once again , to destroy the Justice Leagueand the entire Age of Heroes , but through that he ’s confirmed one major fact : there would never be aJustice LeaguewithoutJonah Hexand his own brand of Western heroism .
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