The Justice League is a DC Comics superhero team. In most
incarnations, its roster includes DC’s most popular
characters and thus many of the most recognizable superheroes
in pop culture. The original, and arguably most popular,
line-up is Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash,
Green Lantern, Aquaman, and The Martian Manhunter. The
League has also included Captain Marvel, Plastic Man,
Green Arrow, Hawkman, the Atom, Elongated Man, Black Canary,
Firestorm, Zatanna and dozens of others. The team first
appeared in The Brave and the Bold #28 (1960). Although
series featuring the League have occasionally gone stale
and been subjected to ill-fated experiments, the team
has been fairly popular since inception. The team’s
concept was loosely adapted into the cartoon series Super
Friends (1972-85) and more directly into the Cartoon Network’s
Justice League (2001-04) and Justice League Unlimited
(2004-present).
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