Oh I get it yeah I’m not sure what day is standing in for Friday this week
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So I just spent breakfast searching Legion instead of Legionnaires of the mid late '90s lol.
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Magic users like Kinetix always provide writers with a power-dilemma, Just how powerful do we make them? Before too long it’s just better to write them out.
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Agreed, similar to the problem of having Superman on your team …it’s like, why would you need anyone else on the team?
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In comics, … Yanno how far back this argument goes? It goes back at least as far as the composition of the first Team book, All Star Comics. Two companies shared the same building, and even some of the same artists and writers. One was called All American Comics, and the other was called National Allied. Both would later merge to form DC Comics.
For those two companies, a hero’s true super-power was how many copies they sold a month, Superman & Batman sold the best out of all of them.
So then, Superman & Batman would be Honorary Members of the JSA from the beginning of the group, they did not appear as a regulars in the stories. To begin with, the team had a roster of eight active heroes, four of which were from the All-American Comics Company while the other four were from National Allied. The idea was to give characters that did not have their own book (but were featured in another book) a bit of a spotlight. If a character did get his/her own book, they would also become honorary members and be replaced by another lesser known character that had a feature, but not his own book. Superman & Batman only appeared in issues #7 & #36 of All-Star Comics.
National Allied Comics contributed four of their characters:
Sandman, Spectre, Hourman, and Doctor Fate.
All-American Comics contributed four of their characters too:
Flash, Hawkman, Green Lantern and Atom
Power … was in sales! And that’s how the JSA came to be —
In All-Star Comics #3
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Very Interesting, never knew that before.
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Monday
Ultra Boy “Why use two when one eye will do?” ( just don’t mind the 2 eye guy with the S on his chest in the background)…
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That’s really taking that one at a time “limit” awful serioiusly!
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lol, toooo funny
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If he only uses one eye for “flash vision”, would he be able to use one arm or leg (on the opposite side of the body, of course) for ultra-strength or invulnerability?
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I don’t think that is come up yet but you know what a crazy concept, Ultra Boy using different parts of his body for different superpowers… I’ll be right back
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Interesting question, I’ll await the answer, although his Who Who’s entry says one power at a time, so that could answer it.
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I agree that the most logical approach is one power at a time, regardless of limb, but it is interesting thought exercise. It’s always fun to push the envelope, if only in theory.
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Nice tie-in with Ultra-Boy and Ultra the Multi-Alien. I’ve never made the connection, but it’s easy to see as you lay it out.
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I look forward to see if you have any evidence that supports my crazy idea.
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We’ll keep watching with one eye open LOL
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After some thought, I think the answer is ultra boy cannot Use a different power for every limb or body part, because if he could he could use his PenetraVision or flash version at the same time he used his invulnerability, which they specifically state you can only use one power of the time.
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