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jkcarrierTo see which creative teams other CBR posters chose as their favorites, look here. My choice for Day 3:
Len Wein and Dick Dillin
Justice League of America #100-102
It doesn't get much more "epic" than this: The Justice League and their predecessors the Justice Society join forces to track down the long-forgotten Seven Soldiers of Victory -- the only ones who know how to destroy the gigantic "Nebula Hand" that threatens to crush the Earth. Splitting into teams of three, the heroes travel to different past eras to find the time-lost Soldiers, encountering everything from Mongol hordes to evil sorceresses to stampeding buffalo along the way. The central "mystery" of the story (which hinges on the fact that Golden Age comic writers were apparently very bad at math) is less important than the journey to get there, which is rollicking good fun and full of clever bits of business: The Green Arrow-Black Canary-Johnny Thunder love triangle. The Sandman and Metamorpho pooling their resources to create enough sleeping gas to fell an army. Zatanna, transformed into a hummingbird, using the sound of her wings to cast her backwards magic. Wildcat out-boxing a caveman twice his size, trash-talking all the way. It's the definitive JLA/JSA team-up, as far as I'm concerned (and evidently I'm not alone, since Grant Morrison drew heavily on this storyline when putting together his critically-acclaimed Seven Soldiers mini-series a couple years back). And Dillin is the definitive JLA artist, with his powerful figures and terrific action choreography. The '70s were something of a Golden Age for superhero teams, and this is a great example of why.
Len Wein and Dick Dillin
Justice League of America #100-102
It doesn't get much more "epic" than this: The Justice League and their predecessors the Justice Society join forces to track down the long-forgotten Seven Soldiers of Victory -- the only ones who know how to destroy the gigantic "Nebula Hand" that threatens to crush the Earth. Splitting into teams of three, the heroes travel to different past eras to find the time-lost Soldiers, encountering everything from Mongol hordes to evil sorceresses to stampeding buffalo along the way. The central "mystery" of the story (which hinges on the fact that Golden Age comic writers were apparently very bad at math) is less important than the journey to get there, which is rollicking good fun and full of clever bits of business: The Green Arrow-Black Canary-Johnny Thunder love triangle. The Sandman and Metamorpho pooling their resources to create enough sleeping gas to fell an army. Zatanna, transformed into a hummingbird, using the sound of her wings to cast her backwards magic. Wildcat out-boxing a caveman twice his size, trash-talking all the way. It's the definitive JLA/JSA team-up, as far as I'm concerned (and evidently I'm not alone, since Grant Morrison drew heavily on this storyline when putting together his critically-acclaimed Seven Soldiers mini-series a couple years back). And Dillin is the definitive JLA artist, with his powerful figures and terrific action choreography. The '70s were something of a Golden Age for superhero teams, and this is a great example of why.
