Six-part arc takes us back to the Justice Society’s beginning…
DC Comics’ solicitations are out now and tucked inside is this little gem: JSA: Year One, a six-issue arc that’ll detail how the first superteam came together, is set to begin in November’s JSA #13 by Jeff Lemire and Gavin Guidry.
Dig the solicitation info:
Main Dave Johnson cover
JSA #13
Written by JEFF LEMIRE
Art by GAVIN GUIDRY
Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
Variant cover by JORGE CORONA
The first days of the JSA are explored as we see the formation of the world’s first super-team! “JSA Year One” starts here!
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 11/5/25
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Several thoughts:
Jorge Corona variant
— The story details are scarce, but I’ve been curious about this series. Jeff Lemire is one of my favorite writers and he clearly loves his DC history, given what he did with his sprawling Black Hammer universe. I enjoyed JSA #8, which I read because it was basically a one-off that took place during World War II. This looks like a good place to jump on and if I like what I see, I can always go back and read what I missed.
— Dave Johnson’s cover implies that the six issues — JSA #13-18 — will have interconnecting fronts, with two characters on each. Or something like that.
— Quick, without looking, in your mind’s eye, does Hourman have a yellow cowl with shading in the front or a yellow cowl that’s actually black in the front? (All yellow just looks weird to me.)
— Hey, if you’re a Justice Society fan, 1963’s landmark first meeting between the JSA and JLA in Justice League of America #21 is going to be released as a Facsimile Edition in November. Link below!
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MORE
— Landmark JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #121 to Be Re-Released as Facsimile Edition. Click here.
— 1948’s Classic BATMAN #47 to Get Long-Anticipated Facsimile Edition. Click here.
August 15, 2025
… does Hourman have a yellow cowl with shading in the front or a yellow cowl that’s actually black in the front?
I think some artist interpret the black as shadow and not a distinct separation of colors. (Eg BATMAN, CAP cowls) I have a figure in my collection that is all yellow and it looks like a factory mistake to me. Someday I seriously need to paint it.
Personally, I hope they do a facsimile of the one-shot special from back in the day with the full-on origin. Adams’ cover to boot! I’d buy many copies of that for sure. Classic JSA.
Give us classic old canon JSA stories in WWII and I’ll buy that all day long. Let Joe Staton do some covers too!
August 19, 2025
I’m with you.!! Give us Classic Old Canon JSA stories … set in the 1940’s … and I’ll ‘buy that all day long’, too.!!
I’ve wanted SOMEONE to do a JSA series of these Classic JSA heroes…
…but instead, … they contaminate the Group with members after All-Star #58…which I hated.
August 19, 2025
I’ve tried to get Roy Thomas to return and write some of those 1940’s JSA stories… but he won’t.!!
…much to my …and our …loss.!!
August 15, 2025
This is fantastic news! I don’t think there has been a modern telling of the JSA’s first case since the final issue of All-Star Squadron (minus a recap here or there). It will be interesting to see how closely Lemire hews to the original and how much he adds in.
August 15, 2025
LOVE the JSA…!
Would love to see some variant covers by Joe Staton!
Speaking of the JSA, can DC *PLEASE* finish the “JSA by Geoff Johns series” of book volumes…it’s NOT COOL to start a book series and then we collectors pay good money for them and they leave us with a half-empty bookshelf of an incomplete series!
They did the same with the Black Adam 12 issue series…only the first half in trade paperback…
With that said, there also needs to be a trade paperback series reprinting ALL-STAR SQUADRON…it’s CRIMINAL that there has never been a full series reprint of this series (and the one b+w volume doesn’t count!).
And where is the *softcover* trade paperback version of the 2-volume series of JSA The New Golden Age??? This series that brought the Huntress (Helena Wayne) back to her proper relevance was great and opens the door for current JSA books.
August 15, 2025
An ALL-STAR SQUADRON omnibus, YES! And, I’m a huge Joe Staton fan so I’d love to see him get some work out of this if he wants it. You listening DC?
August 15, 2025
This is probably not a popular opinion around here, but this would be a perfect opportunity to do a hard reboot of the JSA and divorce their origin from World War II. Have the JSA make its first appearance in a non-specified year that is 20 years before the Justice League appears (and then, no matter what year it is in the future, they always existed 20 years before the Justice League). The increasingly nonsensical contortions that DC has to go through these days to rationalize characters who are over 100-years-old still being vital and active today no longer passes the credibility test (and this in a universe where people fly and shoot lasers from their eyes, so that’s saying something). But this will never happen because the DC Comics Fundamentalists (as Michael Keaton called them in 1989) will never allow it to happen.
August 15, 2025
I agree and yet I’d sure hate to lose the WW2 connection with the JSA. It’s such an important part of their history and who the JSA is. What if they did a time jump in their history? Like Captain America or The Fantastic Four of the MCU (I assume that’s what Marvel is leading up too). A villain, thinking he/she has blasted the JSA out of existence actually sends them immediately after the war to the year about twenty years before the JLA debuted. DC did something similar with the Seven Soldiers of Victory way back in Justice League of America #100 (first volume). It seemed to have worked then.
August 15, 2025
I so agree with Daniel, move the JSA on from World War II or move the date of World War II to twenty years ago… and move them back to earth 2.
August 15, 2025
I have always thought Hourman’s cowl was yellow with significant black shadings, much like the way Wally wood originally designed the red Daredevil suit.
August 16, 2025
Let’s hope they do what Roy Thomas did and keep the stories of the era (in this case here, All-Star #3-#6) in continuity….