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Being the huge JSA fan that I am, one of my favourite Elseworlds is 'JSA: The Liberty Files' It's a more "grounded" take on the JSA in the 1940's, starring primarily Batman ('The Bat'). The first bit has Batman, Hourman, Nite-Owl and Mr. Terrific hunting down the Joker (who in this is a German spook who has intel on a Nazi "superman"). Like many of these sorts of Elseworlds do, there's a bit of a twist when they eventually find that the "superman" is Martian Manhunter, whom Hitler has kept hidden away, so J'onn thinks that Hitler's worldview is the right one, since he hasn't been psychically exposed to anyone else. So Batman touches him and transfer his memories and the good guys win yayyy. Then part two is post-war, and the same crew are reunited to take down some super KGB agents. The leader of their new group is Clark Kent. All is well until it turns out that this isn't Kal-El, it's Zod. He punks Alan Scott by burning his hand off and everyone has to team up to take him down. It's got a noir, "real world" sort of feel. I really like it.
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Mind Loving Owl posted:Not enough Marvel talk so here's something I've noticed. Aside from the fact they probably have the most What If stories, the Fantastic Four seem to be the only team where things are regularly allowed to turn out differently, but often for the better or at least not terribly worst. Here's where I'll put my english studies to good use and half-assedly hypothesize why we're not talking about Marvel as much hah I've always thought that one of the biggest differences between DC and Marvel is that DC heroes are based more on archetypes; they tend to be less nuanced and more simple than their Marvel counterparts. As such, I think writers tend to have an easier time putting them in different circumstances. For instance, "Batman" is a set of easy parts: dead parents, noir-like, doesn't kill, bats, lots of planning; it doesn't take much for a reader to go, "aha! That's meant to be Batman."
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