Why didn't they just use the JSA?
Why didn't they just use the JSA?
Dominic Myers
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Luis Wright
Because that would relegate the JSA to being imaginary projections of a mutated monster kid in DCAU canon. If they ever wanted to use them for real it would take some crazy retconning.
Logan Wilson
Rights issues. The Justice League era of the DCAU was always having to navigate around what WB would or would not let them use at any given time.
One infamous example is having to create the character "Devil Ray" to use instead of Black Manta on account of Aquaman TV rights being isolated due to the Mercy Reef pilot. Stuff like that was always happening.
Austin Baker
That and WB got cold feet on depicting the Justice Society as being lowkey, product-of-the-time racist and misogynist.
Asher Gonzalez
This wasn't WB this time around. Paul Levitz personally vetoed the request because he felt the story as-presented was disrespectful to the JSA. The episode basically only happened because Levitz was willing to compromise with the showrunners making them different enough to not be associated with the JSA, but similar enough to get the intended message of the episode across.
Gabriel Garcia
They used Wildcat in a later episode so I doubt it was rights.
John Bennett
I'm surprised they just didn't do a crossover like the comics where the Justice League went to Earth-2.
Benjamin Bennett
>Wildcat
>not Catman
Aaron Murphy
Would any writer today try to make the JSA like that today?
Elijah Hill
Wildcat was in that fight club episode that focused on Green Arrow and Black Canary.