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Justice League #1 (JLI 1 of ?)
JUSTICE LEAGUE #1, with plot and layouts by Keith Giffen, dialogue by J.M. DeMatteis, and finished art by Kevin Maguire, establishing a division of labor that would become a JLI trademark.
The cover is rightly considered a classic. Its layout is counterintuitive--usually a bird's-eye view diminishes figures, but this image is about building the figures up. It was a signal this League would do things differently, and what sells it is the tension between that usual rule and a group of figures who look like they can handle anything, including whoever or whatever is daring to view them from above.
( Could it be...the reader of this comic looking down on it on the shelf? 'Yeah, you BETTER buy it, geek! Or we'll MESS YOU UP.' )
The cover is rightly considered a classic. Its layout is counterintuitive--usually a bird's-eye view diminishes figures, but this image is about building the figures up. It was a signal this League would do things differently, and what sells it is the tension between that usual rule and a group of figures who look like they can handle anything, including whoever or whatever is daring to view them from above.
( Could it be...the reader of this comic looking down on it on the shelf? 'Yeah, you BETTER buy it, geek! Or we'll MESS YOU UP.' )
