I love that Satellite Era spread, but hating center folds, I only used half of it as either one of the last scans I did for my Martian Manhunter fan site and/or one of the earliest images to appear on the blog incarnation. This is actually a pretty rare sighting of J’Onn J’Onzz with this line-up, since he was only ever a part of it thanks to retroactive continuity. I sometimes wonder if this pin-up fueled the fire in Brad Meltzer’s belly to remove any trace of the Martian Manhunter from this period in Identity Crisis and the subsequent Justice League of America relaunch. As a ’70s kid, he’d only have remembered J’Onn as a guest-star every few years, usually only hanging out with a few of the older members.

I know you got excited about the prospect of a Firestorm/Atom team, but I’d murder a random derelict to have seen Steel/Atom instead. D. Curtis Johnson offered some nice take-downs that I’d have liked to have seen attempted. “Doom” did not improve on “Tower of Babel” in that respect, and it seems like Johnson could have topped both if given the chance. I like that Pablo Raimondi art, as well.