Promoerotic - JLA

Post date: Jul 10, 2018 9:47:15 AM

Deep Space Transmissions is back from the dead baby! Gearing up for the rumoured (cough cough) Grant Morrison/Liam Sharp Green Lantern announcement at SDCC, I thought it would be wise to stretch the old blogging muscles again (it's been awhile) before launching headlong into another monthly annotations-fest. Nothing too strenuous though, so here for your viewing pleasure is a gallery of promotional items for Grant and Howard Porter's JLA run back in the late 90's / early 00's.

All of these items were only available via giveaways or sent directly to retailers for the purposes of promoting the JLA series that began in 1996. Nothing here was available to buy directly at the time, though all of it has since surfaced on eBay of course (some of it significantly more often than others). I've tried to restrict myself to stuff that's explicitly tied to the Morrison/Porter JLA run, though there were of course other Justice League promotional items that came out in this period. As a rule of thumb anything drawn by Barry Kitson is out (as the intention there would be to promote the Kitson-drawn JLA: Year One mini-series), as is anything painted by Alex Ross (who reportedly hated Kyle Rayner with a rare passion and, I think, barely if ever painted anything with the Morrison/Porter Big Seven line-up). And this Tom Mandrake JLA poster from '98 is actually a page from Martian Manhunter #0, with a JLA logo slapped on it, so that's pretty weird and definitely not what we're looking at here.

For a more comprehensive look at the bigger Justice League merch picture, both around this time and either side of it, head on over to the late lamented Cosmic Teams site here.

Interesting to see that, despite it being DC's biggest selling title at the time, once One Million was over and done with DC basically didn't bother promoting the core JLA title again until Earth 2 came out after Morrison's run had finished. Is no wonder he jumped ship to go and do X-Men eh?