Busterella strikes again!: Pokemon JLI

I found new fan art form favorite of this blog, Busterella, whose Dibny portraits always catch perfectly the true spirit of the couple. It's called "Superbuddies-Pokemon Rangers", check it out:

Top to bottom and left to right: Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Sue and Ralph Dibny, Fire & Ice, Guy Gardner and Maxwell Lord. 

It's the second pic I see from a Deviant artist combining elements of JLI / Super Buddies with Pokemon Rangers (which, I suppose, is a later incarnation of the Pokemon thing). However, there's no actual connection between the the two of them and I'm still trying to find out why is this a thing. According to Busterella, Pokemon crossovers with anything are common. She describes is as "Silly scribble-y crossover tomfoolery".

The other one is even more eclectic, it throws Aladdin and a character from Batman: The Brave and the Bold into the mix (what, no fire?).

Ice, the Dibnys, Guy and Captain America, Flash and his wife, Linda Parker, Aladdin and Jasmine, and the Music Meister.
Art by Clazziquai. 

And this is just the tip of the iceberg, Busterella has impressive pics done with digital media. She's crazy-talented when it comes to coloring (you hear that, DC?). For more of her fantastic art, go to her Deviantart profile: http://busterella.deviantart.com/ . She's a talent to watch!

The Elongated Man and the Silver Age Timeline!, pt. III: Post-Classic

By 1968 DC Comics lost the leadership of the comics book industry as well as some of the key people of the silver age: Gardner Fox, John Broome and Otto Binder, who were there since the golden age. In their place came people like Len Wein, Denny O'Neil, who grew reading comics and started to write for adults (the Comics Code Authority started to lose control).

1968 - 1973 is the transition between the Silver Age and the Bronze age of comics. There were still a great amount of important charcters created every year, but they were not as conventional as the ones from the classic years of the Silver Age. The new characters of this era embraced completely the Marvel tendencies. They were diverse, tragic, unconventional and freaky.

The early 70s saw the return of the horror and western genre, as well as that of Jack Kirby, who created a great number of legendary characters in worlds of their own.

Adam Strange and the Martian Manhunter are notoriusly absent from most of these years.

1968

March:

• Creeper (Showcase #63),

• Guy Gardner (Green Lantern #59).

May:

• Anthro (Showcase #74),
• Secret Six (Secret Six #1).

June:

• Hawk and Dove (Showcase #75),
• Copperhead (The Brave and the Bold #78).

August:

• Bat Lash (Showcase #76), 
• Red Tornado (Justice League of America #64),
• Cain (House of Mystery #175).

October:

• Angel and the Ape (Showcase #77).

• General Zahl. The Doom Patrol sacrifices their lives (Doom Patrol #121).

November:

• Sensei (Strange Adventures #215),
• Hellgrammite (The Brave and the Bold #80),
• Johnny Double (Showcase #78).

December:

• Dolphin (Showcase #79).

1969

May: Nightmaster (Showcase #82).

June: The Gentleman Ghost of Earth-1(Atom and Hawkman #43).
September: Abel (House of Secrets #81).
November: Black Canary joins JLA (Justice League of America #75).

1970

February:

• J.L.A. Satellite, Vigilante a.k.a Greg Saunders of Earth-One appears (Justice League of America #78).

March: Wildcat a.k.a. Ted Grant of Earth-One appears (The Brave and the Bold #88). 
June:

• Manbat (Detective Comics #400),
• Manhunter 2070 (Showcase #91).

October:

• Intergang, Morgan Edge (Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #133), 
• Thorn of Earth-1 (Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane #105),
• El Diablo (All-Star Western #2).

November:

• Darkseid (Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #134),
• the Ten-Eyed Man (Batman #226).

1971

February:

• Orion, Highfather, Kalibak, Lightray (New Gods #1),
• Forever People (Forever People #1),
• the Phantom Stranger returns (Showcase #80).

May:

• Talia (Detective Comics #411),
• Desaad, Mantis (Forever People #2).

April:

• Mr. Miracle, Oberon (Mister Miracle #1),
• Ruby Ryder (The Brave and the Bold #95).

May:

• Granny Goodness,
• Dr. Bedlam (Mister Miracle #2).

June:

• Ra's Al Ghul (Batman #232),
• Glorious Godfrey (Forever People #3).

July:

• Swamp Thing (House of Secrets #92),
• Black Racer (New Gods #3),
• Bruno Manheim (Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #139).

August: Two-face of Earth-1(Batman #234).

September: Don Rickles (Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #141).

October:

• Big Barda (Mister Miracle #4),
• Dabney Donovan (Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #142).

December: Virman Vundabar (Mister Miracle #5).

1972

January:

• Bernadeth, Lashina, Mad Harriet, Stompa, and Funky Flashman (Mister Miracle #6),
• John Stewart (Green Lanten #87).

February:

• Jonah Hex (All-Star Western #10), 
• Steppenwolf (New Gods #7).

March: Kanto (Mister Miracle #7).

April: Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (Tarzan #1).

August:

• Etrigan the Demon (The Demon #1),
• Forager (New Gods #9),

October:

• Kamandi (Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth #1),
• Manhunter a.k.a. Paul Kirk (Detective Comics #437).

November: Swamp Thing, the Un-men (Swamp Thing #1).
December: The Human Target II (Action Comics #419).

Notes: I used cover dates for this list (wich means you have to substract a couple of months).
Font types are modified according to the character.

• Important character,
• Character with an equivalent on Earth-2,
• Character with an Earth-2 double,
• Might have Earth-2 double, but their debut date makes it abiguous,
• Crossed-over descendant of an Earth-2 character,
• Created in other media first.
• Not tied to the DCU yet,
• Related to the Elongated Man.  

Continue to:

• The Elongated Man and the Bronze Age Timeline! (1973 - 1985).

Go back to:

• The Elongated Man and the Silver Age Timeline!, Part I: Pre-Classic (1947 - 1956).
• The Elongated Man and the Silver Age Timeline!, Part II: Classic (1956 - 1969).

Related articles:

• Survivors of the Golden Age! - This article will help you identify character counterparts between Earth-One and Earth-Two.