Tom versus the JLA number 179 or yes, it's reigning dated concepts.

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 179, the June 1980 issue entitled

The Siren Song of the Sentent Satan.

Truly alliteration is your friend if you are a comic book writer, which Jerry Conway is, and he wrote

this issue. Dick Dillon, Frank McLaughlin did the art. Todd Klein lettered it. Gene DeAngelo

did the beautiful colors, and Len Ween is the editor with a cover by one Mr. Jim Starlin.

Roll call is Superman, Batman. Notice it's not the Batman, green arrow, black canaries,

Atana, and the Red Tornado featuring new member Firestorm. We even get the customary

Justice League of America, hereby Alex Firestorm opening page. Nice little moment of Firestorm

breaking through the page. He's excited, and I'm excited too because we're gonna have fun with this issue this this issue

ranks highly in the unintentional comedy sweepstakes because we are dealing with disco as we open in the

exclusive New York club the studio and we are introduced to supermodel Sabrina Sultris,

who's also known as the Satin Satan.

And we see her loring local disco star Roscoe Rumsko Remington to her

as they disappear almost suspiciously like mind control.

I love Bronze Age comics for things like this.

I mean, this is 1980, and I wasn't alive during this time,

but I was kind of think of disco as being a late 70s phenomenon

as it gets into the 80s, it's sort of dying down.

Which for comic books means it is the perfect time to write a story based upon it. Perfect. Just as it's on its decline, that's when you

want to leap onto a cultural movement, especially in Bronze Age comics. It's the beautiful part of

these books. I love them and I'm frustrated by them all at the same time. We cut to the

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