Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Professor X leads The Justice League of America

 

How differently would the JLA operate if Charles Xavier was running the operation?  I would be interesting to read about, at least for an issue.

16 comments:

Crazy Ivan said...

It would probably be a lot more like the Secret Society of Superheroes elseworld version of the JLA, since Professor X thinks that hiding mutants until society already trusts them is a valid strategy for a superhero team.

Anonymous said...

Seems almost unnecessary as Martian Manhunter can help coordinate the team via telepathy.

Div Cvetic said...
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Anonymous said...

Covers like this are why I come here every day.

Carycomic said...

It would probably become more like the JLX (Justice League of Xavier). When the X-men were trapped on the original Battleworld, during Secret Wars I (the story arc that first introduced the original Venom symbiote), Prof. X felt no compunction about using his telepathy to keep the mutants in line. And Aquaman was just as heavy-handed with his telepathy while leader of JLDetroit! So, psionic autocracy like that might very well lead to the Justice Leaguers having to take on yet another manifestation of Onslaught.

Anonymous said...

I think that initial conflict/ confusion would be some good storytelling!!

Detective Tobor said...

how about it would have been like when J'onn was keeping everyone connected and able to plan changes as they went along. J'onn is telepathic also remember??

Bob Greenwade said...

I actually could see this happening, and not necessarily in the forceful way that others are imagining.

"J'Onn J'Onzz! Please... I need your help, and the help of your Justice League colleagues."
"What 'help' could we give you, Professor? And why would we?"
"My students... my X-Men have been abducted."
"Abducted? By whom?"
"Darkseid."
"I will gather the League."

Detective Tobor said...

well done. makes a compelling story!

Simreeve said...

As a sequel to the X-Men / Teen Titans crossover, with Darkseid as the main villain, that Marvel & DC co-produced back in the early 1980s?

Anonymous said...

A potential "Darkseid vs. Onslaught" clash? Now, that story I would buy in a New Yawk minute for sixty cents!

Anonymous said...

Excellent cover…

Carycomic said...

Sort of a mistaken identity slugfest? That's one comic book trope that never seems to grow old.

Carycomic said...

Agreed. :-)

LuckyDay said...

Not read Secret Wars, but a crossover of Crisis and Secret Wars could happen here. A merger of the main DC and Marvel Earths along with Charlton, Fawcett, etc. and the Earth where DC and Marvel both exist and Amalgam could find also sorts of confusion and possibilities.
This is where I once again complain that Earth-2's Robin and Huntress were killed off off panel instead of being living refugees of an earth that no longer exists as the panels in the mag/book originally show. Someone must have hated Marv being too clever again.

Anonymous said...

That might have changed, thanks to Dr. Manhattan, post-JLA/Watchmen crossover (where he used the last of his power to restore all the different versions of the DC multiverse).

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