#justice guild

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With that in mind I've got a question about something I discovered online. It seems like a JLA after action sort of report where they reference meeting a group calling themselves the Justice Guild of America. Not much is included in the report, it seems incomplete. There's one picture included where it seems like these guys could be the Justice Society if everyone just chose different names.

Any knowledge if this was real, or someone writing a story and not making that clear?

So I feel like I should probably make people more aware of what to expect from the reports the League puts out. Since communication of things like that so people have a greater understanding is like, my job. So before we get to the actual question let me clear the air.

The Justice League is not a government organization and as such is not actually under obligation to release ANY report of their activity at all, they do so with the understanding that some information is too imperative for the world at large to know and to keep themselves transparent enough to maintain the public trust. But that comes at the obvious limitation that the Justice League is an organization that will always be more concerned with its code of ethics than anything beyond it. Redacted information in the League's press releases and the information they share with government and law enforcement exists in cases where the release of that information is harmful, adversely risky or prejudicial without actually adding context to the case at hand. Information like the names of their friends and family involved in a case are withheld with respect to the heroes' own secret identities, the names of victims or even perpetrators are withheld when the situation has concluded in such a way that the League thinks nothing would be gained by the pursuit of punitive justice. Sometimes information is withheld not for the sake of the general population but from well founded mistrust of law enforcement and the forces of government.

I also don't have any special access to this information from my position. I am a civilian academic who is in orbit BROADLY around a defunct superhero team from nearly a century ago, the only unredacted reports *I* get to read are the ones I dig out of wastebaskets from 1943. So, with that in mind, I will tell you what I can.

(An artist rendition of the "Justice Guild of America" constructed from League description) The Justice Guild were natives of a pocket dimension that the League found itself trapped in after a battle with a large robot in downtown Metropolis. The Flash, running at high speed attempting to contain the machine's explosive decomposition transported himself, Hawkgirl, Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern Jon Stewart into said dimension resembling an idyllic 1950s town.

They were met by the Justice Guild (Left to right: Black Siren, Tom Turbine, The Streak, Green Guardsman and Cat Man) and teamed up with that world's heroes to defeat a group of native supervillains and eventually a larger threat before they were transported home.

The most obvious note is, as you said, how sharply these heroes resemble the members of the JSA from our world. Black Canary, The Atom, The Flash, Green Lantern and Wildcat to be specific. As far as that goes there's not much to comment upon, they could very well BE the members of the JSA from our timeline altered due to whatever butterfly effect created this world. They could be entirely unrelated people who resemble the JSA through the machinations of Hypertime (about 80 levels in quantum physics above my pay grade)

The part of the report that's redacted is basically the entire last third which describes whatever final events allowed the Leaguers to return to our dimension and any other follow up information on the Guild or its members and I truly CANNOT answer what any of that information is or what its redaction might mean. Whatever it was it was kept from the public record because the League found some moral imperative weighty enough to outweigh the truth and I'm neither in a position nor a state of mind to pass judgement on that position without knowing for sure what it was or why it was made.

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The Justice Guild of America 

The heroic Justice Guild were a team of superheroes based in Seaboard City on an alternate Earth. In a dimension parallel to this alternate Earth, the Justice Guild were believed to be fictional characters, having appeared in popular comic books of the middle twentieth century. Evidentially the creators of these comics had somehow subconsciously ‘tuned in’ on the events of the alternate Earth when crafting their stories.  John Stewart of the Justice League was of this earth and he grew up greatly enjoying reading the comic book exploits of the mighty Justice Guild.  

Sadly, the Justice Guild perished in a terrible nuclear war that decimated their planet, leaving it a wasteland inhabited by a small population of survivors.  As a result of the Guild’s deaths, the comic writers were no longer inspired by The Guild and the comics featuring them were eventually cancelled.

Ray Thompson, a young citizen of Seaboard City, survived the nuclear atrocities and developed vast psychic powers from the radioactive fallout. Ray used his newfound powers to recreate the world in which he lived and ‘resurrected’ his heroes. Other survivors of the war were forced to play their parts in Ray's world, becoming witless puppets to his whim.

Decades later, The Flash, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern and J'onn J'onzz found themselves transported to this parallel earth after being caught in a dimensional rift. John Stewart immediately recognized the heroes he had read about in his youth.  Following some initial confusion, The Leaguers were welcomed into the Justice Guild as fellow heroes and together they battled against the dreaded villains of the Injustice Guild.

It was not long, however, before the Leaguers were able to ascertain the truth about this world.  They discovered that young Ray, the adolescent sidekick to the Guild, was manipulating reality with his mental powers and enslaving his fellow survivors.  The imagoes of the Justice Guild he created were true to their original selves.  And when they discovered that they were not real, that they were puppets enforcing a tyrannical rule, they turned against Ray and demanded freedom for the survivors of this world.

Ray used his powers in an effort to destroy both the Guild and the League.  Working together, however, the heroes were able to defeat Ray.  The Justice Guild sacrificed themselves so to free their world and thereafter the Justice Leaguers were able to return to their home dimension.  

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