Justice League as jazz-age vigilantes

On DeviantArt, Genesischant has a great "Jazz Age Justice League" poster complete with back-stories for all the reimagined, Gatsby-era vigilantes. I especially love Wonder Woman as a flapper, and the Green Lantern as a soldier-turned-jazz-musician-turned-crimefighter.

The J.L.A. is a borderline legal bounty-hunter/vigilante group with limited governmental sanction ("Department of Justice Licensed Agency"). Made up of individuals from various walks of life, all are committed to the take-down of the rising criminal empires that threaten America.

Jazz Age Justice League (via The Mary Sue)

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Green Lantern should have brass knuckles instead of a guitar case.
- http://www.youtube.com/user/ziccup akbar56
  
  I’d like to think his guitar case is full of different kinds of brass knuckles to keep with the mythos of what a green lantern can do.
Anthony MacPherson

Great except for Bruce Wayne having a gun
- http://www.youtube.com/user/ziccup akbar56
  
  “Rubber bullets….honest.”
- Lupus_Yonderboy
  
  Takes place pre-1939 so that’s actually workable in canon.
  - Samuel Valentine
    
    Go on?
    - Lupus_Yonderboy
      
      Batman used a gun in a few of the first comics (though it wasn’t all the time, only once or twice), it wasn’t until late 1939/early 1940 that the person editing the first all Batman comic put the kibosh on him ever using one.
- Brainspore
  
  He confiscated that from Jimmy the Joker. It shoots a little flag that says “bang!” (then fires that little flag right through your heart).
  - Andrew Singleton
    
    Trophy he takes everywhere as a lucky charm (or reminder to all the crooks he goes head ot head with that he is just that tough.)
Donald Petersen

Tickles me no end that even as a Flapper, Wonder Woman’s chest is enduringly pneumatic.
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