I enjoyed the "Decoy Missions" recap. Thanks, Commander B.  It was not my favorite story, but it was from my favorite era of the JLA, the first 40 or so issues.

I liked the mileage that Fox got out of the Adam Strange story.  First he used it to springboard the accompanying Hawkman story in Mystery in Space, and a month later he brought it into the JLA.  The old Silver Age DC was very much a continuity-free zone.  Stories did not much connect from issue to issue.  This story took place as a lot of that was changing.  

For a while, the  JLA was kind of the "nexus of all DC editorial universes."  It was the one spot all the super-characters showed up.  Other than Superman and Batman getting together in Worlds Finest, the heroes did not much overlap, and when they did it was within editorial universes:  I think Congorilla got into one or two Superman family stories; Schwartz teamed up Flash and GL and Hawkman and the Atom; Green Arrow and Aquaman crossed over in an issue of Adventure or Worlds Finest.  Schwartz brought Adam Strange into the JLA universe, first in JLA #4 with a nomination for membership, and then in this issue.  But I don't think we had the Sea Devils slipping over into Aquaman, or Rip Hunter going time travelling with the Flash or arriving in the future to meet the Space Cabbie. 

That started to change with the Brave & Bold team-ups.  I will re-read the Hawkman and Aquaman team up as part of my enjoyment of this month's Time Capsule goodness.  

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