Amazingly well written!! I enjoyed reading this. I couldn't agree with you more about these 12 being the quintessential Justice League; and I really like how you tied their personalities and roles within the team to the Greek Pantheon. Once again, really good article!!
I'm more than sure that most supervillian henchmen hiring is done out of prisons. When the villians are locked up they gain the trust and respect of the "normal" inmates and so, when they break out, they use those connections to get henchmen.
This topic came up once in an issue of Spider-Man (I don't recall what issue). Peter had gone to a party and had some punch, not knowing it'd been spiked. Later he had to change and fight some super villian and his drunkeness completely threw off his sense of balance and agility. I remember him saying that between having to fight the villian and web-swinging around Manhattan he barely made in through the night alive and so he VOWED to never drink again.
I'm sure the change in Magneto's location from the US/UK poster (concentration camp) for the international (ambigious location) is due to overseas sentiments regarding World War II and the Holocaust....I'm sure the image of a concentratio camp wouldn't sell too well in places like Germany or Israel :-/
There was actually an article on this comedy website called Cracked that talked about this very topic and how hard it would realistically be to keep the Batcave a secret....I don't recommend reading it if you want to keep your suspension of belief; but it's a pretty funny/cool read.....
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