America vs. The Justice Society
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America vs. The Justice Society is a 4-issue comic book limited series starring the Justice Society of America which was first published by DC Comics between January and April 1985.
The series was written by Roy and Dann Thomas and featured artwork from Rafael Kayanan, Rich Buckler and Jerry Ordway among others.
The series was set on Earth-Two and began with the discovery of Batman's diary (The Batman of Earth 2 was dead at that point) which implicated that the Justice Society was guilty of treason.
The group is put on trial and their history is reviewed, which eventually reveals that the diary is a forgery created by Per Degaton. Degaton is apprehended by the Justice Society and he apparently commits suicide at the end of the story (though he would return in later stories).
One major part of the story (#2, "Trial by Congress") depicted for the first time in detail the events which surrounded the retirement of the Justice Society in 1951. It showed how the team chose to disband rather than appear in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which demanded that they unmask themselves. Those events were first briefly explored in a back-up story in Adventure Comics (vol. 1) #466 ("The Defeat of the Justice Society!"; December, 1979) by writer Paul Levitz. Throughout the series many other past Justice Society of America stories were similarly retold as part of the examination of the Justice Society's history which took place at their trial.
