| Just'a Lotta Animals | |
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From left to right: Green Lambkin, the Crash, Wonder Wabbit, Captain Carrot, Aquaduck, the Batmouse, and Super-Squirrel. From Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew #14, 1983. Art by Scott Shaw. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | The New Teen Titans #16 (1982) (first mentioned) Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! #14 (1983) (first appearance) |
| Created by | Roy Thomas and Scott Shaw |
| In-story information | |
| Base(s) | Space station satellite in orbit above Earth-C-Minus |
| Member(s) | Super-Squirrel The Batmouse Wonder Wabbit Green Lambkin The Crash Aquaduck Elongator The Martian Anteater Zap-Panda The Item Green Sparrow Stacked Canary Firestork Hawkmoose The Rat Tornado |
Just'a Lotta Animals is a fictional superhero team that appeared in stories published by DC Comics. The team was an anthropomorphic funny animal parody of the Justice League of America.
Just'a Lotta Animals originally appeared in the series Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! as the name of a superhero comic book written and drawn by Captain Carrot's alter ego, Roger Rodney Rabbit. Various panels of the Just'a Lotta Animals' comic that were shown in the Captain Carrot series were often parodies of classic Justice League storylines. The team was in fact the original proposal by Zoo Crew creators Roy Thomas and Scott Shaw for a funny animal superhero series for DC, but DC's editor Dick Giordano asked them to create original characters instead. They agreed and created the Zoo Crew, but still ended up introducing the Just'a Lotta Animals team in the series.
In Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew #14 and #15, in a storyline titled "Crisis On Earth-C!," Just'a Lotta Animals were finally revealed to actually exist, on a parallel Earth named "Earth-C-Minus" (versus the world of the Zoo Crew, which was named "Earth-C"). The two teams united to defeat the villains of the story, Dr. Hoot (an owl mad scientist) and Feline Faust (a cat sorcerer; an analog of Justice League villain Felix Faust).
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Just'a Lotta Animals lived on the parallel world of Earth-C-Minus, and made its headquarters in an orbiting satellite space station.
Events and characters on Earth-C-Minus were considered to be fictional to natives of Earth-C, similar to how events and characters of Earth-Two were considered as fictional on Earth-One. Additionally, events and characters on Earth-C-Minus paralleled those of the then-mainstream DC Universe of Earth-One. Like Earth-C, the names of characters and locations tended to make heavy use of various animal-based puns.
After the events of the 1985 miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths, it was revealed that Earth-C-Minus (and Earth-C) survived intact, as they were actually "alternate dimensions" instead of parallel Earths, although the most recent mini-series Captain Carrot and the Final Ark has suggested that Earth-C is now also considered Earth-26, one of the new 52 parallel Earths in the new DC Multiverse.
The main members of Just'a Lotta Animals were:
Other members of Just'a Lotta Animals include:
Enemies of Just'a Lotta Animals or its individual members include:
During the preview for the DC Nation block of programming coming in 2012 on Cartoon Network that will include animated shorts, a variation on the Just'a Lotta Animals is shown. Some variations include Superman as a duck, Batman as a mosquito, Wonder Woman as a mouse, Flash as a fish, Green Lantern as a cat, Martian Manhunter as a vulture, Robin as an egg, Cyborg as a flea, B'wana Beast as a bear, Lex Luthor as a hairless monkey, Sinestro as a hippo, and Brainiac as a bull.
http://www.oddballcomics.com/article.php?story=archive2000-09-07 -Oddball Comics, Column by Scott Shaw! where he discusses the team's creation
Alter Ego magazine # 72- contains an interview with Thomas and Shaw on the team's origin