Source: Justice League International Annual #5 (1994)
Type: Elseworlds
Gerard Jones and Kiki Chansamone are responsible for this JLI Elseworld in which superhumans have only recently cropped up and are both feared and hated (it's the New52! Or maybe X-Men!). While human forces financed by Bruce Wayne try to arrest the "freaks", there is one superhuman (in fact, a non-human) who keeps well away from us. He was born on another planet, but raised here. And he believes he does not have the right to change humanity's fate. And yet, he anonymously prevents a nuclear power plant from melting down. Eventually, journalist Ralph Dibney tracks him down to the Antarctic where the Tasmanian Devil makes a plea to his sense of decency. Destiny sent him to us, giving him the right to share in it. Convinced, the newly-dubbed Superman ("Don't laugh, it's a work in progress.") stops a very public altercation between the superhumans and humanity, as some of the less stable supers try to take over the world rather than show they can help save it. Superman throws Taz's words back at the crowd and they buy it, apparently because Superman is so pretty (suspend your disbelief, given the art). And we discover that Kal-El has, in every incarnation, an affinity for the letter "L".
From there, Bruce Wayne makes a 180 and finances a new group of joint human and superhuman heroes called... the Justice League. And he and Taz live happily ever after (/slashficopportunity).
Type: Elseworlds
Gerard Jones and Kiki Chansamone are responsible for this JLI Elseworld in which superhumans have only recently cropped up and are both feared and hated (it's the New52! Or maybe X-Men!). While human forces financed by Bruce Wayne try to arrest the "freaks", there is one superhuman (in fact, a non-human) who keeps well away from us. He was born on another planet, but raised here. And he believes he does not have the right to change humanity's fate. And yet, he anonymously prevents a nuclear power plant from melting down. Eventually, journalist Ralph Dibney tracks him down to the Antarctic where the Tasmanian Devil makes a plea to his sense of decency. Destiny sent him to us, giving him the right to share in it. Convinced, the newly-dubbed Superman ("Don't laugh, it's a work in progress.") stops a very public altercation between the superhumans and humanity, as some of the less stable supers try to take over the world rather than show they can help save it. Superman throws Taz's words back at the crowd and they buy it, apparently because Superman is so pretty (suspend your disbelief, given the art). And we discover that Kal-El has, in every incarnation, an affinity for the letter "L".
From there, Bruce Wayne makes a 180 and finances a new group of joint human and superhuman heroes called... the Justice League. And he and Taz live happily ever after (/slashficopportunity).
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