Batman Total Justice

Batman Total Justice is a line of toys produced by Kenner based on Batman and other, connected, DC Comics characters.

History

In 1996, Kenner started production on a new line of DC Comics character figures. This line, like Legends of Batman and Legends of the Dark Knight, featured all new sculpts of popular DC Comics characters. To appeal to buyers, Kenner produced the line under the high selling Batman title, calling the line Batman: Total Justice. This line featured Batman, Robin and The Huntress, but also included other DC Comics characters including Superman, Green Lantern, The Flash and others.

This was the first line of DC Comics character figures released by Kenner since the Super Powers line of figures ended 10 years earlier. Kenner stopped production after only 14 figures were released.

Two years later, the Hasbro toy company produced the same figures included in the Total Justice line, but this time released them under the name JLA (a tie-in with the popular comic title). Several of the unproduced Total Justice figures were produced in this line, but no new Batman related characters were included.

toryline from the packages

On a distant planet, an evil being known as Darkseid prepares for his invasion and destruction of Earth. Batman learns of this diabolical plan and recruits the world's mightiest super heroes in an all-out assault on Darkseid's forces.

In 1996, DC Comics produced a 3-issue tie-in mini-series featuring the heroes from the first wave (Batman, Robin, Aquaman, Flash and Green Lantern) plus Blue Beetle, Gypsy, Darkseid and Parademon ("Mike", who might be the same Parademon from Villains United)..

Also a set of 2 children's books were made from the series.

Toys

Wave 1:

Aquaman

Batman

Darkseid

The Flash (Wally West)

Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)

Robin (Tim Drake)

Wave 2:

Despero

Fractal Armor Batman

Hawkman (Hawk-God version)

Superman

Wave 3:

Black Lightning

Green Arrow (Connor Hawke)

Huntress

Parallax (evil Hal Jordan)

Unreleased wave 4 (later released as DC Superheroes 2-packs):

Blue Beetle (Ted Kord)

Doctor Polaris

Fractal Armor Flash with the Atom (Ray Palmer)

Fractal Armor Green Lantern

Toyfare exclusive:

Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne, Professor Zoom)

Unmade characters

Some characters appeared in a Total Justice coloring books with fractal techgears, but they were never made as figures:

Martian Manhunter

Oracle

Steel (John Henry Irons)

Superboy (Kon-El/Conner Kent)

Supergirl (Matrix)

Wonder Woman

Also, it has been speculated that the fifth assortment - which likely got no further than the earliest of planning stages - was to include Martian Manhunter, Supergirl, a Fractal Armor Robin, and Prometheus as its villain.

External links

* [http://www.dcuguide.com/JLA/TJ.php Total Justice comic miniseries]
* [http://www.toyotter.com/tj/ Total Justice action figures]
* [http://www.batmanytb.com/actionfiguresanddolls/actionfigures/comic/totaljustice/index.php Total Justice action figures]