DeMatteis remembers the Justice League

I started buying Justice League comics during the famous 1980s Giffen & DeMatteis era so those comics hold fond memories for me. Apparently I’m not the only one, recently J.M. DeMatteis has been remembering how he came to be involved the the project and what it was like working with Keith Giffen.

I didn’t want to do it. Really. It was late 1986 and I’d just completed the four-part “End of the Justice League of America”—wrapping up the infamous Justice League Detroit era and clearing the path for a JLA reboot—and I was anxious to move on to More Important Personal Projects. But Andy Helfer—one of the best editors I’ve ever worked with (which makes sense since he grew up in the same Brooklyn neighborhood I did)—kept saying, “Yeah, well, I might need you to dialogue the new Justice League book.” “But Andy,” I said, “I don’t want to dialogue the new Justice League book.” Andy nodded, puffed out a stream of cigarette smoke and smiled.

[Via JK Larkin @ Newsarama's Blog]