I know Moon Maiden, who was a time lost stand-in for the Silver Age Wonder Woman and appeared in an 80-Page Giant. Our own Mathematicscore figured out who Regal is in a well-spotted search.
“The Triumvirate of Thallasus-Moon Maiden, Regal and Triumph...The new Justice League of America has an alright line-up that I don't expect to last a full year on the basis of their seemingly coming together to take part in the fractious "Trinity War." Personally though, I'd have gone a different way. Besides Triumph and Moon Maiden pictured above, I'd have a League with Elongated Man, Citizen Steel, Vibe, Crimson Fox, Amazing Man, and Tomorrow Woman. These are all the Leaguers who died in bad ways, stayed dead, and have no current parallels in the New 52. You would seriously have no way of knowing what would happen to this cursed lot in any given issue. Strangulation? Rape? Treachery? The whole damned lot of them could up and die in any battle they rush into. It would be DC's answer to The Walking Dead ! The Ultraverse did something similar in the early '90s with Exiles, but wiped them out after only four issues without building reader expectations of a bad ending. Triumph even looks like Hardcase, one of that line's premier heroes (which might help explain why they went out of business.)
Another piece of my alternate Trinity drawn by artist Randy Kintz.He does sales often so I sprung on the chance to get the trio drawn by him. I'm hoping to get many drawings of the trio in action soon.”
Christopher J. Priest, born James Christopher Owsley, was a Marvel Comics writer and editor in the 1980s before moving to DC in the '90s and finally to Valiant/Acclaim before quitting comics altogether. While there are some Priest comics, to paraphrase Irwin Schwab, that I'd like to take with me to a white sand beach on a sunny day and leisurely feed copies into a shredder, others prove that he was one of the finest writers the medium ever produced. Coverage of his Justice League Task Force work has been woefully deficient on this blog. Since I'm offering some degree of extended coverage of Triumph this week, I thought I'd take advantage of 
Mindboggling as it is to me, major villains veteran to numerous run-ins with the Sleuth from Outer Space lack poll support. Meanwhile, the poor man's Sinestro, who could be considered a lesser Green Lantern Kyle Rayner foe (behind the lightweight likes of Fatality, the sons of Darkseid, the junior Mongul, an evil version of Hal Jordan and Captain Atom loaner Major Force) who only ever fought J'Onn J'Onzz as part of a Love Boat collection of bad guy guest stars (Salvation Run, Final Crisis) has a reasonably strong mandate. Effigy took 62% of 13 votes, but consider yourselves chastised.
Zero Hour was conceived as a soft reboot of the DC Universe that would explain away problematic chunks of continuity that hung on after their more pronounced but staggered and divisive new beginning point, Crisis On Infinite Earths. The history of the Justice League of America was pretty screwed-up by this approach, since Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman were all retroactively removed from membership, Hawkman was turned into two different guys from the one that had served in the comics, Black Canary was made a founder, and the Martian Manhunter never once left the group. They could, and eventually did, devote an entire maxi-series just to handling the team dynamic that came out of those changes. In the meantime, Zero Hour was a weekly event mini-series that demanded all DC Comics have a tie-in issue one month, and a reader friendly entry point #0 issue the following month.
Trying to wrap up those "race" essays that had been sitting around for months in the queues of my DC blogs at various stages of completion before the typical holiday wind down of comments wore me out on Wednesday. Guess it's time for another throwaway Martian Manhunter costume redesign. Once again, we're in the "white period," as I scaled back the Bloodwynd influence inch by inch. What we have here is a colorless unitard version of the basic Silver Age design, aside from being full pants with a stark red belt. Still rather bland, and the combination kind of reminds me of Dynamo from the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents. Big bored pass on this.
In this version of the Martian Manhunter's origin, J'onn J'onzz was ambushed, convicted of trumped-up charges by an all-Pale jury, and sent into exile. J'onzz's absence allowed Mars to die, and despite Blanx's motivations, it's hard not to see their final battle amidst the ashes of the red planet as a clash between the sole remaining representatives of two races. The Justice League of America helped round up the evil Pale Martians, and turned a blind eye to J'onzz's use of lethal force against Blanx. John Jones had been a paragon of white authority, working under a similarly hued police captain and alongside a blond haired, blue-eyed patrolwoman. Blanx was a paler shade of white though, practicing prejudice with self-interest of the sort that the Love Generation was loudly condemning at the time. I suppose this was the beginning of J'onn J'onzz as Israelite, as Native American, as last chief of a race largely wiped from the cosmos.
In a story from 1977, a friend of J'onn J'onzz appeared to be assassinated on the alien world Mars' survivors settled on. Rather than make the obvious assumption that one Desert-Dweller had killed another, J'onzz leapt to the wildly inaccurate conclusion that it must have been one of the super-heroes on Earth who knew of Mars II's location. Bad plotting and a desire to use a lot of guest stars surely played into his logic, but one has to wonder if it was just easier to blame another species instead of looking to his own people for the guilty parties, which is exactly where they were eventually found. The "assassination" turned out to be a misdirection to push a Desert Dweller army into massacring a blue-skinned people who inhabited the planet and seizing their superior city. Not a progressive sounding bunch, these Desert Dwellers. A similar ruse was used in 1984 to launch a war against the Earth, which the Martian Manhunter helped route. However, there was a good deal of distrust between the Alien Atlas and his former allies in the Justice League, likely fueled by J'onzz's tendency to run around battering people and making insane allegations against them. There was a lot of tension revolving around people's relative "Martianness," and J'onzz was ultimately abandoned by his people as they left Earth in shame.
In 1984, a cousin for J'onn J'onzz was created in "Jemm, Son of Mars," whose self-titled mini-series made ample use of the previously mentioned Bronze Age history of Mars. An editorial clash saw Jemm shift setting to Saturn, but the core story remained the same. White-skinned Saturnians were still sociopaths, while Red Saturnians were warmongers who feared and loathed them. Saturnians added some rather unhealthy sexual prejudices as well, with misandrist White females enslaving weaker men. A later retcon reunited the Saturnians with Mars, making Saturns' races cloned colonists of Mars, Red for Green, White for White. The typically pacifistic Jemm has been repeatedly manipulated into conflict with J'Onn J'Onzz, who was mostly understanding about the matter, although he did decide to have intimacies with Jemm's fiancé. The Saturnians defer the Martians as superior beings, which J'Onzz also took advantage of rather than dissuading.
From around 1985 until 1996, the Martian Manhunter was treated as being essentially the only Martian. In 1988, all Martians appearing in earlier stories were revealed to be figments of J'onzz's imagination planted by a psychic suggestion to deal with the trauma of living through a destructive plague. J'onzz learned that he had a wife and child, both of whom had green skin. Previously, the only two females linked to J'onzz in a romantic capacity had also been green-skinned.
In 1997, the old racial war was revisited with a vengeance, as monstrous White Martians were introduced and made a bid for Earth. Besides being bestial in form, the White Martians were portrayed as universally racist, sadistic, and generally amoral. The one exception, introduced nearly a decade later, was the heroine Miss Martian. M'gann M'orzz chose to a appear as a Green Martian because of the broad hatred of her people, and has continued this charade for years, despite her true race being known. While a "good" White, a future version of M'orzz revealed that she would eventually embrace her race and vicious White leanings. Miss Martian did not care to hear this, and chopped off her future self's head before indulging in an identity crisis with signs of emerging schizophrenia.
J'Onn J'Onzz had spent years mourning the absence of his people, but that did not stop him from mind-wiping the White Martians, imprisoning them, and merging temporarily with an entity called Fernus in a bid to exterminate them. In the "One Year Later" period, J'Onn turned against the Justice League to protect a group of murderous Green Martians, until he found out that they were really White, and they were never heard from again. J'Onzz also waited years before having any sort of direct contact with M'gann M'orzz, and has largely maintained that distance. Only in the non-canon cartoon Young Justice has there been a portrayal of genuine sustained warmth between the two, although Miss Martian appears to be a Green Martian and niece to J'Onzz in that series.
What we have here is a failure to communicate a positive direction for racial politics in the Martian Manhunter's neck of the woods. All White Martians are pure evil, aside from a couple of "good ones." All Pale Martians were Nazi goons, while White Saturnians were all kinds of creepy messed up. Red Saturnians weren't much better, just weaker, and most Green Martians were either massacre bait or knee-jerk violent reactionaries. The one yellow-skinned Martian was a killer outlaw, and J'Onn J'Onzz hasn't had a healthy relationship with any of them since 1968. J'Onzz did deign to have a fling with the White Saturnian 
When J'onn J'onzz first took human form in 1955, it was as a white man. When he killed off the John Jones identity in the early '60s, he eventually took on the role of Marco Xavier, another white man. After decades away from Earth, upon repatriating here, he reestablished the deceased John Jones identity while serving on a calculatedly multicultural team. It wasn't until the late '90s that creators flirted with other races or genders, none sticking for long. In animation and live action, African-American actors have tended to portray the Martian Manhunter, the 2012 direct-to-DVD cartoon Justice League Doom introduced a black John Jones, and New 52 DC Comics may follow suit. While I've tended to be critical of DC's dumping decades of continuity in an attention grab, J'Onn J'Onzz could benefit mightily from this new beginning. There were numerous isolated pockets of continuity in any given decade of publishing that rarely connected as any kind of whole, and the stuff that did carry over was often naive demonizing along racial lines. I sincerely hope that when we do finally get to know the Manhunter from Mars in the New 52, someone will have given thought to the greater scheme of Martian history, and will offer a more nuanced approach to the races of the red planet.
Post-Racial DC Comics?
