Hall of Justice (comics)
It was first introduced in the Super Friends animated series on September 8, 1973, and it eventually appeared in comic book titles related to the Justice League, as well as video games and other media.
Al Gmuer, a key background artist at Hanna-Barbera, designed a building for the superhero headquarters that took inspiration from Cincinnati Union Terminal.
Gmuer later complained that his employer Joe Barbera and his development team made the Hall of Justice design into almost an exact replica of the terminal against his wishes.
[3] Gmuer apparently modeled the fortress after the art deco Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio, a train station turned museum.
Gmuer later commented of the animated Hall of Justice: "In the long run, I hated that building...The way it's designed, it was not easy to draw.
Wonder Woman's Invisible Jet and the Batmobile would often be spotted resting on the front lawn,[1] near the large fountain and sculpture that were ever present.
[10] The Hall also contains the TroublAlert, a computerized monitoring station that would warn the heroes of a new threat,[1][13] voiced by Casey Kasem,[14] and another giant computer that the Super Friends use to analyze clues.
[citation needed] The Hall of Justice originating in the TV series was eventually introduced into the printed comic books.
After the previous Watchtower was destroyed and the League had disbanded, one year later, the JLA reforms and with it a new Satellite Watchtower is constructed in space, along with an updated version of the Hall of Justice on Earth, in Washington, D.C.[16]: 207 The newest Hall is located on top of the location of the former bases of the Justice Society of America and the All-Star Squadron, previously known as the Perisphere, which existed there during World War 2.
The Hall also works as a transfer station for the heroes in which it is connected, via "slideways" teleporters, to the League's orbiting Satellite Watchtower, which is considered a more secured location for the JLA to assemble.
This causes public outrage, with many citizens taking offense to the idea of superheroes from foreign countries using an American landmark as their base of operations.
In video games, the Hall of Justice is a playable stage in Injustice: Gods Among Us,[25] and a main location in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham.
[26] In the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, the term "Hall of Justice" was regularly used to refer to the city's police headquarters.
It bore little resemblance to the Super Friends Hall of Justice, but rather was of the faux Greco-Roman design typical of many pre-World War II United States public buildings.
Labs has an old hangar resembling the Hall of Justice,[10][27] which serves as a base of operations for the assembled heroes during the events of the episode "Invasion!
