Talk:Crime Syndicate of America

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consensus on Heroclix info relocation/removal was reached at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics. dfg 17:25, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Spelling
The spelling America is incorrect. It should be Amerika. In the story, President Benedict Arnold of the U.S. Amerika invades the British to bring it under Amerika's rule.


 * If memory serves (and it may not at the moment ... I need to check Crisis on Multiple Earths, Volume 1 to make sure), the original version was America. The version with the "k" is the JLA: Earth-2 spelling. --Joe Sewell 16:15, 20 April 2006 (UTC)


 * The original spelling was "America", and stayed that way from the Crime Syndicate's 1964 introduction through the late 90's "Earth-2" graphic novel's introduction of the "Amerika" spelling. Thus, both are technically correct, though the "America" spelling is the more common one (given its longevity and use in most discussions of the Crime Syndicate). Anthony Dean 01:13, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Dispute regarding the identity of three CSA earth heroes.
"The Justice League Adventures comic issue 6 featured a story of the Justice Leaguers assuming the identities of villains Chronos (Batman), Solomon Grundy (Superman), Catwoman (Wonder Woman), Parasite (J'Onn J'Onzz), The Warp (Flash), Roxy Rocket (Hawkgirl) and Count Vertigo (Green Lantern). They would keep those costumes in the Watchtower after that. The JLA Earth 2 special featured those costumes in the CSA Watchtower, three of them labeled "Doctor Noon", "White Cat" and "Spaceman", a take on Chronos, Catwoman and Warp."

I find this highly doubtful as Justice League Adventures is based on the animated show's continuity. What I would imagine is more likely are the following analogues.

Doctor Noon = Doctor Midnight White Cat = Black Canary

Those two I think should be fairly obvious to a knowledgeable DC comics fan. The third one I had to think about a bit but I've come to the conclusion that

Spaceman = Adam Strange.

My reasoning is thus, in the DC Universe Adam Strange was an archeologist who was struck by an alien teleportation device called a Zeta Beam that transported him to the planet Rann where he became that planet's champion. My hunch is that Spaceman is a Rannian who was teleported via Zeta Beam to earth in the antimatter universe.

Toriach 13:18, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Could somebody add information pertaining to the evil counterparts of the Superbuddies seen in I Can't Belive It's Not Justice League? -Bondage Queen Mary Marvel -Slave Boy Captain Marvel -Giant kaiju-sized G'nort -Stripper Sue Dibny (who said her husband was a loser) -Killer stripper Ice (who killed the universe's fire) -Dumb bartender Booostir -Goony Metamorpho -Bouncer Oberon

Change title back to "Crime Syndicate of America"?
The choice to change to title just to "Crime syndicate" was apparently made to avoid picking between "Crime Syndicate of America" and "Crime Syndicate of Amerika", but the problem is that the term "crime syndicate" has a widely-recognized use outside of comics, it refers to actual organized criminal organizations such as the mafia. I think the title should either be changed back to "Crime Syndicate of America" (the original version of this organization), or changed to "Crime Syndicate (comics)" (but this is still questionable, since there are other examples of crime syndicates in comics). Hypnosifl 00:13, 7 February 2007 (UTC)


 * OK, I'm going to go ahead and change it back for the reasons above. Hypnosifl 20:35, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Change in Team Picture
Should the team shown in 52 #52 be the prominent picture at the present time? To my knowledge, there's nothing yet from DC that unequivocally states that that group is known as the Crime Syndicate of America. Clearly, that's most likely going to be the case, but as of right now, it's not definitive yet (unless there is something out there that I missed). Thanks. Starmiter 19:30, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Crime Syndicate, Inc.
In Batman #2 (currently found in the Batman Chronicles Vol. 2 trade) the Crime Syndicate, Inc. is featured in the first story titled The Joker Meets the Cat-Woman. Its a group of thugs who are mob-like in appearance who elect Joker as their leader and even got someone to impersonate Batman. Although it has no connection with this Crime Syndicate and Joker did double-cross them and they were most likely never shown again, I think it warrants a mention at least.--John Lynch 14:37, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Did they or didn't they?
The article says the original Crime Syndicate never managed to conquer their earth, but COIE #1 states that Luthor could never stop them. And wasn't the whole point of their first attack on Earths 1 and 2 was that they were bored with how easily they could win? Bluecatcinema 12:51, 25 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually as shown in the TPB with the reprint of their first appearance they were starting to lose their edge as no one was able to oppose them they needed a challenge to restore their edge before non super powered forces were able to defeat them.--BruceGrubb (talk) 08:57, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

"Crime Society"
Aren't we really jumping the gun on this one?

At the moment, the DC solicitations are using "Crime Syndicate" and the cite reference for the name stated "...that there's a CSA in both the anti-matter universe and on Earth 3 (the former is Grant Morrison's rendition, the latter is a 'Golden Age' 'Crime Society'),..."

There is a lot of room for interpretation there... so maybe we should go back to no name being specified until the relevant issues actually come out, or someone can find a definitive statement from DC to the effect of "Yes, the Earth-3 characters from 52 Week are the Crime Society of America."

- J Greb 07:48, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It's been referred to twice as Crime Society, once by the artist who worked on it, so the solicitations might be wrong. But what I will do is change the title of the solicited book to match the current solicitations, it can be updated later. The team name though is quite correct. --Basique 10:25, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

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Video Game Deletion
There was a section under “In other media” titled Video Games. This portion basically talked about a game called City of Heroes, and the counterparts of the games heroes (i.e., Statesman = Tyrant). Since the page is talking about The Crime Syndicate, I felt that a whole subsection dedicated to a similarity was inappropriate, and a bit confusing. Since the game has no relevance to the DC universe, other then being a game based on superheroes, I have deleted this section. 38.100.210.117 (talk) 07:04, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

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