Interestingly enough, three pre-Crisis JSAers first appeared in All-Star Comics, all of them female: Wonder Woman (#8), Power Girl (#58), and the Huntress (#69).

But that is not the correct answer. One comic title boasts first appearances of four pre-Crisis JSAers.

Didn't Huntress debut in a special or Secret Origins comic? Or maybe she had one of those one - panel foreshadowings first.

I'll say All-Flash. Flash and Johnny Thunder at least.

If it's not that, I would say Inifinty Inc, as I think they might have made the whole team JSA members at some point.

I'm going to be generous and give it to Iggy for that. The actual title is Flash Comics, not All-Flash, but I know what he meant. Four pre-Crisis JSA members debuted in that title: Flash, Hawkman, and Johnny Thunder all in #1, and Black Canary in #86.

Titles with three members include Adventure Comics (Sandman, Starman, and Hourman), All-American Comics (Green Lantern, Atom, and Dr. Mid-Nite), and the aforementioned All-Star Comics. Two members each are Detective Comics (Batman and Robin), Sensation Comics (Wildcat and Mr. Terrific), and the previously offered More Fun Comics. With one member each we have Action Comics (Superman), Star-Spangled Comics (Star-Spangled Kid), and Justice League of America (Red Tornado).

I know the original Red Tornado, Ma Hunkle, first appeared in All-American Comics; but pre-Crisis she was never an official JSA member.

Take it away, IgMo!

In the seventies, Wildcat was being written as a muscle-bound tough-guy, complete with stereotypical speech patterns (much as he is written today) making him seem dumber than he is. A story came up with a retroactive explanation for why a med-school drop out would be talking that way, and had him revert to more normal speech. What was the reason given?

That All-Flash Comics title would've been my next guess.

It was because he'd been brain damaged in a fight.

Not quite right. He had been brain damaged.

So was Mike Tyson. Only differance is, one was brain damaged before his first bout but you don't say that to the guy's face.


Second guess;
Was it because Ted Grant is heavy into male chauvinism?

Was his speech pattern a social effort to fit in among boxers and people from Queens?

--wyld

I've confrimed he was brain damaged, but it wasn't a fight. Unless you consider fitting in with people from Queens brain damage in and of itself...

No. I do consider fitting in with people from Fairfield, CT to be brain damage in and of itself, but not Queens.

Was it because he had brain damage from that time his mother hit upside the head with a rolling pin for coming late on a school night?

You're thinking of the right story, wrong reason. Thorn nearly killed Wildcat, at which point they realized (in a quickie retcon) that he'd been brain damaged earlier.

It's not that "nine lives" thing, is it?

No, no, that's later.

He had brain damage, they found out when Thorn nearly killed him, but what caused it? It's somewhat bizarre.