The Justice League Canon

I don’t know about you, but whenever I see a copy of a post-crisis Justice League issue, I get confused about when and where it fits into the overall timeline. So, I put together this table to help me not be confused. The titles in bold represent to me the mainline canon of what was known over 50 years ago as “Justice League of America” and what is known today as “Justice League”.

Justice League of America vol. 2 (2006)
Title vol Issues Years Dur Notes
Justice League of America vol. 1 261 1960 to 1987 27 Hawkgirl joined the team in 1977. For some, such as myself, the original JLA ended with issue #232 in November 1984.
Justice League vol. 1 6 1987 to 1987 1
Justice League International vol. 1 25 1987 to 1989 2 Hawkgirl left the team in 1988
Justice League Europe vol. 1 50 1989 to 1993 4
Justice League America vol. 1 88 1989 to 1996 7
Justice League International vol. 2 17 1993 to 1994 1 Issues were numbered 51 thru 68 and continued from Justice League Europe vol. 1
Justice League Task Force vol. 1 38 1993 to 1996 3
Extreme Justice vol. 1 18 1995 to 1996 1
JLA vol. 1 126 1997 to 2006 10 Hawkgirl was briefly a member of the team (issues #61 thru 76)
Justice League Elite vol. 1 12 2004 to 2005 1
Justice League of America vol. 2 60 2006 to 2011 5 Hawkgirl was member of the team up to at least issue #30
Justice League International vol. 3 12 2011 to 2012 1
Justice League Dark vol. 1 42 2011 to 2015 4
Justice League vol. 2 52 2011 to 2016 5 The New 52
Justice League of America vol. 3 14 2013 to 2014 1
Justice League of America vol. 4 10 2015 to 2017 2
Justice League vol. 3 35 2016 to present Main team
Justice League of America vol. 5 20 2017 to 2018 Elite team led by Batman
Justice League vol. 4 1 2018 to present A reboot of the Justice League