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For example, it's fairly well known that the origins of the Justice League of America were deeply influenced by important pulp science fiction figures such as HP Lovecraft and Ray Cummings.  Their first villain crossed the weirdness of a Lovecraft Cthulhu monster with the ambitions of Cummings' Tarrano the Conqueror, which debuted in Hugo Gernsback's Science & Invention in 1925. [...]

Might have to be a series of posts, because there really are a lot of them.  Say what you will about Snyder, but it's clear that he's read, studied, and absorbed quite a lot of the most important material from DC's 80+ year history. I'm fairly indifferent to the tone argument about his films, particularly so[...]