Justice Riders is an 1997 DC Comics story published under the Elseworlds imprint, written by Chuck Dixon and illustrated by J.H. Williams III.
The premise concerns a version of the Justice League consisting of Wild West heroes coming together to defeat an alliance between Maxwell Lord and Felix Faust.
The Multiversity established a world at least similar to this continuity as existing in Earth-18.
Justice Riders provides examples of:
- Adaptational Nationality:
- Katar/Hawkman is normally Egyptian or a Caucasian American, but here he is half-Cheyenne.
- Diana Prince seems to be American (from the town of Paradise) rather than an Amazon from Paradise Island.
- Adaptational Villainy: Maxwell Lord is the villain in this continuity (this was years before he became evil in the lead-up to Infinite Crisis).
- Adaptational Wimp:
- This continuity's Booster Gold does not have futuristic tech to assist him.
- Guy Gardner doesn't have a Green Lantern ring and only uses guns.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Diana Prince isn't called Wonder Woman, John Jones isn't called Martian Manhunter and Wally West's deceased predecessor Barry Allen isn't called the Flash.
- Foreshadowing: A bunch of green smoke in Blue Beetle's workshop illuminates a lantern several scenes before Guy Gardner appears.
- The Ghost: Solomon Grundy is mentioned as someone Guy Gardner successfully gunned down, but he doesn't physically appear.
- I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: The heroes fight Maxwell Lord and Felix Faust in Helldorado, with Booster Gold even pointing out that the location's name screams bad news.
- Irony: Colonel Kent chooses to omit the detail of Blue Beetle's story about an alien being involved on the grounds that it isn't very believable, when Clark Kent is traditionally the civilian identity of the Kryptonian superhero Superman.
- Jumped at the Call: Booster Gold offers to join Diana's posse the moment he hears her discuss her mission. When she turns him down after Kid Flash outdraws him, he sets out to buy a Gatling gun that will make the heroes reconsider turning him away.
- Pants-Pulling Prank: Kid Flash uses his super speed to stop some outlaws by pulling their pants down.
- Posthumous Character: Barry Allen has already died and Kid Flash is on the run because he's been falsely accused of causing Barry's death.
- Robotic Reveal: Diana Prince has a showdown with Maxwell Lord who turns out to be a Clockwork Man standing in for him.
- Sequel Hook: Felix Faust rises back up after being seemingly shot dead and goes about his merry way.
- Token Evil Teammate: Guy Gardner is an Only in It for the Money Pinkerton Detective who only helps the heroes because he is tracking wanted party member Wally West, and it would hurt his cherished reputation to stand by and let someone else kill his quarry.
- The Wild West: An interpretation of the Justice League where the heroes are 19th-century gunslingers.
