just'a lotta animals originally appeared in the series "captain carrot and his amazing zoo crew!" as the name of a superhero comic book written and drawn by captain carrot's alter ego, roger rodney rabbit. various panels of the just'a lotta animals' comic that were shown in the "captain carrot" series were often parodies of classic justice league storylines. the team was in fact the original proposal by zoo crew creators roy thomas and scott shaw for a funny animal superhero series for dc, but dc's editor dick giordano asked them to create original characters instead. they agreed and created the zoo crew, but still ended up introducing the just'a lotta animals team in the series.