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Where Valor Fails…Will Magic Triumph?

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329 days
by in Comics, Crisis, JLA, JSA

Roll Call:  JLA:  Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Atom, Black Canary, Superman, Hawkman, Batman, and Flash  JSA:  Spectre, Dr. Fate, Wonder Woman, Red Tornado, Hourman, Starman, Hawkman, Johnny Thunder & Thunderbolt, Green Lantern, Superman, and Dr. Mid-Nite.

We pick up where we left off with Black Canary deciding that she must die to save the two universes from colliding and their demise.

The World Builders decide that the JSA has been enough trouble to them so far and have decided to go ahead and attack the Justice Society directly.  On Earth-One, Green Lantern goes to investigate what might be causing the universes to merge and he discovers that Red Tornado is being held in stasis and that the android is the focus of the attack and not Black Canary.   Green Lantern cannot resolve this as the Earth-Two Green Lantern falls to the traps of the World Builders, so too does the Green Lantern of Earth-One.  The same effect occurs to Hawkman as well and so it goes.

Black Canary on the JLA Satellite is ready to set the transporter to scatter her atoms across the galaxy ending the threat to the universes.

Doctor Fate and Johnny Thunder & Thunderbolt are all that are left of the JSA and they teleport away to enlist the help of The Spectre.  The spirit of vengeance used to be mostly man but seems to grow ever distant from mankind and more seeking revenge.  Dr. Fate is able to persuade the Spectre to save the worlds with them and they do so, by using the Spectre to keep the worlds apart it appears that the heroes win the day, though Spectre may have perished in the act of saving the worlds.

Once the worlds are free Dr. Fate and Johnny Thunder & Thunderbolt go to take care of the World Builders.  This frees Red Tornado, Green Lantern, and the previous heroes who were at death’s door, although it seems The Spectre may not have survived, how does one kill a ghost?

Next Up:  Earth — The Monster Maker

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Peril of the Paired Planets

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349 days
by in Comics, Crisis, JLA, JSA

 

We open our tale with Superman flying through the clear skies of Metropolis and all seems well with the world until he plows into the Daily Planet building, goes through the building, and eventually falls into the subway system where he lies comatose.  Hawkman and Flash come to his aid and get him to the new JLA Satellite Headquarters orbiting at 22,300 miles above the Earth in  Geosynchronous  orbit.    Joined there by Batman and the Atom the Justice Leaguers begin to diagnose Superman’s condition with Batman deducing it must be magic that affected the Man of Steel with no Kryptonite or Red Sun radiation nearby.  As Batman reveals this, he is attacked by an unknown force and rendered unconscious and dying.  Hawkman goes and calls the rest of the Justice League:  Green Lantern, Green Arrow, and Black Canary to help the JLA out.

And where *ARE* those three heroes?  Appearing as the “Hard Traveling Heroes” in the new Green Lantern/Green Arrow series of course:

 

Anyway, the scene shifts to Earth-Two, home of the Justice Society of America and the wayward  android  Red Tornado who is visiting outer space bemoaning his inability to fit in amongst humans due to his android body.   He runs across a group of aliens and attempts to communicate with them and the aliens capture Red Tornado.  The aliens are basically planet killers and then creators.  In order to build a planet they must destroy two planets.  Well, here are two planets separated by the vibrations that keep the universes of Earth-One and Earth-Two separated and Red Tornado who possesses the ability to go  in-between  the worlds is the perfect being to use to cause the destruction of both worlds.

 

On Earth-Two we see Superman and Doctor Mid-Nite attacked and subdued in ways that appear to be the same way that Superman and Batman were on Earth-One, except on Earth-Two we see the planet building aliens are responsible.  The same fate befalls the Flash of both worlds when Jay Garrick confronts an alien he is captured by a constricting net, Barry Allen on Earth-One is attacked and bound by an unseen force mimicking the net on Earth-Two.  The Atom and Hawkman of Earth-One have been running tests and they determine that there is some force ripping the two worlds asunder and it must have some sort of focus point that has vibrations on both earths.  Black Canary comes to a bone chilling conclusion.  She is the nexus point.  She must die.

Next Up:  Where Valor Fails, Will Magic Triumph?

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