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Adventures in the DC Universe #16
(Creators) Steve Vance, John Delaney and Ron Boyd
"Green Lantern month" continues in an animated-style Green Lantern/Green Arrow team-up that follows Kyle Rayner and Connor Hawke as they learn that the ramifications of their predecessors -- Hal Jordan and Ollie Queen -- live on. It's a story about drugs -- and the disruptive effect they have on families -- that ties directly into the classic Denny O'Neil/Neal Adams GL/GA team-ups of the past.
FC, 32 pages

Aquaman #46
(Creators) Peter David, J. Calafiore and P.L. Palmiotti
Arthur's kingship is threatened... by a much younger Aquaman! Sans beard, long hair and hook, this would-be King of the Seas not only brings a challenge to the throne, but also news of Arthur's ex-wife, Mera.
FC, 32 pages

Batman #556
(W) Doug Moench (A) Norm Breyfogle and Sal Buscema (Cover) Brian Stelfreeze
The "Aftershock" leaves people all across Gotham trapped by the effects of the earthquake. Some are good, some bad, and Batman is determined to rescue them all. Meanwhile, Nightwing, Alfred, Robin, and Harold wrestle with the problem of rebuilding Wayne Manor and the Batcave.
FC, 32 pages

Batman: Batgirl #1
(W) Kelly Puckett (A) Jim Balent and Rick Burchett (Cover) Leonard Kirk and Karl Story
One of DC's most popular heroines returns (in flashback) in a GIRLFRENZY one-shot. Batgirl Barbara Gordon finds that fighting crime doesn't provide the thrills it once did. But that may not be a problem for long, unless she can defeat the horrifying serial killer known as Mr. Zsasz.
FC, 32 pages

Batman: Huntress/Spoiler -- Blunt Trauma #1
(W) Chuck Dixon
(A) Eduardo Barreto and Bill Sienkiewicz
Spoiler and the Huntress face some of Batman's greatest foes in this "Cataclysm" one-shot! Freed from Blackgate Prison during the events of last month's Batman: Blackgate -- Isle of Men #1, a group of Batman's most ruthless foes comes ashore at the devastated Gotham Mall. Only Spoiler and the injured Huntress stand between them and hundreds of victims. Note: This month, DC offers the first part of the four-issue Nightwing and Huntress miniseries. FC, 48 pages

Detective Comics #723
(W) Chuck Dixon (A) Alex Maleev and Bill Sienkiewicz (Cover) Rodolfo Damaggio
Nightwing and Robin guest-star in Part 2 of the 5-part "Brotherhood of the Fist" crossover, continued from Green Arrow #134! Batman and Green Arrow race back to Gotham after discovering more about the Brotherhood of the Monkey cult in an effort to save Nightwing and Robin from the assassins. Meanwhile, Eddie Fyers is in Gotham. And you thought the earthquake hit Gotham hard.
FC, 32 pages

The Flash #139
(W) Mark Millar (A) Pop Mhan and Chris Ivy (Cover)
Steve Lightle "Black Flash" An afternoon of celebration with the super-speed family of Flash, Jay Garrick, Impulse, Jesse Quick, Max Mercury, and Iris Allen leads Max to a chilling realization: Wally West is destined to die that very day! Will it be in Flash's battle with Weather Wizard in Africa, or will the culprit be someone else? Whatever the answer, doom seems to be coming for Wally on the day he plans to ask Linda Park to marry him!
FC, 32 pages

Green Arrow #134
(W) Chuck Dixon (A) Dougie Braithwaite and Robert Campanella (Cover) Rodolfo Damaggio
Part 1 of the 5-part "Brotherhood of the Fist" crossover, featuring Batman, Robin, and Nightwing! Green Arrow is in Gotham on the trail of high-tech weapons dealers when he and Batman are targeted by the Brotherhood of the Monkey. The cult is looking to avenge the humiliating defeat of the Silver Monkey at Connor's hands, and the only way for the cult to regain its reputation is to defeat the top martial artists in the world.
FC, 32 pages

Green Lantern #99
(W) Ron Marz
(A) Darryl Banks and Terry Austin
(Cover) Darryl Banks and Terry Austin
Hal Jordan (!) makes a cameo and the Legion of Super-Heroes guests in the conclusion of "Future Shock!" In the 30th Century, someone has to stop the evil Green Lantern Corps, but Kyle is out of commission and the ring only works for him! So who's that in the Green Lantern costume coming to his rescue? Revelations galore and the last page is a shocker, as Kyle, propelled to the past, lands right in the middle of a battle between Hal Jordan and Sinestro!!! FC, 32 pages

Impulse #37
(W) William Messner-Loebs(A) Craig Rousseau and Barbara Kaalberg
(Cover) Rousseau and Wayne Faucher
Dr. Morlo is back... but this time, he's come seeking Max and Impulse's help! Though Morlo has lived his life as a villain, he wants to save his son, a third rate super-villain, and his grandson -- Bart's own schoolmate, Evil Eye -- from an even worse fate: death at the hands of a maniacal and embittered old hero known as the Glory Slasher.
FC, 32 pages

Impulse #38
(W) William Messner-Loebs
(A) Craig Rousseau and Barbara Kaalberg
(Cover) Rousseau and Wayne Faucher
Impulse is all wet. No, really wet, as the freak snow storm that earlier hit Manchester meets the Spring thaw, resulting in a flood that pits the world's most reason-challenged young hero against something even more mindless than himself... the forces of nature.
FC, 32 pages

Impulse #39
(W) William Messner-Loebs (A) Craig Rousseau and Barbara Kaalberg (Cover) Rousseau and Wayne Faucher
The Trickster is back in town. And who can trick the Trickster? Well, nobody, actually... but you can bet he's got something up his sleeve when, working with Impulse, he tricks Manchester's rival crime families into believing the toxic waste they've been dumping in town is actually a formula that can turn metal into gold!
FC, 32 pages

Legends of the DC Universe #6
(W) Kelley Puckett (A) Dave Taylor and Kevin Nowlan (Cover) Hermann Mejia
A self-contained story reveals what happened when Robin first met Superman! With the Dark Knight out of town, it's up to Robin to watch over Gotham City. Dick Grayson thinks he's up to the challenge, but he begins to have second thoughts after the Man of Steel hits the city in search of some very lethal high-tech weapons.
FC, 32 pages

Legion of Super-Heroes #104
(W) Tom Peyer and Tom McCraw
(A) Jason Armstrong and Ron Boyd
(Cover) Alan Davis and Mark Farmer
The rescue team returns from the space anomaly -- with many of the members strangely changed -- and with a new mystery. Meanwhile, Leland McCauley begins to tap the anomaly as a power source, the criminal Chameleon King is freed by Sklarian Raider Kono to wreak havoc aboard a space shuttle, and the surprise ending will have Legion fans talking for thousands of years!
FC, 32 pages

Legion of Super-Heroes #105
(W) Tom Peyer and Tom McCraw
(A) Jason Armstrong and Ron Boyd
(Cover) Alan Davis and Mark Farmer
The Time Trapper's plan reaches fruition in the blast-from-the-past-in-the-future conclusion to "Adventures in Action!" Continued from Legionnaires #61. In "Time Won't Let Me," the Time Trapper confronts the Legionnaires with versions of themselves from alternate timelines. It's the face-off LSH fans have been waiting for as the post-Zero Hour Legion roster meets their counterparts from pre- Zero Hour continuity! It's an anniversary celebration unlike any you've seen before, but will either Legion be able to survive?
FC, 32 pages

Legion of Super-Heroes #106
(W) Tom Peyer and Tom McCraw (A) Jason Armstrong and Ron Boyd (Cover)
Alan Davis and Mark Farmer Part 2 of a 6-part story! The twin presidents of Winath have been assassinated, and the murderer is... Chameleon?!? It certainly looks that way to the U.P. worlds heading over to the Affiliated Planets, and it only strengthens the Dark Circle's ever-tightening grip on the galaxy!
FC, 32 pages

Legionnaires #61
(W) Roger Stern and Tom McCraw
(A) Jeffrey Moy and W.C. Carani
(Cover) Jeffrey Moy and W.C. Carani
Part 1 of the two-part "Adventures in Action," celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Legion! In "If I Could Turn Back Time," Monstress, Gates, Kinetix and several other new members of the Legion go on a tour of the Legion Headquarters, but have no recollection of being members! It's a time-slip story with a twist, as the newest Legionnaires appear in a distorted timeline where everything they knew is wrong. Sound confusing? Not to the Time Trapper it isn't! "Adventures in Action" concludes in this month's Legion of Super Heroes #105.
FC, 32 pages

Legionnaires #62
(Creators) Roger Stern and Tom McCraw, Jeffrey Moy and W.C. Carani
Part 1 of a 6-part story! Worlds are seceding from the United Planets over to the competing Affiliated Planets. Even if there were something the Legion could do about it, they won't get a chance with the Dark Circle closing in on them!
FC, 32 pages

Nightwing #22
(Creators) Chuck Dixon, Scott McDaniel and Karl Story
Nightwing must battle Lady Vic, among others, for the life of Tad, AKA Nite-wing -- Bludhaven's newest vigilante -- whose first battle landed him in intensive care.
FC, 32 pages

The Power of Shazam! #39
(W) Jerry Ordway
(A) Peter Krause and Dick Giordano
(Cover) Ordway
A brief appearance by the restored Man of Steel highlights Part 2 of the four-part "The Monster Society of Evil!" Mr. Mind's plan for revenge shifts into high gear, forcing both Billy and Mary to cross legal lines in their desperate pursuit of answers! Torn by the grief over the loss of their foster parents -- and the growing threat of Mr. Mind's Monster Society -- the Captains are hard-pressed to keep their cool while their whole world crashes around them!
FC, 32 pages

The Power of Shazam #40
(W) Jerry Ordway (A) Peter Krause and Dick Giordano (Cover) Ordway
In Part 3 of the 4-part "The Monster Society of Evil!", the Marvel Family pulls out all the stops as "War" is declared on the wretched worm, Mr. Mind! The globe-coveting grub's dastardly plan to commandeer America's Commander in Chief (That's the President, folks!) is thwarted, but that just makes the malevolent maggot even madder! (Say that three times fast!)
FC, 32 pages

Robin #53
(W) Chuck Dixon
(A) Staz Johnson and Stan Woch
(Cover) Jason Johnson and Edwin Rosell"
Cataclysm" reaches its earth-shattering conclusion! While Batman and Nightwing save the mayor from the Quakemaster's henchmen, Robin confronts the Quakermaster himself -- and reveals the master criminal's identity in the fateful battle.
FC, 32 pages

Robin #54
(W) Chuck Dixon
(A) Staz Johnson and Stan Woch
(Cover) Jason Johnson and Edwin Rosell
Robin searches the quake wreckage for Ariana as the "Aftershock" continues! As he combs the rubble for any trace of Ariana, the Spoiler asks Tim for a favor: She wants him to rescue her costume from the ruins of her mother's house. What she doesn't know is that her father, the master criminal Cluemaster, has escaped from prison and is waiting to kill the first person who enters his wife's home.
FC, 32 pages

Robin #55
(W) Chuck Dixon (A) Will Rosado and Stan Woch (Cover) Jason Johnson and Danny Miki
Part 3 of the 5-part "Brotherhood of the Fist," continued from Detective Comics #723! Robin and Green Arrow are besieged by the Brotherhood of the Monkey cult -- assassins who are far deadlier than those Batman and Green Arrow faced earlier.
FC, 32 pages

Sovereign Seven #35
(W) Chris Claremont
(A) Ron Lim and Chris Ivy
(Cover) Ron Lim and Chris Ivy
The Rapture -- the entity that destroyed all the original Sovereigns' homeworlds -- comes to Earth. Now, the Seven stand alone against this horror to defend their home. When the battle ends, the Sovereigns will never be the same!
FC, 32 pages

Sovereign Seven #36
(Creators) Chris Claremont, Ron Lim and Chris Ivy
Final issue. It all comes down to this! The Sovereigns fight the Rapture, which destroyed all the societies on the original Sov's home worlds, for the fate of their adopted home, Earth. When it's all over, the Sovereigns and Crossroads will never be the same.
FC, 32 pages

Starman: The Mist #1
(W) James Robinson (A) John Lucas and Richard Case (Cover) Leonard Kirk and Karl Story
The Power of Shazam!'s Mary Marvel guest-stars in this GIRLFRENZY one-shot showcasing Starman's deadliest villainess! To save her child, the Mist must work for the insidious Green Lantern foe, the Black Hand. But when Mary Marvel tries to get involved, will even the powers of the gods save Mary from the wrath of the Mist?
FC, 32 pages

Superboy #51
(W) Karl Kesel
(A) Tom Grummett and Kesel
Part 2 of the four-part "The Last Boy on Earth!" Superboy is still unable to recall who he is or where he came from. But now that he can speak, the Wild Men -- animalesque beings who rule the lost land around them -- wonder if the Kid is the one who will drastically change their world. Their only way to find out is put him through... The Test!
FC, 32 pages

Superboy #52
(W) Karl Kesel
(A) Tom Grummett and Kesel
(Cover) Tom Grummett and Kesel
Part 3 of the four-part "The Last Boy on Earth!" Superboy makes his triumphant return to Hawaii, but nothing is as it was! Everyone he knew there is gone, and he's in the company of the Wild Men, who in their first encounter with the outside world attract the attention of a very interested Porject Cadmus. Meanwhile, back in the Wild Land, Ratsputin and Nosferta move on their own power plays, and Caesar is caught in the crossfire.
FC, 32 pages

Superboy #53
(Creators) Karl Kesel, Tom Grummett
Concluding the 4-part "The Last Boy on Earth!" Chaos ensues as Nosferata's army attacks Pearl Harbor, while Superboy, the Guardian, Dubbilex, and the Wild Men fight for their very lives! There's only one way to stop the fighting, though, and you'll be shocked to find out what it is!
FC, 32 pages

Supergirl Adventures #1
(now Superman Adventures #21)
(W) Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer
(A) Bret Blevins and Terry Austin
(Cover) Bruce Timm
Following her debut on The New Batman-Superman Adventures, the Girl of Steel stars in an animated-style one shot! Kara, the lone survivor of the planet Argo, has made her way to Earth in suspended animation. Adjusting to life on Earth, she faces her greatest challenge yet as she fills in for Superman in Metropolis, facing three super-villains, each with powers that are at least equal to her own!
FC, 64 pages

Team Superman Secret Files #1
(W) Karl Kesel and Barbara Kesel, Christopher J. Priest, and various
(A) Bob McLeod, Tom Grummett, Denys Cowan, and various
(Cover) Dave Johnson
A special "Millennium Giants" epilogue! The secret origins of the Trio of Steel, foreshadowing a new age of the Team of Steel! Find out exactly what happened between hammers in "Steel's New, New Hammer!" Peer into Linda Danvers' diary! Learn how Superboy makes the girls squeal! And take a tour of the new Cadmus! All this, plus pin-up pages by Phil Jimenez, John McCrea, Stuart Immonen, Todd Nauck, Georges Jeanty, Cully Hammer, Leonard Kirk, Amanda Conner, and more.
FC, 64 pages

Teen Titans #20
(W) Dan Jurgens
(A) Jurgens and Norm Rapmund
A night with the Titans! Captain Marvel, Jr. takes Argent on a dangerous first date that finds them running into Lex Luthor. Fringe is left home alone with Arsenal's daughter just as his bestial side gets the better of him, and Risk and Prysm fight a new dangerous female group led by Titans reject Sweet 16. And Pylon makes his move to eradicate the Titans by kidnapping Risk's mother and learning the secrets of the team's creation.
FC, 32 pages

Teen Titans #21
(W) Dan Jurgens
(A) Jurgens and Norm Rapmund
(Cover) Jurgens and Norm Rapmund
Part 1 of the four-part "Titans Hunt!" It begins here! The final Titans storyline by writer/artist Dan Jurgens resolves the whole alien-Titans situation once and for all, setting the stage for the monumental changes to come in Teen Titans #25.
FC, 32 pages

Teen Titans #22
(Creators) Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund
Part 2 of the 4-part "Titans Hunt!" Things are changing fast as Risk becomes a fugitive, the Atom loses control of his powers, and Deathstroke comes to put a permanent end to the team. Plus, Pylon makes his final move against the team using Risk's mother and a former Titan.
FC, 32 pages

Wonder Woman #133
(W/A) John Byrne
(Cover) Byrne
The new Wonder Woman's Golden Age adventure concludes! The witch Dark Angel is vanquished... and in defeat, vows vengeance against Hippolyta! In the aftermath of her World War II adventure, the newly designated Wonder Woman decides to remain in the past -- creating a time paradox that will have long-lasting effects on the DC Universe. Meanwhile, in the present, Donna Troy has disappeared, as though she never existed.
FC, 32 pages

Wonder Woman #134
(W/A) John Byrne
(Cover) Byrne
"Who is Donna Troy?" Only Hippolyta, away in the distant past and now returned to the present, remembers that Donna Troy ever existed. Now, she begins her journey to discover what happened to Donna... and learns how her own adventures through time might be responsible for the one-time Wonder Girl's disappearance from history.
FC, 32 pages

Wonder Woman #135
(W/A) John Byrne
At long last... the secret of Donna Troy is revealed! Her secret is an ancient one that stretches back across the centuries... and it will take the power of the goddess Diana to unravel the mystery and set right what was made wrong so many years ago!
FC, 32 pages

Wonder Woman: Donna Troy #1
(Creators) Phil Jimenez, John Stokes, Leonard Kirk and Karl Story
A GIRLFRENZY one-shot guest-starring Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel. In a tale set soon after Donna Troy first learned of the death of her ex-husband and child, the former Wonder Girl turns to an unexpected source in her attempt to cope with her loss, seeking solace in a church where she asks questions that may have no answers. As she recalls another time when she was threatened with loss, she finds that those memories may provide the answers she seeks, setting the stage for the next chapter in Donna's super-heroic career.
FC, 32 pages

Young Justice: The Secret #1
(W) Todd Dezago (A)Todd Nauck and Lary Stucker (Cover) Leonard Kirk and Karl Story
Meet the heroes who will form DC's newest super-team -- Young Justice! Impulse, Superboy and Robin are interrogated about a strange being they've just encountered. They themselves may be responsible for releasing a mysterious female from the clutches of the Department of Extranormal Operations (as seen in the pages of Chase). But is The Secret that the DEO's been keeping a deadly threat -- or is she just an innocent girl?
FC, 32 pages


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