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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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