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This is the third part of our profile of Maxwell Lord

• In Part One: Background, Details, and Biography (Early Life).
• In Part Two: Taking over the JLI, Fall of the Kilg%re, Max’s telepathic talent, and Shenanigans, JLI Style.

Biography (cont.)

Loss of control: Heimlich, Dreamslayer, and Superman

Max’s tenure as the administrator of the Justice League had held the team together and had kept it strong despite the disparate personalities involved. His own brand of practical, blunt logic and arms length management had worked surprisingly well for the League. The arrangement’s glaring weakness was that Max had no true deputy, there was no backup plan should anything happen to him. Nevertheless, his colleagues respected their enigmatic benefactor and even regarded him as a friend. He seems to have reciprocated that sentiment and he was about to introduce his girlfriend Wanda to the League – a massive step for the fastidiously private Max – when everything he had built came crashing down.

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