Tag: Tomahawk

Issue Credits

• Writer: James Robinson
• Penciller: Mark Bagley
• Inker: Rob Hunter, Marlo Alquiza, and Walden Wong
• Colours: Pete Pantazis
• Letters: Rob Leigh
• Associate Editor: Adam Schlagman
• Editor: Eddie Berganza
• Cover: Mark Bagley, Rob Hunter, and Pete Pantazis

Characters

Featuring

• Batman (Dick Grayson, joins the JLA this issue)
• Cyborg (Victor Stone, joins the JLA this issue)
• Donna Troy (joins the JLA this issue)
• Doctor Light (Kimiyo Hoshi, appeared last issue)
• Guardian (Jim Harper, Head of the Metropolis Science Police)
• Mon-El (Lar Gand of Daxam)
• Starfire (Koriand’r of Tamaran, joins the JLA this issue)
• Vixen (Mari Jiwe McCabe, appeared last issue, resigns his issue)

Guest Stars

• Robin (Damian Wayne, the sidekick of Dick Grayson’s Batman)
• Wonder Woman (last appeared as a Leaguer in JLA #37)

Villains

• Atomic Skull (Joe Martin, a Superman villain fighting Mon-El)
• Neon Black (the Lightray-like villain who attacks Darwin Jones, first appearance, identified next issue)
• Three unnamed, masked hostage takers (red, blue, and green suits, at Mercy Hospital, first appearance)
• Yellow Wasp (a Wildcat villain, last appeared in JSA All-Stars #2 as part of the Injustice Society)

Other

• Darwin Jones (a scientific investigator)
• Child patents at Mercy Hospital
• Unnamed Police Detective outside Mercy Hospital

Flashback

• British Redshirts
• Miss Liberty (Bess Lynn, Revolutionary era nurse and costumed adventurer)
• Tomahawk (Thomas Hawk, Revolutionary era ranger)
• Tomahawk’s Rangers
  • Anvil
  • Dan Hunter
  • Frenchie
  • Stovepipe

Cameos

• Black Lanterns (shown in flashback on the first page)
• Red Tornado (John Smith, destroyed JLA #39, his android remains are shown)

Synopsis

Previously: The Justice League had suffered a run of narrow victories that had left them depleted and battered. The super villain Prometheus engineered a massive scheme to teleport entire cities to random places in space and time. He injured many Leaguers and ripped Red Arrow’s arm off before he was captured. He then blackmailed the Justice League, forcing them to vote to release him in exchange for the cities’ safety (Justice League: Cry For Justice #1-7). Shortly afterwards, the remaining members of the League (Vixen, Red Tornado, Doctor Light, and  Plastic Man) with Gypsy and Zatanna found themselves assaulted by Black Lanterns, corpses animated as cruel undead parodies of their original personalities. The Justice League barely survived the attack. The Black Lanterns were defeated, but the psychological and physical wounds they caused run deep (Justice League of America vol. 2 #35-37, Blackest Night #1-8).

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