Justice League of America #8 [Michael Turner Cover]

(June 2007)

The Lightning Saga Chapter One: Lightning Lad (Table of Contents: 1)

Justice League of America / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script

Brad Meltzer

Pencils

Shane Davis

Inks

Matt Banning

Colors

Alex Sinclair

Letters

Rob Leigh

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice League of America [Red Arrow; Geo-Force; Black Canary [Dinah Lance]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Black Lightning [Jefferson Pierce]; Hawkgirl [Kendra Saunders]; Vixen; Red Tornado [John Smith]; Superman; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]]; Justice Society of America [Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Mr. Terrific [Michael Holt]; Power Girl; Starman [Thom Kallor]; Wildcat [Tommy Bronson]; Stargirl; Sandman [Sandy Hawkins]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Pieter Cross]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Damage; Hourman [Rick Tyler]; Liberty Belle [Jesse Chambers]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Cyclone]; Karate Kid [also as Trident]; Delores Winter [The Ultra-Humanite]; Per Degaton (off panel); Despero (off panel)

Synopsis

While some members of the Justice League and the Justice Society interact in war games and strategy practice, Batman and Black Lightning delve more into the mystery of Karate Kid, only to learn that Starman -- a new recruit of the JSA -- is also a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes and that there are five more members lost in the present. So Black Canary and Power Girl break up the combined membership of the JLA and JSA into smaller teams to find the missing Legionnaires.

Reprints

• in Justice League of America Sonderband (Panini Deutschland, 2007 series) #3 - Die Lightning-Saga (Januar 2008)
• in La Liga de la Justicia de América (Grupo Editorial Vid, 2007 series) #8 (Marzo 2008)
which is reprinted
• in JLA/JSA: La Saga del Relampago (Grupo Editorial Vid, 2011 series) (Mayo 2011)
• in Justice League of America (DC, 2007 series) #[2] - The Lightning Saga ([April] 2008)
• in DC Universe (Panini France, 2005 series) #34 (mai 2008)
• in Justice League of America (DC, 2008 series) #[2] - The Lightning Saga ([March] 2009)
• in JSA Omnibus (DC, 2014 series) #3 ([August] 2015)
• in Justice League of America by Brad Meltzer: The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2020 series) ([September] 2020)

Indexer Notes

The story continues in Justice Society of America (DC, 2007 series) #5. "Lightning Lad" in the story title is written in Interlac characters.