- Script:
- Roger Stern (scripter, co-plotter); John Byrne (co-plotter)
- Pencils:
- John Byrne
- Inks:
- Al Milgrom
- Colors:
- Glynis Oliver
- Letters:
- Jack Morelli
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- First Line [Effigy [Lt. Velmax; Jacob Scott]; Nightingale; Liberty Girl (dies in this story); Black Fox; Kid Justice; Yankee Clipper]; Sam Matonabbe; Pixie; Lee Harvey Oswald; Marina Oswald; Howler; Chimera [Commander Zuhn] (dies in this story); Jacob Scott (dies in this story); Dr. Cassandra Locke
- Synopsis:
- Nightingale has a premonition of something terrible happening in Dallas, Texas. The First Line investigates and only to find Howler and Chimera stealing from a factory. Liberty Girl and Chimera both perish, but not before Chimera reveals his true identity to Effigy. Cassandra then appears and creates a time loop with the Yankee Clipper, who disappears as their two timebelts occupy the same time and space.
This story takes place on November 21st, 1963 -- the day before President John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. Effigy adopts the Jacob Scott identity in this story.