Justice League of America
#196
[Direct Sales Variant]
(November 1981)
- Volume:
- 22
- Price:
- 0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- On-sale date:
- 1981-07-14
- Publisher's Age Guidelines:
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher:
- DC Comics, Inc.
- Brand:
- DC [bullet]
- Editing:
- Len Wein; Mike W. Barr (associate editor)
- Color:
- color
- Dimensions:
- standard Silver Age, then Modern Age US
- Paper Stock:
- Newsprint; Mando (beginning with #254)
- Binding:
- saddle-stitched (#s 39, 48, 58, 67, 76, 110-116, 200 squarebound)
- Publishing Format:
- was ongoing series
Issue Notes
This issue has variants.
On-sale date from copyright registration.
[Countdown to Crisis!]
Justice League of America / cover / 1 page
- Pencils:
- George Perez (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Colors:
- Anthony Tollin
- Letters:
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number:
- C-710
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Justice League of America [JLA; Firestorm; Batman (of Earth-1); Atom [Ray Palmer]]; Justice Society of America [JSA; Superman (of Earth-2); Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Johnny Thunder (of Earth-2)]; Ultra-Humanite
- Reprints:
-
in Superman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #12 (1985) -
in DC Comics Classics Library: Justice League of America by George Perez (DC, 2009 series) #2 ([April] 2010) - in Crisis on Multiple Earths (DC, 2002 series) #6 ([June] 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Color credits confirmed by Anthony Tollin.
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Countdown to Crisis!
Justice League of America / comic story / 27 pages
- Script:
- Gerry Conway
- Pencils:
- George Perez (breakdowns); Romeo Tanghal (finished art)
- Inks:
- Romeo Tanghal
- Colors:
- Carl Gafford
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
- Job Number:
- J-7580
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Justice League of America [Batman (of Earth-1); Black Canary [Dinah Laurel Lance]; Atom [Ray Palmer]; Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond; Martin Stein]; Wonder Woman (of Earth-1)]; Justice Society of America [Superman (of Earth-2); Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Johnny Thunder (of Earth-2); Flash [Jay Garrick]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt]; Secret Society of Super-Villains [Ultra-Humanite (leader, in albino ape form); Brain Wave [Henry King]; Floronic Man [Jason Woodrue; Plant Master]; Killer Frost [Crystal Frost]; Cheetah (of Earth-1) [Deborah Domaine]; Signalman [Phil Cobb]; Rag Doll [Peter Merkel]; The Mist [Kyle]; The Monocle [Jonathan Cheval]; Psycho-Pirate [Roger Hayden]]
- Synopsis:
- The Ultra-Humanite is pleased that the other 9 heroes are rounded up by the Secret Society on Earths 1 and 2 by their foes and placed in suspended-animation containers in limbo. He then goes to capture his longtime arch-foe, The Earth-2 Superman, whom he succeeds in capturing and places in the last open container. Soon his plan will be completed and he will rule over Earth-2 (minus its heroes) alongside the other Earth-2 Society members.
- Reprints:
- in Superman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #12 (1985)
- in DC Comics Classics Library: Justice League of America by George Perez (DC, 2009 series) #2 ([April] 2010)
- in Crisis on Multiple Earths (DC, 2002 series) #6 ([June] 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Part two of annual JLA/JSA team-up, continued from the previous issue. Story concludes in the following issue.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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[Countdown to Crisis!]
Justice League of America -
1.
Countdown to Crisis!
Justice League of America -
2.
[no title indexed]
JLA Mail Room
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