Justice League of America #197 [Direct]

(December 1981)

Crisis in Limbo! (Table of Contents: 1)

Justice League / comic story / 27 pages (report information)

Script

Gerry Conway (credited)

Pencils

Keith Pollard (credited) (pp. 1-19); George Pérez (credited) (pp. 20-27)

Inks

Romeo Tanghal (credited)

Colors

Carl Gafford (credited)

Letters

Ben Oda (credited)

Job Number

J-7716

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice League of America [The Atom [Ray Palmer] (featured); Batman [Bruce Wayne] (featured); Black Canary [Dinah Lance] (featured); The Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny] (featured); Firestorm (featured); Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (featured); Wonder Woman [Princess Diana] (featured)]; Justice Society of America [The Flash [Jay Garrick] (guest); Hawkman [Carter Hall] (guest); Hourman [Rex Tyler] (guest); Superman [Clark Kent / Kal-L]; Johnny Thunder (guest); Thunderbolt (guest)]; The Secret Society of Super-Villains [Brainwave [Henry King]; The Cheetah [Debbi Domaine]; The Floronic Man [Jason Woodrue]; Killer Frost [Crystal Frost]; The Mist; The Monocle [Jonathan Cheval]; Psycho-Pirate [Roger Hayden]; The Rag Doll [Peter Merkel]; Signalman [Phillip Cobb]; The Ultra-Humanite (in albino ape form)]

Synopsis

As Earth-2 begins to lose all of their heroes (save the ones in limbo in the suspended-animation chambers), the Earth-1 Secret Society members wonder why it happened there. They slowly realize they were duped by Ultra, who knew what would really happen. As they attack him, the master villain sends them back to Earth-1, and stranded there, their only chance is to get back to limbo and free the 10 heroes. Released, the heroes then defeat all of the Society members and Ultra is sent into limbo with everything returning as it was.

Reprints

• in La Ligue de Justice (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #7 (novembre 1983) [Premières [First] pages], #8 (janvier 1984) [Dernières [Last] pages]
• in Supermán (Editorial Novaro, 1952 series) #1502 (26 de diciembre de 1984)
• in Superman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #12 (1985)
• in Superamigos (Editora Abril, 1985 series) #14 (Junho 1986) [páginas 1-3 e 5-27 da história original]
• in DC Comics Classics Library: Justice League of America by George Perez (DC, 2009 series) #2 ([June] 2010)
• in Crisis on Multiple Earths (DC, 2002 series) #6 ([August] 2013)
• in Colección Héroes y Villanos (ECC Ediciones, 2021 series) #25 - Crisis en Nueva Génesis (Enero de 2022)
• in Crisis on Multiple Earths (DC, 2021 series) #3 - Countdown to Crisis (2023)

Keywords

California; Centrifuge; Coast City; Earth-One; Earth-Two; Green Kryptonite; Green Lantern Ring; Justice League Satellite; Justice League Teleporter; Limbo; Nepal; New York City; Sinister Citadel; Transmatter Cube; United Nations Building; Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane

Indexer Notes

Artist page credits added by Steven Tice.

Conclusion of the annual JLA-JSA team-up. Ultra-Humanite's story continues in All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #21-26 and All-Star Squadron Annual (DC, 1982 series) #2, as well as in Infinity, Inc. (DC, 1984 series) #1-10.

Penguins on Parade (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Hostess Fruit Pies; Penguin / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Toon Time (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

CBS Saturday Cartoons / advertisement / 2 pages (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

JLA Mail Room / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Tamsyn O'Flynn

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

L-903

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Christian Dattwyler, Rand Lee, The Comic Book Kid, Ken Valentine, and Todd McFarlane.