Justice League of America #220 [Direct]

(November 1983)

The Doppelgänger Gambit (Table of Contents: 1)

Justice League / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (credited)

Pencils

Chuck Patton (credited)

Inks

Romeo Tanghal (credited as Tanghal); Pablo Marcos (credited as Marcos)

Colors

Gene D'Angelo (credited)

Letters

David Cody Weiss (credited as Cody)

Job Number

J-8798

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Crime Champions: Chronos [David Clinton]; Doctor Alchemy [Albert Desmond]; Felix Faust; The Fiddler [Isaac Bowin] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)); The Icicle [Dr. Joar Mahkent] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)); The Wizard [William Zard] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (also in flashback)
Justice League of America: Black Canary [Dinah Laurel Lance] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (secret origin, also in flashback); The Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond & Prof. Martin Stein]; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Red Tornado (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)); Superman [Clark Kent / Kal-El] (also in flashback); Zatanna
Justice Society of America (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)): The Atom [Al Pratt] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (flashback); Black Canary [Dinah Drake Lance] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (death in flashback); Doctor Mid-Nite [Charles McNider] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (flashback); The Flash [Jay Garrick] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (also in flashback); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (flashback); Hawkman [Carter Hall] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (flashback); Hourman [Rex Tyler] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)); The Huntress [Helena Wayne] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)); Power Girl [Kara Zor-L] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)); Starman [Ted Knight] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)); Johnny Thunder (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (also in flashback); Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (flashback)
Black Canary [Dinah Drake Lance] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (corpse); Jim Corrigan (Earth-One, host of The Spectre); Larry Lance (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (corpse, death in flashback); Sargon the Sorcerer [John Sargent] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (revealed to have migrated to Earth-One in 1950); The Spectre [Jim Corrigan] (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (revealed to be trapped in the body of the Earth-One Jim Corrigan); Johnny Thunder (Earth-One, villain); Thunderbolt (Earth-Two (Pre-Crisis)) (under Earth-One Johnny Thunder's control, also in flashback); T-Dimension lifeforms

Universe

DC : mainstream

Synopsis

Earth-One's Johnny Thunder reveals the origin behind the second Canary, placed in limbo by Earth-Two's Johnny Thunder at the Earth-One Superman's request following their battle vs. Aquarius, since Aquarius's radiation was killing her as she crossed to Earth-One after her husband's death. She was then replaced by her daughter, whose memory had been replaced with her's. The heroes defeat the Earth-One Thunder alongside the Earth-Two counterpart, while the revived JLA aid their JSA allies on Earth-One. The current Canary has her original memory restored and leaves with Superman back to Earth-One.

Reprints

• in Crisis on Multiple Earths (DC, 2021 series) #3 - Countdown to Crisis ([August] 2023)
• In Crisis on Multiple Earths (DC, 2019 series) #6 [an expanded version of Crisis on Multiple Earths (DC, 2002 series) #6, only available as part of the Crisis on Multiple Earths boxed set]

Keywords

T-Dimension

Indexer Notes

JLA-JSA team-up conclusion. Origins of both Black Canaries this issue.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Nicola Cuti

Pencils

Dick Dillin (logo illustration)

Inks

Dick Dillin (logo illustration)

Colors

? (logo illustration)

Letters

typeset

Job Number

L-1426

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Brian Welch, Gary Young, and Wayne M. Studer.