COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Justice League 1
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1063384002
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Owner:
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The Captain
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
May, 1987
"Born Again"
Keith Giffen & J.M. DeMatteis - Writers
Kevin Maguire - Penciler
Terry Austin - Inkers
Kevin Maguire & Terry Austin - Cover Artists
Gene D'Angelo - Colorist
Bob Lappan - Letterer
Andrew Helfer - Editor
Dick Giordano - Executive Editor
Synopsis:
Guy Gardner is the first member of the latest incarnation of the Justice League to arrive for work. As each of the new members file in to their headquarters, Guy snaps off offensive and smart remarks to each of them. A brawl breaks out between them until Batman enters the room and silences Gardner with just a few words. He calls their first official meeting and tells them of his desire to keep a low profile until they establish themselves as a more cohesive team, but fate (not the Doctor) has other plans.
A group of terrorists takes control of the United Nations general assembly and holds them hostage. One of the people in the assemblage is Kimiyo Hoshi, the new Doctor Light. She uses her recently acquired Justice League signal device to send an S.O.S.
Batman receives the call and mobilizes the team. They take Blue Beetle's bug to the UN and surreptitiously sneak into the building. Batman immediately realizes that something is wrong with these so-called terrorists. The League easily defeats them, but the terrorist leader has a bomb grafted onto his chest. Batman calls the leader's bluff, leaving him alone in a room, where he kills himself with a bullet to the head.
The terrorists are actually low-rent thugs (an amalgam of former Weathermen and Black Panthers, save the leader) hired by entrepreneur Maxwell Lord IV, knowing that they would be easily defeated by the Justice League. As Max watches the television footage of the affair, he gloats while holding the firing pin to the terrorist's suicide bomb.
Notes:
- Signed on the Cover by Kevin Maguire on 08/21/2011.
- Signed on the Cover by J.M. DeMatteis on 08/21/2011.
- This issue is reprinted in Justice League: A New Beginning and JLA: The Greatest Stories Ever Told.
- With issue #7, the series changes its title to Justice League International.
- Batman appeared last in Detective Comics #574.
- Black Canary appeared last in Legends 6.
- Blue Beetle appeared last in Blue Beetle #15.
- Captain Marvel appeared last in Legends 6.
- Doctor Fate appeared last in Legends 6.
- Doctor Light appeared last in Crisis On Infinite Earths #12.
- Guy Gardner appeared last in Green Lantern Corps #211.
- Martian Manhunter appeared last in Legends #6.
- With this issue, Maxwell Lord becomes a regular supporting character throughout the remainder of the series.
- Mister Miracle appeared last in Mister Miracle Special #1.
- Oberon appeared last in Mister Miracle Special #1. He appears next in Firestorm (Volume 2) #63.
Trivia:
- The cover to this issue is re-imagined in several other comic books including Justice League Europe #1, Justice League Quarterly #1 and Formerly Known as the Justice League #1.
- A version of Guy Gardner's internal monologue from page 1 is paraphrased in the opening scene in Justice League America #61.
- One of the journalists featured in this issue bears a slight resemblance to an actual reporter named Connie Chung. Her name (which is only partially provided) is revealed as "Lonnie Chu...", an obvious respelling of Connie Chung.
- New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani makes a cameo appearance in this issue.
- Pat Sajak, host of the daytime game show The Wheel of Fortune makes a behind-the-scenes cameo appearance on a television screen.
- NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw makes a cameo appearance in this issue.
- Although it is never revealed, Maxwell Lord may have used his metahuman psionic capabilities to force John Charles Collins to take his own life. Max's ability to affect the minds of others will not be revealed until Justice League International #12.
Quotes:
"There's a lot we have to learn -- about each other and about ourselves -- before we can present ourselves to the public in any major fashion." -Batman
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