Tom versus the JLA, number 171, or I guess he's not that terrific after all.

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 171, the October 1979 issue.

The Murder Among Us, Crisis Above Earth One, written by Jerry Conway with art by Dick Dylan and Frank McLaughlin,

Ben Oda the letterer, Jerry Serp, the colorist.

Ross Andrew is the editor, featuring a cover by the magnificent Dix, Dylan, and Girodano.

It's got all the great characters on the cover.

And someone's underneath a sheet, dead.

But will they really be dead?

That's always the trick.

You never know what the dc covers what's on

the cover doesn't always happen in the book but let's get to the roll call and it's my favorite type of

roll call because it's the justice league of america justice society of america meet up

from earth one the justice league superman batman green lantern, Hawkman, Zatanna, and Red Tornado.

From Earth 2, we have the Justice Society, Power Girl, The Huntress, Alan Scott, Green Lantern, Jay Garrick, the Flash, Carter Hall, Hawkman, Dr. Fate, and Mr. Terrific.

I love JLA, JSA Croft Sovers, mostly because I love the JSA.

But we'll get into that in the seconds. We get into the story. We, of course, open with a brief explanation that there is an infinite number of Earths and universes, all separated by different vibrational frequencies

and at the Justice League and Justice Society of Friends, and once a year they get together

to hang out. This time they're all sitting around a table, and Zatanna is running the meeting.

She's a chairperson. She adjourns it. And then we get to my truly favorite

moments in any great JLA, JSA crossover, the part where they all hang around in some sort of

living room chit chatting. And that's really what it comes down to. You just want to see the different

characters interact. And we get right into it with Zatanna admitting she's a bit nervous, and we have Earth 2 Hawkman, Carter Hall, who tries to help her out, explains her that

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