Tom versus the JLA, number 181, or Superman wants drip coffee, damn it.

Welcome back for Justice League of America, number 181, the August 1980 issue, entitled

The Stellar Crimes of the Stars Are, written by Jerry Conway with our by Dick Dylan and Frank McLaughlin,

Ben Oda the Letter, Gene D'Ang the Colors, Len Ween, the editor,

with a cover by former series editor, Ross Andrew.

Cover blurb says it all.

The story you never thought you'd see, a member no more.

No roll call on this issue either.

They'll do that occasionally to throw you off.

It throws me off when they do it,

but whatever. We open with Green Arrow sitting in an office recording into a reel-to-reel.

That's the first of one of my favorite things about this issue. As I've said before, I love

this league using antiquated technology to today's standards.

They'd retcon and it'd probably be some sort of I-River device that he's speaking into.

And this is going to be the framing sequence of this story.

It's going to be told sort of through the eyes of Green Arrow, who is telling the story

as some sort of reasoning behind some big decision

he's made. If you've heard me talk about the last couple issues or if you don't understand

cover blurbs telling you things, then you'll be surprised at the end, but probably most

of you won't be. Framing devices sometimes can be very annoying.

They don't work in the story sometimes,

and I'm going to point it out because it happens in this issue.

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