Tom versus the JLA number 188 or who knew the league's fridge had get filled to fish in it.

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 188.

The March 1981 issue entitled to the Metamorph War, written by Jared Conway with art by Don Heck and Frank McLaughlin, Ben Oda, the letter, Gene D'Angelo, Colors, Len Ween editor.

The cover by Ross Andrew and Dick Giordano.

This is actually a split issue.

The lead story being the continuation of last issue and the backup story being a very

special Hanukkah story.

But we'll get to that in a second.

We left off last issue with Perodeus, the subpar creeper villain, about to take out the flash. He hits

him with his magical beam the identifier,

which was the same beam

he used to change the physical forms of the

Justice Leaguers, hits the flash

with it. It appears that the flash melts.

But really what we're seeing is something that's rare

in the JLA book, and that's some good old speed trickery by the Flash,

something he uses quite often in his own book,

but not as much in the Justice League book.

Since his reaction time is equally as fast as he is,

he sees the beam leaving Proteus' mask,

he vibrates into the ground, runs over, pops up behind Proteus,

and jumps on his back and smashes his face into the ground.

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