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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. the JLA #191 - The Key Crisis of the One-Man Justice League!

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2008

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The Key Crisis of the One-Man Justice League!


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0:00.0

Tom versus the JLA number 191 or come on Ralph, suck it up, act like a man.

0:06.0

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 191, the June 1981 issue entitled

0:12.0

The Key Crisis of the One Man Justice League, written by Jerry Conway with art by Rich Buckler and Pablo Marcos,

0:18.0

Gaspar, the letter, Carl Gafford, color, Slanween, editor featuring a cover by

0:23.2

the new magnificent Dix, Rich Buckler and Dick Giordano.

0:29.4

Our roll call for this issue is Black Canary, Elongated Man, the Adam, the Flash, and Zatanna.

0:35.1

We open up this issue with our old Justice League foe, the key, one of my

0:42.6

favorite characters. The key is rescuing Amazo, another one of the old Justice League

0:48.0

enemies from his orbit around the earth. If you do not know, Amazzo was an android created by

0:53.6

Dr. Ivo to fight the league. His power is not know, Amazzo was an android created by Dr. Ivo

0:54.3

to fight the league. His power

0:56.1

is his ability to absorb the powers

0:58.1

of the league. The key is

1:00.1

a guy who uses the word

1:02.3

key constantly and understands

1:04.4

key science, whatever that is. He makes

1:06.9

mention of that. I don't quite understand what key

1:09.0

science is. The key, though, is one of my favorite villains. He's become one of my favorite villains over time.

1:14.6

We'll get a little bit more to that later. But I don't think the creepy modern version does

1:21.9

justice to the sort of dangerous slash pathetic version of the key that I so dearly love from this time period.

1:33.5

The last we saw of Amazo wasn't in this issue. It was in Action Comics 480. Amazo had attacked

1:39.2

his creator, Dr. Ivo, because Amazzo was tired of being manipulated to fight people beyond his control.

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