Tom versus the JLA number 206, or for not having a whole lot of story, this thing got real complicated real quick.

Welcome back for Justice League of America, number 206, the September 1982 issue entitled The Secret that Time Forgot, written by Jerry Conway, guest penciler, Carmine Infantino, Romeo Tangala Inger, Todd Klein Letter, Carl Gafford, colorist, Lanween, editor with a cover by Dave Cockram and Romeo Tangal. Our roll call for this issue, Batman, Elongated Man, The Flash, Adam, and Zatanna. This is an interesting issue. I don't know much of the history

actually behind how this issue comes together, but I'll say it's not the best Carmen and

Fantino art in certain sections. Still very good, but a little weaker points in the story.

It's actually really, it's almost mainly framing devices and flashbacks,

which is fine if you are very unfamiliar with the characters in the story. It actually works

out quite well. The main conceit, or framing structure of this story, is that we're actually

seeing this story through the eyes of a family in the 25th century.

A Thomas Parker and his boy, Gardner, I have to assume probably named after Gardner Fox,

a little bit of a callback to the original Justice League writer, have gone to visit the

Space Museum in the 25th century, and as they enter the space museum, young gardener notices a jar, a wheel, and a bell.

All broken, he wonders, what does this have to do with space?

Why is this in a space museum?

Haven't we figured this out in the future?

They read the description, and it has something to do with the Justice League.

So the dad takes a son to the section of the Space Museum dedicated to the Justice League in a room

called the Hall of Justice, which features a fountain of bureaucracy and a wall of paperwork.

But really all it has is a big empty room with a really sweet mural up on the ceiling.

With the kids like to go, you know, if they've been smoking some of the wacky tobacco,

they like to go in there.

The dad explains why the Justice League is in the space museum.

So we've already taken two steps away from the artifacts we can't explain.

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