Tom versus the JLA, number 207, or there's a crisis just about everywhere in this one.

Welcome back for Justice League of America, number 207, the October 1982 issue entitled

Crisis Times 3, Book 1 of the Crisis on Earth Prime crossover, written by Jerry Conway with art by Don Heck

and Romeo Tangal, Ben Oda Letter, Carl Gafford Colors, Roy Thomas Plot, Consultant, Len Ween

editor with a cover by George Perez.

We got a hell of a roll call in this issue from the Justice League of Earth One.

We have Aquaman, Firestorm, Hawkman, Superman, and

Zatanna. From the Justice Society of America of Earth 2, we have Dr. Fade, Green Lantern,

the Huntress, Power Girl, and Starman. And from the All-Star Squadron of Earth 2, we have Firebrand,

Johnny Quick, Liberty Bell, Robot Man, and Steel.

That's right. We got not only a crossover between Earth 1 and Earth 2, but also between Earth

1 and Earth 2 of the past. It's a glorious, epic mess of a book that I'd love. It contains

both the good and the bad of the Bronze Age DC books in that it is

epic in scope, but can be slightly confusing. This one might run in the lump. There's a lot of

concepts are introduced, and I'm going to try and explain them so they actually make sense.

So apologies if this goes just a couple minutes longer than usual. We open,

of course, with our traditional JLA, JSA. Everyone getting ready to meet up. We got the JSA in their

headquarters firing up their end of the Transmatter Cube. We got the Justice League getting their side

all fired up with an odd scene of Superman asking Satana for permission,

bureaucracy out of control. Just because she's the chairwoman doesn't mean she gets to tell

everyone what to do all the time. I mean, if Superman wants to turn on the Transmatter Cube,

Superman can turn on the Transmatter Cube. And we see our usual sort of character moments

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