Tom versus the JLA number 211 or if I had my druthers and make that sack of sand way more important.

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 211, the February 1983 issue entitled The Devil's Bargain.

Written by Jerry Conway with art by Rich Buckler and Romeo Tengal,

Ted Klein, Letterer, Carl Gafford, colorist, Len Ween, editor with a cover by Buckler and Girodano.

And I will notice with this cover, for a DC cover, there's no words on it, and it actually

very much a scene from the issue, very unusual for a DC comic to have that literal of a translation from the book to the cover.

We start off where we ended off last issue with the treasurer aliens offering a shitty loan

to Earth, Earth running out of the X element, the very element that makes everything happen,

friction, gasoline burning, love in your eyes, your mom and your dad when they hug.

It doesn't happen without the X element. That's right. It's running out, and they're offering

some of it, but they're offering it for a certain price. The Justice League only

thinks the price is ridiculous things such as snow from the top of Mount Everest or a sack

filled with sand from the Sahara, but no, they're after something else. One Mr. George Arthur

Stewart. A man from Grand Rapids, Michigan, which for some reason the treasures have targeted specifically.

The Justice League having gathered all the silly things are of course a little bit thrown off by the fact that George Arthur Stewart is involved.

Because, I mean, humanity, they don't like the idea that people can just be traded, you know, here and there for whatever

they want.

George Arthur Stewart Thore is cool with it.

For one reason, he's an average guy.

He's a postal clerk for God's sakes.

He likes the fact that now he's special.

That really makes him a tremendous ass.

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