Tom versus the JLA number 228 or hey, who left Aquaman in charge?

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 228, the July 1984 issue entitled War of the World.

Written by Jerry Conway, who makes his return to the book, George Tuska, guest artist,

Alex Niño Inker, Albert Day

Guzman, letter, Gene D'Angelo colorist, Alan Gold, editor featuring a cover by Chuck Patton

and Dick Giridano. We start off this issue with a countdown. And no, it doesn't tie to

final crisis. It's a countdown from man's first voyage into space to the present in the comic book.

And we get a set of scenes.

We see the first Soviet spaceship takeoff.

We see Gordon Cooper walking in space.

We see the moon landing.

We see Viking land on Mars and transmit back.

And the whole time, we're also getting sort of a rundown of the parallel history on

Mars, of the Martians pretty much destroying their own planet and having to leave and leaving

the planet barren and Viking, fighting the Earth, the Mars to be barren. But we see a giant

shadow hovering over Viking. This can't be good.

We then cut to a sweating John Jones, the Martian Manhunter, with a lot of glowing buttons

on some type of spaceship or rocket, and he's attempting to run away from someone.

We know this because there are ships chasing him, and they are shooting at him.

He is making his way towards Earth.

One of his pursuers is his beloved J-N.

I love the little, the J-with-the-a-postrophe,

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