Tom versus the JLA, number 238, or Aquaman's leadership style seems to include taking suggestions from scrappy street urchins.

Welcome back for Justice League of America, number 238, the May 1985 issue entitled Savage Symphony, written by J.A. Conway, penciled by Chuck Penn, inked by Mike

Maclin, colored by Gene D'Angelo, lettered by Ben Oda, edited by Alan Gold, with a cover

by Paris, Cullins, and Mike Macklin.

We opened this issue with the evil Soviet General Gorky, the creepily dressed maestro

with his magical keytar, and Wonder Wonder Woman trapped in some sort of plasma created by

the keytar and she seems to be in a pain as a murderous machine gun waltz is played. Gorky threatens

to kill Wonder Woman. Superman brings up the fact that it's probably going to piss some people

off. Gorky's just trying to do it for recognition. His parents didn't spend enough time

with General Anton Gorky, and the maestro just likes playing the synthesizer. Of course, Superman

tells him he's going to get a lot of unwanted attention, which apparently he didn't think of before

this, but seems odd to me of someone who was going to plan something like this, so he takes a break

from killing Wonder Woman to consider what his actual plan is. We then cut to the Justice League L-O-S-T prototype,

their little transport ship as they're headed towards the Soviet Union. And we get a couple of

awkward moments of discussion about goosebumps and a long ago man making a joke about John having

Mars bumps and then Steele saying that everyone's got goosebumps like ball bearings and it just

gets creepy and weird from that point.

Dale Gunn mentions the fact that his Air Force buddies would now think he's crazy for flying

into the Soviet Union. Aquaman still has

that printout that he has from the previous issue. You know, he don't take everything in hard

copy. We find out that Dale got the info on where Superman's being held from Steele's grandfather,

the A-hole, big Hank Haywood. He managed to let them know that he's being capped inside General Gorky's

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