Tom versus the JLA, number 242, or Steel needs to learn how to jump like a man.

Welcome back for Justice League of America, number 242, the September 1985 issue entitled Battle Cry, written by Jerry Conway, pencil by George Tuska, inked by Mike Macklin, colored by Gene D'Angel, lettered by Helen Vesick, edited by Alan Gold, the cover by Chuck Patton, and Mike Macklin.

We opened this issue, Aquaman.

Lonely underwater monarch, searching for his wife.

She left him.

Why?

He closed his feelings off to her and became obsessed with leading the Justice League.

Problem?

Not good at leading the Justice League.

In fact, he's not a good leader.

Any monarch that gets kicked out of being in charge of his fact, he's not a good leader. Any monarch that gets

kicked out of being in charge of his country, prying out a good leader, especially in history

of royalty with our sort of defective human beings who are royalty. He got kicked out of his country.

He goes to New Venice. That's where we begin. He's underwater. It's a sunken city off the coast

of Florida. Multiple sunken cities in the DC universe. You gotta have them if you're gonna give us a lot of Aquaman stories, because you can't just hang out in Atlantis. That's an old haunt of Mara on his, so he goes there. He sees a sea bass that he likes the look of. As for Mara is, Seabass responds with Mera, Southeast, long ago. Place of Dark Currants.

That's a smart sea bass, and you put that together. Aquaman zooms off. Apparently, Place of Dark Currants is a location that he knows of. We cut to the timberland of the Canadian Northwest in the Yukon, where Amazzo is out of control control. Remember he absorbed the mind of an angry drunk

prospector destroyed the town of St. Jude and now he's loose. Martian Manhunter who obviously has learned

from Aquaman all sorts of great skills. So it would be a good idea for everyone to split up and look

for a maze. We open with elongated man in Gypsy just sort of hanging out. Gypsy barefoot. Maybe not a good idea in the Yukon. I don't care if you have superpowers. You can get glass on there. You can get a pine cone cut. It's crazy. Well, anyway, Gypsy doesn't like the out-of-doors being from Detroit. You see a squirrel run by. She's complaining. All of a sudden, a bear shows up. And it growls. Scims every. It's sort of a comedic part. I don't know how funny though a bear attack is really. So she turns invisible. She makes her run forward. A long game man seems to be so distracted looking for a maze. You know, he stretches neck way up that he doesn't know a bear attacking Gypsy. I find that a little hard to believe. He seems

extremely distracted. Gypsy's keeping one step ahead of the bear and then breaks out a secret weapon.

She can project her sort of chameleonness onto somebody else. Now, projecting chameleon-ask abilities, I think,

would mask the other person. But in this case, it actually

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