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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. the JLA #250 - The Return of the Justice League of America

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2008

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The Return of the Justice League of America


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0:00.0

Tom versus the JLA number 250 or I believe Batman can find his spare a cowl and toothbrush in a box outside Superman's door.

0:08.4

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 250, the main 1986 issue entitled

0:13.2

The Return of the Justice League of America, written by Jerry Conaway, penciled by Luke MacDonald, inked by Bill Ray, colored by Gene DeAngelo,

0:21.3

lettered by Albert de Guzman, edited by Andrew Helfer. Covered by Luke, McDonnell and Bill

0:26.1

Ray. It is a special anniversary issue, because it's 250. It's a little longer. It does feature

0:32.6

the return of the Justice League. The return of the ones that people might say are more popular. That's not to say

0:39.1

vibe doesn't have fans or Steele didn't have fans. I'm sure people loved Steele. I'm sure when

0:45.7

Steel, I don't want to ruin it for you, but Steele isn't in the books anymore. So something

0:51.1

happened to, I'm sure when it happened, people said, Steele was my favorite character. But I think it would be foolish to ignore the fact that

0:57.8

Batman is slightly more popular. Book might sell a little bit more if you put Batman in.

1:02.9

So let's get right to the issue. We open with, of course, a shot of the JLA alert signal button

1:07.9

flashing. Remember how we ended last issue? Sue Dibney hitting the alarm just

1:12.8

as the planned creature, which hatched into some humanoid figure, blasted her. We cut to prologue

1:17.9

number one, Gotham City. A couple of helicopters floating in there. Of course, one's got Batman in it.

1:22.5

One has a group of terrorists threatening to blow up Gotham. We don't know why. We know one of them has a tie

1:29.1

wrapped around his head. Again, this is a sort of nondescript way that people dress in the

1:35.5

DC universe. They always have headbands. There's so many headbands in the DC universe amongst the

1:41.6

public. And it's not just villains. We'll get to that in a second. Well,

1:45.0

we have Batman jumping from one helicopter into the other, and we're reminded of the Batman's

1:50.8

badass. I mean, he's karate-chopping dudes, kicking him in the chest, punching him in the face,

1:56.7

throwing them out of the helicopter into water so they don't die.

2:01.2

I'm pretty sure he bitch slaps one of them.

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