Tom versus the JLA, number 261, or Parting Such Sweet Sorrow.

Welcome back for Justice League of America, number 261.

The April 1987 issued title, Last Stand, written by J.M. DeM. DeMateas, pencil by Luke

McDonnellinked by Bob Lewis, colored by Gene D'Angelo, letter by Albert de Guzman, edited

by Andrew Helfer with a cover by Luke

McDonnell and Bob Lewis.

This is the end of the Justice League of America.

Quite literally, it's part four of the four-part end of the Justice League.

It is also chapter 21 of the Legends crossover in the last issue of Justice League of America

that I will be talking

about on this podcast. It's been a wild ride doing all this way more fun than I thought it would be.

Also, it seems people enjoyed it far more than I thought it would be. This isn't the end, though.

I'll talk about what I'm doing next at the end of the show, but let's get right to the

Justice League. We opened this issue, the padded man in the cell that we saw last time, getting

some hints about who he could possibly be. We have some narrative box going over flashback

images of the last couple of issues, you know, explaining who Dr. Ivo is explaining that vibe got choked out like a

bitch by some Android hands. Martian Manhunter beating the shit out of Android wearing a nice

polo shirt, steel dying, Martian Manhunter getting angry. And the whole time when we see this,

these narrative boxes over it, we see the man in the padded room is sort of responding to it,

you know, talking about murder, talking about how can a man made out of steel die, you know,

talking about his son being killed by a Martian. I think we're starting to get a grip on who

is in this padded room. We then cut to the finely dressed Dr. Ivo, who I should have mentioned this far earlier.

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