CATALOG RECORD
Showcase Presents: Justice League of America #6
Dates
- Cover date
- [April] 2013
- On sale
- February 27, 2013
- Pages
- 532
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Stories
- Crisis on Earth-X! · Justice League of America · 22.67 pages
During an annual meeting between the JLA and JSA, six members and the Red Tornado (accidentally interfering with the transmatter machine that transports the two groups between Earths 1 and 2) are accidentally transported to another Earth, in which the Nazis won World War Two. The seven heroes are able to defeat a small group of Nazi soldiers, but are almost defeated by sonic machines when the Freedom Fighters, led by Uncle Sam, take the heroes away and explain what's going on. The three groups learn of machines around the world controlling everyone's minds, and set about to destroy them all.
- Thirteen Against the Earth! · Justice League of America · 20 pages
The three teams split up to tackle the machines controlling the Earth. When the three groups confront the final machine inside of an orbiting satellite, the machine reveals its origins of how the Nazis created it to help run things, but it eventually turned on its creators and Adolf Hitler himself seeing them as inferior per its programming. The last machine is destroyed by Red Tornado's sacrifice yet again, and the three groups, triumphant, return to their respective earths along with the surviving Red Tornado, who chooses to stay on Earth-1.
- The Doom of the Divided Man! · Justice League of America · 20 pages
Red Tornado brings Bruce Gordon to the JLA, who tells them that his alter ego Eclipso is on the loose again, now split into three beings.
- The Man Who Murdered Santa Claus! · Justice League of America · 20 pages
The murder of a department store Santa Claus puts the JLA on the tail of the Key and his scheme to kill them.
- Balance of Power! · Justice League of America · 20 pages
Master criminal Libra gathers six super-villains to use as pawns against the Justice League, stealing half of each of the heroes' powers during the battles he has engineered.
- War with the One-Man Justice League! · Justice League of America · 20 pages
The Justice League has lost some of their powers and frees Amazo to gather the powers unto himself, and thereafter transfer their powers back to the JLA members using a machine.
- The Creature in the Velvet Cage! · Justice League of America · 20 pages
After the JLA and JSA capture the Horned Owl Gang on Earth-2, a silent alarm is triggered inside of Sandman's old lab. When both teams arrive, they discover a sand monster has escaped. After further explanations by Sandman, it's revealed it was once his former partner, Sandy, who had been struck accidentally by an energy beam in his lab, that changed his body into pure silica. Both teams eventually reel him in, but the reason for his escape was that he was trying to quell several severe earthquakes that were about to occur, since in his new form he felt them.
- The Return of Anakronus! · Justice League of America · 20 pages
Snapper Carr and his family are taken hostage by Anakronus, a villain who claims to have defeated the Justice League in the past, though Snapper has no memory of the case.
- The Last Angry God! · Justice League of America · 20 pages
J'onn J'onzz enlists his former teammates to help the Martians against the evil giant Korge.
- The Kid Who Won Hawkman's Wings! · Justice League of America · 20 pages
Green Arrow investigates a letter set to the JLA and meets Charley Parker, who is following in Hawkman's crime-fighting footsteps as Golden Eagle. When the Matter Master challenges Golden Eagle, thinking that he's Hawkman, The Justice League steps in to help. After the villain is defeated, the real Hawkman makes a surprise appearance.
- I Have No Wings and I Must Fly! · Justice League of America · 20 pages
The JLA helps Hawkman against the Equalizer, who has unleashed a plague on the people of Thanagar to make them all equal in strength and intellect. Hawkman is voted back into the team as an active member.
- Takeover of the Earth-Masters! · Justice League of America · 18 pages
As the League faces an invasion of alien creatures who can adapt to anything thrown against them, their efforts are hampered by Hawkman's strange behavior.
- Winner Takes the Earth! · Justice League of America · 18 pages
The Adaptoids are finally defeated when Hawkman brings Hawkgirl back from Thanagar, exposing the aliens to the Equalizer Plague.
- The Parallel Perils of Adam Strange! · Justice League of America · 18 pages
The JLA end up on Rann, dealing with an Adam Strange who thinks Alanna is dead.
- The Hero Who Jinxed the Justice League! · Justice League of America · 18 pages
After the Justice League helps Adam Strange defeat Kanjar Ro, Adam marries his long-time sweetheart, Alanna.
- The Great Identity Crisis! · Justice League of America · 18 pages
In this previously untold story, Doctor Light makes the Leaguers forget their own real identities and assume one belonging to another hero. After the villain is defeated, the heroes resolve to share their secret identities from now on.
- Where on Earth Am I? · Justice League of America · 18 pages
On Earth-Prime, Cary Bates and Elliot S! Maggin are contemplating the next issue of JLA when they both go into Carmine Infantino's office and stumble upon the Cosmic Treadmill. The accidentally activate it, and Cary Bates disappears to Earth-2 as a villain. Maggin follows behind, but lands up on Earth-1 with the JLA. The JLA goes to Earth-2 to help out the JSA, who has been fighting the Injustice Society, revealing the members were actually disguised JSAers. The JLA then vow to stop the Injustice Society and bring them to justice for the JSAers. To be continued...
- Avenging Ghosts of the Justice Society! · Justice League of America · 18 pages
As the JLA battle both Cary Bates (as a villain) and the Injustice Society, they are slowly defeated due to the subconscious memories of the JLA defeating the JSA earlier (disguised as IJS members). The Spectre saves the day when he asks God to restore the JSA to life using his ring of life's powers, as well as Maggin egging Bates on to defeat verbally. The IJS is then defeated by both the JLA and JSA, and Bates and Maggin are returned to Earth-Prime, with no memories of what happened before, back to the beginning of this story in Julius Schwartz's office.
- The Men Who Sold Destruction! · Justice League of America · 18 pages
Two-Face is the League's unlikely ally when a flip of his coin determines that he will help them fight an alien invasion.
- The Evil Connection! · Justice League of America · 18 pages
Two-Face changes sides when his coin comes up on the scarred side, leading his former JLA allies into traps set by the Weaponers of Qward.
- The Command Is "Chaos!" · Justice League of America · 18 pages
The Anarchist has been tapping Green Lantern's power to provide him with matter-altering powers. He tries to become a new world leader by popular acclaim by kidnapping world leaders to create chaos, but is defeated by the Justice League.
- Death-Visions of the Justice League! · Justice League of America · 18 pages
Wonder Woman returns to the Justice League but is mystified when she finds that they no longer want to fight crime or put themselves in danger.
- The Earth Dies Screaming! · Justice League of America · 18 pages
Wonder Woman uses her Magic Lasso to empower her teammates to overcome the strange mind-control of Nekron, but it's the Red Tornado who makes the ultimate sacrifice to save them all.
- Skyjack at 22,300 Miles! · Justice League of America · 18 pages
A malfunction in the League's new teleportation device merges Flash, Hawkman, and an alien called the Dharlu.
- The Beasts Who Thought Like Men · Justice League of America · 17 pages
The League tries to control plagues and other natural disasters that turn out to be part of a larger plot against them.
- The Beasts Who Fought Like Men! · Justice League of America · 17 pages
Several Leaguers are missing, including Superman, and Supergirl arrives to help the rest of the team find the others. Sonar's plan continues to unfold, but it turns out that it's really the Queen Bee behind it all.