Dates
- Cover date
- July 2004
- On sale
- May 26, 2004
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
Creators
Stories
- Chapter Eight: Government Issues · 37 pages
In 1958, the Flash is lured into a government trap, but escapes. Later, in Gotham City, John Jones is asked to interview a man who believes Martians are on Earth, but the interview is interrupted. In California, Hal Jordan is scrubbed from the Task Force X mission. After John Henry is hunted down in Tennessee, Edward R. Murrow addresses the race problem on TV. When The Flash also denounces the tactics used to try and capture him on TV, J'onn J'onzz decides to try to return home, turning over all his unsolved cases to Batman, including the story by Theodore Smiesel about a "Monster Island.”
- Chapter Nine: The Flying Cloud · 27 pages
Task Force X prepares for their space mission without Hal Jordan. J'onn J'onzz tries to hitch a ride with them, but is stopped and captured by King Faraday. Task Force X's mission is a failure, and the Challengers set off to rescue its survivors, while the government tries to contact Superman to save the crew. Afterwards, Jordan is examining the simulator when he is snatched by a green light.
Reprinted in
DC: The New Frontier (2004), Absolute DC: The New Frontier (2006)