Dates
- Cover date
- July 2006
- On sale
- May 24, 2006
- In stores
- May 24, 2006
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #3 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07098931022303
This edition’s page
Story arc: 52
This is part 3 of 63. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- 52 #1
- 52 #2
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- 52 #52
- 52 / World War III Part Four: United We Stand #1
- 52 / World War III Part One: A Call to Arms #1
- 52 / World War III Part Three: Hell Is for Heroes #1
- 52 / World War III Part Two: The Valiant #1
- Booster Gold #1
- 52 Aftermath: The Four Horsemen #1
- Booster Gold #2
- Booster Gold #3
- Booster Gold #4
- Booster Gold #5
- Booster Gold #6
Creators
Stories
- New World Order · 20 pages
Week three opens with the Gotham PD discovering the body of Alex Luthor, altered to look like Lex. Power Girl is warned out of Kahndaq air space by Black Adam as she chases Terra Man. Steel puts his parental duties on hold as S.T.A.R. Labs contacts him about GCPD's discovery. Booster has an endorsement taken out from under him. Lex resurfaces in full spin control mode. Black Adam rebuffs advances by Intergang and shows the world how he believes heroes should act, in his own violent way.
- History of the DCU: Part 2 · 4 pages
Covers the time frame from the first Earth-1/Earth-2 crossover up to Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Publisher’s description
Black Adam lays down an ultimatum for his home of Kahndaq and John Henry Irons investigates the dead body of Lex Luthor with the help of...Lex Luthor?! Week 3 of the DC Comics series by superstar writers Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid!
Reprinted in
52 (2007), The 52 Omnibus (2012), 52 (2016), Black Adam: Rise and Fall of an Empire (2022)