CATALOG RECORD
DC Finest: Justice League of America: The Return #nn
Dates
- Cover date
- [October] 2025
- On sale
- August 5, 2025
- Pages
- 588
Editions and covers
Story arc: Crisis on Infinite Earths
This is part 29 of 30. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985) #1
- Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985) #2
- Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985) #3
- Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985) #4
- Crisis on Infinite Earths #5
- The Losers Special (1985) #1
- Infinity, Inc. (1984) #18
- Wonder Woman (1942) #327
- Crisis on Infinite Earths #6
- Infinity, Inc. (1984) #19
- All-Star Squadron (1981) #50
- Crisis on Infinite Earths #7
- Justice League of America (1960) #244
- The Fury of Firestorm (1982) #41
- Batman (1940) #389
- Green Lantern (1960) #194
- All-Star Squadron (1981) #51
- Detective Comics (1937) #556
- Crisis on Infinite Earths #8
- Batman (1940) #390
- All-Star Squadron (1981) #52
- Detective Comics (1937) #557
- Justice League of America #245
- Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985) #10
- Batman (1940) #391
- Detective Comics (1937) #558
- Green Lantern #198
- Crisis on Infinite Earths Companion Deluxe Edition (2018) #1
- DC Finest: Justice League of America: The Return (2025) #nn
- DC Finest: Events: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One (2025) #nn
Also part of: Legends
Creators
Stories
- Sea Change · 23 pages
Aquaman leaves in search of Mera without telling anyone. Vibe gets a new costume. The rest of the team travels to the Yukon to battle Amazo.
- Battle Cry · 23 pages
Aquaman is reunited with Mera. The Martian Manhunter and Dale Gunn travel to the Fortress of Solitude in an attempt to find answers behind Amazo's revival while the rest of the JLA is badly beaten by the robot.
- Storm Clouds · 23 pages
With Mera, Aquaman returns to help the JLA battle Amazo in Vancouver. With information gleaned from the trip to the Fortress of Solitude, the Martian Manhunter is able to stop the android. Having rekindled his marriage, Aquaman decides to resign from the League. Disgusted with the new JLA, General Hank Heywood decides to don his Commander Steel costume and retake the Bunker back from the League.
- Last Crisis on Earth-Two! · 23 pages
As the Crisis rages on Earth-2, Commander Steel tricks the Infinitors to follow him to Earth-1 to capture the current JLA team, and his grandson (a member as Steel), believing they are renegades on that world, using Mekanique's powers to transport them to Earth-1. Once there, they confront the JLA'ers, and defeat them. But when the Infinitors realize they have been duped by the Commander, it's too late, as the Commander has plans for his grandson, whom they have already captured for him, while Mekanique attacks both the Infinitors and the JLA under the Commander's orders.
- The Final Crisis · 23 pages
As the Infinitors and JLA fight vs. both Commander Steel and Mekanique on Earth-1 in JLA's Detroit headquarters, the JSA appears, searching for the missing Infinitors from Earth-2, and join in the battle, quickly defeating Mekanique (while strangely remembering her visit to them in 1942). Mekanique, damaged, then disappears back into the past. Meanwhile, as the Crisis rages on Earth-1, the JLA/JSA/Infinitors aid the people of Detroit as the world's in chaos around them, while Steel fights and defeats his grandfather in solo combat.
- The Long Road Home · 23 pages
During the Crisis, Steel is transported to the year 1,000,000,000 and gets a new costume. There he helps the Lord of Time against the former villain's six cloned sons. Commander Steel wakes from his coma and is regretful for his previous actions.
- Force of Nature · 41 pages
Attempting to find out his true nature using machines on the JLA satellite, the Red Tornado causes himself and the satellite to explode. The JLA and other heroes battle the now-villainous Red Tornado who has taken on his elemental form of the Tornado Champion.
- Be It Ever So Humble... · 22 pages
Steel's grandfather apologizes for his actions but evicts the League from the Bunker so that the team can get a fresh start. The group leaves Detroit for New York City. In his human identity of John Jones, J'onn J'onzz is unable to find work as a policeman but joins Burt Biloxi's detective agency.
- ...There's No Place Like Home · 22 pages
The team moves into the JLA's old headquarters, the Secret Sanctuary, and they discover an alien living there. Despero escapes from the prison planet, Takron-Galtos.
- Interweavings · 22 pages
Martian Manhunter, in his human guise of John Jones, is implicated in a murder while working as a detective for Biloxi Investigations. Despero returns to the planet Kalanor. The alien, dubbed "Junior", attempts to flee the Secret Sanctuary and somehow causes Vixen to become severely sick.
- All Fall Down! · 22 pages
The life-energies of the JLA members are absorbed by "Junior". J'onn J'onzz learns that the alien was accidentally transported to Earth when Superman returned from a prior JLA mission. Sue Dibny is able to send out a JLA alert before succumbing to the alien.
- The Return of the Justice League of America · 38 pages
Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Green Arrow and Black Canary are summoned by the JLA alert. They manage to defeat the alien and return the life-energies it stole back to the JLA members. Batman agrees to rejoin the team as its leader. Elsewhere, Zatanna is captured by a cult led by the mysterious Adam. A transformed Despero plots revenge on the JLA.
- Hunters and Prey · 22 pages
J'onn J'onzz and Gypsy try to solve the murder of Pamela Cross. Zatanna is held captive by the cult of Adam who plans on using Zatanna's DNA to boost his powers of persuasion. Despero the Reborn crashes the remains of the JLA Satellite to Earth.
- Arrival · 22 pages
A significantly stronger Despero attacks Gotham City causing it to be overrun by fire demons.
- Pyre · 22 pages
In Gotham City, the Justice League continues their battle against Despero. The villain relates the history of the planet Kalanor and his own origin.
- Desperate Climax · 22 pages
In Gotham City, the Justice League defeats, and seemingly destroys, Despero.
- Rising · 22 pages
Transformed by Zatanna's homo magi DNA, Adam has become hugely powerful and considers himself a god. Gypsy tracks down Pamela Cross. The Martian Manhunter, as John Jones, finds out that the murderer was Artie, the husband of the woman killed and the lover of Burt Biloxi's secretary, Norma Simons.
- Back to Godhead · 22 pages
Zatanna transports Gypsy and J'onn J'onzz to her. With Adam driven insane by his new powers, the trio delve into his mind to help him.
- Coming Down! · 22 pages
Within Adam's mind, Zatanna willingly enters the Godhead that is devouring Adam's ego and causing his insanity. Doing so cures Adam and causes Zatanna and he to realize they have a destiny together. Zatanna immediately leaves the Justice League with Adam in tow. Back at the League's headquarters, Firestorm appears asking the team to help him against Brimstone.
- The End of the Justice League of America: Saving Face! · 23 pages
Professor Ivo vows revenge on the Justice League. Due to the President's order calling for all superheroes to cease public activities, J'onn J'onzz disbands the Justice League. The Elongated Man leaves to spend more time with his wife. Except for Vibe, the remaining members agree to continue their relationship as friends. Walking through the South Bronx, Vibe is attacked by an android sent by Professor Ivo. The android chokes Vibe to death.
- The End of the Justice League of America: Homecoming! · 23 pages
J'onn J'onzz, Vixen and Steel find the murdered Vibe. J'onn deduces that Vibe was killed by Professor Ivo. J'onn refuses to allow the Justice League to continue as a group and goes off to find Ivo himself. Gypsy brings Pamela Cross back to her parents and decides to return to her family. On the way home she is attacked by one of Ivo's androids, but the the android decides against killing her. Gypsy makes it home.
- The End of the Justice League, Part Three: Flesh! · 23 pages
J'onn J'onzz destroys the android who had previously been sent after Gypsy. Steel battles one of Professor Ivo's androids but is badly injured. Gypsy decides to stay with her family. J'onn J'onzz takes Steel back to the Bunker. Steel's grandfather is unable to help him due to the seriousness of his injuries and turns off the young hero's life support rather than let him suffer.
- The End of the Justice League, Conclusion: Last Stand · 22 pages
Vixen and J'onn J'onzz track down and defeat Professor Ivo's androids and learn that Ivo has been driven insane by his own actions. J'onn J'onzz decides that the Justice League must not dissolve no matter what, but, tired of all the violence, Vixen decides to quit as a member and as a hero. J'onn J'onzz responds to the JLA emergency signal.