Dates
- Cover date
- 1988 [January 1989]
- On sale
- December 8, 1988
- Pages
- 84
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #3 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07098930568703
This edition’s page
Story arc: Invasion
This is part 16 of 16. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Flash (1987) #21
- Wonder Woman (1987) #25
- Firestorm the Nuclear Man (1987) #80
- Invasion (1988) #1
- Doom Patrol (1987) #17
- Justice League International (1987) #22
- Power of the Atom (1988) #7
- Starman (1988) #5
- Checkmate (1988) #11
- Captain Atom (1987) #24
- Detective Comics (1937) #595
- Invasion (1988) #2
- Swamp Thing (1985) #81
- The New Guardians (1988) #6
- Adventures of Superman (1987) #449
- Invasion (1988) #3
Creators
Stories
- World Without Heroes, Chapter One · 28 pages
Dominators detonate the metagene bomb, which causes the super-powers of every hero on Earth to malfunction.
- World Without Heroes, Chapter 2 · 21 pages
Dozens of heroes are hospitalized while the scientists try to find a cure to their condition. Hal and Guy are to lead a small group to the Dominators' homeworld to find out if they are responsible, while heroes start to die.
- World Without Heroes, Chapter 3 · 31 pages
Reaching the Dominator homeworld, J'Onn J'Onzz is able to telepathically extract the information they need about the gene bomb from the Dominator who created it. The heroes return to Earth in time to provide the antidote they need.
Reprinted in
Invasion! (2008), Invasion! (2016), The Doom Patrol: The Bronze Age Omnibus (2019)