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JLA: The Nail #1

DC · Series began 1998 · August 1998

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Dates

Cover date: August 1998
On sale: June 17, 1998
Pages: 52

Editions and covers

Original edition

Barcode 76194120995100111
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Creators

pencils: Alan Davisinks: Mark Farmercolors: Trish Mulvihill, Lee Loughridge, Heroic Ageletters: Alex Jay, Pat Prenticescript: Alan Davis

Stories

The Nail, Book One of Three · 48 pages
In a world where the Kents got a flat tire on the day Kal-El's rocket crashed, Lex Luthor rules Metropolis. Luthor foments anti-alien fervor, directed at the members of the Justice League of America. While the JLA enlists Lois Lane to help with their image problems, Black Canary takes her Outsiders in search of Metamorpho, and Joker invades Arkham Asylum. Elsewhere, the Doom Patrol is felled by a living gas, Green Lantern discovers that Earth has been enveloped by a force field -- which Darkseid interprets as an act of war by New Genesis -- and Batman enters the melee in Arkham.

Reprinted in

Justice League of America: The Nail (1998), Justice League of America: The Nail The Complete Deluxe Edition (2017), Justice League of America: The Nail The Complete Collection (2020)