Story: "Hellbound Train" (22 Pages)

Credits: Chuck Dixon (plot, script); Dick Giordano (pencils); Jordi Ensign (inks); Albert De Guzman (letters); Gloria Vasquez (colors); Digital Chameleon (color seperations); Joseph Illidge (edits)

Feature Characters: Oracle, Black Canary II, Power Girl

Guest Star: Catwoman

Supporting Characters: Blue Beetle II (as Bumblebeeb)

Villains: Pharzoof; Joe Gardner, Shrapnel, Sudden Death, Mammoth, Spellbinder II

Other Characters: Dina, and her team of U.S. Marshals (first appearance of all)

Synopsis:

Oracle has received a tip-off that there is a planned breakout on a train carrying several dangerous metahumans to the Slab, and sends Black Canary to try and prevent it. The US Marshals protecting the train are suspicious of Canary, particularly when Catwoman turns up and appears to be on friendly terms with her. Black Canary is 'delighted' to learn that Joe Gardner is one of the prisoners on the rain, and is unable to prevent the whole company being swallowed up by a boom tube summoned by a strange guy in a trenchcoat.

Not knowing where else to turn, Oracle contacts Power Girl to try and trace Black Canary.