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JSA #37 August 2002 [$3.50] Cover Credits: Christian Alamy (pencils, inks);

First Story: "Stealing Thunder Part 5: Crossing Over" (22 pages)

Credits: Geoff Johns and David Goyer (plot, script); Leonard Kirk (pencils); Keith Champagne (inks); Ken Lopez (letters); John Kalisz (colors); Heroic Age (color separations); Peter Tomasi (edits)

Feature Characters: Mister Terrific II, Sand, Power Girl, Flash I, Wildcat II, Hawkman I, Sentinel, Doctor Mid-Nite II, Hawkgirl II, Atom Smasher, Star-Spangled Kid II, Doctor Fate IV

Guest Stars: Captain Marvel (joins JSA behind the scenes), Johnny Thunder (merges with Yz to become Johnny Thunderbolt), Crimson Avenger II (next in the next story in this issue), Hourman II (joins JSA behind the scenes)

Supporting Characters: Jakeem Thunder, Pat Dugan, Joan Garrick, Molly Mayne-Scott

Villains: Icicle II; Ultra-Humanite

Guest Appearances: Wonder Woman, Superman, Damage, Troia, Martian Manhunter, Cyborg, Big Barda, Firestorm, Plastic Man, Flash III, Jesse Quick, Impulse, Red Tornado II, Mary Marvel, Black Lightning, Geo-Force, Atom II, The Shade, Batman, Captain Marvel Jr., Black Canary II, Jade, Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)

Other Characters: Yz (merges with Johnny Thunder to become Johnny Thunderbolt); Joseph, Jordan, Jason, James, Jefferson and Jacob (first appearance of all six; Johnny Thunder's older brothers)

Synopsis:

Captain Marvel is devastated; it looks like breaking the Ultra-Humanite's hold over Johnny Thunder has killed the retired hero. Meanwhile, Sand confronts the Humanite, who exists now only as a brain. He narrowly prevents the Icicle from killing it, but the deed is instead done by the Crimson Avenger, who says that her predecessor's death has now been avenged, disappearing from the scene.

Johnny Thunder holds on to life long enough for his friends to bid him farewell. Jakeem then demands that the thunderbolt restore him, but it can neither kill nor return to life; however, it does know of one more option and merges itself with Johnny's soul so that he lives on as Johnny Thunderbolt. Jakeem gets him to reverse all the Humanite's wishes, meaning that everyone returns to where they were before this all began and the world is mostly put to rights, although everyone still remembers what they did and the dead remain dead.

Later, Johnny's body is buried; Captain Marvel and Hourman join the JSA; and the Icicle makes it quite clear that he only acted alongside the heroes in order to save his own life.

Second Story: "Death Duty" (8 pages)

Credits: Geoff Johns and David Goyer (plot, script); Peter Snejberg (pencils, inks); Ken Lopez (letters); John Kalisz (colors); Heroic Age (color separations); Peter Tomasi (edits)

Feature Character: Crimson Avenger II

Guest Appearance: Wildcat II (Ted Grant)

Other Character: Charles Durham (deceased, appears in flashback only)

Synopsis:

Having killed the Ultra-Humanite and avenged the death of Lee Travis, the first Crimson Avenger, his successor experiences the death of Charles Durham, wrongly convicted and executed for a crime he did not commit. She thinks of her strange guns, triggerless, knowing when to shoot, and of how they used to belong to Travis, who must somehow have rid himself of their curse. She must now seek out and kill the man who faked evidence to get Charles Durham convicted: Ted Grant, Wildcat...