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JSA #44 March 2003 [$2.50] Cover Credits: Rags Morales (pencils, inks; signed); John Kalisz (colors)

Story: "The Tears of Ra" (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, Hawkgirl II, Captain Marvel, Doctor Fate IV, Star-Spangled Kid II, Flash I, Hawkman I, Sentinel, Wildcat II, Power Girl, Doctor Mid-Nite II

Guest Stars: Prince Khufu, Lady Chay-Ara, Nabu the Wise, Teth-Adam (all in the time of the Egyptian 15th dynasty)

Supporting Characters: Shiruta, Gon, Hurut (Teth-Adam's wife and children, as spirits); Black Adam, Power Girl's cat (is now yellow again)

Villains: Vandal Savage, Ahk-Ton (dies)

Guest Appearance: Ra

Other Character: Dove II (formerly "the Fate-child's mother"; identity revealed, see first Comment)

Comment: The identity of the woman who gave birth to Hector Hall's current body, previously assumed to be Lyta Hall (his wife) is now revealed to be Dawn Granger, the second Dove. All appearances of this character whilst under the spell of concealment (#'s 2, 19, 23, 26 and 41) have been listed as 'the Fate-child's mother'. Dove was thought to have died in Armageddon 2001 #2.

Comment: Story continues in the next issue. However, it is possible that a reasonable stretch of time elapses between the main story and pages 19-22. which feature Doctor Fate, Doctor Mid-Nite and Dove only (none of these characters appear in the preceding 18 pages).

Synopsis:

The time-lost heroes of the JSA assist Prince Khufu and his court to battle the forces of Vandal Savage. Nabu the Wise sends Shazam's champions from the two eras to the Western Lands, where they summon the attention of Ra. Displeased to see his orb misused, Ra strips Ahk-Ton of his powers and returns Vandal Savage to infancy. Teth-Adam then kills Akh-Ton, avenging the murder of his family and so many of his countrymen. The war over, Nabu sends the heroes home the only way he knows how, by placing them in an un-aging sleep in burial caskets until retrieved by Black Adam millennia later. Captain Marvel tries to offer the hand of friendship to his old foe, realising the debt he owes him, but is brushed aside, for Black Adam claims that Marvel can never understand him. Doctor Fate then returns from Gemworld and lifts the spell of sleep Mordru had cast on his comatose wife. He discovers, however, that this has also lifted a spell of concealment - this is not his wife at all, but Dove!