Story: "The Eighth Day" (22 Pages)

Credits:

Marv Wolfman (plot)
Jeph Loeb (script)
Yvel Guichet (pencils)
Walden Wong and Dexter Vines (inks)
Comicraft (letters)
Joe Rosas and Digital Chameleon (colors)
Tom Palmer Jr. and Eddie Berganza (edits)

Feature Character:

Imperiex Prime

Guest Stars:

Liri Lee (last in ???; next in Young Justice: Our Worlds at War #1)
Starfire III (last in Titans #25; next in Superman: The Man of Steel #115)
Ryand'r (last in Titans #19)
Maxima (last in ???; next in Superman Vol. 2 #159)
Grayven (next in Superman: The Man of Steel #115)
Adam Strange (last in Starman Vol. 2 #73; next in Superman: The Man of Steel #115)

Supporting Characters:

Jun and Ish'tar (Daxamites)
Kristoph (a citizen of Almerac; dies)

Villains:

Imperiex probes
Viroxx

Other Characters:

The people of Almerac, Karna and Kalanor (mostly die)
The people of Daxam (next in JSA: Our Worlds at War #1)

Synopsis:

Since the dawn of time, the universe has been destroyed by Imperiex and reborn from the ashes of the old. Now, Liri Lee of the Linear Men sees that Imperiex has re-awoken. Imperiex and his/its probes are moving through the universe, destroying worlds to create powerful black holes which destroy all around them. He/it/they has/have destroyed Kalanor (Despero's homeworld), Daxam, Karna (home to the Gordanians and Starfire's people, the Tamaranians) and Almerac (Maxima's homeworld). However, survivors of these worlds, with many other allies are banding together to prevent the end of the universe - they will make their stand on the next target world: Earth in the Sol system.

Recently, Superman and Mongul faced and defeated a probe of Imperiex, thinking it to be Imperiex itself, but now the probes are arriving in force. Liri Lee watches this and reflects that this is the natural pattern of the universe's progression, and so it must be allowed to happen.

Second Story: "Resources" (8 Pages)

Credits:

J.H.Williams III (plot)
D.Curtis Johnson (plot, script)
Yanick Paquette (pencils)
Mick Gray (inks)
Comicraft (letters)
Tom McCraw (colors)

Feature Character:

Cameron Chase

Supporting Characters:

Mr. Bones
Amanda Waller (last in Superboy Vol. 3 #88, next in Adventures of Superman #593)
Agent Cliff Hansen
Agent Witt
Agent Stack
Sam Lane (next in Action Comics #779)
Dr Collins

Villains:

Chemo
Plasmus
Shrapnel (all three next in Adventures of Superman #593)

Synopsis:

On the orders of Secretary Waller, Director Bones of the D.E.O. assembles a group of agents to prepare a report on all the resources the USA has to counter the coming threat of Imperiex. There's the Suicide Squad, including heavy hitters Shrapnel, Chemo and Plasmus. Alien hardware from the Invasion of some years ago has gone missing. The military hardware is being supplied by a combination of Ferris Aircraft hardware and Lexcorp's B-13 technology. And there's always the orphanages, homes for young meta-humans who don't yet know how to handle their powers.

Just as the report is completed, they receive news of the attack on Kansas. The war has begun.

Feature: "The Art of War" (4 Pages)

Credits:

Doug Mahnke and Duncan Rouleau (art)

Comment: The designs for the alien weaponry and earth technology to be used in the war.

Third Story: "They Call Me Zed" (10 Pages)

Credits:

Joe Kelly (plot, script)
Alberto Saichan (pencils, inks)
Comicraft (letters)
Tom McCraw (colors)
Tom Palmer Jr. and Eddie Berganza (edits)

Feature Character:

General Zod II (next in Action Comics #779)

Other Characters:

La Encantadora
Faora
Scarlet Scythe
Ignition
Kancer
Leaders of Pokolistan (die; all characters appear in various flashbacks)

Synopsis:

The history of Zod is recounted, how he grew up to hate Superman and to discover that he is totally alone in this world. It is also revealed that he paid for Encantadora to attack Superman with a deadly kiss, that he is involved with the League of Assassins, that he created Kancer and that he took over the nation of Pokolistan by quite simply killing all its leaders.

Fourth Story: "Behind the Lines" (2 Pages)

Credits:

Scott Beatty (plot, script)
Paul Ryan (pencils, inks)
Comicraft (letters)

Comment: The journalist in this story is unnamed, though he does have a colleague called Jorge. Characters that are depicted in the trailer for the documentary are: Green Lantern (Alan Scott), Wonder Woman (Hippolyta), Dr Mid-Nite I, Hawkman I, Atom I, Spectre I, Roger Huntoon, Adolf Hitler, Flash i, Starman I, Jonathan Kent, Captain Atom, Martian Manhunter and Firestorm.

Synopsis:

Just as Kansas Public Broadcasting screens a trailer for its 16-hour documentary on the ways in which the military and the nation's metahumans have worked together in times of war, the state is hit by the first bomb to be dropped by Imperiex and the station abruptly goes off air.

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Profile Pages:

Credits:

Chuck Kim (text)
Ariel Olivetti (pencils, inks: Earth Allies)
Dale Keown (pencils, inks: Alien Allies)
Duncan Rouleau (pencils: the Zod Squad)
Yanick Paquette (pencils, inks: Krypto)
Randy Emberlin (inks: The Zod Squad)
Tom McCraw (colors)

Comment: Short profile pages of the key characters in the Our Worlds at War story