Story: "Grand Guignol, Neuvieme Partie: Heroes Reborn, Renewed...and Remembered" (22 Pages)

Credits:

James Robinson (plot, script)
Peter Snejbjerg (pencils, inks)
Bill Oakley (letters)
Jason Wright (colors)
Jamison (color seperations)
Peter Tomasi (edits)

Feature Character:

Starman VII

Guest Stars:

Hippolyta
Hawkgirl I
Inza Cramer (all three in flashback)

Supporting Characters:

Ted Knight (last in issue #67; also in flashback)
Mikaal Tomas
Sadie Falk
Clarence O'Dare
Hope O'Dare
Smudge
Matt O'Dare
Mason O'Dare
Bobo Bennetti
Shade
Black Pirate (last in issue #63)
Doris Lee (in flashback)

Villains:

Culp
Barry O'Dare
Spider II
Brainwave I (in flashback)

Guest Appearances:

Phantom Lady II, Black Condor II
Adam Strange
Dian Belmont
Peachy Pet
Hawkman I
Sandman I
Johhny Thunder
Doctor Fate I
Doctor Mid-Nite I
Atom I (last six with Ted Knight as the JSA, last eight in flashback)

Synopsis:

The heroes of Opal regroup and plan their counterattack on Culp's forces with the help of Smudge, the only one of the Shade's shadows to stay true. Meanwhile, The Spider and The Shade confront one another, and Ted Knight remembers his former girlfriend Doris Lee, who wore the costume of Starman for one day...

Hippolyta was able to piece together clues from all of her male JSA colleagues' cases to realise they were all facing the same man. She called on Sheira Sanders, who would one day become Hawkgirl, and was joined by Inza Cramer (who would soon marry - and become part of - Dr Fate) in a mission to help them. They recruited the other halves of the rest of the JSA (those that had them), revealed their boyfriends' identities and together set out to help them. Among them was Doris Lee, using one of Starman's spare gravity rods. Arriving at the Brainwave's headquarters they were attacked by the villains' henchmen made to look like the JSA and soon overcome. However, Doris discovered an extra gravity rod in her costume and freed Hippolyta just as the JSA arrived, meaning that Brainwave was attacked from two sides and soon defeated. The girls' memories of the events were removed, but Doris would eventually learn of Ted Knight's secret before she died.

Back in the present, Opal's heroes move out on the offensive and Culp prepares for the end.