Story: "Time Won't Let Me" (24 Pages)

Credits: Bob Wayne and Lewis Shiner (plot, script); Art Thibert (pencils); Jose Marzan, Jr. (inks); Bob Pinaha (letters); Adrienne Roy (colors); Robert Greenberger (edits)

Feature Characters: Rip Hunter (last in Booster Gold #25; also in flashback preceding Booster Gold #13); Jeffrey "Jeff" Smith (first appearance; Rip's research partner and fellow graduate student at M.I.T.); Bonnie Baxter (first post-Crisis appearance; mistress of geology professor Cave Carson)

Guest Stars: Booster Gold (in between Justice League America #35 and #36), Cave Carson; Doc Magnus

Villains: Vandal Savage (last in Flash Vol. 2 #???); the Illuminati (first DC Universe appearance; also seen in previous incarnations as the Knights Templar, the Rosicrucians, the Saracens and the Hashikin in retelling of origin); S. Hasan (first appearance; an undercover agent of the Illuminati working for Rip Hunter; named after the Hashikin leader Hasan Y. Sabah; dies)

Guest Appearances: Martian Manhunter, Blue Beetle, Guy Gardner, Mister Miracle II, Fire, Ice, Huntress II (all seven in between Justice League America #35 and #36)

Other Characters: Rip Hunter's grandfather (first appearance; in flashback)