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JLA: Incarnations 5

JLA: INCARNATIONS #5

Cover Date: November 2001
Cover Price: $3.50
Publication Date: 2001-09-26

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Val Semeiks (signed)
Inks: Prentis Rollins (signed)
Colors: John Kalisz, Heroic Age


Story: "Crisis" (23 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn Ostrander
PencilsVal Semeiks
InksPrentis Rollins, Kevin Conrad
LetteringKen Lopez
ColorsJohn Kalisz
Color separationsHeroic Age
EditingDan Raspler

Feature Character(s):

Justice League of America:
Aquaman (leaves the League)
Martian Manhunter
Zatanna
Elongated Man
Steel II
Vibe
Vixen
Gypsy (also appears as her future self taken back in time)

Guest Star(s):

Harbinger

Villain(s):

Fire-Eye
Shadow Demons

Guest Appearance(s):

Teen Titans:
Raven VI
Wonder Girl I
Kole
Cyborg
Changeling
Outsiders:
Batman
Black Lightning
Metamorpho
Geo-Force
Swamp Thing
Doctor Light IV
Nuklon
Lead (last in Legends of the DCU: Crisis on Infinite Earths #1; next in Crisis on Infinite Earths #5)
Question
Plastic Man
Doctor Fate I
Superman
Pariah
Flash I
Black Canary II

Solicitation:

Vibe! Steel! Gypsy! It’s the rise and fall of the Motor City Justice League, as Aquaman relocates the JLA from a satellite in the sky to Detroit to bring them closer to the people they serve. But as soon as they arrive, they find themselves embroiled in the greatest disaster ever.

Synopsis:

Aquaman leaves the League, only a few weeks after he drastically altered its make-up, and the surviving old-timers wonder if there is a League any more. The League is then called in to a crisis in New York, where they and numerous other heroes encounter a huge metallic monolith and destructive shadow beings. They are then summoned elsewhere by Harbinger, who tells them of the Anti-Monitors plan to destroy the universe by bleeding all time eras into each other. The younger members of the League try to keep the Monitor's machine (which should stem this) safe while dealing with the converging time streams - Gypsy runs off in the midst of battle, feeling there's nothing she can do. But she is met by her older self, who tells her what she should do. Gypsy tells Vibe to augment the vibrations of the machine, which he does, bringing it (and all the others in other eras) up to full capacity and halting the immediate danger. There is still much to do, but the new members of the League are beginning to prove themselves.


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Second Story: "Changes" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn Ostrander
PencilsNorm Breyfogle
InksJoe Rubinstein
LetteringKen Lopez
ColorsJohn Kalisz
Color separationsHeroic Age
EditingDan Raspler

Feature Character(s):

Flash II

Synopsis:

The Flash races towards what he knows will be his death in order to destroy the anti-matter cannon which threatens the universe. He looks back over his life and bids farewell to those he loves in his mind as he is absorbed into the Speed Force.


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Third Story: "Doubt" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn Ostrander
PencilsEric Battle
InksKeith Champagne
LetteringKen Lopez
ColorsJohn Kalisz
Color separationsHeroic Age
EditingDan Raspler

Feature Character(s):

Tully Reed (now publisher of Meta magazine; also in flashback to the Crisis)

Supporting Character(s):

Roz (the woman Tully loves; first appearance; dies in flashback)
Mac (the printer for Tully's magazine; first appearance; behind the scenes)

Villain(s):

G. Gordon Godfrey
Shadow Demons (in flashback to the events of the Crisis)

Guest Appearance(s):

Justice League of America
Elongated Man
Steel II
Vixen
Gypsy

Synopsis:

Tully Reed is persuaded by G. Gordon Godfrey to print some anti-metahuman stories. He remembers the death of his love, Roz, in the Crisis, when Vixen was moments too late to save her, letting Tully down. But before the article goes to press, he realizes that it was his unreasonable expectations, not the Leaguers, who were at fault, and pulps the entire print run.


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