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Issue: Justice League of America #197
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Variant: Direct Sales
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/18/1981
Volume: 22
Pages: 40
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.20 GBP
$0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Len Wein (editor); Mike W. Barr (associate editor)
Disclose Notes: Page count includes a four-page advertising centerfold on glossy paper.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age, then Modern Age US
Paper Stock: Newsprint; Mando (beginning with #254)
Binding: saddle-stitched (#s 39, 48, 58, 67, 76, 110-116, 200 squarebound)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
Crisis in Limbo!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
George Pérez (signed)
Mike DeCarlo (signed)
Anthony Tollin
Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
superhero
Justice League of America
Justice League of America [Firestorm; Black Canary; Batman (of Earth-1); Wonder Woman (of Earth-1); Atom [Ray Palmer]]; Justice Society of America [Flash [Jay Garrick]; Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Johnny Thunder (of Earth-2); Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt; Superman (of Earth-2)]; Secret Society of Super-Villains [Ultra-Humanite; Psycho-Pirate; Killer Frost [Crystal Frost]; Signalman]
Reprinting
FlagDC Comics Classics Library: Justice League of America by George Perez #2 published June 2010
as Justice League of America #197 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
FlagCrisis on Multiple Earths #6 published August 2013
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagCrisis on Multiple Earths #6 published August 2013
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
C-740
Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.
Crisis in Limbo!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gerry Conway
Keith Pollard (pp. 1-19); George Perez (pp. 20-27)
Romeo Tanghal
Carl Gafford
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
superhero
Justice League of America
Justice League of America [Atom [Ray Palmer]; Batman (of Earth-1); Black Canary [Dinah Laurel Lance]; Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond; Martin Stein]; Wonder Woman (of Earth-1); Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny] (cameo)]; Justice Society of America [Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Johnny Thunder (of Earth-2); Superman (of Earth-2)]; Secret Society of Super-Villains [Ultra-Humanite; The Mist [Kyle]; Psycho-Pirate [Roger Hayden]; Rag Doll [Peter Merkel]; Cheetah (of Earth-1) [Deborah Domaine]; Brain Wave [Henry King]; Signalman [Phil Cobb]; Floronic Man [Jason Woodrue; Plant Master]; Killer Frost [Crystal Frost]; The Monocle [Jonathan Cheval]]
As Earth-2 begins to lose all of their heroes (save the ones in limbo in the suspended-animation chambers), the Earth-1 Secret Society members wonder why it happened there. They slowly realize they were duped by Ultra, who knew what would really happen. As they attack him, the master villain sends them back to Earth-1, and stranded there, their only chance is to get back to limbo and free the 10 heroes. Released, the heroes then defeat all of the Society members and Ultra is sent into limbo with everything returning as it was.
Reprinting
FlagSuperman Extra #12 published January 1985
as Krise im Limbo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagDC Comics Classics Library: Justice League of America by George Perez #2 published June 2010
as Crisis in Limbo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagCrisis on Multiple Earths #6 published August 2013
as Crisis in Limbo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
27
J-7716
Conclusion of annual JLA-JSA team-up. Page numbers are actual story pages. Ultra-Humanite's story continues in All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #'s 21-26, and Annual (DC, 1982 series) #2, as well as in Infinity Inc. (DC, 1984 series) #'s 1-10.
Penguins on Parade

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Curt Swan
Vince Colletta
?
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
superhero
The Penguin; Hostess
Penguin
The Penguin's plans to rob a museum are foiled when he is distracted by Hostess Fruit Pies.
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Miscellaneous
1
Advertisement in sequential art form for Hostess Fruit Pies.
Copyright © 1981 Continental Baking Company.
Toon Time

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens
CBS
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Advertisement for Saturday morning cartoons on the CBS television network, beginning September 12, 1981.
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Tamsyn O'Flynn
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
JLA Mail Room
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
L-903
Letters of comment from Christian Dattwyler, Rand Lee, The Comic Book Kid, Ken Valentine, and Todd McFarlane.

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