Justice
League: Year 7
4
Years Ago
|
Sequence of Events |
Issue |
Date |
The Phantom Stranger recruits the League to help fight the rogue
Dr. Fate.
Continuity error: Guy portrayed with original personality. |
(Dr. Fate v.1, 3) |
(9.87) |
JLI moves into its New York
Embassy. 1st app. of assistant Catherine
Cobert.
Global Guardians disband.
Guest apps: Dr. Mist,
Belphegor, Jack O'Lantern, Tuatara. |
JLA 8 |
12.87 |
Millennium: Rocket Red
# 7 revealed as
Manhunter. Max shot by another Manhunter. |
JLA 9 |
1.88 |
Millennium: 1st app.
G'Nort.
Guest apps: Dr.
Fate II, Arisia, Firestorm,
Superman, Hawkman II and
Hawkwoman II (Fel Andar and wife
Sharon), Katma Tui.
Note: Told before Hawkworld
re-established the Hawks' history, this story originally featured Katar and Shayera Hol as
the Hawks. |
JLA 10 |
2.88 |
Dmitri
(Rocket Red # 4) replaces Rocket Red
# 7. The League encounters the Construct and Metron. |
JLA 11 |
3.88 |
Origin of Max, who destroys Metron's sentient computer which was behind Max's
scheming. Green Flame and Ice Maiden make their bid for membership. |
JLA 12 |
4.88 |
The Martian Manhunter learns his true origin: he is the last survivor of a plague
which wiped out his race. False memories were implanted by Dr. Erdel when J'onn was
brought to Earth.
Note: This story retroactively
eliminates JLofA # 71 (the death of his people) through # 228-230 (his return to
Earth). Further, this series stated that his vulnerability to fire was purely
psychological; this is now partially true. The Martian Manhunter now has a psychosomatic
vulnerability to fire. The destruction of the satellite headquarters was retconned
into a simple alien invasion. |
MM 1-4 |
5-8.88 |
Guest apps: Suicide Squad, Red Star.
Black
Canary's last JLA mission. |
JLA 13 |
5.88 |
Black Canary is kidnapped and tortured by drug smugglers, suffering
injuries that later cause her to lose her "canary cry." |
Green Arrow: Longbow Hunters 2 |
(9.87) |
The JLA is called to prevent the Suicide Squad from rescuing their comrade Nemesis,
left behind in the Soviet Union on a previous mission (Suicide Squad
# 7). The
League and the Squad eventually agree that the JLA will take custody of Nemesis, who then
escapes. Batman and Rick Flag don't accept the deal and
engage in a brutal
hand-to-hand that leaves Flag hospitalized. |
Suicide Squad 13 |
5.88 |
1st app. Lord Manga Khan, L-Ron.
The Global Guardians'
Green Flame and Ice
Maiden II join. |
JLA 14 |
6.88 |
JLA vs. the Joker. |
JLI Ann. 2 |
1988 |
Mr. Miracle abducted by Manga Khan for barter with
Apokolips. |
JLA 15 |
7.88 |
A team goes undercover in Bialya, to find Queen Bee II taking power with the
aid of Jack O'Lantern, Owl Woman and Wandjina. |
JLA 16 |
8.88 |
Wandjina again disappears in an explosion. |
JLA 17 |
9.88 |
Manga Khan hires Lobo to attack the League. Guy's personality returns to normal. |
JLA 18 |
10.88 |
Black Canary
II officially resigns. Hawkman II and Hawkwoman I "rejoin."
Beatriz and Tora change names to Fire and Ice.
Guest
app: Superman.
Note: Told before Hawkworld
re-established the Hawks' history, issues # 19-24 originally featured Katar and Shayera Hol
as the Hawks. They were later retconned into Thanagarian spy Fel Andar and his wife
Sharon. |
JLA 19 |
11.88 |
Rocket Red dons new armor. |
JLA 20 |
12.88 |
The team frees Mr. Miracle on Apokolips and Darkseid returns them to Earth. |
JLA 21 |
Wtr.89 |
Invasion: Oberon wards off Imskian invaders in the New York
embassy and the team battles the alien invasion.
Guest app: Wonder
Woman. |
JLA 22 |
Hol.89 |
Invasion: 1st app. Injustice League (Clock King, Major
Disaster, Multi-Man, Big Sir, Clue Master, The Mighty Bruce). Dominators detonate the gene
bomb. |
JLA 23 |
1.89 |
Metamorpho is reconstituted by the Dominabors' gene bomb. Fire and
Max critically affected. Continuity error: Beatriz is
called "Green Flame." |
Invasion 3 |
1989 |
Barbara Gordon comes online as Oracle.
Note: Oracle's
true identity remained a secret until Suicide Squad # 37 (4.90). |
Suicide Squad 23 |
1.89 |
Justice League Europe
founded. Roster:
Animal
Man, Captain
Atom, Elongated Man, The Flash III, Metamorpho, Power Girl, Rocket Red. "Hawkman &
Hawkwoman" (imposters Fed Andar and Sharon) resign. |
JLA 24 |
2.89 |
Fel Andar's wife reveals to J'onn their charade as Hawkman and Hawkwoman before she
dies. He and Max agree not to reveal it to anyone. |
(Hawkworld 22-23) |
(4-5.92) |
The new team moves into the Paris embassy.
(Wonder Woman appeared only in this story
and left without accepting her membership. Wonder Woman appeared only in this story
and left without accepting her membership.) |
JLE 1 |
4.89 |