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JSA #53
Cover Date: December 2003
Cover Price: $2.50
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Carlos Pacheco (signed)
Inks: Jesus Merino (signed)
Colors: JD Mettler
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Credits:
| Story | Geoff Johns |
| Pencils | Don Kramer |
| Inks | Keith Champagne |
| Lettering | Ken Lopez |
| Colors | John Kalisz |
| Color separations | Heroic Age |
| Associate editing | Stephen Wacker |
| Editing | Peter J. Tomasi |
Feature Character(s):
- JSA:
- Green Lantern (Alan Scott)
- Mister Terrific II
- Flash I
- Wildcat II (loses two more of his lives in this story)
- Power Girl
- Doctor Mid-Nite II
Guest Star(s):
- Crimson Avenger II (also in flashback preceding Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #9; next in issue #73)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- The Council (last in JSA Annual #1; most, if not all, die)
Guest Appearance(s):
- Black Adam (next in issue #56)
- Nemesis II (in between issues #51 and #56; recruited by Black Adam)
Comment(s):
- Story continues from the previous issue.
Synopsis:
Wildcat, with Power Girl at his side, faces the Crimson Avenger, who has come to avenge the death of Charlie Durham, whom Wildcat sent to the chair for a crime he didn't commit. The Avenger takes three of Wildcat's lives (which he apparently got in a confrontation with the sorcerous King Inferno and the hero Zatara) before he can tell her the truth about Durham's death. Wildcat isn't proud of it, but he framed the man because he would otherwise have got away with several other murders. When Crimson Avenger hears this, and realizes that the visions she gets of souls needing justice may not be accurate, she turns the guns on herself, but is simply given another death to avenge. Elsewhere, Black Adam destroys the Council and recruits Nemesis to his side.