
Because we can we're continuing with the JLA Casebook and looking at the third issue of the series, introducing yet another baddie to the DCU. But before we even get to that, check out the ad on the inside cover:

Anyway, as I mentioned above, this issue introduces to interstellar bad guy Kanjar Ro, who looks like he's got the JLA right where he wants them in the splash page:


Kanjar Ro then says the only way for the citizens of Earth to be freed will be if the JLA does his bidding, leaving a frozen Batman and Snapper Carr (yay!) behind as a trap for the only other JLAer, Superman. In the meantime, Kanjar Ro commands the others to hop in and get this crazy trip started!

Next up is the planet Alstair, and it's Aquaman and Wonder Woman's turn:





...nice job, Aquaman!
The final mission belongs to Flash and Green Lantern, who are equally successful. Kanjar Ro puts his three fellow despots in his slave ship. Only if they each say his name simultaneously will the people of Earth be freed, but Kanjar Ro demands that the JLA promise not to attack him once that happens:
The final mission belongs to Flash and Green Lantern, who are equally successful. Kanjar Ro puts his three fellow despots in his slave ship. Only if they each say his name simultaneously will the people of Earth be freed, but Kanjar Ro demands that the JLA promise not to attack him once that happens:



...The End!
Another issue where Aquaman gets a lot to do, and some specific moments of coolness, like when he just grabs Kanjar Ro's wand, which effectively ends his plan, right then and there! Added humiliation: they make him row his own slave ship--double burn!
Gardner Fox had a definite formula, and to make up for that stuffed every issue to the gills with new characters and concepts, laying the groundwork for the eventual DCU the way Stan Lee was across the street at Marvel. Like Despero in JLA #1, Kanjar Ro would come back again and again to menace the Justice League of America.
Gardner Fox had a definite formula, and to make up for that stuffed every issue to the gills with new characters and concepts, laying the groundwork for the eventual DCU the way Stan Lee was across the street at Marvel. Like Despero in JLA #1, Kanjar Ro would come back again and again to menace the Justice League of America.
3 comments:
Fun story... plus the much-parodied cover (including in "Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew", with Super-Squirrel, Aquaduck, and company on their version of the slave-ship of space...).
Great story with neat, unusual looking villains. And plenty of Aqualove.
So much in one issue, kids certainly got their money's worth back then!
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