Comic Title: Justice League #3
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: July 1987
On Sale Date: April 2, 1987 Newsstand Date April 2, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #38

Newsstand Date April 2, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #692, #694, #696

Newsstand Date April 2, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #113

Shipping Date March 10, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #692, #694, #696

Shipping Date March 10, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #113

Copyright Date March 10, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Andrew Helfer

Title: "Meltdown"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Justice League (Post-Crisis)

Plotter: Keith Giffen
Scripter: J. Mark DeMatteis
Penciller: Kevin Maguire
Inker: Alan Gordon
Letterer: Bob Lappan
Colorist: Eugene D'Angelo

Reprinted In:
Justice League #3 [Variant] (1987)
Justice League:A New Beginning TPB (1989)
Justice League International Vol. 1 HC (2008)
Justice League International Vol. 1 TPB (2009)
Justice League International Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2017)
Justice League International:Born Again TPB (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Justice League (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League #4)
• Batman (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League #4)
• Blue Beetle (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League #4)
• Black Canary (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League #4)
• Captain Marvel (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League #4)
• Guy Gardner (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League #4)
• Martian Manhunter (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League #4)
• Mister Miracle (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League #4)

Guest Star(s)

• Doctor Light (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League #4)
• Rocket Red Brigade (#5 named Alexei; #1 named Dimitri; last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #210; next appearance in Justice League International #9)
• Rocket Red #4 (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #210; next appearance in Secret Origins #34)
• Rocket Red #7 (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #210; next appearance in Justice League International #7)

Supporting Character(s)

• Maxwell Lord (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League #4)

Villain(s)

• Blue Jay (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League Europe #11)
• Silver Sorceress (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League Europe #11)
• Wandjina (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League International #16)
• Colonel Rumaan Harjavti (last appearance in Justice League #2; next appearance in Justice League International #7)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Booster Gold (last appearance in Booster Gold #17; next appearance in Justice League #4)

Other Character(s)

• Mikhail Gorbachev (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #210; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #431)
• General Smerdyakov (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Justice League #2 and continues in part in Justice League #4.

Synopsis:
The Justice League waits outside Bialya air space for the three aliens to leave the country. Blue Jay, Silver Sorceress, and Wandjina eventually head to Russia to destroy the Soviet nuclear arsenal. The Justice League pursues them into Russia's airspace where they encounter the Rocket Red Brigade. A fight ensues.

Max Lord contacts Gorbachev and arranges for the League to assist the Soviets. The Rocket Reds receive their new orders and break off the fight with the League. Together they catch up to the aliens at a nuclear facility which is melting down. Wandjina enters the facility and shuts down the reactor. He prevents a nuclear disaster, but falls from radiation poisoning.

The injured alien and his two compatriots are then taken into Soviet custody. The League returns home where they find Max Lord waiting in their headquarters with Booster Gold.