Comic Title: Justice League Annual #1
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1987
On Sale Date: June 16, 1987 Newsstand Date June 16, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #40

Newsstand Date June 16, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #119

Shipping Date May 26, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #119

Newsstand Date June 16, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #702, #704

Copyright Date May 26, 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

Shipping Date May 26, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #702, #704

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Andrew Helfer

Title: "Germ Warfare"
Pages: 38

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

Plotter: Keith Giffen
Scripter: J. Mark DeMatteis
Penciller: Bill Willingham
Inker: Dennis Janke
Inker: P. Craig Russell
Inker: Bill Wray
Inker: Robert Campanella
Inker: Bruce D. Patterson
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: Bob Lappan
Colorist: Eugene D'Angelo

Reprinted In:
Justice League International:The Secret Gospel of Maxwell Lord TPB (1992)
Justice League International Vol. 2 HC (2008)
Justice League International Vol. 2 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 Firestorm Annual #5; next appearance in Weird #1)
• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #617; next appearance in Weird #1)
• Black Canary (last appearance in Green Arrow:The Longbow Hunters #3; next appearance in Weird #1)
• Blue Beetle (last appearance in Firestorm Annual #5; next appearance in Weird #1)
• Booster Gold (last appearance in Booster Gold #18; next appearance in Justice League #5)
• Doctor Fate (last appearance in Fury of Firestorm #63; next appearance in Weird #1)
• Guy Gardner (last appearance in Firestorm Annual #5; next appearance in Weird #1)
• Martian Manhunter (last appearance in Firestorm Annual #5; next appearance in Weird #1)
• Mister Miracle (last appearance in Firestorm Annual #5; next appearance in Justice League #5)

Villain(s)

• A sentient cell (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Doctor Light (last appearance in Justice League #4; next appearance in Invasion #2)

Other Character(s)

• Four members of a Kord Industries research team (Herbert named; no further appearances)
• Residents of Tokyo, Los Angeles, Paris, and Sydney (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story takes place chronologically between Justice League #4 and Justice League #5.

The sentient cell in this story is absorbed by J'onn which has repercussions as seen in Martian Manhunter #1.

Synopsis:
Members of a Kord Industries research team land on an island in the South Pacific. Their minds are then overcome by an inhuman force. The team is then sent across the globe to recruit additional forces.

The Justice League receives an alert that four cities, Tokyo, Paris, Sydney, and Los Angeles have reports that large groups of the population have fallen under outside control. The League splits its forces to confront the threat. Booster Gold and Black Canary are overcome in Paris, Batman and Guy Gardner are defeated by Doctor Light in Tokyo, and Blue Beetle and Mister Miracle fall under control in Los Angeles.

In Sydney, Doctor Fate and the Martian Manhunter battle mind controlled children. Fate's host falls to the inhuman influence, but the Manhunter is immune. He puts on Fate's helmet and learns that a sentient cell is responsible. He chooses a direct approach and goes to the island to stop the source of the problem.

On the island, the sentient cell has brought many of its controlled subjects including the Justice League. J'onn fights his teammates who are under the cell's control. When the creature consolidates its influence into a giant creature, J'onn uses Fate's helmet to neutralize it. He then takes the cell into his own body which prevents it from reestablishing influence on humans. Everyone including the compromised League members are then restored to normal.