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Cover Credits |
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky Inker: Joe Giella |
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Comic Title: Justice League of America #51
Publisher: DC
(National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1967
On Sale Date:
December 13, 1966 Newsstand Date December 13, 1966
Source: Direct Currents, Batman #189, Page 25
Copyright Date December 13, 1966
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1966
Frequency: Monthly, with the exception of Jan., Apr., July & Oct.; (semi-monthly, Nov.)
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Story |
Title: "Z -- as in Zatanna -- and Zero Hour"
Pages: 23
Feature(s):
Justice League of America (of Earth-1)
Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky
Inker: Sid Greene
Reprinted In:
Justice League of America #110 (1974)
Justice League of America Archives Vol. 7 HC (2001)
JLA:Zatanna's Search TPB (2004)
Showcase Presents:Justice League of America Vol. 3 TPB (2008)
Justice League of America:The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 HC (2016)
Feature Character(s)
- Justice League of America (last appearance in Blackhawk #230; next appearance in Justice League of America #53)
- Batman (last appearance in Batman #189; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #164)
- Green Lantern (last appearance in Green Lantern #50; next appearance in Green Lantern #51)
- Atom (last appearance in Atom #29; next appearance in Atom #30)
- Hawkman (last appearance in Hawkman #19; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #70)
Guest Star(s)
- Zatanna (last appearance in Detective Comics #355; next appearance in Flash #198)
- Elongated Man (last appearance in Detective Comics #359; next appearance in Detective Comics #360)
- Zatara (last appearance in Green Lantern #42; next appearance in Detective Comics #379)
Villain(s)
- Allura (an evil elemental; no further appearances)
- The Beast-men of Belphagor (inhabitants of Kharma; no further appearances)
- Amen-Hotep (last appearance in Action Comics #5; no further appearances)
- Amen-Hotep's creatures (his creatures; no further appearances)
Other Character(s)
- Magical counterparts of Atom, Batman, Elongated Man, Green Lantern, and Hawkman (no further appearances)
- Allura II (the good twin of Allura; no further appearances)
Cameo Appearance(s)
- Robin (in flashback to the first story of Detective Comics #336)
Comments:
This story reveals that Zatanna was secretly the witch who served the Outsider in the first story of Detective Comics #336.
Synopsis:
The three JLA members who had previously aided her in her quest for her father, plus Batman and non-member Elongated Man, are summoned to the Secret Sanctuary by Zatanna the Magician.
Zatanna relates how she was able to conjure magical counterparts of the five heroes to aid her in finally locating the missing Zatara. While battling the perils that beset her in the mystical dimension of Kharma, the duplicates discovered that these menaces were actually sent against her by her own father, in an effort to exorcise an evil elemental that possessed her. Allowing the exorcism to take place, they witnessed a battle between the evil spirit and her good twin, both named Allura, in which the good Allura, an ally of Zatara, was victorious.
Father and daughter are united at last.
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