JLA: SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-HEROES TRADE PAPERBACK
For over 50 years, a secret society of super-heroes called the Kryptic Order has been sending over 400 criminals into the Phantom Zone. FBI profiler Bruce Wayne has been investigating these disappearances ever since the person who murdered his parents vanished. Now teaming up with investigative reporter Lois Lane
Bruce discovers the connection between his father and the Kryptic Order through an old friend, Alfred Pennyworth. Some of the heroes have been manipulating the market for personal gain as well as funding the Kryptic Order. A civil war erupts between two groups within the Kryptic Order in Metropolis. Wanted to read this book ever since it first came out, now after twelve years the book still holds up well since 2000. The book has Wally West and Kyle Rayner in the roles as both the Flash and Green Lantern, respectively, prior to the return of their predecessors in Final Crisis and Green Lantern: Rebirth.
SERIES HIGHLIGHTS
- Superman’s power is fading as he gets older
- Bart Allen is recruited by Wally West into the Kryptic Order
- Kyle Rayner wants to build his own team of super-heroes
- Thomas Wayne was the original Bat-Man
- Martian Manhunter was imprisoned in the Phantom Zone
- Joe Chill resided in the Phantom Zone for over thirty years
- Bruce Wayne quits the FBI and Batman begins
- Green Lantern shoots Flash and kills him as Hawkgirl stomps the Atom
- Batman breaks Green Lantern’s arm before knocking him out
- Clark Kent meets Lois Lane
- Lois lives with Bruce who prowls the night as Batman
- Selina Kyle decides to prowl the nights as Catwoman
- Bruce and Bart decide to release all the Phanton Zone prisoners
This paperback collects
JLA: SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-HEROES #1 – 2
RECOMMENDED – 4 OUT OF 5
