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Looking forward for DC Comics means looking back, reassessing what
made us great. It's about our legacy and our family... not just of the readers
and retailers sharing the DC Universe with us... but also investing in the
relationships forged amongst the characters themselves. Following the
enormous and unanticipated success of JLA, DC Comics has decided to
restructure our entire line around the "Magnificent Seven" founding
members of the World's Greatest Super-Heroes. Characters without
established "families" of titles will be assigned new group editors with the
intent to cultivate publishing subdivisions around these "pillar" properties,
to elevate and sustain the DCU into the new century. This restructuring will
be spun out of the event series DC One Million, and each DC JLA "family"
will have have a titular head of household...

* Superman: Grant Morrison

* Batman: Denny O'Neil

* Wonder Woman: Chris Claremont
* Flash: Mark Waid

* Green Lantern: Ron Marz

* Aquaman: Mark Millar

* Manhunter: Tom Peyer

With this new structure, we anticipate stronger bonds with our existing
reader base, and their word-of-mouth excitement, coupled with the dynamic
creative arrangement, will welcome whole new members into our family...
Not to mention brand new highs in retail sales. But we'll keep that... in the
family!

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address the wants and needs of a new generation. Fifteen years ago, John Byrne
recreated Superman from the ground up. Fifteen years prior to that, Julie Schwartz
and Denny O'Neil engineered the biggest shakeup since Mort Weisinger began
bringing in all his familiar lore fifteen years previous.

That fifteen year cycle is upon us again.

The new face of Superman is a forward-looking, intelligent, enthusiastic hero
retooled to address the challenges of the next thousand years. The ultimate
American icon revitalized for the new millennium as an aspirational figure, a role
model for 24st Century global humanity. Unlike the "cosmic reset" revamps all too
prevalent in current comics, our New Superman approach is an honest attempt to
synthesize the best of all previous eras. Our intention is to honor each of
‘Superman's various interpretations and to use internal story logic as our launching
pad for a re-imagined, streamlined 24st century Man of Steel. The “cosmic reset”
notion has been replaced by a policy of "include and transcend" with regard to past
continuity. Our intention is to restore Superman to his pre-eminent place as the
Breatest super-hero of all.

We don't think this will be much of a problem.

This is a more powerful Man of Steel, a Superman with a much keener intellect and
curiosity. Suddenly there's more to learn, more to do, further to travel and a greater
responsibility. Kal is more Superman than ever before, with a corresponding tight
focus on the character and his incredible adventures. Now is the time to make
‘Superman very definitely the star of his own book

The Daily Planet becomes the world's preeminent global internet news service,
read worldwide. Lois and Clark are now physically separated. We have a new
blanket take on Superman's foes. We've recast many of them as cracked-mirror
reflections of the Man of Stee! himself, aspects of his character taken to a
Villainous extreme. Brainiac represents Superman's alien nature without his
human compassion. Luthor is the only man on Earth capable of being
Superman's equal but has squandered his unlimited potential on evil. Prankster
fights for Truth and Justice in a demented way, and Bizarro... we restore the
creepy, demented, unnerving quality of the old stories. A little funny still... but
‘somehow, a lot more scary. The Tyrant Sun from DC One Million is back, fulfilling
his destiny as one of Superman's most deadly and persistent foes.

This changes everything...

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‘Once there were Infinite Earths. Now there are but a few. In an essential duality, "The
Foundation World" experiences an irregular cycle in which it is defined either by science or
sorcery. At fimes of mystical wane, the majority of supernatural energies are shunted into
parallel dimensions referred to collectively as the Ulira-Realm, including fantastical
realities such as Myrra, Gemworld, Pyiharia, the Dark Dimension, Azarath, Ra, the Beyond
Region, the Land of the Nightshades, and Fairyland. Th tinct from the pocket
dimensions once in orbit around Solaris, including Skartaris, Geranth, and the parallel
Earths that were inhabited by Beowulf, Atlas, Starfire, Ironwolf, and the Star Hunters. The
rules vary according to realm and incarnation, as they experience frequent radical
renewals, but a constant is an eternal war of good versus evil across planes of perpetual
light or darkness. Lords and champions have emerged across all realms and since the
dawn of history. Exceptionally attuned individuals, and especially twins, transcend any one
reality and command extraordinary power as Lords of the Ultra-Realm.

The war between Light and Darkness began before time itself. In 45,000 B.C., as part of a
conflict passed down from their own parents. brothers Ahriahn and Garn Daanuth each
sought fo be Lord of Atlantis. Acrass thousands of years, Lords of Order and Chaos
jockeyed for dominance. The legacy of each fed the struggle betwixt The Marvel Family
and The Seven Deadly Enemies of Man, Lady Amethyst and Lord Opal, Equinox and
Scarabus. Through countless incarnations, when balance shifted, the universe would be
unmade and reborn, governed by new Lords of the Ulira-Realm. Most recently, The
Overlord Savage-Falkon and the Princes of both Lightlands and Darklands collided at the
fall of Solaris, and for the first time in innumerable realities, the Lordships now laid upon
preexisting recipients.

Some of these combatants even claim to be gods themselves, but are in truth only the
most powerful surrogates of deities of such cosmic might that their direct interaction would
itself destroy the multiverse. Before the time of man, a traveling energy force erupting
from The Source dubbed "The Godwave" passed over creation, providing the spark from
which a sort of mortal divinity was seeded. Besides the so-called “gods,” it also manifested
the essential powers behind the Speed Force, the Quantum Field, the energies
manipulated by the children of Maltus, and much more.

Thousands of years ago, @ young boy entered into a pact with six ancient deities of Earth to
avenge the murder of his family, and to defend broader humanity. Taking his new title and
mantra from the first letters of the names of his patrons, Viarem became his world's debut
super-hero, and one of the Lords of the Ultra-Realm. It became known to him that the
natures of good and evil, light and dark, must be eternally balanced to allow for the
continued existence of the mortal plane. If either side grows too powerful, our universe,
and even the multitudes of parallel universes, will collapse in on themselves to end all life
as we know it.

Tricked into conceiving fraternal twins with a demoness, Viarem unintentionally shifted this
balance toward darkness. As part of his penance, Vlarem was forced to create a prison for
the monstrous Three Faces of Evil (Terror, Sin, and Wickedness), then guard it at a point in
the center of all of space, time, and dimensions that was dubbed the Rock of Eternity.
While his children, Lord Satanus and Lady Blaze, carved fiefdoms in the depths of Hell,
their father sought champions to restore the Light that they cast long shadows over.

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In the meantime, whole pantheéns faced similar conflicts, with the occasional Ragnarok wiping out
hosts of Old Gods, to be replaced by new ones. The last era in which wizardry held any real sway
over Earth was in the immediate post-World War II period, when the banishment of the Marvel_—~
Family and the Monster Society of Eviffrom this plane wiped their very existence from memory,
and convinced the world thatthe very, idea of sich beings was pure superstition. However, the
Godwave has rebounded from the far-end of the cosmos back toward the center, and in its wake
were legions of Fewly christened supér-heroes in place of the ancient demigods. ;
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merge their essences info hybrid beings that tan better stand against metahumanity and New |
Gods alike, as well as reclaim Earth as their dominion. Nether realms hdve faced the same influx
‘ds the material pldne, with the former rulers of the Underworld facing-challenges fromthe likes of
|Grendel.and Dgrth. Likewise, the kingdoms of parallel realms confront upheavals from the fascistic
revival of Lady Amethyst on Gemworld, to the proliferation of the Yorg in the Land of the
WNightshddes, and even the encroachment of the entire Dark Dimension by mad Maaldor.

{The,cUrrent threo} to the balance began with Lonsinar, entombed 40,000 years under Antarctic

jicé. It had been the home of beings that inspired notions of divinity in early humans, hardly the
first, and it had been disturbed by the explorer Cave Carson, the heroine Wonder Woman, and her
‘concealed cémpanion Herakles. Their activity triggered a nearby homing beacon in the merely
20,000 year old underground White Martian base’of ZOnn ZiOrrLong exiled to the limbo
dimension they called the Still Zone, a White Martian army had come into contact with another of
their own, millions of years old, who would guide them back to Earth.

The impacts 6f the War of the Gods, the rebounding Genesis Wave, and thé exile of Solaris have
weakened the old:-boundaries, causing a collapsing of these alternate worlds, and prompting a
mass migration to the once grounded primary universe. While previously accessible resources for
mana haye run dry, the abandoned pocket dimensions have collapsed into super-dense wells of
eldritch energy.-The-Ultra-Realm again heavily overlaps with Earth, and the undeniable presence
of mythological entities has pitched the balance back toward a magical reality.

Multiple confederacies of evil conspire in the shadows to extend their influence. The twelve great

cities of mystical energy long ago charted by the Lord of Atlantis have been renewed by the mana
wells, but Arion is not the man that he used fo be. Neophytes and the resurrected will have to

locate these power site using the Zodiac Crystals spread across the diapora upon the sinking of
Atlantis. A bloody crusade will ensue, with the Dark-Lords already having claimed The Ruby of Life _
once controlled by Sargon the Sorcerer. In the face of that threat, warriors such as Atlas, who ]
derive their power from the likes of the Ram Crystal, are disinclined to part with them when guilt-
ridden archeologist Pandora Pann tries to set right the shift that she may have contributed to
provoking. ee

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existential combat for the soul of the modren world. To those grounded in a more familiar reality,
this is all but a THRILLER. Magical beings from realms out of storybooks fee| like OUTCASTS by
comparison. Those who assert themselves through advanced technology and the weight of alien
worlds are DISRUPTORS. Regardless of ali rent, tl all impact on the balance of power
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the most chivalrous martyrs of alltime. The Legion of Boon, dedicated to a single objective: the salvation of thelr
‘universe. Only this one group dares to challenge the Intergalactic threat of The Crime Syndicate of America! An
evil version of the Justice League of America versus heroic incamations of our Earth's mast sinister villains! This
Js, The Challenge of the SuperFiends!

(On a parallel Earth conquered by the World's Greatest Super-Viliains: Ultraman, Superwoman, Owlman, Power
Ring, and Johnny Quick, only one genius philanthropist has mustered any opposition. Alexander Luthor, S. has
‘managed to survive so far, mostly only clashing with Ultraman alone, but he's frustrated by a ack of traction
‘against the Crime Syndicate of America as a whole. I he's ever to overthrow their superhuman totalitarian rule,
hhe must gather an equal opposing force from around the world to meetin his secret Rotunda of Boon, hidden
‘under the chalky waters of the River Dour. Luthor’s Legion wil ultimately consist of

+ The Quizmaster, slight of hand expert, feld commander of the team, and Luthor's chiet competition for
cleverest man alive

* Bluestocking is Della Calza, the lovechlld of Know:tAll Quintic of Colu and Ultragie of Krypton inthe 30th
Contury, rebelling against her tyrannical parents by traveling back in time to kil the CSA before her future can
come to pass,

* Sit Solomon Grundy, a towering Victorian gentleman golem, blasted to life out ofthe white cliffs of Dover by the

first aerial bomb dropped on British soll, in order to defend the empire against the Germans during the World
Wat.

+ Bizarress, an imperfect clone of Superwoman created by Biuestocking who through exposure to magic survived
the typical 24-nour ite cycle of a Bizarro to drive her mistress’ team to desperation with her backwards logic and
unpredictable actions.

‘Bone Machine is Paul Black, a gigantic man from a shady place witha big. big love for humanity

+ Savanna, a hyperational panther so concerned about environmental collapse that she struck a bargain with
‘0go, the Dogon chaos god of Mall to acquire humanoid features by devouring whole one evil person per week

* Devil Ray, who uses a high-tech aquatic battle sut to avenge the death of his son when Sea King negligently
sank thelr boat during a drunken bender.

+ Scarecrone, a mysterious woman who overcomes her crippling anxiety by redirecting It toward the types of
‘brutal assailants that neatly ruined her life while covered head-to-tow in the stuff of nightmares.

* General Grodd,,

snegade freedom fighter trom the militaristic Ape Nation.

+ Auspicious, a former Emerald Knight of Oa, the private police force of ancient alien overlords. Price Auspicious
forged his own yellow power ring after the Oans slaughtered his home world of Korugar.

+ The Cold Cop, Officer Leonard Snart, who "misplaced" an experimental freeze gun used in a heist to employee
las. parttime vigilante.

‘+ .and Nick Knack, a.k.a. "Win" Schott, the son of a beloved toymaker who uses the technical expertise gleaned
‘rom growing up in his father's workshop to outfit the Legion of Boon with advanced equipment.

‘Spinning out of thelr debut inthe hit JLA story ac "Earth", Alexander Luthor recognizes that he is fated to lose
0 long as he faces the CSA in his own parallel dimension. However, not all heroes have a counterpart on his,
Earth, such as Martian Manhunter, who easily bested an UItiman handicapped by the probability laws of our
universe, That advantage would be lost on Luthor's world, but the Manhunter from Mars’ win ratio is surprisingly
neutral as a Justice League member, an ambiguity that could be valuable to the Legion.

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Riddled with cancer from extended exposure to kryptonite, billionaire industrialist
Lex Luthor appeared to perish in a plane crash, and his holdings were transferred
to his illegitimate, heretofore unknown "son." In truth, Luthor's consciousness was
transferred into a cloned version of his younger self. However, a degenerative
disorder developed in clones produced by Project Cadmus, becoming a plague
that wiped out most of their kind. Luthor was paralyzed and left in a withering
body ravaged by rapid aging, To survive, he entered into a Faustian bargain with
the demon Neron, restoring his youth and vitality in exchange for his immortal,
immoral soul. Neron has a characteristic flair for irony, seeding devilry in the
details. While Luthor's mind and body were restored in one form, his soul was
technically left intact elsewhere, transferred into a newly created duplicate.

Seeking a remedy for the instability of previous clones, renegade scientists had
exploited DNA harvested from the brief appearance of parallel universe
doppelgangers of Luthor and members of the Justice League known as the Crime
‘Syndicate of America. Despite being the true Luthor in literal spirit, the subtle
differences to the chairman of LexCorp had rendered the clone "a" Lex, but not
the one in power. Threatened by the existence of a rogue copy, Team Luthor is
dispatched to exterminate "Alex." Escaping from his makers, Alex is deprived of
all of Luthor’s considerable resources, aside from his inherent brilliance. No one
knows if the catastrophic failures of previous clones will impact on the Earth?
derivative version, and if so, what is "Alex's" expiration date? Perhaps speeding it
along, there are a host of enemies; including Luthor's homicidal ex-wife Contessa
Erica Alexanda Del Portenza and his New Blood empowered murder victim
Myriad; who see an opportunity at vengeance through proxy.

‘Surrounded by dangerous parties intent on dissecting, exploiting, or destroying
him, Alex must also wrestle with a nature not entirely his own. Likely living on
borrowed time, and perhaps incapable of reclaiming his human form, Alex must
consider whether he has any path to at least insuring that he hasn't doomed
himself to an eternity of servitude to Neron in an infernal afterlife. "For what is a
man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what
shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" Always previously governed by self-
interest, Alex now feels a inborn compulsion to act toward a greater good,
perhaps his best chance at avoiding a damnation entirely of his own making.
Having already died twice and incurred ever greater penalties for his past choices,
‘Alex must choose to be reborn as savior rather than sultan, employing his
technological brilliance to turn a new leaf... if only for his own sake.

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During the blockbuster event DC ONE MILLION, it was revealed that the tyrant
sun Solaris, during its millennia of existence, had caused tears in the fabric of
the space-time continuum at points of exerting its maximum gravitational pull.
Numerous tangential realities had been created as a result, each perceiving
Solaris to be their sun, often on a variation of the planet Earth. The defeat of
Solaris in the present created a temporal paradox that orphaned these realities,
extinguishing their essential solar source, and forcing them to become refugees
in the dying days of the 20th Century.

One such parallel reality was "the inner world of Skartaris," long misguidedly
‘assumed to have proven "Hollow Earth Theory.” This tangent land already held
numerous esoteric points of contact with the true Earth. so that following the
sacrifice of the Warlord, Travis Morgan, they had an easier time than many at
acelimating to our modern reality.

Machiste had never known any realm but his lost Skartaris, where he had been
the warrior king of Kiro, and refused to serve as a peasant in exile. His ways,
were not acceptable to polite society, who branded him a criminal, but
Machiste's intellect, ferocity, and determination would see him carve a new
empire in this comparatively genteel place. At his side is the former sorceress
daughter of his departed best friend, Jennifer Morgan, whose transition back to.
life in the United States was unexpectedly difficult. Bereft of her magic and
family, the former Lady Jennifer chooses to take out her frustrations on the
world that she once happily abandoned.

But they are not the only souls trapped in a world that they don't recognize as
their own, and few of its residents are welcoming or understanding. As
Machiste and Lady work to establish a new thieves guild, they are targeted by
the revived Manhunter Cult, guided by the alien N'Lasa to right past wrongs
committed in their name. Among them is Arak Wind-Walker, the reincarnation
of an ancient Quontauka tribeman, whose memories of past lives were restored
in the aftermath of recent events. Having served as a super-villain for too many
years, Arak now uses his ability to control airflow, coupled with centuries spent
as a warrior, to reclaim his lost sense of righteousness. Similarly, the evil that
was Deimos never dies, and his legacy of cruelty endures. One must rise up to
lead the huddled masses of sunless worlds out of the darkness, and if he isn't
the ruler they would have chosen, Machiste is still the one they'll need to
survive!

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Jeanne Walker-Tane's days as a fwo-gun robbing hood were well
behind her, as a married mother of two. Her schoolteacher husband
John however still occasionally served the frontier town of Meso City,
Arizona in the same capacity as when they had met. Seeking vigilante
justice as Johnny Thunder, his investigation into a series of extralegal
tribal massacres had led him fo a cadre of evil men using “Indian
control" as a cover for mass murder. Gathering evidence as to their
identities and motives, including the bald Russian gunslinger with the
gleaming eyes who appeared fo lead them, John was intent on
presenting his findings to the governor.

Tragically, their home was violently assailed by these men, leaving
Jeanne showered in John Tane's blood as she barely escaped with their
children. They still aren't safe though, as all evidence of the attack was
wiped clean, John's body is nowhere to be found, and these manhunters
absolutely will not stop until the rest of Tane family is similarly removed
from existence. Sending her babies into hiding with a trusted friend, the
widowed bride would wear white again as Madame .44, her blond hair
stained red by her beloved's life force. Even armed with her trademark
twin Remington Magnum revolvers, she is outnumbered and
overpowered, The gunslinger in black is more than human, and in this
time, with these weapons, Jeanne may not be enough to put him down

With the help of Billy Jo Bonney, a kid outlaw the Tanes had reformed,
and the pacifist war deserter Aaron Hope, Jeanne had secured safety for
her children with old friend Matt Savage. The trail boss helps her make
contact with his estranged cousin Brian, a notorious "Scalphunter”
growing weary of life as an outcast from two worlds. Jeanne's youthful
dalliances with the roguish Bat Lash had nearly wrecked her marriage in
its early days, but now she needed his resources. She also had some of
her own, from both sides of the noose, like the Native lawman dubbed
"Pow Wow Smith," as well as the father and son Wilson rangers with
their pet hawk.

They won't be enough, as this western tale of unkillable killers grows
ever weirder. They'll cross paths with devils, both on their side of angels
in the form of El Diablo, and in league with the damned like Jason
Blood. The illuminati, a powerful ages old secret society, will take an
interest, allowing Savage to recall meeting them when he was decades
younger... just a few years ago?

Madame .44 avails herself of the most extraordinary individuals and

astounding inventions in the Old West... and perhaps times beyond... to
prove that the finest hunter of men isn't one herself.

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sorcery, but when it left her, she seemed to disappear along with it. Like
a beggar, she quietly gathered the discarded energies of evil spirits in
her little jars, but only after unwitting pawns had done the dirty work of
vanquishing them for her. Poor, pathetic, trading sex for subsistence
from truly fearsome entities... her only consolation, the immortality that
she'd cheated out of Death herself. Then, her proximity to the Spectre
paid off, as she was offered a bribe by the modern Mephistopheles,
Neron, to help compromise the Spirit of Vengeance’s connection to its
human host. Both parties planned double crosses, and in fact Xanadu
succeeded in helping her sometimes ally and lover Jim Corrigan out of
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them catered to has led to... complications. Xanadu's manifest demons
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dreaming. Now more than ever, she is petitioned for aid by the
community of displaced persons who once inhabited fantasy lands upon
which the tyrant sun Solaris had shone. With them came many
supernatural beings unfamiliar with the hierarchy of this plane, STEVEN HUGHES
upsetting figures of whom Xanadu still wishes to steer well clear. At this
point, even the odd Lex Luthor clone may turn up on the steps of her
Greenwich Village curio shoppe. Goddess help us if the Phantom
Stranger darkens her door, because Xanadu is certainly not his kind of
girl. There are certain unforeseen maintenance costs that come with
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ago, payment for her services from such desperate parties can veer STEVEN HUGHES
toward the, shall we say, sordid. Whether through mystical energies or
rougher trade, Xanadu commands high prices indeed, and she is no
longer some anonymous madame to be passed on the street. These
days, her servants know her better as... Mistress X.

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The United States greeted its soldiers returned from World War Il with ticker-
tape parades and a pristine America lifted out of depression. The experience
of the French Resistance was much different, as their nation lay in ruins and
its people starving.

Having betrayed and hunted by their own countrymen, the members of the
Vichy government would need to be purged and tried for their crimes. Even
within the resistance was a patchwork of conflicting leaders and ideologies
brought together out of necessity, and in her years of fighting among these
factions, the woman known only as Marie had to overcome more adversity
than anyone. The man she had fought alongside and loved, Frank Rock, had
been killed by the last bullet fired in the war. Despite her critical
accomplishments, no one in French Intelligence seemed to have a use for
her anymore.

Adrift and feeling no great loyalty to her government, Marie ultimately
continued the resistance abroad... to Indochina, and later Algeria, teaching
rebels how to throw off the shackles of French colonizers. Having faked her
own death, the mystique of the mysterious Mademoiselle only grew based
on speculation of her continued activities. She would help shape the rest of
the century, smuggling Russian scientist and defector Alexei Luthor out of
the U.S.S.R., or uncovering the international threat posed by the growing far-
right Manhunter cult.

Having found love again in the namesake of Alfred Pennyworth, could Maria
finally take another's name as her own, and raise a child in a traditional
family, or will her heart forever remain locked into the guerilla identity of her
own making as Le Mademoiselle?

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In the 1970s, the popular consciousness was overwhelmed with questions revolving
around faith beyond organized religion, and the possibilities that lay in the
metaphysical. It had been decades since the forced retirement of the Justice Society of
‘America and their ilk, with the globe having to rely on conventional heroes like the
Blackhawk Squadron to protect us from Communists and alien invaders. Once Time
Magazine asked "Is God Dead?" and the space race was won, humanity looked inward
for their next frontier.

World governments were not immune to this fascination, sponsoring numerous studies.
Into the field of extrasensory perception. A decade later, there was little to show for
those efforts, and most ESP programs wound down. By this point, law enforcement
had a more pressing concern- the rise of Satanic cult activity and its seductive inroads
toward innocent children through hard rock music, gory horror movies, and dice games
that caused the youths to lose their very identities to demented group fantasies.
Through the intersection of ESP and Satanic Panic, a revolutionary discovery was

made: polarities. An individual of interest exhibiting mild metaphysical qualities could
Interact with an antagonistic presence that amplified their sensitivity. With the right
mix of these polarized persons, once fanciful abilities like telepathy, telekinesis,
psychophyrics, and precognition were suddenly attainable.

Polarity is not a simple matter. At first, couplings were tried, with the romantic pairings
of the right candidates complementing and amplifying one or both members. Then
stressors, like the inciting episode involving cultist Timothy Karnes, proved more
promising. Abllities crossed new thresholds under duress or with opposing polarities.
However, repulsors are unpredictable, leading to the maiming and killing of polarities
and onlookers during exceptional displays~ or the empowering of homicidal negatives.
Less useful psychosis have also been triggered, like the hyperactive German boy who
now insists that he's Beowulf from the 8th century Saxon poem, reborn to battle Satan.
But they were more than made up for by the likes of the heretofore impossibly brilliant
Martin Champion in the United States.

Control is difficult under such heightened circumstances. The young research
neuroscientist Jervis Tetch has made some promising advances in mechanical impulse
control. Brilliant graduate student Anthony Ivo has managed to construct a handful of
automatons to act as handlers where human spooks won't do. Both have benefited
from the oversight of the secret robot Manhunter infiltrators within federal agencies.

International tensions are on the rise over the ESP arms race. The French yet retain the
services of Russian defector and innovative inventor Alexi Luthor, grandfather of the
noted American industrialist. However, the Unknown Soldier might have something to
say about that. The U.S.S.R. has opened the Puleski Institute in Siberia for ever more
radical experimentation. After an incident in Denver, Detective John Jones investigates
what interest billionaire Loren Jupiter has in the so-called "Magnetic Kids." Escapees
from research programs have found their way to paranormal actors like Madame
Xanadu, whose role in the proceedings is unclear. In a time between heroic ages, with
young enhanced humans empowered by elevated emotions, expect the unexpected...

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Life was hard growing up in "Hell's Comer,” forced to fight off gangs of racists to
protect himself and his family. "Mal" learned to keep his head down and steer
clear of open areas, especially after being hospitalized following a beating so
severe that he developed debilitating kenophobia. The last thing Mal thought he
needed was a pack of whitebread do-gooders tumbling into the neighborhood,
dragging his kid sister Cindy into the path of Storm Trooper and his Hawks. Come
to find out that they were the Teen Titans in civilian guise, paying penance for their
role in the death of Nobel Prize winning peace advocate Arthur Swenson.

Before he knew it, Mal was running around in a tactical uniform, fighting to prove
that he deserved a place among the Titans before their billionaire taskmaster
Loren Jupiter and his estranged psychic daughter Lilith, With that girl's prophesy
whispered in his ear, Mal nearly died stowing aboard a rocket bound for Venus. It
was the first of many bad decisions, involving a host of shortlived costumed
Identities and his quiet abandonment by the team once it dissolved.

‘Things turned around when Mal settled down with Karen Beecher, a brilliant
inventor who had her own brief turn as the super-heroine Bumblebee. They'd left
that nonsense behind them after their wedding, the odd relapse in judgment
aside. That is, until Cindy started dating a kid from Harlem named Luther

Mannkin, It didn’t take long to deuce out that Luther was seeing his sister to get to.
Mal, hoping to talk him into using his old connections to reach Luther's childhood
friend Jemm... an alien visitor that had recently resurfaced. Luthor had made
contact with Jemm's love Syrra, and both needed to find their way back home.

Luther believed that Mal was part of a prophesy... the same one Lilith had hinted
at from the very beginning... which Jupiter was unknowingly manipulated into
pursuing. Supposedly, the Titans had "saved" Mal from his destiny, to be carried by
friendly aliens they had encountered to his true destination... the Ancient Judaeic
“Black Star"... Saturn. Mal had been plagued since meeting the Titans with visions
of religious fervor... delusions of having wrestled the Angel of Death for his

very life and claiming Gabriel's Horn as his prize. The magical shofar had passed
from his hands as quickly and inexplicably as his many costumed identities, none
ever feeling like the right fit

This was all foolishness. Mal had never truly stood as a Titan, couldn't maintain his
crusading career, was still terrified of those wide open spaces. There's an awful lot
of space between Earth and Saturn. Should he ever set foot where no human had
gone before, a place that science says doesn't have solid ground on which to step
upon, Mal would face another brutal racial conflict among beings with powers that
dwarf any given Titan's. But beautiful, brilliant Karen thinks that she knows a way,
and they have extraordinary friends to call upon. Maybe it's time for Mal to finally
lift his head, over the grimy rooftops of Hell, on up into the Heavens themselves,
and perhaps find his place there?

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wrecking havoc, creating a "Weirdoverse" for want of a better term. Children began to
murder their parents, bearing markings of the Infinity Sect. Lea Girard, a victim of
ritualistic gang rape while subjected to an etheric solution, had the resulting identical
twins... embodying pure light and absolute darkness... forcibly removed from her womb. STANDARD
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abandoned since its recent dissolution. Baron Winters, tasked with maintaining
mankind's choice between the infernal and the divine, has gone into hiding. The cosmic
balance, Jared Stevens, is an internationally sought fugitive for murdering a quartet

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universe. Incantation inequality is real, and the gap is growing. I's an eldritch desert for APRIL
‘small time hocus-pocus hustlers, lucky if they're actually at all possessing of luck, barely
scraping together a simple hex. Meanwhile, the old mana ouroborogarchs are so flush
as to "level up" with frightening rapidity. The sheer volume of sorcery passing back and
fourth at the upper levels leave traces in the air, muddling timeless spells, with past lite DAN THORSLAND
recollection in particular at an all-time high. Such was the case with Matt Gigli, who
went from swindling tourists on the MARTA rail with Three-card Monte to fondly
remembering his time as Charlemagne's court wizard. It's dangerous to be a down and
out dungeon crawler, with most pools of enchantment having swiftly run dry. A mad STEVE GERBER
scramble has been set off among sorcerers to conserve existing magic, and pursue new
avenues... even if it means cannibalizing their own ranks. Although Machiste and Lady
have built up a new empire in Atlanta, the occult outcasts rallying around them are
being targeted by the likes of Deathtrap and Snare, seeking to segregate or exploit the SETH FISHER
sword & sandals set.

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Malagigi flees Georgia in search of charms lost. A violent episode near Manchester with SETH FISHER
Tara, widow of the Warlord, leaves Gigli shaken. There's still spells to spare in the

domestic voodoo capital of New Orleans, but an encounter with a soulless Stalker COVER ARTIST
leaves Gigli questioning the cutthroats' intentions. He's followed to Houma, where Gigli

hopes to use the Swamp Thing to locate The Fair Lands, or at least the Claw of ALFONSO AZPIRI

Aelkhiind. This has the unfortunate result of putting him on the radar of the Sunderland
Corporation, and in turn their criminal ally Etienne Du Vipere.

In increasing need of allies, Gigli discovers that most of the former members of the
Challengers, the latest Night Force, even the supernatural touring band Scare Tactics,
are missing or presumed dead. The so-called "Fate" has been seen back on Earth,
helping the Batman in Gotham, a near miss for Gigli. Hunted by the anti-magic zealot
Saxon, the murderous cult The Eye of the Dark Flame, and Emerald Shocktroopers from
Gemworld, with seemingly nowhere left to run, what are the odds old Malagigi will ever
again offer the world another chance at blessed bewitchment?

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Kirk Langstrom had it all. Loving wife. Doctorate. Cushy position at a major
metropolitan museum. What kind of person even thinks to develop an experimental,
unethical gland extract injection for the purpose of giving a human being "a bat's
natural sonar"? Worse, to use himself as the test subject? When it all predictably,
inevitably went wrong, and Kirk's personal hero Batman had to devise a means to.
reverse his transformation into some sort of "Mian-Bat," that at least should have
been the end of it. But no, the experiments continued... the repeated mutation into a
leathery, winged rodent. Forcing the formula onto his impossibly patient and
understanding wife. Abusing it to play at being a super hero himself, in places as
hopelessly corrupt as Gotham City. Making her give birth to diseased, deformed
offspring. Who would trade what Kirk Langstrom took for granted, in favor of this
nightmarish circus existence?

Someone who never wanted that perfect life in the first place. Someone who was
desperate and miserable and living a lie that he foisted on innocent others. Everyone
focused on his interest in the bat, that they missed the man. When Francine Evelyn
Lee found him like... that... with... in flagrante delicto, as it were... it was the final
straw. Kirk could raise the troubled, exhausting children that he'd forced upon her
like an obligation, After all that she had been through... had tolerated... after being
raised to stand by her man, but not to stand for that kind of sin... didn't Francine
deserve the chance to start again?

Nobody seemed to think so. It was somehow her fault that Kirk was the way that he
was, She had been too permissive... given him too much, or not enough. She was a
terrible mother for walking away from her family. A bigot, even. No one supported
her, so Francine left them all behind, for an exciting, clean, decent place-
Midwestern Fawcett City. Even then, everyone knew that she was damaged goods~
who she'd been with what she'd done. Who wants to hire someone that at any
minute could be abducted by some inhuman creature or costumed criminal violently
crashing through their workplace? The insurance alone.

It was so hard starting over, without a friend left in the world, and that's why Dora
Keane was so important. She's the only one who seemed to understand what
Francine had been through, and given up on. She even saw value in the Man-Bat
serum Francine had taken with her in the divorce. Dora had another name,
"Darkling," and introduced Francine to a whole new society of interesting people that
were considered "deplorable" by a world that has clearly lost its way. Their host,
Timothy Karnes, frankly wasn't much to look at... but he offered opportunities. He
knew even more people, and was stunningly brilliant. He saw the potential left in
Francine Lee, if she were willing to take on some... alterations. A little mad science,
alittle dark sorcery. After being rejected by all that she had known or been taught,
even the Satanism had its appeal. Just wait until they get a load of the new Frannie
and her fiendish friends.

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androids to patrol inhabited worlds, guided by the oath "No evil escapes the
Manhunters." Their scale was grand, overlooking the smaller injustices inflicted
upon society in favor of tackling only the gravest existential threats. The alien
N'Lasa saw this as an oversight, and took it upon himself to reprogram the
Manhunter assigned to his world to address crimes perpetrated against the
‘common being. Incapable of comprehending the nuance of personal assaults, the
Manhunter rebelled, viewing all life as an inherent evil to be eradicated. Sharing its
changed perspective with the other Manhunters, a millennium of death followed.

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When N'Lasa confessed his trespass to the Oans, he was cybernetically altered, DISRUPTORS
and compelled to extinguish the threat that he had created. Time and again,

N'Lasa failed, before eventually exiling himself to a remote snow-covered temple ‘SHIP DATE
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myth of the Yeti. JUNE

When the ersatz extraterrestrial "heroes" the Hypercian unearthed the infamous
Antarctic base Z'Onn Z'Orr, N'Lasa recognized them for what they were. Across
countless ages, N'Lasa had built numerous secret orders to address the FRANK BERRIOS
Manhunters, as well as threats like the White Martians, before their seeming
extinction, While the JLA were able to halt a Martian invasion, there was a
complication, Superman clearly remembered Protex's exact words. "Seventy more
of us..." The elght members of his Hypercian had been captured, along with sixty: STEVE MOORE
two of the White Martian invaders who had taken part in emergency code "T’Ann
T'Azz." That left seven beings with the power to level mountains at large.

Z'Onn Z'Orr had been reclaimed by the noble Green Martian J'Onn J'Onzz, and STEVE LIGHTLE
N'Lasa made his way there to offer his services. The Manhunter robots had

recently been destroyed without N'Lasa's help, by heroes like the Manhunter from
Mars, Still, N'Lasa knew something of malevolent forces secretly integrating into
societies, intent on sabotage. The Martian Manhunter offered resources and STEVE LIGHTLE
blessing, with one condition... that he would remain the sole Manhunter in
operation. COVER ARTIST

Over the centuries, many humans had fallen prey to the Manhunters and their NICK CARDY
various spin-off cults, some engineered by N'Lasa himself. While the robots
themselves may have been all but eradicated, their fingerprint remained. Corrupt
regimes. Active collaborators. The elderly former cultist Dan Richards’ illusion-
casting granddaughter Marcie Cooper was one. Arnold Beck, the villainous
Overthrow, was another. Paul Kirk had been killed by an offshoot called simply The
Council, of which a few members yet survived.

From among centuries of Manhunter victims, N’Lasa would find his recruits.
Descendants and survivors. Connor Hawke. Madame Rouge. Chase Lawler. Arak.
‘The Mademoiselle. The Magnetic Kid. These and more would be his Star Hunters...

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was done with those now. Once and again, he's The Privateer. No more cults,
or bounty hunting, or psychotic crusades. No more embarrassing and
‘endangering his family. Necrodyne Industries paid well, he had a good thing
going with NYC Sgt. Sylvia Kandrey, and nothing was going to mess that up.
Especially not a seven foot cybernetic Yeti with a discarded power baton.

Suddenly, it all went wrong. First, government spook Sarge Stee! had some
questions. Then, Sylvia dumped him for one lie too many. Next, Mark was
being transferred to Star City, where the line of people looking for a piece of
him started at Dr, Malig and worked backward through the Barbarian, White
Lotus- even his co-worker Scarth seemed to want a pound of flesh. The
Incarnate, the immortal aspect of hope that gained his power by slaying a
‘magical entity, warned that his fellow aspect the Skinwalker was back in
force. It was suggested that Mark summon the Wild Huntsman entity, 2
‘Supernatural hunter that briefly possessed Shaw before he swiftly cut a deal
with the demon lord Neron to contain it. Speaking of which, guess who's
calling in his marker, and demanding Shaw agree to work with the Star
Hunters as a mole for the infernal?

It gets worse. Hell's own hitman, Etrigan, has followed a centuries old wizard
named Malagigi through a dimensional portal from "Oblivion Incorporated” to
Z’Onn Z’Orr. Even as he's forced to stand with them, the Privateer has plenty
of issues with the individual Star Hunters, including the way he's getting
eyeballed by the suspicious Old West police legacy Madame Rouge. He's
freaked out to learn that "The Mademoiselle,” descended from the Unknown
Soldier, also has a relation to his old foe Dumas that allows her to shapeshift
into different identities. Meanwhile, Arak has been convinced by his fellow
reincarate and friend Malagigi to trust the crimelord Machiste, who had
previously been targeted by the Star Hunters. An alliance is proposed, but
Machiste has his own demand. Pursued by demons sent by Neron, the Lex
Luthor clone derived from Earth® genetic materials had been guided to Lady
by Mistress X. But see, the Star Hunters need Lex to fix the time sphere
they've recovered, because the temporally displaced super-villain Mano warns
them that a Manhunter robot under the guise of Laurel Kent is on a rampage
Ii his far future. So, a trip to the 30th Century, and by the way, Neron wants to
arrange a meet with Alex and The Demon? And what does any of this have to
do with the green-skinned mother Willow they found on a deserted istand?

Is it too late to go back to bounty hunting? Or even garden variety super-

villainy?

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When the magic first returned, Mara couldn't remember how to be anything other
than a canine. Before Atlantis sank, she had been an adventurer combating great
evils, employing her ability to shapeshift into other creatures alongside the
sorcerer demigod Arion and the warriors Lady Chian and Wyynde. Mmm... Wyynde.
Anyway, when the Darkworld was closed off from our universe, most mystical
energies left with it, trapping Mara for tens of thousands of years as a fluffy white
pooch. Not long ago, that changed, when immortal Arion went from a frumpy old
man back to a hottie. Unfortunately, Mara was still eating generic puppy chow in a
New York tenement, You'd think that she was a Lord of Chaos, with this
punishment.

Today, everything has been tuned upside down. Mara could be a sister to the
blond dish down the hall, Amanda Crowley, who often fed the pet of old man Arion.
When the mage went back to being Jim Morrison without the poetry or booze, they
briefly dated, and she got a lifetime of free rent out of the deal. While still a stone
fox, it's Arion who seems to have forgotten everything that he once knew, including
his ability to access magic. However, Arion is aware that Darkworld has fully
eintegrated into our universe, and there's a proverbial gold rush on mana sources
at the moment. All manner of evil beings will covet the power Darkworld affords,
and that danger must be confronted. The problem is that Mara absolutely refuses
to use her shapeshifting to help, for fear of ever again losing her humanity. Luckily,
the neighborhood deli owner is also the ancient trickster Chaon. Even though a
fully conscious Arion would never approve, Chaon has a line to a very, very long
time rival occultist.

Dr. Mist has also lost his access to once reliable spellcraft, a dire circumstance for
one of the Leymen, who protect the Earth from supernatural threats. As he has
done many times in the past, a party must be gathered to seek out new sources of
witchery, as well as stand against the necromancers and demons coming out of
the woodwork. Despite her aversion to transformation, Mara still has a nose for
enchantment, and Mist is also going to need men. Glorious, bronzed, rippling
muscled he-men, after Mara suffering countless millennia of nothing but mangy
dogs.

Locally, there's the dimension-hopping aged rock star Jim Rook, alias Nightmaster.
Road trip to Louisiana for some girl power. First New Orleans, for the Cajun
creature conjurer Courtney Mason, or Anima; and in Houma, the soulless Stalker.
On to the Orient, specifically Thailand, where in the Phuket Province, a woman
once known as Starfire fights modern sex slavery. The renamed Akanda joins the
party for a trip to Hong Kong. Mist's old cursed right hand man John Chan, best
know for his infernally possessed Claw, has been spending the ensuing years
cutting down local Triad. Together in Berlin, this Primal Force will face their first
challenge against breaching the Darkworld, appropriately enough named Maaldor
the Darklord, Even more apropos, they'll be joined by the hero of legend, Beowulf!

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archaeologist in Russian. Time flowed differently in the Lost World, so that
when she entered, it was as a citizen of the communist U.S.S.R. There was
always corruption, but modern St. Petersburg is ruled by oligarchs and their
brutal thugs. Most nights, Mariah commiserates with elderly aunties Sonya
Chuikov, "Communa," and "Comrade Olga," who regale Mariah with war stories
involving the likes of the Young All-Stars and Blackhawk Squadron from the old
days. One even posed as Hitler's daughter once! In 1956! What were her
superiors thinking?

At the relocated Puleski Institute, Mariah has been adopted by her associate,
Dr. Pytor Orloff, who confesses concerns when he's been pressured into
returning to metahuman bio-genetic research for the new Federal Security
Service of the Russian Federation. As one might expect from the successor to
the KGB, former Red Shadows Major Zastrow, Natalia Spirin, and Stalnoivolk
have started haunting the halls. More concerning are experiments in
weaponizing the supernatural, headed by the sinister Colonel Yuri Rashnikov,
involving seemingly unwilling subjects like Vampira and Mrs. Gradenko. When
Orloff mysteriously disappears, Mariah investigates the project, only to discover
her former lover Mikola Rostov in captivity. He had suffered under the curse of
lycanthropy until the sorceress Jennifer Morgan separated him from his spirit-
wolf, which responded to his commands, but also his worst impulses. The wolf
had grown uncontrollable following the changing nature of magic, and
Rashnikov was now using it to create an army of werewolf soldiers.

Escaping from the institute, Mariah and Mikola are pursued by all manner of
Russian security agents, human and monstrous, all benefiting from the latest
cybernetic weapons technology. The latest incarnations of Soviet era villains
like Death Eye, Red Executioner, and the Storm King, as well as veterans like
the super soldier Boris Dhumov and "Mad Maestro" Pasha Gorki, dog their
every step. But the pair had weathered a truly savage land, living or dying by
their skills with a blade, and their pursuers get more than they bargained for.
However, the FSB isn't the only interested party involved. Gray men like Boris
Dmitravich Razumihin, Pietr Brenovich, Dark Rider, and the Bad Samaritan all
have their own agendas, as Mariah and Mikola attempt to use them to navigate
an exit. Potential friends like Valentina Vostok and the former members of
Soyuz seem forever out of reach... assuming they're still alive and free
themselves. Just when things couldn't possibly seem to get worse, the new
Monster Society become involved, courtesy of Matvei Rodor... and the alien
killing machine Zuggernaut that inhabits his host body. Is there truly no way out
of the Motherland alive and intact?

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Much has changed since the Godwave returned to The Source. Highfather was
betrayed and slain by Ares, requiring New Gods and mortals alike to combine
forces to consign the God of War to the Source Wall for his crimes. Takion now
presides over New Genesis, and has welcomed into the fold the earthen wizard
‘Shazam, who has himself ascended to godhood as a member of "The
Quintessence” alongside the Overlord and Zeus-Jove. Having learned from his
father's augmented power at the reuniting of his Greek and Roman aspects, Ares
exploited his proximity to the Source to merge with his splinter-self Mars, and
escaped cosmic captivity. Orion and Lightray are dispatched to pursue Ares on
Earth, and having been unable to reach the Marvel Family in recent days, Shazam
joins them through the Boom Tube. However, the Wizard felt a nagging pull from
the planet Mars, which he confided to Takion. As a precaution, the Forever People
are tasked with investigating the Red Planet.

Beautiful Dreamer, Big Bear, Serifan, Vykin the Black, and Mark Moonrider
assumed that this would simply be an errand, not realizing that Ares had moved his
base of operations to his eponymous world. Preparing for the inevitable conflicts
with those displaced from Solaris’ orbit, Ares had already reached out to Apokolips,
grateful for his execution of Highfather. The Forever People are immediately set
upon by their old enemy Mantis, allied with flocks of Manhawks and a troop of
White Saturnians led by Commander Syn. Their Super-Cycle is swiftly wrecked,
and all but Mark captured.

Far from home, Mark calls out to the only friendly name that might yet hear him,
Shazam's, The wizard responds, but is experiencing problems with his own abilities
derived from the changing nature of his patron deities and the machinations of
Neron. Unable to bestow his own now limited magic upon the lad, Shazam instead
offers to connect Mark mystically to the Infinity Man, the powerful New God that
the Forever People once summoned in times of greatest need. With their special
Mother Box destroyed, Mark would have to take a portion of Infinity Man's power
into himself by calling out the now magical word of "Taaru!" With this, Mark is
transformed into a radical new Moonrider.

Struggling with his altered perceptions and extraordinary abilities, Moonrider
attempts the rescue of his friends and justice for his fallen mentor. It will not be
easy, as Ares resides at Castle Karmang upon the Olympus Mons. Its master,
known simply as "The Evil," is a mad mage responsible for the deaths of two billion
of his fellow White Martians. Trapped in his manor for a million years, haunted by
the accusing spirits of his victims, Karmang seeks nothing less than to smash Mars
and Earth against one another... those resting upon the planets be damned. With a
mix of advanced science and profound sorcery, The Evil may just be able to bring
this destruction about. But Moonrider is not without his own aid, soon joined by
Black Star, Bumblebee, and Jem, who had pursued their Saturnian foes to Mars.
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of DC ONE MILLION with an innovative campaign. Debuting with a special #0

issue detailing J'Onn J'Onzz's earliest days on Earth living as an African-
American, and why he ultimately instead chose the role of a white male
authority figure; continuing into a premiere GHOSTS Annual; followed by the
1,000,000 issue co-written by GRANT MORRISON accounting for the Alien
Atlas’ far future. Finally, the #1 edition, examining the sole Manhunter's
decision to drop part of his title following repeated White Martian incidents,
his position as the most prominent super-hero outside the United States.

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In this initial story aro, the International Ultramarine Corps have assumed an

aggressive role in defending South America, naturally bringing them into

contact with the Manhunter. The U.S. government still views many of them as
military deserters, and their push back against Latin exploitation in the wake of

the tragedy in Montevideo has earned them vicious enemies. When a
despicable new incarnation of corporate metahumans The Conglomerate
perpetuate a horrific assault upon the team in Superbia, the Manhunter's
response places him at odds with the U.S.

As the new creative team take over, Bloodwynd alerts Manhunter to strange

activity in the Guyana of Venezuela. Soon joined by Swamp Thing, Aztek the

Ultimate Man, and Rima the Jungle Girl, they discover a source of the Endless
Energies of Entrop, indicating it as one of the twelve prime mana sites on Earth.
Despite his status as a fallen angel, Asmodel and a fraction of his Bull Host will

make for strange company in defending the reserve from the forces of Gren:
a new player in the Underworld. Next, we'll see Manhunter guard the
Watchtower against the cybernetic assault of Lord Havok, as J'Onn tries to
reach the humanity in his old friend, inflaming his awkward standing with
former JLA teammates.

Manipulated by the psychic residue of Despero into believing that he's
developed a soul, and romantic feelings for the illusion casting Gypsy, L-Ron
becomes an increasingly brazen stalker... violently colliding with his friends it

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clash of wills. Soon, sharing his base in the frigid Martian city of Z’Onn Z'Orr with
a new super team, J'Onn's supporting cast is joined by Oberon, Gypsy, and L-
Ron. When Castle Carnage is rediscovered by the Star Hunters along the shores
of the Weddell Sea, J'Onn recalls @ 1970s adventure involving retiring veteran
policeman Dan Richards, playboy Marco Xavier, the international crime cartel of

Vandal Savage, and an army of Paul Kirk clones led by the soulless Stalker,

A new incarnation of the Hypercian is formed from the handful of White
Martians that had previously escaped capture, guided by an ancient evil far

more deadly than the Manhunter has ever known. Closing out the year, "Alex"

Luthor succeeds in creating a bridge to Earth®, but attracts the CSA, whose
Ultiman enjoys amplified abilities in the presence of magic... a major moden
hazard for the Martian Marvel!

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At just twenty-four years old, Martin Champion has already lived an enviable lifetime. The
affluent child prodigy graduated from the Space Academy at Colorado Springs, ahead of

his early acceptance to Princeton University, where he also began Olympic training. After DISRUPTORS
winning three Gold Medals at the 1996 Summer Games, he was admitted into the

undergraduate program at MIT, before transferring to Cal-Tech. Then came that fateful ‘SHIP DATE
day, October 48, 1998, when unknown enemies struck against NASA's first lunar colony.

Commander Champion, now a veteran astronaut, was tasked with leading a team to 4TH QUARTER '99

rescue the survivors within a narrow 72 hour window.

While on the moon, Martin Champion made an unnerving discovery... he found himselt.
Literally, Martin uncovered what seemed to be his own fresh corpse, better than twice his JULIE ROTTENBERG
current age, clutching in one hand some sort of artifact, and in the other a technologically
advanced device. Brilliant as he is, Champion managed to decipher the device, and his life
flashed before his eyes. A version of it, anyway... recorded to a digitized diary of
extraordinary megabit memory, as lived by the late Martin Champion. A woman he'd NICOLA cuTI
barely met, mission co-pilot Dr. Lydia Perez, would supposedly become his bride. She
would die giving birth to their son, Christopher, who would develop mutant teleportation
powers related to their mutual contact with multiversal energies. Earth would soon be
living on borrowed time, thanks to the devastating effects of the five day war that would JIM BAIKIE
follow the lunar strike. Martin, Lydia, and others would find a replacement Earth, which
would come to be known as "Homeworld." Finally, Martin would spend the rest of his life
fixated on a malevolent alien entity dubbed the Dark Destroyer, whom he blamed for
Lydia's demise and other atrociti

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In the end, this future Martin would make the grim supposition that the presumed COVER ARTIST
benevolent corporation he had been associated with for his entire adult life, Atari, was
actually controled by malevolent aliens called the Blood Legion. That they were agents of
an empire of shadows for the fate of all existence, of which the Dark Destroyer was one of GERRY ALANGUILAN
their despicable gods. The recovered alien artifact was theorized to afford access to the
Somaii, an opposing race offering mankind's only hope of salvation.

Bizarre as the circumstances seem, it was clearly all nonsense. Some prank or quirk or
delusion under these heightened circumstances. Martin was a student of science, not a
believer in fantasy. Except, as Champion and Perez prepared the survivors for transport
back to Earth, word reaches them of an imminent global conflict. Prior to terrestrial
reentry, the artifact suddenly ignites. Martin faces a second death, or perhaps the choice of
his ultimate destiny, as an otherworldly entity asks if he will be... their Champion?

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Beginning with February's #48, the incoming creative team begins a bold new

direction for The World's Mightiest Mortal™. The rise of magic has unearthed a P_FORMAT |

forgotten truth, as three elderly gentlemen, each from a different walk of life but all STANDARD

named William Batson, emerged from the shadows. When they were young men,

they met a boy who shared their name, but served as their hero, Captain Marvel.
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Young orphan Bily Batson was fst led toa Wizard's lair by a mysterious man
dressed in green. This was long believed to be the ghost of his murdered father,
Now it ean be revealed thet ths was the demon lord Neron! in the basis forthe
Biblical parable of Jo, the Wizard Shazam was forced to pay out a moral dilemma
withthe Devits Advocate his greatest adversary. Time and again, the Wizard was carr
tasked with sharing his godlike power with a mortal champion, only to be
constantly disappointed when, from Black Adam to Zha-Vam, absolute power
corrupted absolutely. As each champion fel victim to theit baser instinct, all of P eiror |
mankind inched closer toward a final, fatal judgment. Only Billy Batson proved too
Innocent tobe corrupted, and Infact shared the amazing powers of Shazam with
an extended fami, including the now aged Lieutenant Marvels. Furious at tnally
being thwarted, rather than admit defeat, Neon arranged for Captain Marvel to fall writer]
Into suspended animation and be wiped from memory. Only now can humanity

remember the greatest heroes of World War Il, the Marvel Family, including Billy's ERIK LARSEN

Jong lost twin sister Mary Marvel and best friend Captain Marvel, Jr

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Also recalled in infamy was Mr. Mind's Monster Society of Evil, the greatest
collection of fiends ever assembled... until now. In recent years, Satan himself had
begun to rebuild the Society, led by Captain Marvel's infernal counterpart SABBAC.
Powered by the "Confederation of Hell* (Satan, Any, Belial, Beelzebub, Asmodeus, PINKER |
and Craeteis,) SABBAC built out from the core quartet of Ibac, Master Man, and

Darkling into an ever-expanding cross-section of villainy plaguing the universe. With JERRY ORDWAY
the aid of Ebenezer Batson, the new Monster Society are able to ambush the
Marvel Family, and execute the Lieutenants. As their influence spreads deeper into
Fawcett City and further throughout the world, more heroes meet thelr end at their

wretched hands, including Spy Smasher, Bulletman, and Bulletgir ALEX BOSS:

Accepting the consciousness of Lord Marvel of the Ultra-Realm, a separate being
from Billy Batson, Neron has finally felt the true power of SHAZAM! But as our hero
comes to terms with his new responsibilities, the surviving Marvel Family must still
evade SABBAC and other infernal actors. Escaping from their clutches, the Marvels
will have to evolve into something more than child super-heroes, and the former
Captain Marvel will rally a Squadron of Justice to stand against the evil of the
Monster Society!

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As the twin sister of Lord Marvel, the Lady Mary Bromfield was destined to inherent her

‘own stake in the Ultra-Realm, rather than a mere allotment from Shazam. Long
‘manipulated by Lord Neron of the Underworld and Shazam's own twins Blaze and

Satanus, Mary was denied her rightful claim until it was nearly too late. As the Monster

Society preyed upon the Marvel Family, the Egyptian royal priest Ibis the Invincible

and

Princess Tala guided Mary to safety, and destiny, at the ruins of Pompeii, In the Temple
of Isis, Mary called upon a new patron goddess to replace those that had abandoned her.

With the words "Oh Mighty Isis,

Mary transforms into a modern incarnation of Isis

herself, gaining control over lighting and other elements, plant and animal life, as well as
flight, clairvoyance, and superhuman physical attributes. Now Isis was ready to take the

fight back to the Dark-Lords.

Early in her super-heroine career, Mary Marvel had teamed up with Power Girl to send an

evil Martian sorcerer into limbo. In those days, Karen Starr was struggling with the

discovery of her heritage as a survivor of the sinking of Atlantis and the granddaughter of

Lord Arion. In this age of magic, that history is all too relevant, as her “aunt* Mara
teaches out to her about the seemingly amnesiac Arion. Reunited with Mary as Is
new abilities revealed Arion’s body to be possessed by the spirit of Tara Morgan,

her

explaining his sudden mystical ineptitude. Power Gir''s evil uncle Garn Daanuth has

foreseen the changes to the "Legerdomain,” and conspired with Count Viper of the

Chicago Netherworld and Deimos of Skartaris to exploit the coming confusion with a
series of body swaps. Other co-conspirators were Ares and that obscure Martian mage.
“The Evil" had been responsible for guiding the White Martians back to Earth ahead of
their invasion, while himself returning to Castle Karmang, atop a Martian mountain

appropriately named after Mount Olympus. Together, they orchestrated the binding of

“Hercules.”

Until recently, Herakles had served as a hero of Gateway City in the guise of Champion,
otherwise known as erstwhile billionaire recluse Harold Campion. The one thing the real

Campion's wealth could not buy hit
trappings for a permanent residency

‘Olympus. Soon though, Campion grew

was immortality, but he could trade his mortal

disenchanted with an eternal existence as a relative nonentity in the palace of the Gods.
Striking a deal with Neron, Campion gained a fiefdom in the Underworld, embattled

though it may be by encroaching demons from the Ultra-Realm like Maaldor the
Darklord. Champion then served as the host for the spirit of Deimos, much to the
surprise of Moonrider and his allies on Mars.

Before anything can be done, Isis' party is flanked by Emerald Shocktroopers and

escorted to the Monolith of the Conclave. Seeking to possess their bodies for the Dark-
Lords, Amethyst is instead liberated from the dark influence of the Archmage by Isis and
Primal Force. Joined by the restored Princess Amethyst, Isis must evade the Demon

Etrigan, reach out to the Manhunter, and chart a course for a showdown on Mars!

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Over a year's worth of series come to their stunning conclusion with the launch
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On the Foundation World of Earth, archetypes emerge that will serve as the
Light and Dark Lords over the Multiverse. Key to holding dominion are the
Crystals of the Zodiac, which align with the twelve sites of magical power upon
the prime world, Parties spanning dimensions vie for control, with the fate of
all universes dependent upon maintaining a balance of power that would be OUTCASTS
tipped by the unquenchable thirsts of the Crime Syndicate, the Underworld, and

the various Dark-Lords of the Ultra-Realm. SHIP DATE

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To date, any resistance has been in disarray, thanks to the rare occurrence of

archvillains such as Maaldor the Darklord, Garn Daanuth, Lord Neron, Deimos,
Satan, and The Evil successfully navigating alliances and striking first. A series
of body-swaps orchestrated by Count Viper added to the confusion, and even PAUL KUPPERBERG
their raw power, with Deimos taking the form of Hercules. Crue! collectives like
the revived Monster Society and Warrior Beasts added overwhelming numbers.

To the benefit of the innocent of these worlds, circumstances are improving. ROGER SLIFER
The wild cards of the Crime Syndicate of America and the legions of The
Underworld have put all the would-be Warlords on their heels. The imminent
threat of the invaders from Earth? necessitate the Alexander Luthors of two
worlds (and the product of their cloned merger) to combine blood and souls to HERB TRIMPE
become something greater than the sum of their parts. No longer impeded by
Neron thanks to Lord Marvel and his Squadron of Justice (featuring Ibis,
Commando, Windshear, Gangbuster, and Mr. Scarlet,) progress is made

against the denizens of Hell. ERNIE CHAN
Becoming the self-styled leaders of the Outcasts, and having acquired the COVER ARTIST
Grimstone, Machiste and Lady are best positioned to organize against The

‘Shadow Lords. Mariah and Mikola finally reach New York City, and seek out BRAD GREEN

Mistress X for help in controlling his soul-wolf. Malagigi has navigated
dimensional portals to secure the Star Hunters and their allies like the
Manhunter, while Mara has likewise reached the Rock of Eternity and the
reconstituted House of Marvel (including Mary/Isis, Freddy/Smasher,
Moonrider, and Black Star.) Under the guidance of the warrior-king Machiste,
old allies and new are united to restore the well-being of the Twilight Equator.

Machiste. Travis Morgan. Lady Amethyst. Arak. Hercules. Mikola. Each will play
a pivotal role in the future of the multiverse. Each will stand or fall as Lords of
the Ultra-Realm!

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Fire and Water Presents: Who's Editing Episode 14. This podcast has sparked an obsession in
me that has led to the writing of hundreds of fake solicitation copy blurbs for nonexistent
books in an imaginary alternate universe slate of DC titles to go with each episode, and
even the start of a companion podcast, The DK Encyclopedia Diaries, to chronicle the
progression of my mental breakdown. It's been a joy, but frankly exhausting, and I've yet to.
fully recover from just my first quest spot on the show. | requested to do Vol XIV early on, so |
wanted to put extra effort into it, as evidenced by the existence of this fake catalog. Anyway,
after hitting the deadline, I had to wing it on the last few entries that were largely written,
but not massaged or synopsized to completion. My main problem was that I'd put so many
irons in the fire, that fitting a resolution into one blurb was a bridge I resisted crossing. | took
a few days off, did some more unnecessary research to proof against "missing" anything,
and then half-heartedly grinded out that last blurb to meet my self-imposed Saturday
deadline to send Siskoid a PDF of this "book" for use on the gallery page. Despite creating
this for the express purpose of not belaboring the podcast with excess details, Siskoid still
edited down a three hour recording session to two, more than double the length of an
‘average episode. Sorry about that, but it would have been worse without knowing | had this
to fall back on, and even then, there was reams of material that | couldn't fit within the
parameters of this artifice.

Below is under-edited “deleted footage" that | couldn't squeeze in, mostly for the benefit of
my loose grip on sanity, since none of this was truly done with an audience in mind. | did it
for my own personal amusement, and since this effort would otherwise go to waste, | figured
to dump the loose bits (including the final Who's Who entries' incorporation) into back
matter...

Thanks to events in the Superman and JLA titles, the DC Multiverse has returned, in the
form of the magical Ultra-Realm. With numerous fantastical pocket dimensions collapsed
into the core reality, and true parallel universes overlapping to become more permeable,
open conflict across the Ultra-Realm appears unavoidable.

Increasingly emaciated and covetous of his slim mystical reserves, Malagigi is pursued by
his ancient enemies the Warrior Beasts: human-animal hybrids with a hunger for the
arcane. The team of Isis, Power Girl, and Amethyst prove the perfect heroines to bring
down Oggar the Accursed, World's Mightest Immortal, and killer of too many members of
Mary Marvel's Family.

Trapped in the body of Deimos, the still living Travis Morgan is rescued from Castle
Carnage (and his guard Mammoth) by The Privateer, who takes advantage of Neron's
absence to listen to his conscience. Meanwhile, in the form of Tara, Arion uses the
dimensional doorways of Oblivion Inc. to reach Z;Onn ZOrr in order to convince Arak that
his needs trumped the Hunters’. As Skullman, Craven, Hydraz and the rest nip at
Malagigi's weary heels, starving for his own taste of fresh spellcraft, Malagigi goes to
ground... hallowed ground, that is. Mining a vein of strange magic, mingling the ancients
and a potentially radioactive future, Malagigi stumbles upon a potential champion.
Encircled by Snakeman, Zardus, and Guana astride a Fire Dragon, he'll need Atlas the
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Sphere for the Star Hunters/To the surprise of no one, Meno led them into a trap. In the far future
30th Century, Mano is a member of the Masters of Disaster. Their leader, Major Disaster, answers
to Vilislith, Prince of Bones, The last Manhunter rebot, Laurel Kent, has guided the evil Corporation
in a plot to alter the timeline to their advantage ct the dawn of the age of magic. Champion sees
the same advantage, if he can change his dire fate and nip the Five Day War that dooms Earth in
the bud. But first they haye to return to the 20th Century, with the unexpected aid of Bilbat, the
"Capmarv' and champion of Shaz in this era,

Using the Grimstone, Lady locates Isis. The whit body swapping orchestrated by Count
Viper means she'll need someone to sori out who's who. Thanks to the Rock of Eternity, the various
individuals Machiste needs for his plan can finally be assembled. With training from Xanadu,
Mikola can finally command his soul wolf, cn advantage useful even against Dark Lords. Stalker
betrays Primal Force to the Cult of the Cataclysm, again pursuing global annihilation to fill the
bottomless emptiness of his existence. However, Claw has managed to earn Valcan's crimson glove
of Oraculum and blade Moonthorn, which joins the Sword of Night in filling Stalker with mystical
metal instead. Choosing to embrace his cursed claw, John melts down the glove for enough
orachulum to bind Stalker. If it worked against Arion...

Black Star has finally reclaimed Gabriel's Horn, nd entered into a covenant with the Titan Cronus
and the God of the Hebrews to serve asa Li for the Ultra-Realm. But when he's asked to
join Lord Marvel, Isis, Smasher, Amethyst, nrider in their burgeoning family, will he
choose a place with n Earth or among: pions? Either way, the House of Marvel will
be aided in their of ith Devilwi onster Society by ¢ new Squadron of
Justice,

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the Crime Syndica ca h d soul as well? Will Luthor finally find
redemption, or lik @ new depths of villainy?

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abandoned by 1 h kando teams up with Nightshade on a
quest for the Eye @ 0 and slake the other's thirst for
vengeance.

Uncomfortable with the scope of the Ultra-Lords and the assemblage of ex-lovers, Mariah opts to
join the Star Hunters instead. Martin Champion and The Privateer likewise replace fallen members
and their mighty Shan, as Mark Shaw chooses to finally wield the ultimate power beton. It's
bittersweet for Martin, as forging an uncertain alternate future means walking away from the love
of his life, At least Lydio Perez would hopefully get to keep hers, for from the Dark Destroyer.

Willow angles for her daughter to marry Power Girl's son Equinox, believing it will finally restore
Cosmic Equilibrium, but her secret allience with the Warlock King of Myrra indicates they would be
getting into bed with deadly darkness...

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