60 WEEKS WITH THE JUSTICE LEAGUE: Week 13

Justice League International #13
May ‘88
“Collision Course”
Giffen: plot & pencils
DeMatteis: script
Gordon: inks
Lappan: letters
D’Angelo: colors
…fer: editor


Keith Giffen steps in for penciling duties in an issue that was clearly aimed at boosting sales of Suicide Squad; the whole shebang ends in a cliffhanger that wraps up in issue 10 of the other title. By now it’s probably needless to say I won’t be reading that, so we’ll just have to catch as catch can.


Nevertheless, and excepting the straight-up lousy cover, Giffen’s art suits the book well. And since he’s been providing page breakdowns since the beginning, there’s a uniformity to the layouts that helps connect this issue to the previous 12.


Apropos of nothing--or at least not much--the letter column ends with editor Mark Waid saying that “the Canary indeed departed from the League,” even though she’s in this issue. Since I’m not totally steeped in the DCU circa 1988, I can’t be positive of this, but I think that just might’ve been a spoiler.



The complete 60 Weeks with the Justice League on The Danger Digest:
#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25/1, #26/2, #27/3, #28/4, #29/5, #30/6, #31/7, #32/8, #33/9, #34/10, #35/11, #36/12, #37/13, #38/14, #39/15, #40/16, #41/17, #42/18, #43/19, #44/20, #45/21, #46/22, #47/23, #48/24, #49/25, #50/26, #51/27, #52/28, #53/29, #54/30, #55/31, #56/32, #57/33, #58/34, #59/35, #60/36


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