Justice League of America – Vol. 1 # 140

Justice League of America – Vol. 1 # 140
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Full Title : No Man Escapes the Manhunter!

Plot : Green Lantern is forcibly arrested by a Manhunter despite the League’s best attempts to prevent him being taken. The League track the Manhunter to the Himalaya mountains where the Manhunters, under the leadership of the Grandmaster, are holding Green Lantern for unspecified crimes.Green Lantern tells the League that he is guilty and explains that while in space he inadvertently caused the destruction of a planet. Wanting to investigate, the League travel to the closest surviving planet and find a Guardian of The Universe being assaulted. The League take the Guardian with them to the destroyed planet’s moon along with the planet’s leader, Tozad. While they travel to the moon, another Guarian appears to Green Lantern and orders him to escape.On the moon, the League battle a huge dinosaur until Batman realises that both it and the supposedly destroyed planet are illusions. The Guardian reveals Tozad to be a Manhunter agent intent on ruining the Guardians’ reputation and sparking a war.

Publisher : DC Comics

Pages : 48

Cover Date : 01/03/1977

Release Date : 01/03/1977

Characters : Batman (Bruce Wayne) | Superman (Kal-El / Clark Kent) | Wonder Woman (Diana Prince)

Editor : E. Nelson Bridwell | Julius Schwartz

Cover Artist : Rich Buckler

Writer : Steve Englehart

Creator : Steve Englehart | Dick Dillin | Frank McLaughlin

Age : Bronze

Genre : Action | Adventure | Super-Heroes