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JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #1
Cover Date: November 2011
Cover Price: $2.99
Publication Date: 2011-09-28
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Cover Credits:
Art: Ryan Sook (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Peter Milligan |
| Art | Mikel Janín |
| Lettering | Rob Leigh |
| Colors | Ulises Arreola |
| Editing | Rex Ogle, Eddie Berganza |
Feature Character(s):
- Justice League Dark (first appearance; unnamed until issue #9)
- Madame Xanadu (last in flashback in issue #11)
- Deadman (last in DC Universe Presents #5)
- John Constantine (first appearance; last in flashback in issue #11)
- Shade the Changing Man (first appearance; next in issue #3)
- Zatanna (first appearance; last in flashback in issue #11)
John Constantine (also in flashback in between flashback in Justice League Dark #12 and Justice League Dark #1) Zatanna (also in flashback in between flashback in Justice League Dark #12 and Justice League Dark #1) Madame Xanadu (also in flashback preceding Justice League Dark #1)
Guest Star(s):
- Justice League
- Batman (last in Legion Lost Vol. 2 #3; next in Stormwatch Vol. 3 #2)
- Cyborg (last in Secret Origins Vol. 3 #5; next in Justice League Vol. 2 #7)
- Superman (last in Legion Lost Vol. 2 #3; next in OMAC Vol. 3 #7)
- Wonder Woman (last in Secret Origins Vol. 3 #6; next in Batman: The Dark Knight Vol. 2 #4)
- Dove (last in Hawk and Dove Vol. 5 #5)
Supporting Character(s):
- June Moone (first appearance)
Villain(s):
- The Enchantress (first appearance)
Other Character(s):
- Kathy (first appearance; a woman created and uncreated by Shade, most likely named after his former love, Kathy George)
- Pandora
Comment(s):
This story features the first actual appearance of the Justice League in the New 52 universe.
Madame Xanadu is alone, in front of a stained-glass window, with tarot cards representing various heroes. The future is telling her to "mind her own business," but she is still able to see the coming of "terrible danger" and "great wickedness"--and also the innocence of June Moone, whose card is "the Fool."
June Moone, the civilian version of the Enchantress, is walking on a city street, terrified by the appearance of a horrifying demon, and trying to remember a nursery rhyme. She is confronted by a big demon and ducks into a diner where people are watching versions of her getting into traffic accidents on television. Meanwhile, Madame Xanadu holds up the card for Shade the Changing Man, "The Madness."
Shade is in a hotel room talking to a woman named Kathy. She's imploring him not to answer the call of the MetaVest but to stay with her; she needs him. He says he has to go, she says she'll be gone when he gets back--but it turns out that she's a construct of the vest, and that she was unaware she was not real.
Madame Xanadu says "The madman has been called. For there is another even more mad." Madame Xanadu is assembling this "team" to fight the Enchantress' madness with madness.
On a deserted farm lies the sanctuary of the broken witch; the Enchantress. Her madness is endangering the citizenry - a shower of books in a dead language kills six people; cows give birth to mechanical meat slicers, prompting a farmer to shoot himself; and a local power station threatens to explode when it gains consciousness and gets bored. The Justice League responds with Cyborg, Superman, and Wonder Woman. They find themselves surrounded by millions of sharp teeth, floating in a whirlwind. They are powerful enough to cut Superman to ribbons. They barely escape with their lives.
Batman and Zatanna are monitoring the situation as the three League members fail against the magic presented. Zatanna wants to help, and is forced to detain Batman, who tells her she is not stable enough to help. Meanwhile, John Constantine reveals that while trying to con someone, he had a vision of Zatanna and got sucked through a magic vortex into London.
June Moone, still trying to remember that nursery rhyme--"I build a crooked house--I..I was a crooked house--crooked lane.", knocks on Dove's door and says she needs to speak to a dead man. Deadman is hiding behind the door.
At Madame Xanadu's parlor, Shade, having been called through his vest, is waking up the proprietor, who had passed out on the floor. It seems that Madame X is using a drug as her only refuge from her clairvoyant visions of the present and future. She tells a very reluctant Shade that, now that the League has failed, it's up to him to put together a "gathering of men. And women. Each their own...specialty," which she has seen in a vision. Shade says the only people he knows are half-crazy or "damaged goods." She says "exactly."
Xanadu then stares into a future which is a big pile of bodies, including those of several of her friends.