JLA/Avengers

    (Marvel-DC, 2003)
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Issues #2, 4 are Avengers/JLA

The bonds between the DC and Marvel universes have been weakened and chaos is the order of the day. The Justice League finds itself battling Terminus. The Avengers face off against Starro the Conqueror. Lobo is running wild through the Shi’ar Empire. Enter the Grandmaster, who informs the Justice League; and Metron, who enlightens the Avengers; of twelve items of power, six from each universe, that must be assembled to forestall the end of existence. Predictably, erroneous assumptions are made owing in no small measure to the irrational attitudes displayed by the normally even-tempered Captain America and Superman.

This crossover event from rival publishers Marvel and DC has been decades in the making, not because of George Perez’s incredibly detailed artwork, but because of company politics. However, since the first hint of a JLA-Avengers crossover years ago, the two competitors had already agreed to join forces for the Marvel Versus DC and the Amalgam Universe comics projects, so this long-awaited story doesn’t have the cachet it once might have.

— George Haberberger
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September, 2003
Cover Price: $5.95
13 copies available from $10.50 		Kurt BusiekGeorge Pérez