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"Seven Soldiers of Probability"

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Seven Soldiers of Probability

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Dan Raspler

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Sometimes our only comfort comes from believing that there is no chance. That whatever happens in this world happens for a reason.

— Oracle

JLA #19 is an issue of the series JLA (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1998.

Synopsis for "Seven Soldiers of Probability"

The League has defeated Julian September, but the world changing pandemonium he put in effect continues to rage onward.

Batman vanishes, leaving only Flash, Martian Manhunter,Superman, Plastic Man, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) and Oracle. Past events are changing, causing the world to alter. The White House becomes Parliament.

J'onn breaks into the Pentagon and looks at a secret file about Julian September. He locates September and calls the other Leaguers. They arrive and September is dead from a heart attack. Oracle cracks the code on September's data-banks but the league can't understand what is in them because none of them are physicists.

J'onn vanishes and The Atom appears. He reads the data-banks and discovers that September dividing seven photons. By mistake, September destroyed the link between the photons causing the current problem with reality.

Ray shrinks himself and the Leaguers to subatomic size and they go after the particles, reconnecting them and restoring reality.

Appearing in "Seven Soldiers of Probability"

Featured Characters:

JLA
- Aquaman
- Batman
- Big Barda
- Flash
- Green Lantern Kyle Rayner
- Huntress
- Oracle
- Orion
- Martian Manhunter
- Plastic Man
- John Henry Irons
- Superman Blue
- Wonder Woman
- Zauriel

Supporting Characters:

The Atom

Antagonists:

Julian September

Locations:

Items:

Notes

This issue is reprinted in the JLA: Strength in Numbers trade paperback and the JLA Volume Three trade paperback.

Trivia

On page 7, the Martian Manhunter can be seen fighting a flood alongside Plastic Man, Green Lantern, Superman, the Flash and Wonder Woman, even though both the previous and the following page establish that he should be away from the group by that point, trying to locate Julian September. This isn't the first time Howard Porter drew J'onn in a group shot he shouldn't be in at that time.
On the penultimate page, Martian Manhunter claims that The Atom was the seventh person to join the Justice League. The original League debuted in Brave and the Bold #28 with seven full members (Aquaman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern Hal Jordan, Martian Manhunter, Superman, and Wonder Woman) alongside honorary member "Snapper" Carr. Green Arrow joined in Justice League of America #4 and the Atom followed in Justice League of America #14. Various revisions to the League's history, post-Crisis (e.g. Secret Origins (Volume 2) #32, which revises Justice League of America #9) have changed this so that the founders were Aquaman, Black Canary, Flash, Green Lantern Hal Jordan, and Martian Manhunter. The were joined shortly thereafter by Batman and Superman. There is no way to reconcile The Atom being the seventh member of the JLA.

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