JLA #8 is an issue of the series JLA (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1997.
Synopsis for "Imaginary Stories"
Green Arrow (Connor Hawke) teleports to the JLA Satellite for possible membership in the League and finds no one there.
Elsewhere in the Satellite, Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner), Aquaman, Flash, Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman have all been captured by The Key and are being administered a neural virus one by one that causes them to live alternate lives in their minds.
Green Arrow spots a Key Man and shoots it through the head with an arrow. He runs and more Key Men give chase. He takes out several more Key Men and the Key shoots at him with some type of energy weapon. He misses but manages to take Connor's weapons away. Connor gets away.
Connor patches himself up and raids the JLA trophy room for his father's bow and trick arrows. Armed, he heads off to confront the Key.
Appearing in "Imaginary Stories"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Manta Raiders (In dream sequence only)
- Joker (In dream sequence only)
- The Key
- Keymen
- Nazi Zombies (In dream sequence only)
- Paula von Gunther (In dream sequence only)
Other Characters:
- Batman (Tim Drake) (In dream sequence only)
- Doctor Destiny (Mentioned only)
- Gotham City Police Department (In dream sequence only)
- Hantha (In dream sequence only)
- Hera (Mentioned only)
- Jor-El (Mentioned only)
- Selina Kyle (In dream sequence only)
- Lara Lor-Van (In dream sequence only)
- Renee Montoya (Mentioned only)
- Alfred Pennyworth (Mentioned only)
- Oliver Queen (Mentioned only)
- Rao (Mentioned only)
- Robin (Bruce Wayne, Jr.) (In dream sequence only)
- Tomar-Re (In dream sequence only)
- Steve Trevor (In dream sequence only)
Locations:
- Earth's Moon
- New Earth
- United States of America
- Washington, D.C.
- Gotham City (In dream sequence only)
- Batcave (In dream sequence only)
- New York (In dream sequence only)
- New York City (In dream sequence only)
- Statue of Liberty (In dream sequence only)
- New York City (In dream sequence only)
- United States of America
- Sector 2813 (In dream sequence only)
- Krypton (In dream sequence only)
Items:
- Bat-Signal (In dream sequence only)
- Giant Penny (In dream sequence only)
- Green Lantern Ring (In dream sequence only)
- Implicate Field (Cameo)
- Kryptonian Service Robot (In dream sequence only)
- Trick Arrows
Vehicles:
- Batcar (In dream sequence only)
Notes
- The virtual worlds The Key makes are:
- Superman as a Green Lantern of sector 2813.
- Aquaman in a Waterworld-like reality.
- Batman married Catwoman and their sons have taken up the roles of Batman and Robin.
- A depowered Wonder Woman and her friend Steve Trevor fight Zombie Nazis to get to Paula von Gunther who has an Earth in a bottle. This may have been a homage to what is sometimes called the "Mod" Wonder Woman which existed from Wonder Woman #179 to Wonder Woman #204 (She wore a white outfit from Wonder Woman #185 to the end of the Mod era).
- This issue is reprinted in Green Arrow: 80 Years of the Emerald Archer.
Trivia
- This issue's title references the "Imaginary Stories" from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, stories that were set outside of regular continuity. The following issue's title is taken from the modern-day equivalent, Elseworlds.
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Justice League Recommended Reading
- Justice League of America (Volume 1)
- Justice League of America (Volume 2)
- Justice League of America (Volume 3)
- Justice League of America (Volume 4)
- Justice League of America (Volume 5)
- JLA (Volume 1)
- Justice League (Volume 1)
- Justice League (Volume 2)
- Justice League (Volume 3)
- Justice League (Volume 4)
- Justice League International (Volume 1)
- Justice League International (Volume 2)
- Justice League International (Volume 3)
- Justice League Europe (Volume 1)
- Justice League America (Volume 1)
- Justice League Task Force (Volume 1)
- Justice League Quarterly (Volume 1)
- Justice League Dark (Volume 1)
- Justice League Dark (Volume 2)
- Extreme Justice (Volume 1)
- Justice League Elite (Volume 1)
- Justice League Odyssey (Volume 1)