- I'm a loner... And the League's just too big for a guy like me... Or maybe I'm too big for The League? Aw, nuts... Maybe I'm not such a loner after all...
Justice League of America #200 is an issue of the series Justice League of America (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1982. It was published on November 10, 1981.
Synopsis for "A League Divided"
A powerful post-hypnotic suggestion turns the seven original Justice League members into mind-controlled pawns, who are forced to reassemble the seven Appellax meteorites in which the alien foes of their first adventure came to Earth.[1] The later members of the League are alerted to the plight of their comrades when J'onn J'onzz battles Firestorm to reclaim the first meteor fragment in the JLA satellite. Former member Green Arrow, brought to the meeting by Firestorm and Black Canary, recalls the others' memories of that first case, and the new members set out to battle their teammates. The Phantom Stranger intervenes to give Aquaman a victory over the Red Tornado; Wonder Woman escapes from Zatanna on Paradise Island; Green Lantern overcomes the Atom; the Flash defeats the Elongated Man; Batman evades both Green Arrow and Black Canary; and Superman uses a robot to trick Hawkman, who is rescued from death in space only by Adam Strange's Zeta-Beam. While the other members are battling old comrades, the charter members, having no memory of the years since the League's formation, see their former teammates as unknown villains, and thus are not held back in their efforts to battle them. While the defeated members rendezvous with Firestorm and Snapper Carr aboard the satellite, the mesmerized original members meet at the site of their first headquarters, only to have the gathered meteorites erupt with the seed-clone duplicate forms of the villainous Appellax aliens.
Their memories restored by shock, the JLA combats the aliens, but is soundly beaten. They then join forces with the other members to seek out and destroy the seed-clones in teams: Batman, Black Canary, Green Arrow, Hawkman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Zatanna overcome the wooden, crystal, and mercurial creatures; Aquaman, Elongated Man, Flash, and Red Tornado battle the glass and fire beings; and Atom, Firestorm, Green Lantern, and the Martian Manhunter take on the stone giant and the rock successfully. With the menace ended, Snapper Carr and J'onn J'onzz take their leave, and Green Arrow reconsiders his earlier decision, rejoining the team as a regular member.
Appearing in "A League Divided"
Featured Characters:
- Justice League of America (Flashback and main story)
- Aquaman (Flashback and main story)
- The Atom
- Batman (Flashback and main story)
- Black Canary
- Elongated Man
- Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond/Martin Stein)
- The Flash (Flashback and main story)
- Green Arrow (Rejoins team)
- Green Lantern (Flashback and main story)
- Hawkman
- Phantom Stranger
- Red Tornado
- Superman (Flashback and main story)
- Wonder Woman (Flashback and main story)
- Zatanna
Supporting Characters:
- Adam Strange
- Martian Manhunter (Flashback and main story)
- Snapper Carr
Antagonists:
- Appellaxians (Flashback and main story) (Resurrected) (Dies)
- Crystal Creature (Flashback and main story) (Resurrected) (Dies)
- Fire-Lord (Flashback and main story) (Resurrected) (Dies)
- Glass-Man (Flashback and main story) (Resurrected) (Dies)
- Golden Roc (Flashback and main story) (Resurrected) (Dies)
- Mercury Monster (Flashback and main story) (Resurrected) (Dies)
- Stone-God (Flashback and main story) (Resurrected) (Dies)
- Wood-King (Flashback and main story) (Resurrected) (Dies)
Other Characters:
- Alanna Strange
- Amazons
- General Matawbe (A general in the army of Zimbabwe) (Single appearance)
- Kathy Sutton (Flashback only)
- Traya Sutton (Flashback only)
- Athena (Mentioned only)
- Jolly Green Giant (Mentioned only)
- Starro (Mentioned only)
- Tornado Champion (Mentioned only)
- Zeus (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth
- Africa
- Indian Ocean
- Irish Coast
- Italy
- Paradise Island
- Temple of Athena
- United States of America
- Metropolis (Mentioned only)
- New York City
- Bradley High School (Mentioned only)
- North Carolina
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Antarctica (Mentioned only)
- Arabian Peninsula (Mentioned only)
- Australia (Mentioned only)
- India (Mentioned only)
- Indonesia (Mentioned only)
- Seychelles (Mentioned only)
- Justice League Satellite
- Rann
- Mars (Mentioned only)
- Thanagar (Mentioned only)
Items:
- Batarang
- Bio-Belt
- Bracelets of Submission
- Green Kryptonite
- Green Lantern Ring
- Justice League Teleporter
- Lasso of Truth
- Purple Healing Ray
- Superman Robot
- Trick Arrows
- Utility Belt
- Zeta-Beam
- Gingold (Mentioned only)
- Justice League Signal Device (Mentioned only)
- Mental Radio (Mentioned only)
Vehicles:
Notes
- The issue begins with a two-page overview by Gerry Conway entitled "The First Two Hundred".
- The three-page origin sequence was reprinted in JLA: The Greatest Stories Ever Told as "Origin".
Trivia
- Green Arrow had left the Justice League in Justice League of America #181. While he guest starred a few times since, this is his formal return to membership.
- Superman attempts to use 2 Superman Robots to retrieve the Appellax Meteor in Greenland, which are destroyed by Hawkman. However, by this time, all Superman Robots are supposed to be inoperative due to mechanical interference caused by the high degree of air pollution in Earth's atmosphere.
See Also
- Cover gallery for the Justice League of America series
- Images from Justice League of America Vol 1 200
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)