We are not gods! We are men, as are you, people of Sareme! Each of you placed his faith in a rock! It was shattered! Then in a man-god! --He was evil, and so was destroyed! The time has come to stop placing your beliefs in things outside yourselves! Pin your faith in the only reliable thing you possess-- Your own souls! 
- — Hawkman
Justice League of America #90 is an issue of the series Justice League of America (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1971.
Synopsis for "Plague of the Pale People"
When a female Atlantean perishes on the surface, Bat-man is unable to contact Aquaman for information. A supply of American war-gas accidentally dumped on the undersea kingdom of Sareme has destroyed the Proof-rock, symbol of the Saremean religion, and its believers have retaliated by using the war-gas to take over Atlantis. The Justice League is summoned, and stops the invasion, but not before more Atlantean lives are lost. Parts of the Proof-rock remain, though, and Hawkman uses them to institute the beginnings of a revived religion among the people of Sareme. Meanwhile, Batman finds Flash, who had failed to respond to the emergency signal, badly injured.
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Notes
- This issue is reprinted in Justice League of America Archives Volume 10 and Justice League of America: The Last Survivors of Earth! (Collected).
Trivia
- The story opens with a quote from T.S. Eliot's poetic opus "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," in which Eliot's hero appears to be dreaming about mermaids. The story's macguffin is the "Proof-Rock," a pun on the poem's title.
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