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52 is the title of a comic book limited series published by DC Comics that debuted on May 10, 2006, one week after the conclusion of the seven-issue Infinite Crisis. The series was written by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid with layouts by Keith Giffen. 52 consists of 52 issues, published weekly for one year, chronicling events that took place during the missing year after the end of Infinite Crisis. The series covers much of the DC Universe, and several characters, whose disparate stories interconnect. The story is directly followed by the limited series Countdown to Final Crisis. 52 was also the first weekly comic book published by DC Comics since the short-lived anthology Action Comics Weekly in 1988-1989.

Format

The use of a weekly publication format is unusual in the North American comics industry, a model traditionally based upon monthly publication. 52 is the longest weekly comic book series published by a major North American publisher. The record was previously held by Action Comics Weekly.

Back-up stories

History of the DC Universe

A backup story entitled History of the DC Universe appears in Weeks 2 through 11, with the creative team of Dan Jurgens and Art Thibert. Reminiscent of DC's earlier History of the DC Universe limited series, in this story, Donna Troy explores the history of the DC Universe with the help of Harbinger's recording device. In the final chapter, both the device and a Monitor inform Donna Troy that she was supposed to have died instead of Jade.

Secret Origins

Weeks 12 through 51 feature Secret Origins written by Mark Waid with a rotating team of artists.

Story

In the aftermath of Infinite Crisis, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman have temporarily retired their costumed identities, and the remaining heroes attend a memorial for Superboy in Metropolis. Time traveler Booster Gold attends the memorial, but when Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman don't arrive as he expects, he suspects his robot sidekick Skeets is malfunctioning. After Skeets reports other incorrect historical data, Booster searches fellow time traveler Rip Hunter's desert bunker for answers, but finds it littered with enigmatic scrawled notes and photos of himself and Skeets surrounded by the words "his fault" with arrows pointing toward them. Booster's reputation is ruined by the unscrupulous ways he attempts to maintain his corporate sponsorships, as well as the arrival of a mysterious new superhero named Supernova. Booster tries to regain the spotlight by containing an explosion, but is seemingly killed in the attempt. Skeets uses Booster's ancestor Daniel Carter to regain access to Hunter's lab, where he sees the photos and arrows pointing at him. Skeets traps Carter in a time loop in the bunker and sets out to locate Hunter himself. He eventually corners Hunter and Supernova in the bottle-city of Kandor, where Supernova reveals himself to be Booster Gold, having faked his death with the help of Hunter to uncover Skeets' true intentions. Hunter and Booster attempt to trap Skeets in the Phantom Zone, but Skeets appears to consume the sub-dimension and pursues his two adversaries through time. Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man, has a gun to his head when he's informed that his dead wife Sue's gravestone has been vandalized with an inverted version of Superman's "S" symbol, the Kryptonian symbol for resurrection. He confronts Cassandra Sandsmark, and she tells Dibny that she's in a cult which believes that Superboy can be resurrected, but they'd like to try it first with Sue. Despite his initial consent, Dibny and his friends disrupt the ceremony, and the effigy of Sue crawls to Dibny, calling out to him as it burns; as a result, Dibny suffers a nervous breakdown. Dibny encounters the helmet of Doctor Fate, which promises to fulfill Dibny's desires if he makes certain sacrifices. Dibny journeys with the helmet through the afterlives of several cultures, where he's cautioned about the use of magic. After several failed attempts to resurrect his wife, Dibny prepares a spell in Dr. Fate's tower. Dibny puts the helmet on and shoots it to reveal it as the sorcerer Felix Faust. Faust was posing as Nabu to give Dibny's soul to the demon Neron in exchange for his freedom. Neron kills Dibny but realizes that Dibny's spell has trapped him and Faust inside. Ralph and Sue Dibny are reunited later as ghost detectives. Lex Luthor announces the Everyman Project, a program designed to give ordinary people superpowers. John Henry Irons deactivates his niece Natasha's Steel armor after an argument about responsibility. Following an encounter with Luthor, Irons' skin transforms into stainless steel, causing Natasha to accuse him of hypocrisy. She enrolls in the Everyman Project and becomes a member of Luthor's superhero team Infinity, Inc. Irons learns that Luthor can deactivate Everyman Project-given abilities and that they've a limited timespan. Luthor negates the powers of one of Natasha's teammates during a battle, and Irons uses the death of her friend to convince Natasha to question Luthor's motives. After Luthor, angered by reports that he's incompatible with the treatment, deactivates the powers of the majority of the Everyman subjects on New Year's Eve, resulting in many of them falling from the sky to their deaths, Natasha works undercover to expose Luthor. Luthor later learns the reports were false and gains powers similar to those of Superman. He discovers Natasha's spying and beats her, using his superpowers. Irons and the Teen Titans attack Lexcorp. With Natasha's help, they bring Luthor to justice. Beast Boy offers Natasha, in her new Steel armor, membership in the Teen Titans, but she declines in favor of forming a new team with her uncle. Animal Man, Starfire and Adam Strange are marooned on an alien planet after the events of the Infinite Crisis. They are pursued through space by agents of Lady Styx, whose forces are conquering and overrunning planets on a path of destruction toward Earth. They are rescued and joined by Lobo, who possesses the Emerald Eye of Ekron and claims he's found religion and turned his back on violence. Lady Styx hired Lobo to capture the heroes, but he instead delivers them to her so they can fight her. The heroes triumph, and it's revealed there's an Emerald Head of Ekron, who is a Green Lantern that fights alongside them, but Animal Man is injected with a toxin and dies. After Starfire and Strange lay his body to rest and leave, Animal Man awakens to find the aliens who gave him his powers standing over him. Animal Man acquires the powers of Sun-Eaters, which he uses to return to Earth. He is pursued by Lady Styx's assassins, who are killed by Starfire just as they arrive at his home. Black Adam, the superhuman leader of Kahndaq, forges a coalition with several other countries against the United States' superhuman supremacy under the Freedom of Power Treaty until Adrianna Tomaz, a former slave, shows Adam how he can use his abilities more peacefully to help his country. Adam convinces Captain Marvel to give Tomaz the power of Isis, and Adam and Isis free enslaved children across Africa. The Question, Renee Montoya, and Batwoman discover that Intergang is preparing to invade Gotham. The Question and Montoya fly to Kahndaq to investigate further, and they prevent a suicide bomber at Black Adam and Isis' wedding, for which Adam awards them one of Kahndaq's highest honors. The four uncover Intergang, which is inducting children into a religion of crime based on its Crime Bible. Black Adam finds Isis' crippled brother Amon among the children and shares his power with him, and Amon is reborn as Osiris. Osiris befriends a seemingly timid anthropomorphic crocodile named Sobek, who joins Black Adam's Black Marvel Family. Adam and Isis inform the Freedom of Power Treaty member nations that Kahndaq is no longer interested in consolidating power or in executing superhumans. Will Magnus, creator of the Metal Men, is abducted to Oolong Island, where Intergang and Chang Tzu are forcing kidnapped scientists to develop new weapons for them. Magnus' anti-depressants are confiscated and he's ordered to build a Plutonium Man robot, but Magnus also secretly rebuilds miniature versions of the Metal Men. The scientists activate their Four Horsemen of Apokolips, which target Black Adam. Suspicious of Black Adam, Amanda Waller destroys Osiris' reputation by maneuvering him into killing the Persuader and leaking footage of the incident to the media. Osiris retires from the public eye as a result, and acid rain ravages Kahndaq. Osiris, convinced that he's the cause of Kahndaq's new miseries, asks Captain Marvel to remove his powers, but he's confronted by Isis and Black Adam and returns to Kahndaq. Sobek tricks Osiris into turning back into Amon and devours him, revealing himself to be the Horseman Famine. The other Horsemen battle Black Adam and Isis. Isis is poisoned by Pestilence and dies while asking Adam to avenge her and Osiris' deaths.
   Grief-stricken and enraged to the point of madness, Black Adam destroys the country of Bialya, base of the Four Horsemen, and murders the country's entire population before killing the last of the Horsemen. He attacks Oolong Island, but the scientists capture and imprison him. The Justice Society of America invade the island to arrest Adam and subdue the scientists, but Adam escapes and embarks on a week-long rampage across the globe, during which he kills several superhumans. During an enormous battle between many superhumans and Black Adam, Captain Marvel is unable to remove Adam's powers, so he instead reverts him to Teth-Adam and changes Adam's magic word from "Shazam" to an unknown phrase. Teth-Adam goes missing in the resulting explosion and wanders the Earth powerlessly as he tries to guess the new magic word.
   The Question and Montoya train with Richard Dragon in Nanda Parbat, where Montoya learns that the Question is dying from lung cancer and wants her to replace him. After they discover a prophecy in the Crime Bible about Batwoman's death, the two join her fight against Intergang in Gotham. When the Question's condition worsens, Montoya journeys back to Nanda Parbat in a failed attempt to save his life. Intergang discovers Batwoman's identity and attempts to sacrifice her. Montoya, as the new Question, joins Nightwing and former Intergang member Kyle Abbot in trying to save Batwoman, but they're unable to prevent Mannheim from stabbing her with a dagger. Batwoman wounds Mannheim and survives. Montoya shines the restored Bat-Signal to call Batwoman back to work.
   Skeets is revealed to be Mister Mind, who uses Skeets' metallic body as a cocoon to metamorphose into a gigantic, monstrous form. Rip Hunter and Booster escape to the end of the Infinite Crisis, where they witness the secret creation of 52 identical parallel universes, which Mister Mind intends to consume. Daniel Carter reappears as the new Supernova and saves Hunter and Booster, restoring the Phantom Zone in the process. Mister Mind alters events in the 52 universes, creating new histories for each. Booster and Supernova trap Mister Mind in the remains of Skeets' shell and send him back in time to the beginning of the year, where he's captured by Dr. Sivana. Hunter, Booster and Supernova agree to keep the restored multiverse's existence a secret, and Will Magnus rebuilds Skeets, using a copy he'd made of the robot's memories.

World War III

Week 50 of 52 and the four-issue World War III limited series, which was released the same week, depict the superhumans' battle with Black Adam. World War III also depicts Aquaman's transformation into the Dweller of the Depths, Martian Manhunter's change in outlook, Donna Troy's assumption of the Wonder Woman mantle, Supergirl's return to the 21st century, Jason Todd pretending to be Nightwing and Cassandra Cain's joining Deathstroke.

The Science Squad

The Science Squad are a group of fictional mad scientist supervillains in the DC Comics Universe. The group was created by writer Grant Morrison who stated, "I love writing cowardly, petulant, irascible supervillains much more than I enjoy writing truly evil ones, so this whole plot strand was a joy from beginning to end." The members of the team are: Veronica Cale, Doctor Death, Doctor Sivana, I. Q. (Ira Quimbey), Will Magnus, T. O. Morrow, Komrade Krabb, Dr. Tyme, Rigoro Mortis, and are commanded by Egg Fu. They appear in the issue 46.

Secret message

Dan Didio included a hidden message in his DC Nation column in the in back of Week 37. The message is spelled out using the first letter of every third word: "the secret of fifty-two is that the multiverse still exists"

Rip Hunter's lab

When Booster enters Rip Hunter's bunker in Week 6, he finds it in disarray. Among the details of Hunter's lab, a giant globe is marked with red X's and the words "World War III Why? How?" A time machine sits broken. Notes scrawled everywhere indicate that there's a problem with the time stream, and as noted above, the number 52 figures prominently in these writings. Many of the writings foreshadow and refer to DC Universe events and characters, some of which are not yet introduced by the time of Booster's discovery. A multitude of clocks are all stopped at 12:52 (00:52). Monitors show images of Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln, a sailing ship with the flag of the Knights Templar, Elvis Presley, the Boston Tea Party and a dinosaur.
Papers on the floor bear the titles of canceled DC series, including superhero comic Infinity, Inc., 1940s humor title Casey the Cop, and Silverblade, a 1980s maxi-series about an actor-turned-vigilante. Also on the floor is a book titled Who's Who, using the logo for the DC series of the same name, and two notes: "FIND THE SUN DEVILS" and "What is spanner's galaxy?". Sun Devils and Spanner's Galaxy are the titles of two 1980s maxi-series.
A set of blackboards is covered with more clues. Below is a list of the clues, with items followed by DC Comics details that relate to the phrase:

"TIME IS BROKEN" - 52 seconds are missing. In the final week, while witnessing the rebirth of the Multiverse, Booster Gold worries about the "broken time", after being reassured by Rip Hunter that everything is finally the way it was meant to be.
The number 52 in a circle litters the boards, the circles sometimes overlapping. The symbol of overlapping circles has been used in the past by DC Comics to represent alternate Earths, or alternate Earths fusing (such as in Infinite Crisis).
"Dead by lead?" — In the DC Universe, the Daxamite race is especially vulnerable to lead poisoning. The pre-Crisis Daxamite Mon-El is a 20th century hero whom Superman preserves for 1,000 years in the Phantom Zone when the former contracts lead poisoning. Mon-El re-appears post-Infinite Crisis in Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #23 (December 2006). Will Magnus kills Chang Tzu using the Metal Man Lead as a bullet. Sodom Yat, a Daxamite and the current host of Ion, is suffering from lead poisoning, held back by his Green Lantern power ring, after his battle with Superman-Prime.
"Further time is different" — The character Father Time appears in the limited series Crisis Aftermath: The Battle for Blüdhaven and Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters (2006). Additionally, a number of events in the present day unfold differently from Booster Gold's knowledge of the past.
"The four horsemen will end her rain?" — Chang Tzu mentions "four horsemen", and Isis creates rainstorms to express sadness. Intergang later activates its cybernetic Four Horsemen. Some time later, acid rain falls on Kahndaq. The Horseman Pestilence kills Isis four weeks after the acid rains start.
"He won't smell it." — Main character Ralph Dibny's nose is reputed to be able to "smell a mystery".
"Find the last 'El'" — "El" is the family name of both Superman (Kal-El) and Supergirl (Kara Zor-El). After the fight in space, Supergirl was sent to the 31st century, when she joins the Legion of Super-Heroes. It is also the name pre-Crisis Superboy gives to Mon-El, another hero who joins the Legion one thousand years into his own future. In addition, for a period of time, Conner Kent (Superboy) uses the name "Kon-El" and also serves with the Legion. One Year Later, an alien being comments that, in addition to Superman and Supergirl, there's a third Kryptonian on Earth.
"MAN OF STEEL" — This title, a nickname of Superman, was also given to John Henry Irons in promotional material for the Reign of the Superman storyline that DC published following the Death of Superman storyline. In 52, Irons' skin becomes stainless steel.
"~~Sonic disruptors~~ --> Time Masters --> Time Servants" — In DC Comics, Rip Hunter was given the title "Time Master". The Sonic Disruptors series, was canceled by DC Comics before being completed, apparently because the creators working on the project couldn't complete it on time. Additionally, Rip Hunter offered various time-traveling supervillains the chance to redeem themselves as Time Masters and fight with him to stop Skeets' plans.
"The reach. The reach. The reach." — In the 2006 Blue Beetle title, the New God Metron referred to the newest Blue Beetle as a 'Reach Infiltrator'. It is later discovered that the Blue Beetle was meant to be the vanguard of the Reach race, alien beings reaping planets when they're advanced enough.
"Tornado is in pieces" — Red Tornado was shattered in the fight in space.
"It hurts to breathe" — The Question develops and dies from lung cancer.
Circled: "The Scarab is eternal?" — The new Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes, is the new host of the scarab owned by the original Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett.
"Where is the Curry Heir?" In the "One Year Later" stories, a character named Arthur Curry, who looks exactly like Aquaman, appears. The original Aquaman has been transfigured into the Dweller in the Depths, who guides the new character.
"Σ Who is Supernova?" — 52 Week 37 reveals that Supernova is Booster Gold in a new identity. The persona is then taken up by Booster Gold's ancestor Daniel Carter, then later Booster's father.
"Σ What happened to the son of Superman?" — The question of Superman's offspring is the subject of a large number of "imaginary stories" and Elseworlds comics, including Son of Superman, a 2000 Elseworlds graphic novel, and The Kingdom limited series, which features the debut of the time/reality concept "Hypertime". Also, Richard Donner's and Geoff Johns' Action Comics run features a boy from Krypton.
"Σ Where is the Batman?" — A month after Infinite Crisis, Batman, Robin and Nightwing travel the world and are absent during the year in which 52 takes place.
"Σ Who is the Batwoman?" — Kate Kane is the new Batwoman, as seen in 52 Week 11.
"Σ Te versus (Au+Pb)" — As noted above, the atomic number of Tellurium (Te) is 52. The other elements mentioned are Gold (Au) and Lead (Pb). Gold and Lead are names of Metal Men, and alchemists attempted to transmute lead into gold. Additionally, "Tellurium"'s root word is "tellus" (which is Latin for "earth"). Tellus is a member of the pre-Zero Hour Legion of Super-Heroes.
Circled: "Σ Who is Diana Prince?" — a disillusioned Diana goes to Nanda Parbat to see Rama Kushna and find her own identity. In the "One Year Later" Wonder Woman series, Wonder Woman appears as Diana Prince, a secret agent.
"SECRET FIVE!" — The Secret Six, following the events of Infinite Crisis Special: Villains United, are down one member. In the Secret Six limited series, they recruit the Mad Hatter but subsequently kick him out.
"Σ Don't ask the Question. It lies." — The Question is one of the main characters of 52.
"Σ World War III? Why? HOW?" — World War III was an important event in 52, as Black Adam battled, and killed, several heroes.(External Link).
"IMMORTAL SAVAGE" — Vandal Savage spends the year depicted in 52 in space, and when he returns, he's lost his immortality.
"Σ Someone is monitoring. They see us. They see me." — The Monitor returns in DCU: Brave New World.
"KHIMAERA LIVES AGAIN" — In the initial "One Year Later" storyline in Hawkgirl, Khimaera appears as a new antagonist.
"Σ The old Gods are DEAD, the new Gods want what's left." — The "New Gods" refers to the protagonists of Jack Kirby's "Fourth World" comic book stories whose worlds were created from the remains of two of the Old Gods. Also, a mini-series tied in with the 52 sequel countdown, was Death of The New Gods, in which all New gods but Orion die to prepare a 5th world.
"2,000 years from now". - It was revealed in 52 Volume 1 that this comment was a reference to a plot line that was later changed by the writers and never followed up on.
"When am I?". - When Skeets is searching for Rip Hunter he asks Waverider "when is Rip Hunter?".
"I'm not Kryptonite."-Kryptonite is a weakness of Superman. But in 52, The Cult of Conner, a religious sect dedicated to resurrecting Superboy, employed "Blood Kryptonite" in a preliminary ritual to resurrect Sue Dibny. While physically resembling Green Kryptonite, the "Blood" variant drains a portion of life force from present attendees, intended to direct this energy towards an effigy of the deceased as part of a Kryptonian resurrection ceremony. It is later revealed that this was a manipulation of Felix Faust and the rock was either regular green Kryptonite or not Kryptonite at all.

"I'm supposed to be dead?"- In the History of the DC Universe backup feature, when Donna and the artificial intelligence in charge of Harbinger's historical records finished her task of reviewing the DC Universe's history, both the artificial intelligence and one of the new Monitors revealed to her that the current timeline has diverged from its rightful path, in which Donna herself, instead of Jade, should have sacrificed herself for Kyle Rayner.

"The Lazarus Pit RISES." - Refers to the Lazarus Pits, which are used by Ra's Al Ghul to lengthen his life span.

Spin-offs

There have been a number of spin-offs and tie-ins.

Booster Gold vol. 2 - The further adventures of Booster Gold, Supernova, and Rip Hunter as they try to preserve the fractured timeline.

- In the aftermath of World War III, Black Adam tries to recoup his losses, for both his powers and personal life.

Infinity Inc - Steel and the remaining members of Luthor's Everyman Project team together to form a new Infinity Inc.

52 Aftermath: The Crime Bible: Five Lessons of Blood - The Question and Batwoman investigate crimes leading them deeper into the Crime Bible.

52 Aftermath: The Four Horsemen - Follows Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman against the Four Horsemen of Apokolips.

Comics

Due to the unpredicted popularity of the series, DC issued several series of comics based on the individual threads of 52 that began several months after 52 ended. All-New Booster Gold is an ongoing series that sees the eponym and Rip Hunter travel through time to fix its convoluted history as "the greatest superhero never known." 52 Aftermath: The Four Horsemen mini-series is six issues long, covering the Four Horsemen's battle with Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. The other strand of that story from 52 is taken up in Black Adam: The Dark Age, another six-issue series following Teth-Adam's quest to bring Isis back to life; it takes place between the end of 52 and Mary Marvel's seduction in Countdown.
Not all the mini-series are six issues, though, as Renee Montoya and Kathy Kane take up their newly donned guises to battle against Intergang in Crime Bible: Five Lessons In Blood a five-issue series, each issue focusing a particular section of the bible in question.
Two strands of the 52 story were taken and put together with back-ups from the new Countdown story. Countdown to Adventure looks at the fate of space-travellers Adam Strange, Animal Man, and Starfire in their new roles after their journey over the course of eight issues (with a supporting story following Forerunner.) Countdown to Mystery is another eight-issue series looking at the Helmet of Fate and its new occupier with the other story focusing on Eclipso.

Action figures

In September 2006, DC Direct premiered a line of action figures based on 52. The first wave, featuring figures based on Batwoman, Isis, Booster Gold, Animal Man, and Supernova, was released in May 2007.

Novelization

Ace Books, under the imprint of The Berkley Publishing Group and published by The Penguin Group, released a novelization written by Greg Cox with cover art by JG Jones and Alex Sinclair and its design by George Brewer.
The novel primarily adapts the weekly limited series and the World War III tie-in mini series. The novel deals with the plotlines of Montoya, the Question, Black Adam, Booster Gold, Skeets, and the 52 Earths, and ignores the Luthor/Steel/Everyman Project, Ralph Dibny, and space plotlines completely; in his introduction, Cox explains that it wasn't possible to adapt all the plotlines of 52 within a novel of reasonable length. There are also minor differences, such as Mister Mind revealing himself within Skeets to the mass gathering of heroes following the battle with Black Adam, rather than revealing himself two weeks later to Rip Hunter and Booster Gold.

Audiobook

In December 2007, GraphicAudio released the first half of a full cast audiobook adaptation based on the novel by Greg Cox. Like GraphicAudio's audiobook of the Infinite Crisis (External Link

) this spans two volumes (each 6 hours long) with 6 CDs and features a full cast, music and sound effects.
Volume 2 was released in February 2008. Voice cast credits as follows::

Ken Jackson… Black Adam, Skeets, Mr. Mind

Barbara Pinolini… Renee Montoya

Bruce Rauscher… The Question, Phantom Strange, Dr. Cyclops, Leonard Akteon

Colleen Delany… Isis, Wonder Woman, Superwoman

David Coyne… Booster Gold, Boss Mannheim, Daniel Carter, Captain Boomerang, Beefeater

James Konicek... Clark Kent, Count Vertigo, First Beast-man

Nanette Savard... Lois Lane, Whisper A’Daire, Zalika

M.B. Van Dorn… Katherine Kane, Batwoman

Michael Glenn… Osiris, Richard Dragon, Hourman, Beastboy

Terence Aselford… Captain Marvel, Jay Garrick, Captain Marvel,Jr., Mind-Grabber Kid

Susan Lynskey… Mary Marvel, Plastique, Madame Xanadu

James Lewis… Nightwing, Kyle Abbot, Baron Bug, Agent Rogers, Jimmy Olsen

Karen Carbone… Power Girl, Claudia Lanpher

Ted Stoddard… Aristotle Rodor

Eric Messner… Atom-Smasher, Dr. Death

Erika Rose… Amanda Waller, Natasha Irons

Michael John Casey…Persuader, Dr. Kim, Zorrm

Elisabeth Demery... Zatanna, Stargirl, Mallory,Veronica Cale

Jeff Baker… Alan Scott

Elliot Dash… Mr.Terrific, Steel

Dylan Lynch… Waverider, Col. Harjvati, Electrocutioner

Thomas Penny… J’onn J’onnz, Rigoro Mortis, News Anchor, Black Lightning, Bike Boy

Tim Carlin… Perry White, Jim Corrigan, Benny the Mover

Cate Torre… Lady Sivana, Mildred Heiny, Yellow Peri, Carjack Lady

Jim Lawson… Metamorpho, Louie The Mover, Fred Farrell, Panic Dad

Arianne Parker… Firehawk, Firefighter, Kahndaqi woman

Christopher Graybill… T.O.Morrow, Roggra, Noose, Mirage

Michael Replogle… Dr.Tyme, Manthrax

Christopher Walker… Strauss, Kahndaqi dissident, Aged servant

Jacinda Bronaugh… Vicki Vale, Bobbi Bobbins

Richard Rohan… Dr. Sivana, Rip Hunter, Sabbac, Azraeuz, The Blimp

Mort Shelby… Sobek, Wildcat, Mammoth, Tawky Tawny, Rough House

Collections

The lead stories of series are collected, with commentary from the creators and other extras, into four trade paperbacks:

Volume 1 (collects #1-13, 304 pages, May 2007, ISBN 1401213537)

Volume 2 (collects #14-26, 304 pages, July 2007, ISBN 1401213642)

Volume 3 (collects #27-39, 304 pages, September 2007, ISBN 1401214436)

Volume 4 (collects #40-52, 304 pages, November 2007, ISBN 140121486X) Other connected collections include:

52: The Companion (224 pages, October 2007, ISBN 1401215572)

DC: World War III (128 pages, Dec. 2007, ISBN 1401215041) (collects 52 Week 50 and the entire four-issue World War III limited series)Further Information

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