COUNTDOWN #27

COVER TAGLINE: True Colors! TITLE: Disasters Great & Otherwise RELEASE DATE: Ocotber 24, 2007 WRITER(s): Paul Dini; Sean McKeever PENCILER(s): Keith Giffen; Carlos Magno INKER(s): Rodney Ramos COLORS: Pete Pantazis LETTERS: Travis Lanham EDITOR(s): Mike Carlin; Elisabeth V. Gehrlein COVER: Tom S. Chu; Ian Churchill; Norm Rapmund PRICE: $2.99 U.S./$3.50 Canada CHARACTERS: Karate Kid [Val Armorr]; Una [Luornu Durgo]; Buddy Blank; Buddy Blank's grandson; The Challengers from Beyond [Green Lantern [Kyle Rayner]; Donna Troy; Bob the Monitor; Jason Todd; Jokester (deceased)]; Jimmy Olsen; Forager; Newsboy Legion [Big Words; Tommy; Gabby; Scrapper]; Shadowpact [Detective Chimp; Enchantress [June Moone]; Blue Devil [Daniel Cassidy]; Ragman [Rory Regan]; Nightshade [Eve Eden]; Nightmaster [Jim Rook]]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Holly Robinson; Harleen Quinzel [Harley Quinn]; Pied Piper [Hartley Rathaway]; Trickster [James Jesse]; Tricia; Marta; VILLAINS: Darkseid (cameo); Eclipso [Jean Loring]; Lord Havok (Earth-8); The Extremists [Barracuda (Earth-8); Dr. Diehard (Earth-8); Dreamslayer (Earth-8); Gorgon (Earth-8); Tracer (Earth-8)]; Crime Society [Ultraman (Earth-3); Superwoman (Earth-3); Owlman (Earth-3)]; Monarch [Nathaniel Adam]; Forerunner [Viza] COVER ART:

PLOT: Karate Kid and Una are travelling with Buddy Blank and his grandson through Bludhaven. The city is still radioactive from Chemo's attack. They are there looking for a cure for Karate Kid. The Challengers are stuck in the middle of a fight between Monarch, the Crime Society and Lord Havok and the Extremists. Jason Todd kills one of the Extremists and this shocks Donna Troy. Jason tells Monarch he is joining his side and to prove his loyalty he shoots Donna. Jimmy Olsen agrees to work with Forager to find the souls of the New Gods that have been killed. Mary Marvel is fighting with Shadowpact in the Oblivion Bar after they tried to bring her in. Shadowpact begins to wear her down so Eclipso teleports the two of them away. Holly talks with the other women who have been taken to Themyscira. They all have tales of hard times and trying to make a better life. An Amazon takes them out for a run being chased by dogs when they still haven't recovered from their swim from the boat. Holly notices they seem to be walled in like at a prison. Trickster and Piper have followed Double Down to an unknown location where they knock out two guards escorting Two-Face. He tells them that many villains have been captured and they have all been sent somewhere but none have come back. The pair decides to run before they are captured but a flip of his coin convinces Two-Face to stay. NOTE: Two page end of issue story entitled, "The Origin of Two-Face"

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