COUNTDOWN #45

COVER TAGLINE: None TITLE: Monitor Duty COVER DATE: June 20, 2007 WRITER(s): Paul Dini; Justin Gray; Jimmy Palmiotti PENCILER(s): Jim Calafiore INKER(s): Mark McKenna COLORS: Tom S. Chu LETTERS: Jared K. Fletcher EDITOR(s): Mike Marts; Jeanine Schaefer COVER: T Ed Benes; Rod Reis PRICE: $2.99 U.S./$3.50 Canada CHARACTERS: Jimmy Olsen; Donna Troy; Red Hood [Jason Todd]; Holly Robinson; Monitors; Forerunner; New Gods [Mister Miracle [Scott Free]; Big Barda; Highfather; Lightray; Orion; Metron] (cameo); Monarch [Captain Atom; Nathaniel Adam] (cameo); Dr. Mid-Nite [Pieter Cross]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Dream Girl [Nura Nal]; Karate Kid [Val Armorr]; Starman [Thom Kallor]]; VILLAINS: Darkseid (cameo); Kalibak (cameo); Desaad (cameo); Granny Goodness (cameo) COVER ART:

PLOT: Forerunner has attacked Jason Todd and Donna Troy under orders of a Monitor. She is defeating the pair until a Monitor shows up to stop her. He reveals that her people were bred by the Monitors to act as their weapons. He is stopping her because she and another Monitor have gone too far in trying to erase anomalies such as Jason Todd. The Monitor leaves with Todd and Troy, leaving Forerunner on Earth. She feels she has dishonored the Monitors and vows to remain on Earth until they want her. She is being watched by Monarch who tells himself he has a use for her. Jimmy Olsen returns to Suicide Slum to the building Sleez died in. He is trying to understand his and Lightray's deaths, his dream of being part of the Source Wall and his super powers that have appeared and disappeared. Holly Robinson has been living on the street in Suicide Slum. Someone appears to offer her a place to stay. Karate Kid has been released from his cell but is still being held on the JLA satellite. Until they know why he has come back to the 21st century, the JLA and JSA want to keep an eye on him. NOTE: Two page end of issue story entitled, "History of the Multiverse, Chapter 5" in which the Monitors examine the events from the stories in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA and ADVENTURE COMICS. The JLA and JSA continued to team up and met people from Earth-Prime, Earth-S, the future and the past. They survived all these challenges but an infinitely larger crisis was coming.

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