Super Man Goes Prime 1million Again
| " DC One Million " | |||
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 Cover of DC I Million (1999), trade paperback nerveless edition, art by Val Semeiks. | |||
| Publisher | DC Comics | ||
| Publication engagement | November 1998 | ||
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| Master character(due south) | Justice League of America Justice Legion Alpha Solaris Vandal Vicious | ||
| Creative team | |||
| Writer(due south) | Grant Morrison | ||
| Penciller(s) | Val Semeiks | ||
| Inker(south) | Prentis Rollins Jeff Albrecht Del Barras | ||
| Colorist(south) | Pat Garrahy (Heroic Age) | ||
| DC 1 Million | ISBN ane-56389-525-0 | ||
DC One Million is a comic book crossover storyline that ran through a self-titled, weekly miniseries and through special issues of almost all of the "DCU" titles published by American company DC Comics in November 1998. It featured a vision of the DC Universe in the 853rd century (85,201–85,300 Ad), called because that is the century in which DC Comics would take published upshot #1,000,000 of their comics if they had maintained a regular publishing schedule. The miniseries was written by Grant Morrison and fatigued by Val Semeiks.[1]
Set-up [edit]
The cadre of the issue was a four-result miniseries, in which the 20th-century Justice League of America and the 853rd-century Justice Legion Alpha cooperate to defeat a plot past the supervillain Vandal Savage (who, being practically immortal, exists in both centuries as well as all the ones in between) and future Superman nemesis Solaris the Living Sun. Thirty-4 other series then being published past DC also put out a unmarried issue numbered #1,000,000, which either showed its characters' involvement in the central plot or gave a glimpse of what its characters' descendants/successors would be doing in the 853rd century. Hitman #1,000,000 was essentially a parody of the entire storyline. A trade paperback collection was subsequently published consisting of the iv-issue mini-serial and the tie-in bug that were necessary to follow the primary plot. The series was and then followed by a one-shot result titled DC 1 Meg 80-Page Giant #one,000,000 (1999), which was a collection of farther adventures in the life of the time to come heroes.
Plot [edit]
In the 853rd century, the original Superman ("Superman-Prime One Meg") however lives, simply has spent over 15,000 years in a self-imposed exile in his Fortress of Confinement in the heart of the Sun in guild to keep it alive, during which anybody he knew and loved died. Ane of his descendants is "Kal Kent", the Superman of the 853rd century.
The galaxy is protected by the Justice Legions, which were inspired past the 20th-century Justice League and the 31st-century Legion of Super-Heroes, amongst others. Justice Legion Alpha, which protects the solar system, includes Kal Kent and future analogues of Wonder Woman, the Hourman, Starman, Aquaman, the Flash and Batman. Advanced terraforming processes have made all the Solar System'south planets habitable, with the ones near distant from the Dominicus being warmed by Solaris, a "star computer" which was in one case a villain but was reprogrammed by ane of Superman's descendants.
Superman-Prime announces that he will soon return to humanity and, to celebrate, Justice Legion Alpha travels back in time to the late 20th century to encounter Superman's original teammates in the JLA and bring them and Superman to the future to participate in games and displays of ability every bit office of the celebration.
Meanwhile, in Russia, Vandal Savage single-handedly defeats the Titans (Arsenal, Storm, Jesse Quick and Supergirl) when they attempt to stop him from purchasing nuclear-powered Rocket Red suits. He then launches four Rocket Red suits (with a Titan trapped inside each of the four) in a nuclear strike on Washington D.C., City, Brussels and Singapore.
One fellow member of the Justice Legion Alpha (the future Starman) has been bribed into betraying his teammates by Solaris, which has returned to its old habits. Earlier the original heroes tin can exist returned to their own fourth dimension, the futurity Hourman android collapses and releases a virus programmed by Solaris to attack machines and humans.
The virus affects the guidance systems of the Rocket Red suits and causes one of them to instead detonate over Montevideo, killing over 1 meg people. Tempest (the Titan inside) had escaped long before the suit exploded past using the ice that formed on the suit at high altitude, although he later on blacked out and fell into the ocean. The virus besides drives humans insane, causing an increment in anger and paranoia worldwide. Assertive that this was deliberately planned by the JLA to terminate him, Vicious launches an all-out state of war on superhumans using "blitz engines" he had created and hidden while allied with Hitler during World War II. The paranoia caused by the virus besides leads the Justice Legion Alpha and the contemporary heroes to attack each other, although the Justice Legion Alpha manage to coordinate themselves enough to stop the other Rocket Red suits from hitting their targets.
The remnants of the JLA that stayed in the present and the Justice Legion Alpha overcome their paranoia when the future Superman and Steel realize the significance of the symbol they both wear; as the Huntress had pointed out to Steel earlier, wearing the 'Due south' ways that he has to make the hard choices. The two JLAs are eventually able to stop the virus when it is discovered that it is a complex computer plan looking for appropriate hardware. To provide this hardware, the heroes are forced to build the torso of Solaris (including in it a DNA sample of Superman'south wife Lois Lane) and the virus flees from World to this body, bringing Solaris to life. In a last act of repentance, the time to come Starman sacrifices himself to banish Solaris from the Solar System. The future Superman forces himself through fourth dimension using confiscated time travel applied science he finds in the Watchtower, almost dying in the process due to the drain on his powers.
Meanwhile, in the 853rd century, the original JLA are fighting an alliance between Solaris and Vandal Savage. Brutal has found a sample of kryptonite on Mars (where information technology was left by the hereafter Starman dorsum in the 20th century), which he gives to Solaris. Roughshod has also hired Walker Gabriel to steal the time travel gauntlets of the 853rd century Wink (John Play a joke on) to ensure the Justice Legion Blastoff remains trapped in the past, only ultimately double-crosses Gabriel.
Solaris, in a concluding assail, slaughters thousands of superhumans and then that it can burn the kryptonite into the sun and kill Superman-Prime before he emerges. The JLA'southward Dark-green Lantern — a hero who uses a ability that Solaris has never encountered earlier — causes Solaris to go supernova and he and the 853rd century Superman contain the resulting nail — only non earlier the kryptonite is released.
The future Vandal Vicious teleports from Mars to Earth using the stolen Time-Gauntlets. It turns out, however, that Walker Gabriel and Mitch Shelley, the Resurrection Human being (an immortal who had become Savage's greatest foe through the millennia), had sabotaged the Gauntlets so that Fell, instead of travelling only in space, besides travels through time, arriving in Montevideo moments earlier the nuclear nail he caused centuries earlier, finally bringing his life to an end.
It is then revealed that a secret conspiracy — forewarned by the trouble in the 20th century, mainly in that the Huntress, inspired past the time capsules which students in her form were currently making, realized they had centuries to foil the plot — has spent the intervening centuries coming upwards with a foolproof program for stopping Solaris. Their actions included replacing the subconscious kryptonite with a disguised Green Lantern power band, with which the original Superman emerges from the Sunday and finishes off Solaris.
In the aftermath, the original Superman and the hereafter Hourman employ the Dna sample to recreate Lois Lane, complete with superpowers. Superman then also recreates Krypton, along with all its deceased inhabitants, in Earth's Solar system, and lives happily ever after with Lois.
Afterwards, in the miniseries The Kingdom, it is established that this timeline is but one of many possibilities and thus not definite due to the mutable effects of Hypertime.
Crossovers [edit]
Alongside the main DC One Million miniseries and the accompanying lxxx-Page Giant issue, the following ongoing DC Comics books also partook in the event:
- Action Comics
- Adventures of Superman
- Aquaman
- Azrael
- Batman
- Batman: Shadow of the Bat
- Booster Gold
- Catwoman
- Chase
- Chronos
- Creeper
- Detective Comics
- Flash
- Green Arrow
- Green Lantern
- Hitman
- Hourman
- Impulse
- JLA
- Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 4)
- Legionnaires
- Lobo
- Martian Manhunter
- Nightwing
- The Power of Shazam (vol. 2)
- Resurrection Human
- Robin
- Starman (vol. 2)
- Superboy
- Supergirl
- Superman (vol. two)
- Superman: The Man of Steel
- Superman: The Man of Tomorrow
- Wonder Adult female
- Young Heroes in Honey
- Immature Justice
The Justice Legions [edit]
There are 24 Justice Legions, each based on 20th- and 30th-century superhero teams. Those featured include:
- Justice Legion A is based on the Justice League.
- Justice Legion B is based on the Titans. Members include Nightwing (a bat-similar humanoid), Aqualad (a humanoid made from water), Troy (a younger version of the 853rd century Wonder Woman), Armory (a robot) and Joto (killed in a teleporter accident).
- Justice Legion Fifty is based on the Legion of Super-Heroes and protects an artificially created planetary arrangement (all that remains of the 30th Century United Planets). Members include Cosmicbot (a cyborg based on magnetism, modelled on Catholic Boy), Titangirl (the combined psychic energy of all Titanians, based on Saturn Girl), Implicate Girl (who contains the abilities of all 3 trillion Carggites in her "third eye", very loosely based on Triplicate Daughter), Brainiac 417 (a disembodied intelligence, based on Brainiac 5 and Apparition), the M'onelves (who combine the powers of K'onel and Shrinking Violet) and barely humanoid versions of Umbra and Chameleon.
- Justice Legion S consists of numerous Superboy clones, all with different powers. Members include Superboy 820 (with aquatic powers), Superboy 3541 (who can increase his size) and Superboy I Million (who can channel any of their powers through "the Eye"). They all (most notably Ane One thousand thousand) resemble OMAC every bit much equally Superboy. This was an intentional pun, equally the championship of the story was "One Million And Counting", which referred to the 1 million clones and formed the OMAC acronym.
- Justice Legion T is based on Young Justice. Members include Superboy One 1000000 (as referred to above), Robin the Toy Wonder (an optimistic robot sidekick to the 853rd century Batman) and Impulse (the living apotheosis of random thoughts lost in the Speed Force).
- Justice Legion Z (for Zoomorphs) is based on the Legion of Super-Pets. Members include Proty One Million and Principal Listen. A version of Comet the Super-Horse is also a member.
Other characters [edit]
Several other futuristic versions of DC characters appeared in the crossover, including:
- the Atom
- Azrael
- Booster Gold
- Catwoman
- Charade Metropolis
- Gunfire
- Lex Luthor
- Supergirl
- Captain Marvel
Subsequently references [edit]
In 2008, ten years afterwards the crossover, an issue of Booster Gold (vol. two) was published as Booster Gold #ane,000,000 and was announced equally an official DC One One thousand thousand tie-in by DC Comics. This comic introduced Peter Platinum, the Booster Gold of the 853rd century.
Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman miniseries made several references to the DC I Meg miniseries. The Superman from DC I Million makes an appearance and the series ends with Superman becoming an energy existence who resides in the Lord's day afterwards his body has been supercharged with xanthous solar free energy (similar in appearance to Superman-Prime) and Solaris makes an appearance besides.
Morrison's Batman #700 also briefly shows the 1 Million Batman and his sidekick—Robin, the Toy Wonder—aslope a number of hereafter iterations of Batman.
The One Million Batman, Robin the Toy Wonder and One Million Superman play a significant part in Superman/Batman #79–80, in which Epoch battles Batmen and Supermen from various fourth dimension periods.
Past signing into WBID business relationship in the video game Batman: Arkham Origins, the costume of the One Million version of Batman will be unlocked for use.[ii]
Awards [edit]
The original miniseries was a top vote-getter for the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Accolade for Favorite Limited Series for 1999. The storyline was a meridian vote-getter for the Comics Buyer'south Guide Honour for Favorite Story for 1999.[3]
Collected editions [edit]
- DC Ane Million, later reprinted with the title JLA: One Million (208 pages, DC Comics, June 1999, ISBN one-56389-525-0, Titan Books, June 1999, ISBN 1-84023-094-0, DC Comics, June 2004, ISBN 1-4012-0320-v) collects:
- DC One 1000000 (by Grant Morrison, with pencils past Val Semeiks and inks by Prentis Rollins/Jeff Albrecht/Del Barras, 4-issue miniseries)
- Dark-green Lantern #1,000,000 (by Ron Marz, with pencils by Bryan Hitch and inks by Andy Lanning/Paul Neary)
- Resurrection Human #1,000,000 (by Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning, with art by Jackson Guice)
- Starman #i,000,000 (past James Robinson, with pencils by Peter Snejbjerg and inks by Wade Von Grawbadger)
- JLA #1,000,000 (by Grant Morrison, with pencils by Howard Porter and inks by John Dell)
- Superman: The Man of Tomorrow #ane,000,000 (by Mark Schultz, with pencils by Georges Jeanty and inks by Dennis Janke/Denis Rodier)
- Detective Comics #one,000,000 (by Chuck Dixon, with pencils by Greg Land and inks by Drew Geraci)
- DC One 1000000 Autobus (1,080 pages, DC Comics, October 2013, ISBN 978-i-4012-4243-5) collects:[4]
- DC One Million #1–4, plus the #1,000,000 problems of Action Comics, Adventures Of Superman, Aquaman, Azrael, Batman, Batman: Shadow Of The Bat, Catwoman, Hunt, Chronos, The Creeper, Detective Comics, The Wink, Dark-green Arrow, Greenish Lantern, Hitman, Impulse, JLA, Legion of Super-Heroes, Legionnaires, Lobo, Martian Manhunter, Nightwing, Power Of Shazam, Resurrection Human being, Robin, Starman, Superboy, Supergirl, Superman (vol. 2), Superman: The Man of Steel, Superman: The Human being of Tomorrow, Wonder Adult female and Young Justice; every bit well as Booster Gilt #i,000,000, DC One Million 80-Folio Giant #1 and Superman/Batman #79–80 (the Motorcoach did not include the #1,000,000 event of Young Heroes in Love, as information technology was a creator-owned series).
References [edit]
- ^ "DC ONE MILLION Motorcoach". DC. 2013-05-13. Retrieved 2021-07-13 .
- ^ "Batman: Arkham Origins gets free One Million & Red Son skins for WBID registration". Shacknews . Retrieved 2021-07-13 .
- ^ "17th Annual Comic Buyers Guide Fan Awards (1999)". world wide web.hahnlibrary.net . Retrieved 2021-07-thirteen .
- ^ DC One Million Motorbus at DCComics.com. Accessed 13 March 2017.
External links [edit]
- DC One Million at the Grand Comics Database
- DC One Million (storyline) at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards
- Sequart on DC Ane Million
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_One_Million
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