Issue Description

Week 35, Day 1.

New Year's Day, 12:00:01 A.M.

Downtown Metropolis.

Lex Luthor's Everymen are falling from the sky like rain.

Their powers have failed them.

The Everymen are causing extreme destruction - falling on civilians celebrating New Years Eve as well as crashing into buildings and the ground.

Lex Luthor stands on the roof of his building, watching dispassionately.

A panic has gripped the city as mobs of civilians flee from the destruction. Supernova teleports a crowd out of the city and to safety, but there are just too many to save.

Luthor's Infinity Inc. have retained their powers and fight to save both the Everymen and any civilians they can. Natasha Irons, alias Starlight, realizes that her uncle, Steel, may have been right when he said that Luthor has the power of shut off the metagene.

Week 35, Day 2.

Saint Camillus Hospital.

Real superheroes from all over have arrived to save the people of Metropolis. Doctor Light and Obsidian wheel an Everyman into an emergency medical station. Guy Gardner, John Stewart, Hawkgirl, Power Girl, Captain Marvel Jr. and others help with the rescue efforts. Plastic Man freaks out when he sees his son, Offspring, among the victims. He learns that his son exhausted himself saving over 20 people, but will be fine.

Steel arrives and tells Beast Boy and Raven that Luthor caused the mayhem, and tells them to get the Titans together to investigate the matter.

Week 35, Day 3.

Lex Luthor has gathered together his Infinity Inc., all but the conspicuously absent Everyman. Luthor tells the team that they've all been cleared and that their powers are safe. Natasha is skeptical, but the others are so relieved that they promise to do whatever Luthor tells them.

Natasha goes back to her room, where she is joined by Skyman. Natasha tells Jacob her suspicions surrounding the deaths of Trajectory and the Everymen. Jacob promises Natasha that he'll help her get to the bottom of it.

Week 35, Day 6.

Starfire, Animal Man, Adam Strange, the Emerald Head and Lobo have reached the remains of the planet Vartu. Starfire reveals that this is where the desperate telepathic message of Captain Comet came from, but he is long gone.

The team tries to come up with a plan to battle Lady Styx, and Adam Strange says that the most effective way will be to get inside of her ship. Lobo reveals that Lady Styx has put a bounty on their heads, and that he's willing to take them straight to Lady Styx - just as Adam Strange planned.

52 (2006)

Publisher

DC Comics

Volume Description

52 was a 52-part limited series, published weekly for one year, chronicling the events that take place during the missing year after the end of Infinite Crisis. None of the DC "Big Three" (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman) are featured in costume in the pages of 52.

While DC had used the weekly format before, (most notably with Action Comics in April 1988), 52 was their first attempt to launch a new title as a weekly. Set in the time between the end of "Infinite Crisis" and the "One Year Later" story lines, 52 dealt with the events of the missing year - a year without Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, The title was masterminded by writers Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid, with Keith Giffen producing art breakdowns. Its weekly publication meant several artists had to handle the art, starting with Joe Bennett on the first four issues. A massive saga, spanning the whole DC Universe (and beyond), 52 introduced several new heroes and villains, including a new Question and Batwoman, before the big reveal of a new multiversse of fifty two realities, each containing an alternate Earth.

The story had a huge impact on the DC Universe, affecting everything from Black Adam's World War III spin off, to Booster Gold's post - 52 reality - spanning adventures. It also led into countdown to final crisis and left the DC Universe a dramatically different place.

Issues #1-13 are collected in 52 Vol 1 TPBIssues #14-26 are collected in 52 Vol 2 TPBIssues #27-39 are collected in 52 Vol 3 TPBIssues #40-52 are collected in 52 Vol 4 TPB

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