Issue Description

Week 5, Day 1.

Ellen Baker, the wife of Buddy Baker the Animal Man, is taking down a 'Welcome Home' banner. Her husband has not come back with the other heroes, but she hasn't given up hope. Alan Scott arrives and tells her that Animal Man went missing in action in outerspace.

Metropolis. A radio announcement tells of Lex Luthor's newest discovery - a way to synthesize the metagene and give ordinary people superpowers.

Steel is paged to go to Saint Camillus hospital to help the newly returned superheroes. A truck brings in Hawkgirl, who has inexplicably become 25 feet tall. With Alan Scott and Dr. Mid-Nite, Steel makes the rounds and learns that an accident in space caused Hawkgirl's growth, as well as the fusion of Cyborg and Firestorm. Adam Strange, who used his powers to transfer the superheroes using his Zeta-Beam matter transfer system, but didn't make it back. The beam refracted, causing injury and Alan Scott to lose an eye.

Scott says that after the rift in space was healed, a reality-warping wave emanated from it. Adam Strange used his Zeta-Beam to transfer who he could, but they all went different ways and many didn't make it back at all. Adam Strange, Animal Man and Starfire did not materialize with the rest of them, nor did Scott's daughter, Jade.

Week 5, Day 7.

On another planet. Animal Man is sitting near a beautiful waterfall, talking to a bathing Starfire. Animal Man wonders what his family thinks, and if the crisis is at all over. Starfire reveals that they crash-landed on this planet along with Adam Strange. Strange, who has lost his vision, is attempting to fix up a spaceship in order to get back to Earth when they all sense something suspicious. A pair of glowing arms is watching them through the bushes.

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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