Issue Description

Week 8, Day 1.

Metropolis. Steelworks.

Natasha is working late into the night on a new powersuit for herself. Her uncle, Steel comes in and tells her to get some rest. Natasha asks him if will make her a suit of armour or let her get the metagene therapy to give her superpowers - but Steel rejects both.

As Steel flicks on the TV, a hole burns through his shirt and he finds that the skin on his chest has turned to steel.

Star City.

Green Arrow uses a trick arrow to stop a shopowner, who was overcharging his customers, from catching a thief. Ralph Dibny is with Ollie, and reveals that he has "lost a taste for gingold" and so has no more superpowers. Star City is in disarray, and the Green Arrow is having a hard time keeping it safe on his own. Dibny is in Star City hunting for the Cult of Connor. Arrow and Dibny find a deserted shrine in a back alley, and Dibny explains that the Cult believes that they can bring the dead back to life.

Metropolis.

Steel has gone to S.T.A.R. Labs, showing Kala how his skin is slowly turning to stainless steel. Steel and Kala realize that Lex Luthor must have injected him with some form of his metagene therapy, which either triggered Steel's metagene or infected him with one.

Week 8, Day 3, 4, 5.

A new superhero arrives on the scene, teleporting people in danger to safety.

Booster Gold is not at all happy with this new development. His reputation seriously tarnished, Booster resents being shown up by this new hero.

Metropolis.

Natasha Irons finds out that her uncle has received Luthor's metagene, and decides that her uncle, who forbade her from doing so, is a hypocrite. When the armor Natasha has been working on breaks, she confronts her uncle angrily.

Another Planet.

Adam Strange and Animal Man search for Starfire and find her trapped in a net. Soon they both fall into traps, and into the hand of a mysterious gigantic entity.

Week 8, Day 7.

Metropolis.

Crowds are lining up to get superpowers through Luthor's metagene therapy. The candidates all swear to do anything that Luthor tells them if only he'll give them superpowers. "Slaves." says Luthor to his assistant, Ms. Graves. "And they're all mine..."

Lex Luthor discovers Natasha Irons among those waiting for superpowers, and immediately approves her, making her the first candidate of the day.

Week 8, Night 7.

Natasha Irons is connected to Luthor's metagene machine to gain her own superpowers.

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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