Issue Description

The story begins with Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman asking if the Wonder Twins could stay with Professor Nichols. He said that he would be happy to help them adjust to Earth. When the SF said that the kids would need secret identities, Professor Nichols came up with the idea that they will be from some European Country. WW tells Jayna that Wendy wanted her to have the charm bracelet with all of the Super Friends' communication devices. Finally Superman tells the twins that they are better off practicing their skills out in the country.

Outside of Gotham City, the Wonder Twins are studying the terrain and the animal life, when they come across 7 "Monsters" chasing a "beautiful female. The twins come to the aid of the young lady when Zan takes the form of a tornado and Jayna the form of a horse. Jayna tells the young woman to get on and Zan whirls them to the Hall of Justice. There they contact the Super Friends. The young lady identifies herself as Cherry Mott and says that she needs help retrieving her inheritance left by her grandfather. She also says that the monsters were sent to get the treasure before she could claim it. The Super Friends are told that the two treasures are hidden in the Black Caverns and the Barracuda Deeps. They split into 2 teams. Batman, Wonder Woman, Robin and Gleek to Black Caverns and Superman, Aquaman, Zan and Jayna to the Barracuda Deeps.

At the Black Caverns, 4 of the "creatures are there". Batman and Robin battle the Vampires and Wonder Woman takes on the werewolf. She is amazed at his strength. Robin uses a flash of light to turn the female bat to human form. Batman is amazed at the male vampire's toughness. The mummy uses his elastic wrap to entangle Wonder Woman but Gleek appears and helps with his tail. Once the "monsters are defeated, Gleek gives the Super Friends the treasure: which is a yellow ring. (they should have deduced something was amiss.)

Meanwhile Superman, Aquaman, Zan( a wave) and Jayna (a swordfish) are arriving at the Barracuda Deeps. They quickly encounter 3 more of the creatures. The creature that looks like Frankenstein's Monster battled Superman and the Man of Steel was amazed by his opponents speed, agility and strength. Aquaman took on the being in the water and they disappeared into the sea. Superman needed the help of the Wonder Twins to defeat Superior Man. Superman used his super breath to turn the wave (Zan) into us and directed at their foe, Superiorman was knocked out. The third being shot a ray that seemingly hurt Superman. Jayna changed form to avoid injury but her lack of knowledge of sea creatures limited her to turn into a goldfish, yet she was unharmed by the ray. Aquaman emerged from the depths stating that his opponent put up quite a fight and he had the treasure, which was a gold lantern. Superman mentioned that it was odd that the treasure was a gold lantern.

When the team arrives with the lantern and the ring, Cherry Mott is grateful although Aquaman said there were no signs that the lantern was magical. When Robin said they defeated 4 "monsters" and their treasure was a ring, Superman became very curious. He used his X-Ray vision to check under the cloak of one of the beings and realized that the SF were being played for fools because the cloaked being was a Green Lantern. The alien Green Lantern was surprised to see that the SF were friends of this planet's GL. He said that he was cloaked because he didn't know who on earth new of the power ring's weakness to anything yellow. GL revealed that his friends were all heroes and they introduced themselves through Interlac. Thus the vampire was named Batman and found it that his only defeat came from another hero named Batman. Cherry Mott was revealed to be a villainess known as Char Ymat and she now had access to Sinestro's Power Ring. Superman had her tell the story and her plan so that the Wonder Twins could plan a diversion and that GL could recharge his ring. Then GL was easily able to defeat Char Ymat due to his experience and greater will-power. Both Teams left on friendly terms and Jayna understood that as a goldfish , her yellow color protected her from the power ring. Superman also realized that the ray which weakened him was a kryptonite beam and GL confirmed it although he didn't know the name, he just scanned Superman's body for a weakness. Zan realized the moral was that the creatures were the true heroes and that the beautiful woman was the monster. Robin confirmed that they all should remember never to judge a book by its cover.

Super Friends

Publisher

DC Comics

Volume Description

Since 1973, Alex Toth's rendering of the JLA had dominated Saturday morning television. In fact, Hanna-Barbera's animated "Super Friends" proved so successful that DC brought the concept full circle, adapting the show into a comic. Scribe E. Nelson Bridwell and artist Ric Estrada crafted the inaugural issue, pitting "the most powerful forces of good ever assembled" against a band of self-proclaimed, "Super Foes." Although not considered DC canon, "Super Friends" enjoyed nearly a five year run in comics form, lasting for 47 issues.

The team started as Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin, Aquaman, Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog. There was a storyline in issue 7 which lasted 3 issues where the Wonder Twins (Zan, Jayna, Gleek) came to Earth to warn Earth's heroes of an impending threat by the name of Grax. This storyline included the entire Justice League and the Global Guardians. At the end of the story (Issue 9) Wendy and Marvin had captured Grax and The Super Friends said that they completed their training and were ready to become full fledged super heroes. Both kids said they were going to college and Zan and Jayna asked if the Super Friends would train them and they agreed. Many issues had morals for the Wonder Twins to learn. Issue 10 showed us that an old friend of Superman and Batman, Professor Carter Nicholls agreed to be the Guardian of Zan and Jayna and he came up with alter egos and a European Country that they came from. Also we met a group of alien heroes who tracked a beautiful woman to earth. The twins learned a valuable lesson that the monsters were the heroes and the beauty was the evil one.

Many heroes guest starred as well as supporting characters from the Super Friends individual books. Solovar and King Vulko were in issue 11 and the SF battled the Kingslayer. In issue 12 TNT and Dynamite guest starred and their were brief visits to Atlantis and the Bottled City of Kandor. Several villains such as Grax, Overlord, and Menagerie Man made multiple appearances. The Super Friends also battled villains from other heroes' Rogues Gallery such as : (Mirror Master-23 )Flash Villain, Flash Villain (Weather Wizard-37), Atom Villain (Chronos-22), WW and Flash villains(Giganta and Grodd-30). Many other guest stars included Mera and Aqualad (issues 25 and 27), Jimmy Olsen (28), Black Orchid (31), Scarecrow (32), Hawkman (33), Plastic Man (36), Supergirl (37), Topo (38), Green Fury (42-44, 47) and the Global Guardians (45-46).

When DC expanded their books to 25 pages, in SF there were rotating solo stories beginning with issue 35. The Wonder Twins, Jack O Lantern, and the Seraph rotated solo back-up stories with Plastic Man joining the rotation in issues 44 and 46. Issue 47 ended the run with a full length adventure guest starring the Green Fury and a trip to Brazil, ending in a death of someone the Green Fury new. The Super Friends went to Exxor in issues 21 and 46 and to Atlantis in issue 27 and Gorilla City in Issue 30. All in all it was a very fun run. The JLA Satellite was used several times (2, 3 7-9,16) and old JLA villains made appearances.

Felix Faust (28), Kanjar Ro, Queen Bee (45-46) along with Sinestro, Hector Hammond and World Beater (45-46)

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