Issue Description

The story starts with Wonder Woman and Aquaman battling a villain from a Desert world, known as Spectrum.  Once he is captured by the Lasso of Truth, he suddenlty disappears.  Batman, Robin and Superman defeat another villain known as the Anti-man.  He also disappears.   
These two villains appear in Dr. Indrom's labs, in cells that withstand their particular powers.  There are dozens of captured villains and Indrom's plan is to kill them all by disintegrating their atoms and have them reformed into one Robotic creature known as the World Beater.  Dr. Indrom gives World Beater a test to go to Earth and defeat all the heroes there.  
World Beater uses a false signal to gather the JLA at their Satellite HQ and he enters through the teleporter.  He claims to have beaten the following heroes: The Freedom Fighters, Plastic Man, most of the Titans,the Blackhawks, etc.  Green Arrow jumps in and is rebuked, followed by Green Lantern and the Flash.  As World Beater is defeating Elongated Man and Black Canary, the Atom signals the Super Friends and warns them not to come up to the Satellite.  After they learn how GL was defeated, they realized this monster has the powers of the villains they fought.  Atom is caught as he is still on the monitor screen and before the SF can prepare, World Beater is at the Hall of Justice.   
The Super Friends try to stop him with a simulaneous assault  Wonder Woman tells Wendy and Marvin to get away because her mom had a vision that they were the only ones able to stop this threat.  So they go to formulate a plan as World Beater freezes Aquaman, shocks the dynamic due, stop Superman with a blast of ANTI-MAN'S power and turns WW's lasso against her.  At this time Wonder Dog is a decoy and he trips up World Beater.  Then Wendy and Marvin arrive in knight armor (From the Trophy Room).  World Beater, thinking they are other heroes. uses Spectrum's X-rays to scan the armor.  What Wendy and Marvin figured was if he had the villain's powers then he had their weaknesses which included Anti-man's vulnerability to X-Rays, and he was knocked out by the x-rays.  The kids then revived the heroes with GL'S Power Ring and WW used her lasso to heal GL.  Superman says medals are not enough to express gratitude for Wendy and Marvin saving the Earth.  Marvin said Wonder Dog would settle for a T-bone steak and with that the story concludes.

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)

Collected EditionsShowcase Presents: Super Friends vol. 1 (#1-35)

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