Issue Description

Issue Tagline: Smashing Out of the TV Screen-- Your Saturday Morning Favorites-- 
Viewing from the JLA Satellite, the  heroes watch Green Arrow and the Tasmanian Devil reach a bomb in Australia.  It is a white kryptonite bomb which (if it exploded ) would kill all the plant life on earth.  Superman explains how to Zan and Jayna.  Guarding the bomb are 2 alien monsters, different from any of the other monster guards, and between GA's trick arrows and the Tasmanian Devil's size and strength, the creatures are held at bay.  Green Arrow used his magnetic arrow to foul up the bomb's timer and the bomb stopped and the creatures disappeared. 
In the Mid-Atlantic, Aquaman uses his telepathy aimed to the coast of Denmark to call Ulla, the Little Mermaid.  Aquaman shows Ulla where the bomb is.  He has it in the ocean, in a cube of air.  Ulla's ablilty to fly will enable her to reach it, but she doesn't know how to diffuse a bomb, so Aquaman guides her telepathically.  Back on the Satellite, Superman explains to Marvin how this bomb would disturb the continental shelves, causing the Earth to explode much like Krypton did.   
After finding the bomb, Aquaman instructs the Little Mermaid to flip 2 swithces and pull the wire out.  With the bomb diffused the air pocket collapses, but Ulla's ability to stay underwater for 30 hours allows her to withstand the rush of water. 
Wonder Woman and The Olympian are in Greece.  They spot a cave which mysteriously appeared and battled through rays, robots and a gas.  They see what appears to be their destination and there is Colonel Conquest.  After defeating him, The Olymoian realizes there is no bomb and they hit the wrong place. 
 Back at the JLA Satellite the heroes realize they were thinking the way an earthman thinks and not an alien.  Europe as Superman says is really part of Asia, so the only continent that they didn't check is Antarctica.  Wendy finds the place which is at absolute 0 and there are strange creatures around it.  Wendy tells Superman it is rigged if any heat goes near it.  However, the JLA computer finds the Norwegian heroine Ice Maiden can cut off her body heat, so they call her. The JLA go with her to battle the creatures, while Ice Maiden diffuses the bomb.  Back on the Satellite, Zan and Jayna wonder what this bomb would do and Wendy lets the computer explain.  Evidently, the heat from the bomb would melt the Antarctic icecap not only causing great flooding but also causing the earth to spin out of orbit.  Grax arrives to destroy the Wonder Twins and he counter-acts their power with his ray gun.  Wendy and Marvin attack Grax high and low tackling him to the ground.  Meanwhile, Ice Maiden is successful in diffusing the final bomb.  When the JLA return to the Satellite they see Marvin on top of Grax.  The Super Friends admit that Wendy and Marvin graduated.  THey however are intending to go to college.  The issue ends with Zan and Jayna asking to be trained, and the Super Friends accepting.

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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