DC: The New Frontier #4
Four issues into Darwyn Cooke and Dave Stewart's six-part love letter to the dawn of the DC age, this July 2004 installment delivers one of the series' most striking visual statements. The cover, by Cooke himself, splits the composition down the middle — on one half, the angular green face of the Martian Manhunter glows with an eerie red eye against a star-filled void, while on the other, a square-jawed man in a pilot's cap gazes forward with a tiny Earth reflected in his eye, bathed in warm amber tones. The bold, retro-graphic design perfectly captures the series' central tension between the alien and the all-American, the cosmic and the earthbound.
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In 1958, the Flash is lured into a government trap, but escapes. Later, in Gotham City, John Jones is asked to interview a man who believes Martians are on Earth, but the interview is interrupted. In California, Hal Jordan is scrubbed from the Task Force X mission. After John Henry is hunted down in Tennessee, Edward R. Murrow addresses the race problem on TV. When The Flash also denounces the tactics used to try and capture him on TV, J'onn J'onzz decides to try to return home, turning over all his unsolved cases to Batman, including the story by Theodore Smiesel about a "Monster Island.”
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