JLA: The Greatest Stories Ever Told #[nn]
"Origin" in JLA: The Greatest Stories Ever Told #nn (2006) delivers a mind-bending twist on the Justice League’s foundation, as the heroes confront twisted versions of themselves—each a product of their deepest subconscious. Written by Gardner Fox and illustrated by Mike Sekowsky, with inks by Bernard Sachs and letters by Gaspar Saladino, the story unfolds with surreal precision, probing the line between hero and shadow. Alex Ross’s striking cover captures the duality at the heart of the tale.
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The JLAers each face their evil doppelgangers and are then blamed for their lawless actions and exiled from Earth. When they return to fight their duplicates, the JLA discovers they are manifestations of their own dreams. The Atom performs microscopic brain surgery to disable them and the JLA shuts down Dr. Destiny's materiopticon to destroy the dream-beings.
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