Justice League International #8

Dec 1987 · DC · 0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP

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★ 1st appearance — Catherine Cobert

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Justice League International #8, titled 'Moving Day,' is the issue where the Giffen/DeMatteis run fully crystallized its defining comic sensibility: it marks the first appearance of Blue Beetle's 'Bwah-Ha-Ha!' laugh and the debut of Martian Manhunter's now-legendary obsession with Oreo-style cookies (called Chocos), two character notes that would echo through decades of DC storytelling. It also introduces Catherine Cobert as the team's Paris embassy liaison, and dramatizes the disbanding of the Global Guardians — their UN charter cancelled precisely because the JLI has assumed the same role — making this single issue both a comedic high-water mark and a pivotal reshaping of DC's international superhero landscape. The issue captures the Giffen/DeMatteis formula at its most confident: genuine character work and geopolitical texture delivered through sustained physical comedy.

Contains 2 stories

Moving Day

17 pp · Superhero

HarryFyodorMyshkinRoskolnikovMr. Kveller

Old News

6 pp · Superhero

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History

By issue #8, the title had already rebranded from Justice League to Justice League International with #7, and the creative team of writers Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis with penciller Kevin Maguire and inker Al Gordon was operating without the constraints of A-list characters, instead leaning into what TV Tropes and contemporaneous commentary have described as a deliberate pivot toward superhero comedy at a moment when the broader industry was trending darker. Editor Andrew Helfer, colorist Gene D'Angelo, and letterer Bob Lappan rounded out the production team. The issue was published on August 18, 1987, with a cover date of December 1987, and the story's Cold War texture — a KGB-bugged Moscow embassy, the tension surrounding Guy Gardner's prior incursion into Russia — reflects the geopolitical moment in which it was produced.

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First appearance of Blue Beetle's 'Bwah-Ha-Ha!' laugh, which became one of the defining catchphrases of the Giffen/DeMatteis JLI era.
First appearance of Martian Manhunter's obsession with Oreo-style cookies, depicted here as actual Oreos before later issues renamed them 'Chocos'; Boosterrific.com notes J'Onn was introduced to them by Captain Marvel.
First appearance of Catherine Cobert, the Paris JLI embassy liaison, whose debut is set up by the running gag of Booster Gold attempting to flirt with her before realizing she is his new supervisor.
First appearance of Boris Dmitravich Razumihin, the Bureau Chief for the Soviet JLI Embassy in Moscow.
The issue dramatizes the dissolution of the Global Guardians: the UN cancels their charter and closes The Dome immediately upon funding the new JLI, directly displacing the team and setting up future storylines involving Doctor Mist, Jack O'Lantern, Bushmaster, Tasmanian Devil, Tuatara, Belphegor, and other Guardians members indexed in this issue.
The story — titled 'Moving Day' — follows the JLI setting up three simultaneous embassies in Manhattan, Moscow, and Paris, with each location providing its own comedic disaster: J'Onn crashes through a weakened floor, Captain Atom fries the electrical system, and Mister Miracle collapses the New York embassy roof by landing the new S.T.A.R. Labs-donated shuttle on it.
Published on August 18, 1987 (cover-dated December 1987); written by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis, pencilled by Kevin Maguire, inked by Al Gordon, colored by Gene D'Angelo, lettered by Bob Lappan, edited by Andrew Helfer.
The issue has been reprinted in Justice League International: The Secret Gospel of Maxwell Lord, Justice League International: Volume Two, and Justice League International Omnibus Volume 1.