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52 - Week 2 (May 17 (July by indencia) 2006)

Looking Back at Tomorrow

"I rigged a tachyon dish so the TV can receive pap from the future. That old man they're all laughing at is Ashton Kutcher."
--Professor T.O. Morrow


Summary

Volume: 52
Issue: Week 2
Month: May 17th (July by indencia)
Year: 2006

Overall credits

Editor in Chief: Dan DiDio
Editor: Stephen Wacker
Assistant Editors: Jann Jones and Harvey Richards
Cover Artists: J.G. Jones and Alex Sinclair

"Looking Back at Tomorrow"

Credits

Writers: Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid
Breakdowns: Keith Giffen
Pencilers: Joe Bennett
Inkers: Jack Jadson
Colorists: Alex Sinclair
Letterer: Travis Lanham

Story

Cast of Characters

Cameo
Behind the scenes

Locations

First Appearances

No first appearances

Final Appearances

No final appearances

Synopsis

Day 1
Ralph Dibny goes to his late wife's tombstone to snap pictures of the recent vandalism. He briefly speaks with the groundskeeper and commits himself to solving this new mystery.

Day 2
Booster Gold takes Skeets to Doctor Will Magnus. He's concerned over the robot's recent systems glitch in Metropolis. Magnus runs a few diagnostics until Skeets appears to be functioning properly again. He then travels to Haven to speak with scientific colleague, Professor T.O. Morrow. Morrow tells Magnus that several scientists of note have disappeared in the past several days.

Day 3
In Gotham City, the Question breaks into the apartment shared by Renee Montoya and her girlfriend, Daria Henderson. Montoya wakes up and fires her gun into the Question's chest, but he disappears. Montoya finds that he left behind an address written on a sheet of paper.

Day 4
Booster Gold returns to Metropolis. Skeets tells him that a jetliner is scheduled to crash, so Booster arrives to save the day. Skeets' information is faulty however, and the jetliner nearly collides into Booster. Gold threatens to bring Skeets back to Will Magnus.

Day 5
In the evening, Montoya goes to 52 Kane Street in Gotham City. The Question meets with her and offers to hire her as a private detective.

Day 6
In San Francisco, Wonder Girl erects a Superboy memorial shrine at Titans Tower. She broadcasts a Kryptonian prayer over a live web cast. The Elongated Man arrives and shows her a photograph of Sue Dibny's gravestone. Someone spray-painted an inverted "S" symbol (in the style of Superman) across the stone. Ralph believes that Wonder Girl may know something about it.

"History of the DCU Part 1"

Credits

Writer: Dan Jurgens
Penciler: Dan Jurgens
Inker: Art Thibert
Colorists: Guy Major and Jerome Cox
Letterer: Nick J. Napolitano
Editors: Eddie Berganza, Ivan Cohen and Jeanine Schaefer

Story

Cast of Characters

Cameo

(all in flashbacks)

Locations

Items

First Appearances

No first appearances

Final Appearances

No final appearances

Synopsis

Donna Troy is the new Harbinger. She inspects the original Harbinger's orb and learns about the origins of the universe. She witnesses the birth of the Multiverse, and the events that led the Maltusian, Krona, to accidentally create the Antimatter universe. She sees the creation of the Manhunters, and their successors, the Green Lantern Corps.

Donna is not interested in learning the entire history of creation however. She is more concerned about people – specifically, Earth's heroes. She begins analyzing the events that led to the births of Superman of Earth-One and Earth-Two.

Notes

  • This issue begins a ten-part series called History of the DCU. It is patterned after the 1986 two-issue limited series, History of the DC Universe.
  • Superboy heroically gave his life in Infinite Crisis #7.
  • Doctor Sivana's behind the scenes appearance is in a newspaper clipping in this issue.
  • Sue Dibny's cameo is a reprise from Identity Crisis #1

Trivia

  • Professor T.O. Morrow makes reference to an android known as Red Inferno. Apparently, the Red Inferno was constructed as an android sibling to the Red Tornado. As of this writing, the Red Inferno has yet to make an appearance.

Recommended Readings

  • Booster Gold
  • Crisis on Infinite Earths
  • Elongated Man
  • History of the DC Universe
  • Identity Crisis
  • Infinite Crisis
  • Question (Volume 1)
  • Question (Volume 2)

Related Articles

External Links

References

  • 52 cover art gallery
  • Booster Gold appearances list
  • Donna Troy appearances list
  • Elongated Man appearances list
  • Jimmy Olsen appearances list
  • Metal Men appearances list
  • Question appearances list
  • T.O. Morrow appearances list
  • Will Magnus appearances list
  • Wonder Girl appearances list


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