As it turned out, this would prove to be her final appearance (and, alas, as many of you will already know, Snapper himself wouldn’t be too far behind her in making his own departure.)Īlso worth noting here: Jean Loring says she’s “all set for the Atom“ but at this time, Ms. Midge had been introduced way back in Justice League of America #7, and had shown up several times since then but she hadn’t made an appearance since my own first issue of JLA ( #40), nor had any of her previous outings been reprinted in any of DC’s”80-Page Giants” that I’d read. When I originally read this story in July, 1968, I was familiar with all of the heroes’ Significant Others that appear in that second panel, with the notable exception of Snapper Carr’s “chick” Midge (no last name). Which is a good thing to keep in mind as we open up on the first scene of our story’s second half - produced, like the previous one, by the creative team of Gardner Fox (writer), Dick Dillin (penciler), Sid Greene (inker), and Julius Schwartz (editor): “Kill” might not be quite the right word, however, since that issue had also established that the various fatal-seeming defeats of the Justice Society had actually filled their bodies with “futurenergy” - placing them in a deathlike state which could be reversed, should the futurenergy be removed from them. Morrow - at the conclusion of the first half of 1968’s Justice League of America-Justice Society of America summer team-up extravaganza - he’d just managed to kill all the current members of Earth-Two’s JSA (some of them for the second time that issue), and was preparing to head back to his home world of Earth-One to similarly wipe out the JLA - secure in the knowledge provided by his future-predicting computer that the only way he could be stopped was if the Red Tornado intervened and since the Red Tornado was 1) his own android creation, and 2) also dead, he was sitting in clover, as the saying goes.
When last we left the non-costumed, non-codenamed, but nonetheless quite formidable supervillain T.O.
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