Synopsis
| - In the tiny terrorist nation of Bilaya, its ruler, Colonel
Rumaan Harjavti, meets with Jack O'Lantern, formerly of
the Global Guardians, to discuss the formation of a new
super-team which would act as an alternative to the newly-
formed JLI. As Jack departs to consider the proposal,
Harjavti is startled by an explosion in his oil fields, caused
by the near-crash of the JLI's ship .
- Even as the Justice League leaves the meeting of Earth's
super-heroes at the Green Lantern Citadel, one of its
members, Rocket Red #7, reveals himself as a Manhunter.
Trapping Batman, Blue Beetle, Black Canary, and Mr.
Miracle inside their ship, the renegade hero sends it hurtling
toward a Bialian oil refinery. Guy Gardner, Booster Gold,
and the Martian Manhunter, flying outside the ship, are
powerless to save their teammates, but a squad of Rocket
Reds, summoned by Oberon, arrives in time to prevent the
crash, and the Manhunter Rocket Red is destroyed when he
rises from the rubble with a drawn weapon, only to be
stymied by Booster Gold's force-field.
At the same time, in New York, Maxwell Lord is attacked
by a Manhunter posing as his secretary, who is in turn
attacked and destroyed by Lord's computer.
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