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Invasion! was a three-part Crisis Crossover miniseries published by DC Comics in 1988. (It should not be confused with the TV series of the same name, or any other invasion-themed series.) An alien race called The Dominators discovers that Earth's superhumans get their powers from a 'meta-gene' and decide to capture them all to be used as living weapons with which to conquer the universe. Realizing that they cannot beat the heroes by themselves, they convince several other races from around The DC Universe to aid them under the pretense that the "metahumans" were too dangerous to be allowed to exist (and taking advantage of the fact that the Green Lantern Corps had, at the time, been reduced to only a handful.)

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  • Invasion! was a three-part Crisis Crossover miniseries published by DC Comics in 1988. (It should not be confused with the TV series of the same name, or any other invasion-themed series.) An alien race called The Dominators discovers that Earth's superhumans get their powers from a 'meta-gene' and decide to capture them all to be used as living weapons with which to conquer the universe. Realizing that they cannot beat the heroes by themselves, they convince several other races from around The DC Universe to aid them under the pretense that the "metahumans" were too dangerous to be allowed to exist (and taking advantage of the fact that the Green Lantern Corps had, at the time, been reduced to only a handful.)
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  • Invasion! was a three-part Crisis Crossover miniseries published by DC Comics in 1988. (It should not be confused with the TV series of the same name, or any other invasion-themed series.) An alien race called The Dominators discovers that Earth's superhumans get their powers from a 'meta-gene' and decide to capture them all to be used as living weapons with which to conquer the universe. Realizing that they cannot beat the heroes by themselves, they convince several other races from around The DC Universe to aid them under the pretense that the "metahumans" were too dangerous to be allowed to exist (and taking advantage of the fact that the Green Lantern Corps had, at the time, been reduced to only a handful.) The combined might of the alien armada seemed invincible but thanks to a Heel Face Turn by one of its own member races, it was routed. But a second threat happened when a Dominator scientist detonated a "meta-gene bomb" whose radiation rendered most of Earth's metahumans helpless. Another switching of sides -by, ironically, that same scientist- helped save them. The series L.E.G.I.O.N. (about a mercenary group that protected the galaxy in the Corps' absence) was spun off from the crossover. It also launched the series of Justice League Europe and the Daxamite superhero Valor (also known as Mon-El). (A team called The Blasters was introduced by the crossover and given a one-shot special, but never had its own series.)
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