Story:
"A Journey Into Mystery"
- This story has appeared in: JLA/Avengers #1 (Nov 2003)
Credits
- Writer: Kurt Busiek
- Artist: George Perez
- Colourist: Tom Smith
- Separations: Tom Smith
- Letter: Comicraft
- Assistant Editor: Marc Sumerack and Andy Schmidt
- Associate Editor: Stephen Wacker
- Editor: Tom Brevoort, Dan Raspler, and Mike Carlin
- Executive Editor: Joe Quesada and Dan Dido
- President: Bill Jemas and Paul Levitz
- Publisher: Paul Levitz
Character Appearances
Villains
- Crime Syndicate of Amerika (their appearance takes place during JLA #108 (Jan 2005)) - Johnny Quick, Owlman, Power Ring I, Super Woman, and Ultraman
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Quotes
Martian Manhunter: A depressing summation, Aquaman—-but accurate.
Plastic Man: Course, we could just fly you up there. Have you stare it into submission. Works on bank robbers…
Flash: How’s about a couple dozen tons of concrete and rock, all in its face at 600 M.P.H.?
Batman: It’s a start.
Captain America: Sorry, sir. Hopefully, you’ll be able to thank me for this later!
Iron Man: Oh, no. They got Thor. Bad, bad news.
Quicksilver: Its mind..so vast, so calm…Slowly, irresistibly powerful, like a great ocean! Tides of order..of control…we can’t hope to defeat it!
Vision: Tides of order, you say? Than perhaps we can defeat it.
Yellowjacket: I may never look at calamari the same way again…!
Wasp: Um, Hank..Calamari is squid.
She-Hulk: Just get me a galleon of Listerine and a bucket of breathmints!
Flash: This world…it’s fighting back…Doesn’t want to let you in. But you’re…the Flash…and none…none of the Flashes…have…ever…given…
Green Lantern: Man, Wally, what happened to you?
Flash: Tell you later. Meanwhile…don’t mess with angry Rotarians.
Flash: If I lived over there? I’d want to get out too.
Green Lantern: Kind of…passive for an alien invader, isn’t he?
Green Lantern: Isn’t it always the way? You go days without seeing any giant inexplicable cosmic guys—-and then two or three arrive all at once!
Martian Manhunter: For the third time today, my powers cannot reach into a mind that stands before me. It is beginning to grow annoying.
Atom: Another universe, different physical laws? Let me at it!
Iron Man: Do you have any idea how many other dimensions there are, Jan?
Wasp: Well…
Iron Man: Exactly. Neither does anyone else.
Hawkeye: I’m gone for a while and you start having trouble with angry seafood?
Plastic Man: But does (Batman) follow the plan? Or does he spend twenty minutes beating up some loon in kevlar to save some drug dealers?!
Green Lantern: We gotta fight the monsters to get to the Dingus, right? I designed a video game like this once. Those are some great-looking monsters, though…
Narrator: They are the Justice League. Champions alone. Unstoppable together.
Aquaman: They cast us out of their universe? Without so much as a word? Of all the contemptuous…
Green Lantern: Pretty rude, all right.
Superman: That world, that place—-I didn’t get much of a look at them, but if those were its heroes, I’m not impressed. Not with their world, not with their achievements.
Iron Man: Skip it, Thor. I’m sure he’s taken a ‘vow of mystery’ or something—-these types always do.
Hawkeye: Wow? Who jammed that star up his stripes…?
Narrator: These are the Avengers. Their Earth’s mightiest. They’ve faced gods, genocidal madmen, alien armadas and more. They don’t scare easily.
Hawkeye: They’re nothin’ but a bunch of Squadron Supreme wanna-bes!
Captain America: Mister, I’ve got one word in response to your demands: NUTS!