Comic Title: Justice League of America Archives Vol. 5 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1999
On Sale Date: August 11, 1999 Direct Market Date August 11, 1999
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: August 11

Direct Market Date August 11, 1999
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, August 11, 1999

Direct Market Date August 11, 1999
Source: Usenet, Late Comics Report for the week of August 13, 1999

Direct Market Date July 21, 1999
Source: Previews, Vol. 9 #5 (#125)

Copyright Date July 23, 1999
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1999

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 240
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Battle Against the Bodiless Uniforms"
Pages: 25

Feature(s):
Justice League of America (of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky
Inker: Bernard Sachs

Reprinted From:
Justice League of America #35 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

• Justice League of America (last appearance in Justice League of America #34; next appearance in Justice League of America #36)
• Batman (last appearance in Batman #171; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #149)
• Flash (last appearance in Flash #152; next appearance in Flash #153)
• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #153; next appearance in Wonder Woman #154)
• Aquaman (last appearance in Aquaman #21; next appearance in Justice League of America #36)
• Green Lantern (last appearance in Green Lantern #36; next appearance in Green Lantern #37)

Supporting Character(s)

• Snapper Carr (last appearance in Justice League of America #34; next appearance in Justice League of America #38)

Villain(s)

• Abnegazar, Rath, and Ghast (last appearance in Justice League of America #11; next appearance in Justice League of America #147)
• Pied Piper (behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Flash #138; next appearance in Flash #155)
• Mask (of Earth-1; behind-the-scenes; no further appearances)
• Killer Moth (of Earth-1; behind-the-scenes; next appearance in Detective Comics #359)
• Dagon (an enemy of Aquaman; behind-the-scenes; no further appearances)
• Doctor Polaris (behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Green Lantern #21; next appearance in Green Lantern #46)
• Duplicates of Pied Piper, Mask, Killer Moth, Dagon, and Dr. Polaris (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Felix Faust (in flashback)
• The Timeless Ones (in flashback)

Comments:
Batman is mistakenly depicted wearing Superman-style boots on the cover.

Pied Piper, the Mask, Killer Moth, Dagon, and Dr. Polaris appear only behind-the-scenes in this story, as duplicates created by Abnegazar, Rath, and Ghast take their places. The real villains remain in prison.

This is the first Earth-1 appearance of both the Mask and Killer Moth. The Earth-2 Mask was last seen in the third story of Wonder Woman #24. The Earth-2 Killer Moth was last seen in the first story of Detective Comics #173.

Synopsis:
Failing in their plan to animate the uniforms of five Justice League members to free them from their prison-crypts, the demons Abnegazar, Rath, and Ghast create duplicates of five super-villains, and send them against the heroes. By the time Batman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Flash have overcome Killer Moth, Dagon, the Mask, Dr. Polaris, and the Pied Piper, their costumes are in shreds, and they are forced to don the uniforms imbued with the demons' magic as replacements.

A second battle with the super-villain duplicates ensues, in which the villains vanish, and the heroes find themselves fighting empty costumes. Exhausted by this second ordeal, the Justice League champions are now too weak to resist the magic which forces them to free the demon trio.

The JLA had foreseen this eventually, however, and soon after the demons' release, the mystic Red Jar, Green Bell, and Silver Wheel, commanded by Green Lantern's power ring, automatically return them to their crypt.