Justice League of America Archives Vol. 5 HC
Justice League of America Archives Vol. 5 HC
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Penciller: Mike Sekowsky
Inker: Bernard Sachs

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Title: "Indestructible Creatures of Nightmare Island"
Pages: 24

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 #40 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

Supporting Character(s)

Villain(s)

Other Character(s)

  • Andrew Helm (an occult scientist and inventor of the Corti-Conscience machine; no further appearances)
  • Helm's parents (die in flashback; no further appearances)
  • Chandra Gopar and other lamas of Ta Ming (a mystic city; die in flashback; no further appearances)
  • An unnamed Latin-American dictator and his troops (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

  • Moses, Jesus Christ, Confucius, Mohammed, and Buddha ()

Synopsis:
After his parents are slain by bandits, young Andrew Helm is adopted by the lamas of Ta Ming, a city that appears on Earth only when a kinetic barrier is lifted. He becomes a master of science and astral projection, but when he reaches maturity, the mystic city is ravaged by the same bandits who killed his parents, and he is forced to flee for his life.

Finally he invents the Corti-Conscience machine, which forces everyone on Earth to hear and obey the urgings of their better natures. All criminals reform, wars stop, nations disarm, and the world becomes a true utopia. But when Helm accidentally remains out of his body in astral form too long, he is unable to reenter it and adjust the machine's controls, so that evil runs rampant in a backlash effect. Even the members of the Justice League are afflicted with a paralyzing apathy, until Superman uses Green Lantern's power ring to cure them, and they go into action to deal with the worldwide destruction.

While Superman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman stop a series of wars, Flash, Batman, and Aquaman track the radiation of the Corti-Conscience device to Helm's island home. Joined by Hawkman, Atom, Green Arrow, and J'onn J'onzz, the heroes invade the island, get past Helm's defenses, and battle an aggregation of unstoppable creatures, each preying on one of the members' special weaknesses. It is Hawkman who discovers that the creatures are mere illusions, summoned from their subconscious minds. With these illusions banished, the League is able to turn off the machine, and end its threat to Earth.


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