Celebrate the last hours of 1985 in the Bar Sinister, where the costumed villains go to unwind and socialize, and the Flash’s Rogues Gallery drown their sorrows at the loss of their old foe with a few drinks!
The Joker and his gang take a road trip to a small town outside Central City to retrieve a valuable prize, but there’s just one problem — the Trickster is already robbing the place! The Trickster soon learns the hard way that you don’t cross the Joker, but will he live to tell the tale?
by Martin Maenza, adapted and expanded from Crisis on Infinite Earths #9-10 by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez
As the remaining Earths begin to merge together, Brainiac and Lex Luthor of Earth-One have a plan to take them all! With an army of super-villains gathered from all five Earths, they mount a carefully planned invasion of Earth-Four, Earth-S, and Earth-X, swiftly defeating those worlds’ heroes. An army of super-heroes from Earth-One and Earth-Two soon arrive to free the other three Earths, but with the numbers favoring the villains, can the heroes rally to beat the odds? Guest starring the Justice League of America, the Justice Society of America, the New Teen Titans, the Outsiders, Infinity Inc., the Doom Patrol, the Marvel Family, the Freedom Fighters, and the Sentinels of Justice!
What happens when a super-hero’s girlfriend moves on? Catch up with two of them — Batman’s old flame Silver St. Cloud and Green Lantern’s onetime fiancée Kari Limbo — as their paths cross in Memphis! Meanwhile, as the reformed Trickster relapses into crime, the old rogue meets his match in a new heroine when he hears the hypnotic, dulcet tones of Blue Velvet!
Needing some troops for Gorilla Grodd’s upcoming attack on Gorilla City, Mirror Master sends Gizmo and Copperhead out on a recruitment drive, with interesting results! But none of the other members of the Secret Society of Super-Villains can guess what Grodd plans to do with their new recruits!
When a promising Presidential candidate is murdered, Green Arrow goes on the trail of a super-villain assassin-for-hire bureau! Unknown to him, Captain Boomerang is infiltrating the group for Task Force X!
Captain Comet discovers the meaning of betrayal when the Golden Glider apparently returns to crime, leading to a showdown with the Flash’s Rogues Gallery, including a new Mirror Master! And as several members of the team are briefly sent to the strange Mirrorverse, only to come back drastically changed, will this chain of events ultimately lead to the end of Captain Comet’s Rehab Squad?