Justice League of America #197 (1981) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Crisis in Limbo!	cover	1	pencils: George Pérez; inks: Mike DeCarlo; colors: Anthony Tollin; letters: Gaspar Saladino	The Atom, Batman, Black Canary, Phillip Cobb, Firestorm, The Flash, Crystal Frost, Jay Garrick, Carter Hall, Hawkman, Roger Hayden, Hourman, Clark Kent, Killer Frost
1	Crisis in Limbo!	comic story	27	script: Gerry Conway; pencils: Keith Pollard, George Pérez; inks: Romeo Tanghal; colors: Carl Gafford; letters: Ben Oda	The Atom, Batman, Black Canary, Brain Wave, The Cheetah, Jonathan Cheval, Phillip Cobb, Ralph Dibny, Debbi Domaine, The Elongated Man, Firestorm, The Flash, The Floronic Man, Crystal Frost
4	-	letters page	1	script: Tamsyn O'Flynn

Plus 3 pages of advertisements and other matter across 2 sequences, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 0709893055512

Collection	Year
DC Comics Classics Library: Justice League of America by George Perez #2 ISBN 978-1-4012-2450-9	2010	On eBay ›
Crisis on Multiple Earths #6 ISBN 978-1-4012-3822-3	2013	On eBay ›
Countdown to Crisis ISBN 978-1-77952-176-7	2023	On eBay ›

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