![]() ![]() As noted in the first page’s credits box, Giella shared embellishment duties for “And One of Us Must Die!” with Dick Giordano, who’d go on to be the book’s single regular inker for the next couple of years. But we’ll get to that soon enough - just as we’ll get to the solution to the separate mystery posed by Nick Cardy’s superb cover (his best yet for the title, in the opinion of your humble blogger) - who else among our heroes is doomed to die?Īlong with sharing in the milestones already mentioned, JLA #102 is also notable as the final issue of the title in which Dick Dillin’s pencils were finished in ink by Joe Giella, who’d had the assignment since issue #75, published three years earlier. Which is, and simultaneously is not, a cheat. ![]() The answer, as many of you reading this already know, is: none of the above. So who’s buried in the Unknown Soldier’s grave? Is it Vigilante? The Star-Spangled Kid? Speedy? As of the conclusion of JLA #101, small teams of Justice League and Justice Society members have retrieved four out of seven of the time-lost Soldiers (or Law’s Legionnaires, as they’re also called) - the Crimson Avenger, the Shining Knight, Green Arrow, and Stripesy - with three more left to go. Or maybe that should be most of the Seven Soldiers of Victory, since one of the key mysteries of the storyline concerns a lonely grave standing on a Himalayan peak, with a stone marker inscribed to an “Unknown Soldier of Victory”. Making the occasion even more memorable, this JLA-JSA get-together was the first to take up three whole issues it also featured the unexpected return, after twenty-seven years, of yet another DC Comics superhero team: the Seven Soldiers of Victory. Fifty years ago, this issue brought the conclusion of the tenth annual Justice League-Justice Society summer team-up extravaganza - a special event which also served to commemorate the League’s reaching its 100th issue milestone.
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