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SUPERMAN: OUR WORLDS AT WAR SECRET FILES #1
Cover Date: August 2001
Cover Price: $5.95
Cover Credits:
Pencils: Ed McGuinness (signed)
Inks: Cam Smith (signed)
Colors: Richard Horie, Tanya Horie
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Credits:
| Plot | Marv Wolfman |
| Story | Jeph Loeb |
| Pencils | Yvel Guichet |
| Inks | Walden Wong, Dexter Vines |
| Lettering | Comicraft |
| Colors | Joe Rosas, Digital Chameleon |
| Editing | Tom Palmer, Jr., Eddie Berganza |
Feature Character(s):
Guest Star(s):
- Liri Lee (last in ???; next in Young Justice: Our Worlds at War #1)
- Starfire III (last in Titans #25; next in Superman: The Man of Steel #115)
- Ryand'r (last in Titans #19; next in flashback in Omega Men Vol. 2 #2)
- Maxima (last in ???; next in Superman Vol. 2 #159)
- Grayven (next in Superman: The Man of Steel #115)
- Adam Strange (last in Starman Vol. 2 #73; next in Superman: The Man of Steel #115)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jun and Ish'tar (Daxamites)
- Kristoph (a citizen of Almerac; dies)
Villain(s):
- Imperiex probes
- Viroxx (earliest chronological appearance; next in Superman Vol. 2 #169)
Other Character(s):
- The people of Almerac, Karna and Kalanor (mostly die)
- Daxamites (next in JSA: Our Worlds at War #1)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 0
- Space Sector 1760
- Daxam (destroyed; see Comment)
- Space Sector 2814
- Space Sector 2828
- Karna (destroyed)
- Unidentified Space Sector(s)
Comment(s):
- Daxam and Kalanor were later shown not to be destroyed. This suggests either they were colony worlds or the destruction was rewritten by Infinite Crisis.
Synopsis: - Since the dawn of time, the universe has been destroyed by Imperiex and reborn from the ashes of the old. Now, Liri Lee of the Linear Men sees that Imperiex has re-awoken. Imperiex and his/its probes are moving through the universe, destroying worlds to create powerful black holes which destroy all around them. He/it/they has/have destroyed Kalanor (Despero's homeworld), Daxam, Karna (home to the Gordanians and Starfire's people, the Tamaraneans) and Almerac (Maxima's homeworld). However, survivors of these worlds, with many other allies are banding together to prevent the end of the universe - they will make their stand on the next target world: Earth in the Sol system.
- Recently, Superman and Mongul faced and defeated a probe of Imperiex, thinking it to be Imperiex itself, but now the probes are arriving in force. Liri Lee watches this and reflects that this is the natural pattern of the universe's progression, and so it must be allowed to happen.
Credits:
| Story | J.H. Williams III, Dan Curtis Johnson |
| Pencils | Yanick Paquette |
| Inks | Mick Gray |
| Lettering | Comicraft |
| Colors | Tom McCraw |
Feature Character(s):
- Cameron Chase (last in Superman: The Man of Steel #112; next in JSA Secret Files #2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Mister Bones (last in JSA #21; next in JSA Secret Files #2/2)
- Amanda Waller (last in Superboy Vol. 3 #88; next in Adventures of Superman #593)
- Cliff Hansen (first appearance; a DEO agent; next in JSA Secret Files #2)
- Agent Witt
- Agent Stack
- Sam Lane (last in Detective Comics #756; next in Action Comics #779)
- Doctor Collins (a DEO xenobiologist; next in JSA Secret Files #2)
Villain(s):
- Chemo (last in Supergirl Vol. 4 #47; next in Adventures of Superman #593)
- Plasmus (last in Green Lantern Vol. 3 #126; next in Adventures of Superman #593)
- Shrapnel (last in Birds of Prey #14; next in Adventures of Superman #593)
Synopsis: - On the orders of Secretary Waller, Director Bones of the D.E.O. assembles a group of agents to prepare a report on all the resources the USA has to counter the coming threat of Imperiex. There's the Suicide Squad, including heavy hitters Shrapnel, Chemo and Plasmus. Alien hardware from the Invasion of some years ago has gone missing. The military hardware is being supplied by a combination of Ferris Aircraft hardware and Lexcorp's B-13 technology. And there's always the orphanages, homes for young meta-humans who don't yet know how to handle their powers.
- Just as the report is completed, they receive news of the attack on Kansas. The war has begun.
Credits:
- Doug Mahnke and Duncan Rouleau (art)
Comment(s):
- The designs for the alien weaponry and earth technology to be used in the war.
Credits:
| Story | Joe Kelly |
| Art | Alberto Saichan |
| Lettering | Comicraft |
| Colors | Tom McCraw |
| Editing | Tom Palmer, Jr., Eddie Berganza |
Feature Character(s):
- General Zod II (next in Action Comics #779)
Other Character(s):
- La Encantadora (in flashback)
- Faora (in flashback)
- Scarlet Scythe (in flashback)
- Ignition (in flashback)
- Kancer (in flashback)
- Leaders of Pokolistan (die; in flashback)
Synopsis: - The history of Zod is recounted, how he grew up to hate Superman and to discover that he is totally alone in this world. It is also revealed that he paid for Encantadora to attack Superman with a deadly kiss, that he is involved with the League of Assassins, that he created Kancer and that he took over the nation of Pokolistan by quite simply killing all its leaders.
Credits:
| Story | Scott Beatty |
| Art | Paul Ryan |
| Lettering | Comicraft |
Comment(s):
- The journalist in this story is unnamed, though he does have a colleague called Jorge. Characters that are depicted in the trailer for the documentary are
Green Lantern (Alan Scott), Wonder Woman (Hippolyta), Dr Mid-Nite I, Hawkman I, Atom I, Spectre I, Roger Huntoon, Adolf Hitler, Flash i, Starman I, Jonathan Kent, Captain Atom, Martian Manhunter and Firestorm.
- Just as Kansas Public Broadcasting screens a trailer for its 16-hour documentary on the ways in which the military and the nation's metahumans have worked together in times of war, the state is hit by the first bomb to be dropped by Imperiex and the station abruptly goes off air.
Credits:
- Chuck Kim (script)
- Ariel Olivetti (Earth Allies) and Dale Keown (Alien Allies) and Yanick Paquette (Krypto) (art)
- Duncan Rouleau (Zod Squad) (pencils)
- Randy Emberlin (Zod Squad) (inks)
- Tom McCraw (colors)
Comment(s):
- Short profile pages of the key characters in the Our Worlds at War story