Justice League of America #258 – “Saving Face” – J.M. DeMatteis/Luke McDonnell/Bob Smith
This one starts with Professor Ivo spilling his guts to a psychiatrist, ranting about how the JLA ruined his life. The psychiatrist points out that Ivo is the one who kept attacking the JLA and he’s the one who invented the “immortality serum” that extended his life but turned him into a monster, so blaming the League for his problems is stupid (and insane). We find out that the “psychiatrist” is a robot Ivo built to use as a sounding board for him to work out his issues. But the robot is making too much
sense in pointing out that Ivo’s problems are his own doing, so he shuts it off. Speaking of the JLA, they’re at their headquarters, still smarting from getting their asses kicked by Brimstone (which happened in the Legends mini-series). Vibe is whining about their defeat and Ralph (Elongated Man) Dibny gets tired of it and decks him. Before they can really get into it, J’onn J’onz separates them. Since the president has issued an order that all superhumans cease their activities (which also happened in Legends), J’onn thinks it’s a good idea for the League to disband until the order is rescinded. The others 
wonder how temporary the split will be, but end up agreeing to go their separate ways. J’onn says they should stay in touch as friends, even if they aren’t teammates anymore, but Vibe is in a shitty mood and doesn’t want anything to do with the others. Elsewhere, Professor Ivo activates another robot, but this one is meant to act as an assassin, not a therapist. He’s decided to target the new JLA as a way of getting revenge on the former members and sends his first robot on its deadly mission. Vibe is hanging out in the South Bronx and runs into a Hispanic kid who loves Superman. Vibe tells him he should look to his own people for heroes instead of worshipping the white dudes, but the kid has no idea who Vibe even is. Ivo’s robot shows up to waste Vibe, who has a crisis of confidence when they’re
fighting. He finally realizes he’s not just some wannabe, he’s a real superhero and it might be the kid’s life on the line as well as his own. Vibe blasts the robot and the kid is impressed, heading home to tell all his friends about his new hero. Vibe prepares to take the robot back to JLA headquarters, but the robot’s hands come alive and strangle Vibe to death. The robot burns the likeness of Professor Ivo onto Vibe’s dead face and takes off. This is the beginning of the end for the JLA and the next three issues will see more death and destruction as the old team is swept aside to make room for the new version.
All-Star Squadron #65 – “The Origin of Johnny Quick” – Roy Thomas/Don Heck/Tony DeZuniga
This is another origin issue for one of the All-Stars, as Roy tries to nail down a definitive history of the characters after the Crisis. As usual, I won’t go into too much depth here, since this story has been told multiple times and will probably end up getting retconned anyway. Johnny Quick is really Johnny Chambers, who was orphaned when his parents died in a car crash. A math professor named Gill became Johnny’s guardian and Gill ended up working out a secret formula that gave anyone
who spoke it super-speed. Gill’s health was fragile so he taught the secret formula to Johnny, making him swear he’d only use it to do good. When Gill was dying, Johnny tried to get to a doctor but got the car stuck in the snow, so he used the formula to allow him to fly to the doctor’s place. When he tried to use the formula again, it didn’t work, and by the time they drove back to Gill’s place, he was dead. Johnny became a photographer and ended up working on newsreels, where he met Tubby Watts, who soon became his best friend. He didn’t use the speed formula much (since he still didn’t completely 
understand it), but kept having brushes with superheroes, like when he and Tubby filmed Sandman and Crimson Avenger fighting the Phantom of the Fair, or running into Flash at a theatre. Johnny’s first real adventure came when he and Tubby were assigned to get footage of a circus and they stumbled on an attempted murder. Turns out the circus manager was forcing his performers to commit crimes, so Johnny infiltrated the circus (disguised as a strongman) and took them all down using his super-speed. That made him want to become a full-time hero and he ended up joining the All-Star Squadron, where he met (and married) Liberty Belle.
Infinity Inc. #34 – “Injustice For All” – Roy and Dann Thomas/Todd McFarlane/Tony DeZuniga
This one starts with Northwind sneaking into Hall Manor to look for Hector (Silver Scarab) Hall. He finds Hector in bed with what looks like an Ancient Egyptian princess, but Northwind knows “she” isn’t what she seems. He also knows she’s the one who sent the crystal dagger to Fury in issue 30, since Professor Rock has been dead for years. Hector doesn’t deny Northwind’s assertions, nor does he apologize for screwing around on Fury. Northwind knows Hector is in thrall to this person in the
guise of a woman and heads out to Feithera to ask the elders what to do. In Calgary, a contingent of Infinitors (Fury, Jade, Obsidian, Nuklon, and Wildcat) have been hired to guard a trade conference. They’re not happy that the trade liaison (Johnson) also hired some Global Guardians (Tasmanian Devil, Icemaiden, Green Flame, and Rising Sun) as extra security. The two teams have a bit of friction and Tasmanian Devil challenges Nuklon to arm-wrestle. Since both of them can increase their size, it looks like a stalemate, but Nuklon uses his intangibility power to pass his arm through the table, almost breaking Tas’s 
arm. Johnson tries to smooth things over, reminding the two teams that they’re there because there have been anonymous threats to disrupt the conference. Johnson then lets them know that they’ll be sharing accommodations, since every hotel in town is full. That night, Jade calls Brainwave Jr., who tells her about the presidential ban on superheroes in the United States (which happened in the legends mini-series). While checking the news, the teams see a special report about the origins of the Global Guardians and how they’ve recruited members from pretty much everywhere except the USA. The report concludes with a condemnation of the juvenile antics the teams engaged in that morning and they agree to call a truce for the sake of both their images. They split up to cover various entrances to the conference (and we see Nuklon is jealous
because Tasmanian Devil is paired with Wildcat … which is ironic, since Tas will eventually be revealed to be gay). Fury and Icemaiden cover the tradesman’s entrance and Fury notices Icemaiden acting a bit weird. She soon realizes Icemaiden is being mind-controlled when she freezes Fury solid and lets in a truck full of villains. Fury manages to bust free and trigger the alarm, but the villains are already inside. It turns out to be a new version of the Injustice Society, calling themselves Injustice Unlimited: Wizard, Shade, Icicle, Fiddler, Artemis, and Hazard. After a brief scuffle, Wizard lets the trade delegates know that Injustice Unlimited is shaking them down for cash to keep them from attacking. The two superhero teams naturally resist the idea, but Wizard reminds them he has Icemaiden as his puppet and shows them Hourman strapped to a giant clock that will electrocute him if they don’t cooperate.