Justice League International #15 – “Gnort and South” – Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis/Steve Leialoha/Al Gordon
Last issue, Manga Khan brought his Cluster to Earth and laid down an ultimatum. The Cluster travels from planet to planet forcing worlds to join their “Cosmic Shopping Network” and if they refuse, the Cluster ravages their planet and moves on. (I know that sounds like a contrived plot summary, but I’m just repeating what Manga Khan’s assistant L-Ron said.) Earthlings are still debating Khan’s offer when G’nort shows up, attacking
the Cluster in the hopes of proving himself to be a legit Green Lantern. G’nort’s attack destroys the cloaking device, which accelerates the schedule and Khan sends robot units down to start dismantling Earth. The resultant power surge from his forward base in Australia gets the League’s attention and they send a team (Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Mr. Miracle, Green Flame, and Ice Maiden) to investigate. Green Flame and Ice Maiden are along on a probationary basis, hoping to prove their value to the team. They get their chance right away, as the team are attacked by Khan’s robots. In 
Space, J’onn J’onzz, Captain Atom, and Rocket Red don spacesuits to meet Khan’s invasion fleet before they enter the atmosphere. They engage the fighters, but Captain Atom thinks they need a better strategy than just jumping into the fight. He suggests they use debris from the smashed fighters to attack the rest and while he’s debating the merits of that plan with J’onn, G’nort has to save them from another fighter. In Australia, Mr. Miracle leads one robot into the forward base, while the others are trapped inside Booster’s force field with a pissed off robot outside. In space, G’nort destroys more of Khan’s fighters, which means the whole enterprise has gone from a profitable one to a potential money-loser. That’s too much for Khan and the Cluster moves off, hoping to find profit elsewhere and
G’nort tells the others he’s staying on Earth with them. Khan’s forward base blasts off with the two robots inside to rejoin the Cluster. Unfortunately, Miracle is still inside too, so he’s forced to go along for the ride, something his wife Barda’s not happy about when she hears. Naturally, she invites herself to join the rescue team. Green Flame and Ice Maiden are welcomed onto the team and we find out why Guy Gardner wasn’t around to help fight Khan … he was in Gotham, trying to convince Batman to rejoin the team.
Infinity Inc. #52 – “To Love and Die in L.A.” – Roy and Dann Thomas/Michael Bair, Lou Manna/Bob Downs
This one starts with Jade and Brainwave Jr. looking for Mr. Bones and Solomon Grundy so they can find out exactly how Skyman died. Bones’s handprint on Skyman’s face is pretty damning, but Brainwave wonders if Grundy literally forced Bones’s hand. (He did, as we saw last issue.) Jade spots Grundy and flies down to talk to him, but she’s ambushed by Artemis, who puts an arrow through her hand. The pain keeps Jade from
using her power pulse and Artemis puts an explosive arrow into the hollow Grundy statue she used to lure Jade in. The statue is filled with hydrogen and the explosion knocks Jade out. Brainwave comes after Artemis, but he’s frozen solid by Icicle. The two Injustice Unlimited villains determine that their targets are dead and take off. Back at headquarters, Stripesy is trying to come to grips with Skyman’s death when he’s jumped by Dummy, Hazard, and Harlequin. Dummy shoots Stripesy in the leg and prepares to kill him and his son, Mike. Meanwhile, Mr. Bones s walking upstate to the clinic where 
his ex-teammates (Helix) are being kept and we get a recap of Helix’s origin on the way. Bones notices the Infinitors’ jet heading north and figures they’re going to the clinic too, hoping to find him there and bring him in for killing Skyman. At the clinic, Obsidian, Wildcat, and Nuklon look around and find Helix peacefully tending the garden. The Helix members are really out of it, like they’ve been hypnotized. The head of the clinic turns out to be Dr. Love, who created Helix in the first place, and he orders his mesmerized patients to attack the Infinitors. Helix gets the upper hand, but Bones shows up and says he’ll kill his old teammates to defend his new ones if he has to. Dr. Love
orders Helix to kill Bones, which breaks his hold on them and they kill him instead. Bones is happy to be reunited with Helix, the only family he’s ever known. But Tao Jones says his loyalty to Infinity Inc means he’s no longer one of them and they leave him behind when they take off. Bones tells the Infinitors he doesn’t really belong with them either and explains how the fake Jade used Grundy to make him kill Skyman. Obsidian and the others figure they owe Bones for saving them and let him go, heading back to find out who’s really responsible for Skyman’s death.
Young All-Stars #14 – “Hell Hath No Fury” – Roy and Dann Thomas/Howard Simpson/Malcolm Jones III
This one starts with Iron Munro waking up at Project M after getting sliced up by the Blood Avenger (Tisiphone) last issue. Munro is worried about Tisiphone, since she used to be Fury, who he’s kinda sweet on. Robotman (ho found a spare body after his was trashed last issue) tells Munro there’s no sign of Tisiphone or Ultra-Humanite, who put his consciousness into a Tyrannosaurus Rex body last issue and took off. They did catch Deathbolt, who brought Ultra-Humanite’s brain into Project M, hoping to
put it into King Kong’s body. But nobody knows that Deathbolt had help from Per Degaton, Dr. Mazursky’s shady assistant. Deathbolt wants Degaton to bust him loose from the machine that’s draining his powers, but Degaton doesn’t want to get caught. (He’s less worried that the machine is also keeping Miss America alive.) Degaton sabotages the machine and Deathbolt overloads it, decking Degaton (for appearance’s sake) and killing a guard before taking off. The All-Stars come to see what’s up and have to keep the overloaded machine from destroying the lab. Deathbolt’s power surge has turned the machine into a giant 
electromagnet that traps Robotman, but Amazing Man turns himself into an electromagnet to pry his teammate loose. In the confusion, Miss America stumbles out of the wreckage and passes out. Mazursky freaks , blaming the All-Stars for all the recent trouble at Project M. Degaton goes to study his time travel equations and runs into Mekanique, who says she wants to help him. At All-Star headquarters, the older All-Stars give their young teammates shit for hiding the truth about Fury. They head out to look for her (and Ultrasaurus), telling the Young All-Stars to stay behind. Amazing Man
shows them that his powers seem to have altered since the fight at Project M; he can’t turn his body into different materials, but he still has the electromagnetic powers … powers he had in Fury’s dream where a giant Mekanique was wasting the All-Stars. The Young All-Stars get a call from Chuck Grayson, who says he has a way to find Tisiphone. They head out to look for her and Ultrasaurus. Tsunami and Neptune Perkins feel vibrations from a docked ship that just happens to be Ultrasaurus’s hideout. Meanwhile, Flying Fox locates Tisiphone at the Chrysler Building and takes Munro to find her. She 
finds them instead, attacking Munro. Flying Fox puts a dampening helmet on her, but Tisiphone shrugs it off. Flying Fox leads her to the docks, setting things up so Tisiphone ends up fighting Ultrasaurus. Ultra-Humanite transfers his brain out of the dinosaur just before Tisiphone electrocutes it, but the All-Stars have no way of knowing where Ultra’s mind is now. Tisiphone is ready to wreak more havoc, but her Blood Avenger sisters show up to drag her back to Erebus; apparently Flying Fox used his mystic abilities to put Tisiphone’s mind in touch with her sisters while she was wearing the helmet. Tisiphone is taken back to
Erebus, leaving Fury—or more accurately, Helena Kosmatos—behind with her friends. The rest of the All-Stars show up and are equal parts happy to see Helena and pissed off at her teammates for disobeying orders. At Project M, Degaton realizes Mekanique’s math can help him make time travel a reality and in exchange, she asks him to help her destroy the All-Stars. This story is concluded in the Young All-Stars and Infinity Inc Annuals, which I’ll review after I finish the regular 1988 issues.