Justice League International #21 – “Apokolips Wow” – Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis/Ty Templeton/Joe Rubinstein
Last issue, Big Barda, J’onn J’onzz, Gnort, and Rocket Red tracked Manga Khan to Apokolips, where Khan was trying to open trade relations by selling Barda’s husband (Mr. Miracle). When they were attacked by a horde of Parademons, Barda boomed to Earth for reinforcements, bringing back the rest of the team (plus Lobo, who’s been hanging around headquarters waiting for Barda and the others to return so he can kill them and fulfill his contract with Manga Khan). The Justice League is a bit discombobulated at suddenly finding themselves
in a hellscape halfway across the galaxy surrounded by demons, but they fight back as best they can. Barda goes to find Miracle, followed closely by Lobo. Oberon climbs into a tunnel entrance to hide and we learn that Booster Gold (or maybe Marc DeMatteis) is a fan of Another World. Inside, Kanto gives Granny Goodness and Virman Vundabar shit for starting the fight with the League, and Manga Khan sneaks around in a disembodied energy form looking for Miracle. Khan resents the fact that Granny just took Miracle without payment (and he’s also upset at not being able to properly pontificate 
without a mouth). Barda sees J’onn and Gnort being taken to detention by Parademons, but before she can intervene, Lobo grabs her. Outside, Oberon falls down the tunnel he was hiding in and Batman orders Ice to get everyone inside the facility to take away the Parademons’ mobility advantage. Khan frees Miracle from his restraints, but soon realizes he has no way to move the unconscious hero. Oberon crawls around in the dark until he stumbles into Darkseid’s sitting room, interrupting the evil warlord while he’s reading. Barda and Lobo fight, but Barda’s focused on getting her husband back. The fight with the Parademons interrupts them and things get wild …
until Darkseid shows up to calm things down. (Yeah, you heard me.) Manga Khan cancels the contract on the League and Darkseid gives Miracle back, saying he doesn’t want anyone who rejected his way of life. Darkseid booms everyone back to Earth and formally rejects Manga Khan’s offer of trade. Captain Atom (the only Leaguer who didn’t go to Apokolips) has a hundred questions and tells them he had the military and the President’s office looking for them, but they tell him to let Gnort talk to the President … which Captain Atom thinks isn’t such a bad idea.
Young All-Stars #20 – “Secrets” – Roy and Dann Thomas/Ron Harris, Michael Bair/Tony DeZuniga
This is basically an origin issue, delving into the backgrounds of Fury and Flying Fox. The framing device is Fury asking Flying Fox to help her figure out who she really is, Helena Kosmatos, Fury, or Tisiphone the Blood Avenger (who was part of her but seems to have left her body in issue 14). Flying Fox uses his mystic powers to send Helena’s consciousness to Greece, where she descends underground to Erebus. She runs into Tisiphone, who claws Helena’s shoulder in order to take back the
superhuman strength she once gave her by plunging her scythe into that same shoulder. (There’s a discrepancy with Fury’s Secret Origins issue, where it was her right shoulder that the scythe went into, but Roy says in the letters page that it was always meant to be her left shoulder, and that’s what’s shown here.) Tisiphone expects to waste Helena easily, but Helena kicks her ass and it turns out the other two Furies (Alecto and Megaera) have lent her their strength. They tell her the story of Agamemnon being murdered by his wife (Clytemnestra) and her lover. Their son Orestes took revenge by killing his 
mother and was hounded by the Furies (whose job was to punish crimes, especially against women). Orestes asked for justice in an Athenian tribunal and ended up being acquitted by Athena herself, who told the Furies they should henceforth temper vengeance with divine justice (naming them Eumenides, the Kindly Ones). Tisiphone didn’t like that, but was overruled by her sisters and has harboured an intense hatred of Athenians … like Helena. Alecto tells Helena she can become Fury whenever she wants by stamping her left foot, as long as she never takes a lover. Apparently, the one thing the Furies do
agree on is that they hate males. I wonder if that means Helena could take a female lover and they’d be cool with it? As Helena’s spirit heads back to her body, the story shifts to Flying Fox, whose consciousness is visiting his grandfather, the shaman of the Quontauka tribe, to ask about his own origins. The shaman tells him about his ancestor Arak, who was the son of He-No, the Thunder God. Arak had many adventures (I guess this is Roy’s way of establishing Arak as canon, since he wrote every issue of that comic back in the 80s.) Arak 
established a colony of Quontauka on an island in Baffin Bay before dying and He-No gave the tribe a magical fox cloak, saying that a member of the tribe would someday wear it as their champion. When Nazis came to the island to get the Quontauka to spy for them, Flying Fox’s father refused and was killed … as was Flying Fox. But his grandfather revived him with magic, putting the fox-head tattoo on his chest where his death wound was, and giving him the magic cloak that gives him numerous powers. The mystic sigil on his chest allowed Flying Fox to learn English and what was going on in the outside world and he left the
tribe to join the All-Stars. As the shaman’s story ends, Flying Fox’s spirit returns to his body in New York, as does Helena’s to hers. Helena isn’t sure if what she just experienced was real or a dream … until she removes the armour from her left shoulder and finds the scratches there from Tisiphone’s claws.