Justice League International Annual #3 – “Around the World With the Justice League” – Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis/Mike McKone/Pablo Marcos, Bruce Patterson
This one starts with the natives on Kooeykooeykooey (a small island in the Pacific) discussing an idea proposed by the chief’s nephew, herb. Kooeykooeykooey is strategically located, so the Americans and Russians both want to set up bases there. Herb thinks that the natives can keep the great powers away and preserve their idyllic way of life by offering their island to the Justice League. The chief is skeptical, but eventually agrees, sending Herb to New York to make the offer to the JLI. Meanwhile, the New York Embassy is more
crowded than usual, with some of the European branch visiting. Max Lord has decided to take a team of Leaguers around to several new embassies, to see how they’re shaping up and spread goodwill among the various branches. Most of the group coming with him (Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Fire, Ice, Mr. Miracle, Flash, Power Girl, Elongated Man, Metamorpho, and Animal Man) aren’t happy, but they don’t have much choice. Herb and his assistant (Gooba) have made it to the newly-opened JLI Embassy in Tokyo, but Max’s group hasn’t arrived yet. The embassy staff (Inada Akutsu and Cyndy Kurahara) are cool with Herb waiting, until Dr. Light (the superhero, not the 
criminal asshole) shows up with something very “sensitive”. So, Ms. Kurahara tells Herb to head for New York (using the teleport tubes) to see if he can catch Max before he leaves. But Max and company are already at the Brazil Embassy, which is much more luxurious than theirs. After some of the staff get into a fight over who was ogling Fire, Max and the others decide to move on. In New York, Herb and Gooba tell J’onn and Oberon their idea, but J’onn says they’ll have to wait for Max to get back. Oberon suggests J’onn take Herb and Gooba to see Max, since he knows their itinerary. J’onn’s not thrilled with that (since he managed to get out of going with Max in the first place), but doesn’t want to insult their guests, so he agrees. Max and the others are in
Tokyo and Dr. Light shows Max what the sensitive material was … the comatose body of Rising Sun, who was brainwashed into being a villain by Queen Bee. J’onn and Herb arrive in Brazil just in time to see the entire staff quit as a result of the earlier argument, and they learn they missed Max by half an hour. Max and company are now in Moscow, where one of the Embassy staff (Rosa) shows them around … and shows a personal interest in Flash. J’onn, Herb, and Gooba show up in Tokyo only to learn they’ve missed Max again. Dr. Light asks J’onn to do a quick mind probe on Rising Sun. Max’s team is now in London, 
where they interrupt a fire drill at the Embassy. The London staff looks like the cast of Fawlty Towers (and kinda acts like them too). J’onn and Herb arrive in Russia and are accosted by security. When J’onn learns they’ve missed Max again, he decides to stop chasing Max’s team and jump ahead to their final destination. Max’s group are in Australia, where the Embassy is still being rebuilt after it was destroyed in the alien Invasion. We learn that Blue Beetle isn’t looking forward to going to the Paris Embassy because he’s still pissed off at Captain Atom for betraying the team. In Paris, Captain Atom is worried about the same thing, but he gets a shock when J’onn shows up
with Herb and Gooba, as well as Max and the others. Herb finally makes the offer for the League to take over Kooeykooeykooey and Max accepts. There’s a back-up story about J’onn J’onzz investigating the death of his ex-partner (from when J’onn first came to Earth and worked as a cop), who was looking into a big drug ring in Gotham. J’onn’s investigations get Batman’s notice and he helps track down the leader of the drug ring, but when J’onn reads his mind, the guy knows nothing about the dead cop. A few days later, Batman tells J’onn he tracked down the killer, who turns out to be a junkie 
looking for money for a fix. He didn’t even know he killed a cop, he just went after the first person he saw out of desperation. J’onn is bothered by how senseless the death was and decides he needs to re-evaluate his own life and sense of identity. There are Who’s Who profiles of various Embassy staff at the end of the issue.
New Titans Annual #5 – “When the Sun Goes Black” – Marv Wolfman/Chris Wozniak/Carlos Garzon
This one starts with some weirdo (Raymond Dark) vowing the deaths of the New Titans … especially Cyborg, who he really hates. Dark also pops up in random places (apparently using some kind of Dimension Door spell) to kidnap people, which tells us what kind of guy he is. The Titans are at a cemetery, visiting the graves of Cyborg’s parents when Dark orders some guys in battle suits to attack them. The Titans pound their attackers and Cyborg is so pissed off he’s ready to mangle their captives to get information. Dark tells his followers (who we learn are the Children of the
Sun) that the cemetery attack was just to test the Titans. He then goes into storyteller mode and we get a flashback to how the Children of the Sun came to be. Dark used to work with Silas Stone (Cyborg’s father), but they disagreed about whether to focus on nuclear power as the wave of the future. Dark hinted that Stone was a Commie, so Stone left to work at STAR Labs with his wife. Dark’s research continued, but the government decided Stone’s fears might have some basis, so they pulled the plug. Dark quit to form his own nuclear research company (the Children of the Sun, which he’s basically turned into a cult), but never forgave Silas Stone. Dark has turned the people he 
kidnapped into his slaves, imbuing them with power and converting them to his cause. Some of them take over Seagate Nuclear Plant, so the Titans are called in. Raven and Jericho get inside and take out one of the terrorists so Jericho can use his body. Meanwhile in Russia and Israel, more of Dark’s new lackeys invade other nuclear facilities. In New York, Raven senses that the newly-empowered people who took over the nuclear plant are dying. Their powers don’t help them fight too well, so the Titans take them down easily. They admit that they are dying, but are willing to make the sacrifice for the Children of the Sun. Raven realizes the terrorists themselves are the weapons meant to
blow up the plant, so she teleports them away just before they explode. The blast sends Raven reeling through dimensions until she lands on a fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean. The Titans know they’re dealing with the Children of the Sun, but can’t figure out their ultimate plan. (Which is understandable, since we get a look at Dark’s ultimate plan, and it’s pretty stupid.) They get other heroes to help with various nuclear plants around the world, heading for the one in Siberia themselves. They take down the invaders before they can self-destruct, but aren’t sure what to do with them. Raven shows up to read their minds and 
realizes they’re controlled completely by Raymond Dark, who she sees in their memories. Cyborg recognizes Dark’s name and tells the others about Dark’s history with his father. Dark can see them through his lackeys and triggers their deaths, so the Titans have to get all the unconscious terrorists out of the nuclear plant before they explode. But Raven also saw Dark’s headquarters (a mountain outside San Francisco) in their memories, so the Titans head there. But the Children of the Sun have gotten tired of Dark’s insane thirst for vengeance, and are pissed off that none of his promised schemes have worked out. So they kill him and leave his body for the Titans, hoping that’ll stop them from coming after the rest of the cult. But it just spurs them on
and the two groups end up fighting. The Titans are vastly outnumbered and a bunch of the Children of the Sun try to escape in a submarine. But Cyborg dives down and smashes a hole in the sub, which explodes. Later, Cyborg visits his parents’ graves and contemplates love and hate, and what they can do to a person’s soul. There are three Who’s Who entries at the end of the issue: the Titans of Myth, the Titan Seeds, and Troia.
Wonder Woman Annual #2 – “The Game of the Name” – George Perez/Colleen Doran
This is an all-star jam issue, featuring the talents of a slew of female comics artists, letterers, and colorists. Colleen Doran does the framing sequence, which has to do with Myndi Mayer’s staff clearing out her office at the ad agency after Wonder Woman cancels her contract (which I guess was brought on by Myndi’s death). That leads to various reminiscences, each of which is illustrated by a different artist. Julia Kapatelis shows up to help sort through all the Wonder Woman material and they recall how Wonder Woman got that name, which leads into another memory. (“Headline” – Cynthia Martin) An editor at a
Boston newspaper assumed the “WW” design on Diana’s costume stood for her name and started calling her Wonder Woman, which ended up being used by everyone else. Julia tells the others that Diana didn’t really mind the new moniker, but was bothered by the innuendo about her and Superman printed by some of the tabloids. Diana went to talk to Superman about it and they agreed that whatever romantic feelings they might’ve had for each other was just infatuation and the excitement of their first meeting. Superman wasn’t bothered by the newspaper stories, since he was familiar with that side of journalism in his Clark Kent identity. Julia’s story leads to another 
memory, this time of one of Myndi’s marketing schemes that turned out differently than she’d expected. (“Trademark” – Carol Lay) Myndi was marketing a line of Wonder Wear, based on Wonder Woman’s costume. The runaway best-seller was the Amazon bracelets, which soon became the cool thing for young girls to have. Diana was fine with it because she thought the bracelets promoted the Amazon ideals of equality and fellowship, but Myndi was more interested in the royalties. She gave Vanessa a pair signed by Diana and Vanessa’s friends decided to start an Amazon club at school. But when Eileen Flowers tried to join, she was told she couldn’t unless she had the bracelets, which they knew she couldn’t afford. Vanessa felt bad and bought some bracelets for Eileen, but Eileen didn’t want her charity and got pissed
off. When Diana heard what was going on, she was upset that the bracelets had turned into a status symbol only to be worn by those who could afford it. So she gave free bracelets away to anyone who wrote in telling her why they valued equality, love, and fellowship. The good publicity helped sell the rest of the Wonder Wear line and Vanessa and Eileen actually became friends. Julia and the others start talking about other Wonder Woman merchandising, including a comic book. (“Logo” – Ramona Fradon) Diana went to see the artist on the book (who just happened to be real-life Wonder Woman 
artist Trina Robbins) to give her approval of the story. We now get a story-within-a-story (by Lee Marrs and Trina Robbins) about some kids visiting Paradise Island. A boy and his sister argue about his love of war and fighting, so Diana uses a mental imager to teach him to wish for more peaceful pursuits. In Trina Robbins’s studio, Diana approves the story and thanks Trina for understanding her so well. The next vignette (“Banner” – Carol Lay) is about a foundation established to help women realize their full potential. Myndi talked Diana into letting her call it the Wonder Woman Foundation, but after Myndi’s overdose, Diana used the money Myndi left her for the Foundation to set up the Myndi Mayer Fund, to help fight drug addiction.
Myndi’s staff recall another incident (“Marquee” – Barb Rausch), when a guy named Benny Lesser co-opted Wonder Woman’s name for a strip club revue. One of Myndi’s staff went to check it out (and tell Benny to cease and desist), but found the cops already there. The stripper dressed like Wonder Woman had been stabbed to death on stage by a nutcase, who killed some audience members and Benny Lesser before taking off. He was caught and when Wonder Woman went to the police station, Inspector Indelicato showed her (and Julia) something that really got to them. The staff ask Julia what it was and we get another story (“Legend” – Jan Duursema) from Julia 
about a letter she got from her mother in Cephalonia, Greece. Apparently, some of the locals started worshipping Wonder Woman as a god after she defeated Circe, and one of them was the guy who wasted the stripper. The Wonder Woman cult was attacking locals, trying to forcibly convert them. Diana went to Cephalonia to reason with them, but they wouldn’t listen to her (or Hermes), so she toppled their statue of her and told them to start worshipping Circe, since they were acting like her. Wonder Woman shows up at the agency just as Julia finishes her story and one of the staff asks what the “WW” on her costume actually stands for. Diana launches into a story (“Tribute” – Cara Sherman Tereno, Leslie Sternbergh) about Steve
Trevor’s mom. Diana, Steve, and Hermes were looking at some old photos at Steve’s aunt’s place when Diana mentioned that the Amazons used the “WW” symbol as a tribute to Diana Trevor, who had the emblem on her flight jacket. Steve explains that his mom made the emblem herself to commemorate her days in the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. Diana wondered how Steve’s mom had been pulled through the rift to land on Themiscyra and Hermes told a tale about how a Manhunter came to Olympus millennia ago and killed Pan, taking his form and feeding his corpse to Polyphemus. That act of 
blasphemy caused Gaea herself to feel it and that led through a chain of causation to Diana Rockwell Trevor being on hand to give her life against Cottus and save the Amazons. that’s why Ares tried to use Steve in his plans, and that’s why Diana wears her namesake’s symbol so proudly. There’s a Who’s Who page of the Mayer Agency after the main story.