Thanks for another great JLA review, Commander! That switching role bit seemed to be a Silver Age staple of thwarting super-villains, but I think this was the first time that the JLA employed it.

As far as memorable scenes, this is the one that sticks out to me:

Commander Benson wrote:

He had pressed his power-ring against the Amazing Amazon’s hip, thus concealing the resulting glow when he willed it into operation. He then ordered the ring to change Wonder Woman to mist an instant before Ghast could speak the necessary incantation, then, ten minutes later, return her to normal and mentally compel her to use the ring herself to free the others.

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Some of us more prurient-minded folk have theorized that, despite what Sekowsky's drawing would suggest, the only way that GL's plan could have escaped the Demons notice was for him not to place his ring on Wonder Woman's hip, but "where the sun don't shine" so to speak (hence my "goosing" comment at the very top of this thread!).

And doesn't she seem to have a knowing smile on her face as GL recounts the story, or is it just my imagination?


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"As for contentment, that is a myth.  Give a man everything he wishes and he will be unhappy, because he didn't wish for more; give him more, and he will die of his worries.  Only a turtle, asleep on a sunny log, knows contentment!"
-Merlin to Prince Valiant

            Hal Foster 3-7-43