52 Vol 1 7

Alternate Covers: File:52 Vol 1 7 Textless.jpg Textless 52 Vol 1 #7 Published Released June, 2006 June 21, 2006 Issue Details Pages 36 Original Price $2.50 Cover Artists J.G. Jones Alex Sinclair Publisher DC Comics "Going Down" Writers Geoff Johns Grant Morrison Greg Rucka Mark Waid Pencilers Keith Giffen Ken Lashley Inkers Marvin Mariano Greg Parkin Colourists Alex Sinclair Letterers Travis Lanham Editors Jann Jones Harvey Richards Stephen Wacker "The History of the DCU (Part VI of X)" Writers Dan Jurgens Pencilers Dan Jurgens Inkers Norm Rapmund Colourists Jeromy Cox Guy Major Letterers Rob Leigh Editors Jeanine Schaefer Ivan Cohen Eddie Berganza Previous Issue Next Issue 52 #6 52 #8

Appearing in "Going Down"

Featured Characters:

•  Adam Strange 
•  Animal Man 
• Booster Gold
•  Ralph Dibny 
• Renée Montoya
• Starfire

Supporting Characters:

• Katherine Kane (First appearance)
• Colonel Kane (First appearance) (In a photograph only)
• Catherine Hamilton Kane (First appearance) (In a photograph only)
• Lois Lane
• Skeets

Villains:

•  Devilance the Pursuer 
• Manthrax

Other Characters:

• Sue Dibny (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
• Ami Soon (First appearance)
• Gary McCraw (First appearance)

Locations:

• Gotham City
• Metropolis

Items:

• None

Vehicles:

• Thanagarian Star Cruiser
  
  

Synopsis for "Going Down"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  
  

Appearing in "The History of the DCU (Part VI of X)"

Featured Characters:

• Donna Troy

Villains:

The following characters appear in flashbacks

• Extant
• Parallax (Hal Jordan)

Other Characters:

The following characters appear in flashbacks

• Batgirl
• Damage
• Flash (Wally West) see notes
• Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)
• Green Arrow (Behind the scenes)
• Warrior
• Hawkman
• Hawkwoman
• Justice Society of America
  • Green Lantern (Alan Scott)
  • Doctor Fate
  • Wildcat
  • Starman
  • Johnny Quick
  • Flash (Jay Garrick)
  • Hourman
  • Doctor Mid-Nite
  • Sandman
  • Atom
  • Johnny Thunder
• Spectre
• Superman
• Steel
• Supergirl
• Time Trapper
• Waverider (Armageddon 2001)
• Waverider

Locations:

• New Chronus
• Timestream
• Vanishing Point

Items:

• Universe Orb
  
  

Synopsis for "The History of the DCU (Part VI of X)"

Donna Troy bears witness to the events of Zero Hour, among them:

• The merging of time anomalies such as the multiple versions of Hawkman.
• The deaths of Atom, Hourman and Doctor Mid-Nite.
• The rise of Parallax and the end of time.
• Damage's restoration of the timestream.

Notes

• This issue shipped on June 26th, 2006.
• This issue is reprinted in the 52, Volume 1 trade paperback collection.
• This issue features the first appearance of Katharine Kane (Post-Crisis), who will later appear at the new Batwoman.
• Devilance the Pursuer first appeared in Forever People #11.
• The Flash mentioned in the backup story is misidentified as Barry Allen.
  

Trivia

• The ticker-tape at the bottom of the cover reads, "... Citizen Kane! ... Booster's Blunder ... An old flame for Montoya!"

See Also

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Recommended Reading

• 52 #1-52
• Countdown #51-0
• World War III #1-4

  Links and References

• 52: The Comic
• 52 article/interview with editor Stephen Wacker
• 52 series index at the Grand Comics Database

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