Justice
League of America
Art By Neal Adams
Copyright 1971 DC Comics |
Justice
League of America
"The Most Dangerous Dreams of All"
Volume 1, Issue 89, May 1971, DC Comics
writer, Mike Friedrich;
art, Dick Dillon & Joe Giella;
cover, Neal Adams
Features a television writer from Ohio named Harlequin Ellis, who
falls in love with Black Canary and after being rebuffed by Green
Arrow has a series of dreams in which he takes revenge on the heroes;
dreams which become true.
In an afterword Mike Friedrich discusses the story and the nature
of an author placing himself into the mind of his characters. It
ends with the paragraph:
"Many
are the things a writer is forced to do by the crash-pounding
of his creative soul. This story was one of them; for there is
no escape from the soul-shatter of the nova-awareness that I,
in so many ways, am...Harlequin Ellis!"
This
is followed by a small box reading:
"To
H.E., that you might understand, brother... Mike Friedrich"
The
letter's page has this answer to a letter praising Friedrich's previous
issues:
"'New
type of stories...new villains...new situations...on the way in
JLA'? Not on the way, but here...now - in this ish's 'Most Dangerous
Dreams of All'! As a by-the-by, when the REAL Harlequin
Ellis read the script of this story, he long-distanced us from
California to enthusiastically suggest that we use Harlan Ellison
as the lead-character's name. But we decided to let Mike Friedrich's
'pun name' stand."
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