Name
Previous Appearance
Next Appearance
Heroes
JSA #14
JSA #42
Dove II (Dawn Granger)
(appears only as Lyta Trevor-Hall)
(appears only as Lyta Trevor-Hall)
JSA #44
Villains
Mordru (Prince Wrynn of Topaz)
Flaw
JSA #42
Supporting Characters
Cutter
Locations
Gemworld
JSA #42
JSA infirmary
unspecified realm (Diamond?), Gemworld
Technology
Dr. Fate’s amulet
JSA #14
Next Legion appaearnace:
JSA #42
medical equipment
| General | Only pages 6-8 are dealt with here. |
| 6:1 | Hector was originally the Silver Scarab, and after he died, he became Sandman (but not Morpheus). |
| 6:3 | We will discover in JSA #44 that this isn’t Lyta but is Dawn Granger (Dove) under a spell. |
| 6:4 | The mystery doesn’t end there. Recall that Hector-as-Sandman kidnapped Lyta to his dream realm where she got pregnant (seems fine: his wife/mother getting pregnant from her dead husband/son), and subsequently the baby (Daniel) became the replacement for Dream of the Endless. Oh, and let’s not forget that Hector is the son of Carter and Shiera Hall, Hawkman and Hawkgirl, now reincarnated as Carter Hall and Kendra Saunders; reincarnation runs in the family. (My head hurts.) |
| 6:5 | Mordru, longtime Legion foe, was born as a prince on Gemworld. After his defeat at the hands of the JSA, he was imprisoned in Dr. Fate’s amulet. See the third Amethyst series and JSA #1-4. |
| 7:2 | <Need to review the third Amethyst series to see how this ravaging of the world diverges from continuity. Because time flows differently on Gemworld, it’s hard to tell what this means. Further, because of the nature of Gemworld, it may transcend the DC Universe. This ravaging is distinct from the Gemworld appearances in Hunter: The Age of Magic, but could it stem from the Magic Wars story in Legion of Super-Heroes v3 #<61-64> (in the preboot), which involved Gemworld? How might it link to the preboot connection between Mysa and the spirit of Amethyst? And let’s not forget that the first Dr. Fate saved Amethyst during Crisis on Infinite Earths, after which she was revealed to be a Lord of Order like Nabu. (What was that about my head hurting?)> |
| Has the entire world been crystallized, or did Dr. Fate enter in the Diamond realm? | |
| 7:3 | “My end is my beginning.” This presumably relates to the family reincarnation. However, it also echoes other infinitely recurring events, which might include when much of the JSA (including Hawkman, but not including Dr. Fate) were imprisoned in the eternally recurring battle of Ragnarok for several years. And of course, Hector’s son(/brother?) is now a member of the Endless. |
| “In my end is my beginning” is the last line of the poem “East Coker” by T.S. Eliot, and the title of a 1931 novel by Maurice Baring. | |
| The “My end…” caption counts as dialogue for Dr. Fate. | |
| 8:1 | We won’t count the characters hanging in midair — Dr. Fate’s spell — as dialogue. Possibly they represent sounds, but ones created by the magic itself. |
| 8:2 | The houses (realms) of Gemworld were created by the power of twelve massive magical gemstones. Small chips or chunks of these were sometimes made for family members and retainers; Dark Opal gained power by acquiring fragments from all twelve houses. Cutter, however, is a new character. |
8:4 |
The amulet houses the spirits of Kent and Inza Nelson, and serves as a prison for Mordru. |