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"Looking Back at Tomorrow": Day 1

Quote1 It's a mystery. Quote2
Ralph Dibny

52 #2 is an issue of the series 52 (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 2006. It was published on May 17, 2006.

Synopsis for "Looking Back at Tomorrow"

Day 1
Ralph Dibny goes to his late wife's tombstone to snap pictures of the recent vandalism that occurred there. He briefly speaks with the cemetery groundskeeper and commits himself to solving this new mystery.

Day 2
Concerned over the robot's recent systems glitch in Metropolis, Booster Gold takes Skeets to Doctor Will Magnus. Magnus runs a few diagnostics until Skeets appears to be functioning properly again. He then travels to Haven to speak with scientific colleague Professor T.O. Morrow. Morrow tells Magnus that several "mad" scientists of note have disappeared in recent days.

Day 3
In Gotham City, the Question breaks into Renée Montoya's apartment during the middle of the night. He startles her -- and her nearly naked guest -- awake with an odd question. Montoya wakes up and fires her gun into the Question's chest, but he disappears. Montoya finds that the Question has left behind an address, 520 Kane Street, written on a sheet of paper.

Day 4
Back in Metropolis, Skeets tells Booster Gold that a jetliner is expected to crash, and Booster takes off to save the day. Skeets' information is faulty, however, and the jetliner nearly collides with Booster. Booster threatens to take Skeets back to Will Magnus.

Day 5
Montoya makes an evening visit to 520 Kane Street in Gotham City. The Question appears suddenly and, after a skirmish, offers to hire Montoya as a private detective.

Day 6
In San Francisco, we see that Wonder Girl has erected a Superboy memorial shrine at Titans Tower. She broadcasts a Kryptonian prayer via a live webcast. The Elongated Man arrives and shows her a photograph of Sue Dibny's gravestone. Someone has spray-painted an inverted "S" symbol, in the style of Superman's "S", across the stone. Ralph believes that Wonder Girl may know something about it.

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Synopsis for "The History of the DCU, Part I of X"

On New Chronus, Donna Troy exists as the new Harbinger. She inspects the original Harbinger's orb and learns about the origins of the Multiverse, and the events that led the Maltusian Krona to accidentally create the Antimatter universe. Through the orb, she sees the creation of the Manhunters, and their successors, the Green Lantern Corps.

Donna is not interested in learning the entire history of creation, however. She is more concerned about people – specifically, Earth's heroes. She begins analyzing the events that led to the births of the Supermen of Earth-One and Earth-Two.

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