52 Vol 1 52
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Light up the whole damn sky, Daniel! This one's for the Blue and the Gold! 
- -- Booster Gold
Appearing in "A Year in the Life"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Batwoman (Kathy Kane)
- Red Tornado
- Question (Renée Montoya)
- Skeets
- Steel (John Henry Irons)
- Steel (Natasha Irons)
- Will Magnus
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Batman (Bruce Wayne) (Cameo)
- Beautia Sivana
- Black Adam (Cameo)
- Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett)
- Blue Beetle (Ted Kord)
- Bruno Manheim (In flashback only)
- Captain Atom (Earth-4 variant)
- Daemonites (Cameo)
- Doctor Sivana, Jr.
- Elongated Man (as a spirit)
- Flash (Jay Garrick)
- Georgia Sivana
- Hawkman (Earth-22) (Earth-22 variant)
- Judo Master
- Kid Flash (Iris West) (Earth-22 variant)
- Magnificus Sivana
- Mister Atom (Earth-5 variant)
- Mister Terrific (Michael Holt)
- Nightshade
- Norman McCay (Cameo)
- Question (Vic Sage)
- Red Robin
- Sarge Steel
- Sue Dibny (as a spirit)
- Superman (Cameo)
- Venus Sivana
- Wonder Woman (Cameo) (also as Diana Prince)
- Crime Society (Cameo)
- Freedom Fighters (Earth-10 variants)
- Gen 13 (Cameo)
- Doctor Fate (Earth-2)
- Flash (Earth-2)
- Green Lantern (Earth-2)
- Huntress (Earth-2)
- Jade (Earth-2)
- Obsidian (Earth-2)
- Power Girl (Earth-2)(Behind the scenes)
- Robin (Earth-2)
- Superman (Earth-2)
- Robin
- Superman (Behind the scenes)
- Wonder Woman (Earth-Two)
- Marvel Family (Earth-5 variants)
- WildC.A.T.s (Cameo)
Locations:
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- Metropolis briefly
- Daily Planet briefly
Items:
- Amulet of Isis
- Bat-Signal
- Blue Beetle's Bug
- Responsometer (Behind the scenes)
- Suspendium
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "A Year in the Life"
Rip Hunter revealed to Booster Gold that, after the events of Infinite Crisis, the remaining Earths created by Alexander Luthor collapsed back together, combining historical remnants to form one New Earth. However, the single universe was too small to contain the energy inside it and it began replicating - into 52 identical Universes, a new Multiverse.
Further, in the few seconds after the creation of this new Multiverse, the Earths (and their corresponding Universes) "will occupy the same space, each on a different vibrational plane.
During their efforts to stop the vastly powerful Mr. Mind from destroying every universe, Hunter described Mind's efforts as "eating years and events from this universe's history -- altering the Earth with every flap of his wings". This resulted in the Earths changing, becoming different from New Earth in varying degrees.
Hunter's plan to defeat Mr. Mind rested with Booster, Supernova, and Skeets. By fortifying Skeets' shell with Sivana's invention, Suspendium, they managed to imprison Mr. Mind in Skeets. Booster threw Skeets through an opening in time while Supernova ensured that it ended up in the correct time: Week 0 Day 0. Mr. Mind's devolved form is found (again) by Sivana, who imprisons him. Hunter used the 52 seconds of missing time to bind Mr. Mind, forever condemned to live within that loop.
Hunter further states that "the notion that there's a Multiverse beyond the reality we know -- that's too dangerous a secret to spread." However, he had let that very thing slip in front of Doctor Sivana.
Notes
- Final issue of the series. This issue shipped on May 2nd, 2007 (July by indicia).
- Although Skeets' metal frame is destroyed in this issue, his hard drive is downloaded into a Responsometer. A Responsometer is a miniature implant that provides the Metal Men with their personality and memories.
Trivia
- The ticker-tape at the bottom of the cover reads, "The year without Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman is over..."
- This issue features a wrap-around cover.
- Special thanks is credited to editor Stephen Wacker.
- The cover to this issue is a re-imagining of the cover to issue #1.
- Sobek makes a cameo appearance as a pair of alligator skin boots.
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See Also
Recommended Reading
Links and References
- 52: The Comic
- 52 article/interview with editor Stephen Wacker
- 52 series index at the Grand Comics Database
