DC One Million [Paperback]

Grant Morrison (Author), Prentiss Rollins (Illustrator), Val Semeiks (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999

It's the JLA's greatest challenge; a time-spanning, universe-rocking, city-nuking mayhem-fest that features just about every hero in the DC Universe. It's DC: One Million, the latest, greatest 'event' storyline in the grand tradition of DC versus Marvel. Multi award-winning writer Grant Morrison and many of the top talents in the industry present a saga that is truly epic in every sense of the word. Meet the Justice Legion A, far-future counterparts of today's JLA, who've journeyed back through time to invite their predecessors to witness an incredible event. But the planned celebrations are put on hold when the JLA find themselves stranded in the future, at the mercy of Solaris the tyrant sun and their old enemy, the immortal Vandal Savage...DC One Million is . If you think you've seen the biggest and best in superhero comics, think again!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563895250
• ISBN-13: 978-1563895258
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #767,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great story, November 20, 2002

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R. A. Keener "tweekstarbuck" (Knoxville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DC One Million (Paperback)

The story behind DC 1,000,000 is five star material. Morrison weaves a brilliant imaginative yarn about an intelligent star from the distant future, who envies our sun and wants to be the center of our solar system. This only scratches the surface of course, but I don't want to spoil it for you.

Unfortunately this trade paperback doesn't re-print some of the vital corssovers making for a rather confusing plot at some points. The story is still largely comprehensable, and quite good, but I had to dock it a star for this.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Future is Now, October 17, 2001

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F. Hagan (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DC One Million (Paperback)

The thing I like the most about this mini-series, artfully pulled together by Grant Morrison, is what it accomplishes. It makes Vandal Savage an enthralling villain, as he well should be. The Vandal Savage dialogue is enough alone for me, rife as it is with historical irony and the exacting precision of a very, very, very long lived being. The new possible distant future for the DC Universe is also fun, along with the open timeline policy established by the book Kingdom. Good stuff for fans of Superman, with its depiction of a long-lived Superman family dynasty, the likes of which boggle the imagination in its scope. Green Lantern fans will enjoy the padding Grant Morrison gives his overall plotline for his run of the JLA title by showing that Kyle Rayner has indeed come into his own. Ressurrection Man, a book DC never should have come close to canceling, is given a nice bookend here as we see where his life will go in the far flung future, and the resolution of his tale with Vandal Savage. Batman gets dragged kicking and screaming into this story, and that makes for some good stuff, too. Buy it if you love the possibilities the DC Universe holds. Shun it if you like characters to conform to very narrow definitions.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Gallery of artwork, February 8, 2000

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Frankie S (London, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DC One Million (Paperback)

This is the best artwork I've seen in a long time and the plot is very good as you get to see what the reaction wuold be to the thought of the greatest heroes of all time travelling to the 853rd century and the betrayl of a superb character in the plot is amazing.It is also a mini-thriller when it comes to the hourman virus.All in all it has incredible art and the plot is excitng as well as thilling.