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Meaning of title

The title of the series plays on several ideas:

• the importance of and consequences of exposure of superhero secret identities
• the unknown identity of the murderer
• the struggle of the protagonists to determine their own identities and deal with the consequences of past actions as well as recent tragedies; see identity crisis (psychology)
• Crisis on Infinite Earths and its sequel Infinite Crisis
• The title was taken directly from the title of an episode of the George Reeves "Adventures of Superman" television show, which Dan DiDio had in his office.
• Robin's (Tim Drake) father, Jack Drake, dies in Identity Crisis. The story arc of Batman #455-457 (October-December 1990), in which Tim Drake struggles to deal with the death of his mother and the crippling of his father, was also called "Identity Crisis".

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Plot summary

Sue Dibny, the Elongated Man's wife, is murdered, her body horribly burned. The DC superhero community rallies to find the murderer. Susan Sue Dearbon Dibny is a fictional character from DC comics. ... The Elongated Man is a fictional comic book superhero in the DC universe. ...

Early suspicion rests on Doctor Light, as it is revealed that he had raped Sue Dibny years earlier in the JLA satellite headquarters. It is also revealed that the Atom, Black Canary, Hawkman, Flash (Barry Allen), Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), and Green Arrow allowed the sorceress Zatanna to mind-wipe the captured Doctor Light. Not only was his memory of the rape of Dibny removed, but his personality was also altered to make him less of a threat. Thinking that Light may now have murdered Sue, the superheroes attempt to capture him. However, Light has hired Deathstroke to protect him, and in the ensuing fight between Deathstroke and the JLA, Doctor Light regains his memory, is enraged at the violation, and escapes. Arthur Light is a DC Comics fictional character and supervillain. ... For the animated television series, see Justice League (TV series) or Justice League Unlimited. ... The Atom introduced during the Silver Age of comic books in Showcase # 34 (Sep-Oct 1961) is physicist and university professor Ray Palmer (named for real-life science fiction writer Raymond A. Palmer, who was himself quite short). ... Black Canary is a fictional character, a DC Comics superheroine. ... For other meanings of the term, see Hawkman (disambiguation) Hawkman is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. ... The Flash is a name shared by several DC Comics superheroes. ... Barry Allen is a fictional character, a superhero in the DC Comics universe and the second Flash. ... For the DJ, see DJ Green Lantern. ... Hal Jordan is a fictional character, a DC Comics superhero. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this comics-related article or section may require cleanup. ... Not to be confused with Magic (illusion). ... Zatanna Zatara is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. ... Deathstroke the Terminator (Slade Wilson), also called simply Deathstroke (and originally simply the Terminator) is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Comics Universe. ...

The JLA members responsible for the mindwiping of Dr. Light. Cover art for Identity Crisis #2, by Michael Turner.

The murderer next tries to hang Jean Loring, the ex-wife of the Atom. The attempt fails, as the Atom arrives in the nick of time and snaps the rope from the inside. The murderer then sends a death threat to Lois Lane (Superman's wife). Finally, a hit is arranged by Captain Boomerang on Jack Drake, Robin's (Tim Drake's) father. However, Jack Drake receives a note warning him of the impending attempt on his life, as well as a gun, both sent by an unknown party. As Jack Drake fatally shoots Captain Boomerang, the latter manages to throw a razor boomerang at Drake's chest, injuring him fatally. Batman confiscates the note before the authorities or the media can learn of its existence. Image File history File links Identitycrisis2. ... Image File history File links Identitycrisis2. ... Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a cord wrapped around the neck, causing death. ... Jean Loring is a fictional character from DC Comics associated with The Atom. ... For the Dutch girl group, see Loïs Lane. ... Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero , originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ... George Digger Harkness and his son Owen Mercer, both known as Captain Boomerang, are fictional characters in the DC Universe. ... Robin is a fictional character, a superhero in the DC Comics universe. ... Timothy Tim Drake is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. ... It has been suggested that Last Call Poker be merged into this article or section. ...

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Green Arrow (Oliver Queen) reveals to the Flash (Wally West) that Batman had walked in on the heroes while Zatanna was performing the mind-wipe of Doctor Light. When Batman tried to prevent them from doing so, he was mind-wiped as well, although in his case Zatanna only removed his memory of the past few minutes. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this comics-related article or section may require cleanup. ... The Flash is a name shared by several DC Comics superheroes. ... Wally West is a fictional character, a superhero in the DC Comics Universe, the first Kid Flash and the third Flash. ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ...

Eventually, the autopsy of Sue Dibny's body by Doctor Mid-Nite and Mister Terrific reveals that Sue Dibny had been killed by an infarction in her brain. A microscopic scan of Dibny's brain shockingly reveals two tiny footprints as a clue to the cause of the infarction. Post-mortem, postmortem and post mortem redirect here. ... Doctor Mid-Nite is a DC Comics superhero. ... Michael Holt is a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Jean Loring in Identity Crisis. Art by Rags Morales.

Mid-Nite and Terrific, along with Batman, separately realize that Sue was murdered by someone with access to the technology of the Atom, Ray Palmer (Palmer's technology grants him the ability to shrink himself to subatomic size). Before they can discover whether it was Palmer or someone using his technology, Palmer learns that his estranged wife, Jean Loring, is aware of the note sent to Jack Drake (knowledge of which had been kept secret). He deduces that she was the killer. Jean Loring in a scene from Identity Crisis #7. ... Jean Loring in a scene from Identity Crisis #7. ... Rags Morales (born ?) is a comic book artist. ... Helium atom (not to scale) Showing two protons (red), two neutrons (green) and a probability cloud (gray) of two electrons (yellow). ...

Loring asserts that she did not mean to kill Sue, nor was it her intention for Jack Drake to be killed. She argues that she sent the note and gun in order for him to protect himself and survive the attack. She tells Palmer that she undertook the plan, which included faking the attempt on her own life, in order to bring Ray back into her life. Palmer realizes that she is insane, and Loring is committed to Arkham Asylum. Arkham Asylum as it appeared on Batman: The Animated Series. ...

Background information

• In Justice League of America issues #166-#168, the Secret Society of Super Villains, including The Wizard, Floronic Man, Star Sapphire, Reverse-Flash, and Blockbuster, captures JLA members Superman, Batman, Green Lantern Hal Jordan, Zatanna, and Wonder Woman and switches bodies with the heroes, which causes them to learn the JLA members' secret identities. At the conclusion of the arc, Zatanna erases the villains' memories of the incident and the secret identities. As part of the continuity changes introduced by Crisis on Infinite Earths, Wonder Woman was retconned out of the pre-Crisis JLA. In all further references to the JLA's pre-Crisis adventures, including its origin story and the Secret Society incident, Wonder Woman is replaced by Black Canary). However, following Infinite Crisis, Wonder Woman has been restored as a founding member, so the Black Canary retcon has been retconned. This means that all appearances of Wonder Woman in the early league, including the Secret Society story, are back in continuity. Also, the Hawkman in the flashback is Carter Hall, who retroactively replaced Katar Hol following the Hawkworld reboot.
• When Elongated Man was admitted to the JLA, his wife, Sue Dibny appeared regularly in their comics stories and is revealed to have spent a lot of time alone on the Justice League Satellite.
• A former DC staffer who worked on Identity Crisis — later identified as DC assistant editor Valerie D'Orazio — alleged that the mini-series' main plot points, especially the rape of the character Sue Dibny, were dictated by DC editors in order to draw increased sales and direct attention away from Marvel Comics.

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Major characters - heroes

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• Green Arrow - Much of the story is told from Oliver Queen's point of view. When Sue Dibny was raped on the Justice League Satellite, he voted against the alteration of Dr. Light's personality.
• Elongated Man - In issue #1, Ralph Dibny is sent on a mystery by his wife, Sue, as part of a gift. He is the first hero to suspect Dr. Light in the murder of his wife. Ralph struggles to maintain a solid form while grieving Sue's death, and is shown in the final scene of the series "speaking" to his deceased wife.
• Batman - The Justice League of America's most accomplished detective, Batman plays a major role in solving the mystery of Sue Dibny's murder and Jean Loring's "attempted murder." It is revealed in issue #6 that while he teleported off the satellite to deal with an emergency immediately following Sue's rape by Dr. Light, he returned as Zatanna was in the process of altering Dr. Light's personality. He attempted to stop her, but she used a spell to render him motionless. She subsequently removed his memories of the attack. When the JLA battled Dr. Light in issue #3, he projected a memory of the JLA, including Batman, restraining him on the satellite following the rape. This led Wally West to deduce that Batman had been present for the incident, and that he had been mindwiped. Batman's eventual remembrance of the mindwipe led him to disassociate himself from the JLA and become increasingly suspicious of metahuman heroes (see Brother Eye).
• Green Lantern - Hal Jordan responded to Sue Dibny's rape and voted against the alteration of Dr. Light's personality. While still inhabiting the Spectre, Green Arrow consulted him in issue #4 and attempted to get him to exact revenge on Sue's killer. Hal refused.
• Zatanna - Zatanna responded to Sue Dibny's rape and performed the personality alteration of Dr. Light, as well as the restraint and mindwipe of Batman.
• Black Canary - Dinah Lance responded to Sue Dibny's rape and voted against the alteration of Dr. Light's personality.
• Hawkman - Hawkman responded to Sue Dibny's rape and voted for the alteration of Dr. Light's personality.
• The Flash - Barry Allen responded to Sue Dibny's rape and was forced into the unenviable role of the deciding vote in the decision to alter Dr. Light's personality. He voted for the mindwipe. In the present day, Wally West figured out that Batman had also been mindwiped and confronted Green Arrow about it. According to Green Arrow, Barry's decision to vote for the mindwipe took place six months after his wife, Iris, was thought to have been killed by Professor Zoom.
• The Atom - Ray Palmer responded to Sue Dibny's rape and voted for the alteration of Dr. Light's personality. It was eventually discovered that his ex-wife, Jean Loring, had been responsible for the murder of Sue Dibny and her own "attempted murder". She claimed to have done so in order that Ray would feel compelled to get back together with her. He had Jean committed to Arkham Asylum. Immediately following, he discarded his Justice League communicator and shrank himself to a microscopic size. He later appeared talking to his old friend Carter Hall, although he asked for the meeting to remain secret.
• Robin - When the mystery killer (later revealed to be Jean Loring) began attacking the loved ones of Justice League members, Tim became especially concerned about his father, who always regretted his son leaving behind a normal life to be a crimefighter. Tim was devastated when Captain Boomerang, hired by Jean Loring, killed his father. In his final act, Jack killed Boomerang with a gun supplied by Loring.

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Major characters - villains

• Dr. Light - An archfoe of the Justice League during the Silver Age, Dr. Light teleported aboard the Justice League Satellite and raped Sue Dibny while the rest of the Justice League was away. A group of JLAers, including Green Arrow, the Atom, Black Canary, The Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Zatanna, and Batman responded to the incident and subdued him. In a controversial and debilitating decision, the JLAers voted 4-3 to alter his personality, which turned him into a comical and largely ineffective foe of the Teen Titans for many years. When Sue was killed, Elongated Man identified him as the prime suspect, and he regained his memory of the rape of Sue Dibny, and all of his lost fighting skills while battling the JLA alongside Deathstroke the Terminator, thus becoming a much deadlier villain. He has since joined the Secret Society of Super Villains.
• Deathstroke the Terminator - A hired assassin capable of using 90% of his brain capacity for strategy and reaction during battle, Deathstroke fought the JLA with Dr. Light in issue #3. He subdued the JLA by using their powers against them. He cut off Hawkman's wings; severed the ends of Green Arrow's arrows, rendering them useless; hit Zatanna in the liver, causing her to vomit and leaving her unable to speak, and thus unable to cast spells; put a mask over Black Canary's head and handcuffed her hands behind her back, rendering her unable to use her sonic scream or remove the mask; tricked the Flash into running into his sword; incapacitated a miniaturized Atom with a laserpointer; and engaged in a battle of wills with the Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) in order to take control of the Lantern's power ring (the Green Arrrow stabs Deathstroke before this battle of wills is resolved).
• Captain Boomerang - A member of The Flash's Rogues gallery, Digger Harkness discovers during the series that he has an illegitimate son originally, but mistakenly, believed to be by Golden Glider who possesses both his own prowess with a boomerang and limited super speed. He is hired by Jean Loring to kill Jack Drake, and succeeds in doing so, but not before he is shot and killed by Drake. His son takes up his namesake and has since joined the Secret Society of Super Villains. After DC's timeline jumped ahead One Year Later, the new Captain Boomerang has joined the Super Hero group The Outsiders.
• Merlyn - A former member of The League of Assassins, Merlyn is the leading voice of the villains, telling the events of the story in counterpoint to Green Arrow, who he is an enemy of. He is allied with Deadshot and Monocle.
• Jean Loring - Once married to the Atom, the accomplished attorney attempted to force a reconciliation with her husband by killing Sue Dibny and targeting the loved ones of JLA members, including Lois Lane and Jack Drake. She murdered Dibny by using one of the Atom's old costumes to shrink down to a microscopic size, break into the Dibnys' apartment, and kill Sue. To attempt to hide the evidence, she badly burned Sue's body. Dr. Mid-Nite and Mister Terrific eventually discover microscopic footprints on Sue's brain tissue and mistakenly suspect the Atom in her murder, but Ray Palmer discovers Jean's true story and has her committed to Arkham Asylum. Later, while still committed, she would be possessed by Eclipso.
• The Calculator - Noah Kuttler is a former third-tier villain who has set himself up as an anti-Oracle. He is friends with Captain Boomerang and hires him to kill Jack Drake on behalf of Jean Loring. He has since become a core member of Lex Luthor's Society.

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Notable changes and consequences

• The Calculator, formerly a technology-using supervillain with a rather silly costume, becomes a formidable information broker. He is now essentially the villain counterpart to Oracle.
• Deathstroke went from being an adversary of the Teen Titans to a threat that now spans the entire DC world.
• Dr. Light, having learned of his mindwipe at the hands of the JLA, returned to his once threatening self and is now a member of the Secret Society of Super-Villains.
• The Atom quits the JLA, superheroics in general and life.
• Firehawk retires from superheroics as well (but OYL is merged with Jason Rusch as Firestorm).
• Owen Mercer, Captain Boomerang's son, takes his father's mantle after his death. However, One Year Later, he has joined up with the Outsiders.
• Tim Drake is now an orphan.
• Batman eventually learned of the mindwipe and the Justice League broke up under the strain. Batman's increased paranoia as a result of this would be the reason he created Brother Eye.
• Ronnie Raymond is killed and Jason Rusch eventually becomes Firestorm.
• Wally West discovers that, after the mindwipe of Dr. Light, his uncle, Barry Allen, convinced Zatanna to alter the personality of The Top, one of his most dangerous enemies. The Top had discovered Allen's secret identity as the Flash. Zatanna made the Top into a heroic figure, and he secretly used his own formidable psychic powers to alter the minds of several of Flash's Rogues Gallery (notably Heat Wave, Pied Piper and the Trickster) to cause them to abandon crime and reform. During the Rogues War storyline, the Top undid his mental tampering with the three villans, causing Heat Wave and Trickster to resume their criminal ways and rejoin the Rogues in the Secret Society of Super-Villans (but not Piper, who still regarded Flash as a good friend.)

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Notable retcons

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• Superman (the Justice League's official leader) and Batman were previously portrayed as the most commanding members of the team. Identity Crisis postulates that the two were always so busy battling their own adversaries that a league within the League, consisting of Green Arrow, Black Canary, Hawkman, The Flash (Barry Allen), Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Elongated Man, and Zatanna, made most of the difficult decisions (including that to mindwipe villains) and that Superman and Batman, in Green Arrow’s words, "saw what they wanted to see" regarding their activities.
• Villains like Dr. Destiny and Brainwave who could easily discover the League's identities failed to do so, not because they didn't think of it, but because the League erased their memories when they did discover it.
• Doctor Light's previous ineffectualness was not due to his own foolishness, but rather, because of the effects of the JLA's attempt to alter his personality.
• Green Arrow and Hawkman's mutual antagonism, which was originally rooted solely in their differing political philosophies, is revealed to have come about from their opposing opinions of what should have been done to Dr. Light and the minor altercation they had because of it.

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Collection and related stories

DC Comics reprinted the entire Identity Crisis mini-series in April 2005 with re-colored covers. [1] A hardcover collection (ISBN 1-4012-0688-3) was printed in September 2005. Bonus features for the hardcover edition include a commentary by Meltzer and Morales, the rest of the creative team talking about their favorite moments, and a look at Morales's sketchbook. [2] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... In literary criticism, close reading describes the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text. ... A sketchbook is most often an unlined notebook of quality paper, used by practitioners across the arts. ...

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External links

• Brad Meltzer's website
• Interview with Meltzer on The Sound of Young America: MP3 Link
• analysis of the series by Scott King
• The Superman Database - Full list of every issue of “Identity Crisis” ever published w/ Cover Art and more.