Atlanteans are wed to their history, so we consult the Chronicles of Atlantis, 1043 B.C., and learn of a golden age where “peace reigned for a thousand years. Where strangers were welcomed with open arms.”
A CHILD was born to us this week, with hair fine and bright as spun gold. POISON. She was to be named GAMEMNAE…
1020 B.C. This is the FALL of Atlantis…
So you have a choice. I can give you the gift of light. Of air. Of sky. I can raise your station the way I have raised Atlantis. I can lead us to greatness. All I ask is that you disown the dark ways, all of them… everything you have ever known… and follow me,. Utterly.
While the exact mechanism of the feat remains a mystery, she is regarded as a national heroine, from councilmen to “lawmen” alike.
Rama Khan, the mortal guardian of the land Jarhanpur, and empowered by the land itself, became an ally of Gamemnae. When she felt that something… a darkness… was coming, the two gathered five other metahumans and formed the League of Ancients.
Gamemnae sent two of them, Manitou Raven and Tezumak, into the future, in an attempt to prevent what she was sure was impending disaster…
JLA #70
Late Oct. 2002 (Aug. 28, 2002)
$2.25
“Revisionist History”
22 pages
Writer: Joseph Kelly
Penciller: Doug Mahnke
Inker: Tom Nguyen
Editor: Dan Raspler
JLA #75
Jan. 2003 (Nov. 20. 2002)
$3.95
“Tragic Kingdom”
54 pages
Writer: Joseph Kelly
Pencillers: Doug Mahnke, Yvel Guichet, Darryl Banks, Dietrich Smith
Inkers: Tom Nguyen, Mark Propst, Wayne Faucher, Sean Parsons
Editor: Dan Raspler
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