Paul Lincoln witnesses the effects of the universal crisis from the ground level, including its direct impact on his own family. As the Lincolns and Mahoneys recover, the Justice League reforms in Detroit, but that group doesn't last long before the anti-hero hysteria stirred up by G. Gordon Godfrey, where a new Justice League emerges. But the bright dawn of a new era quickly turns dark again when Barbara Gordon is shot and crippled by the Joker.; Young Clark Kent is visited by several different groups of Legionnaires, all begging for his help and arguing amongst themselves that their particular crisis is most in need of his help, but Clark turns them down until they can figure out what it means to wear a Legion ring.