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JLA: Another Nail

JLA: The Nail
Cover for JLA: The Nail #1 (Aug. 1998), by Alan Davis.
Publication information
Publisher Elseworlds (DC Comics)
Schedule Monthly
Format Limited series
Genre
Publication date August – October 1998
Number of issues 3
Main character(s) Aquaman
Atom
Batman
Flash
Green Lantern
Hawkwoman
Martian Manhunter
Wonder Woman
Creative team
Creator(s) Alan Davis
Mark Farmer
Collected editions
JLA: The Nail (US edition)
JLA: The Nail (UK Edition)
JLA: Another Nail
Cover for JLA: Another Nail #1 (May 2004), by Alan Davis.
Publication information
Publisher Elseworlds (DC Comics)
Schedule Monthly
Format Limited series
Genre
Publication date May – July 2004
Main character(s) Aquaman
Atom
Batman
Flash
Green Arrow
Green Lantern
Hawkgirl
Martian Manhunter
Superman
Wonder Woman
Creative team
Writer(s) Alan Davis
Penciller(s) Alan Davis
Inker(s) Mark Farmer
Creator(s) Alan Davis
Mark Farmer
Collected editions
JLA: Another Nail (US edition)
JLA: Another Nail (UK Edition)

JLA: The Nail is a three-issue comic book mini-series published by DC Comics in 1998 under its Elseworlds imprint. The story, written and drawn by Alan Davis, is set in a world where Jonathan and Martha Kent's truck experiences a flat tire caused by a nail, which prevents them from discovering the spaceship outside Smallville with baby Kal-El, negating Superman. It was later followed by a sequel, JLA: Another Nail, a three-issue mini-series published in 2004 which wrapped up several loose ends from the original mini-series, such as the war between the New Gods and the Green Lantern Corps and Oliver Queen's public betrayal of the Justice League.

The story's theme is set in the first paragraph:

For want of a nail the shoe was lost,
for want of a shoe the horse was lost,
for want of a horse the knight was lost,
for want of a knight the battle was lost.
So it was a kingdom was lost – all for want of a nail.

Twenty-four years ago, farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent experience a flat tire on their truck caused by a nail, which results in them missing the arrival of a Kryptonian spacecraft and discovering the infant Kal-El. Without Superman, the Justice League consists of Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash, Hawkwoman, the Atom, Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern.


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