News: Errors in JLA/Avengers Hardcover October 02, 2004 11:18 am

 From Torsten B. Abel

There are errors in the JLA/Avengers Hardcover.

JLA / AVENGERS: THE COLLECTOR'S EDITION (Aug 2004)

Issue 1 page 35 (page 49 in the Hardcover collection):
J'Onn say "Great H'ronmeer". H'ronmeer is the Martian god of fire (this is the correct spelling). In issue 3 page 10 (page 128 in the HC), he says "Great Hronmeer", without an apostrophe. The same happens in Kurt's annotations for page 49.

JLA/Avengers #3 Cover:
The Plastic Man's leg is miscolored on the cover of issue 3 (it's red, but it should be a fleshy tone, since he has bare legs), which appears on the slipcase and pages 116-117 and 220-221.

What's really sad about this: Tom was informed about this, he promised it would be corrected for the HC. And the printed version of issue 3 had the barcode pasted over Plastic Man's leg, to cover the leg.

Cover Key
Erroneously lists the Scarlet Skier's real name as "Kirtan Rodd", which is actually the name of his former master, Mr. Nebula. The Scarlet Skier's real name is "Dren Keeg" (read it backwards to understand the pun).

Thanos6 at the Avengers Message Board claimed the cover key had just been copied from a fansite, which had the same errors.

comicbookpage.com/../JLA_Avengers_3_Cover_Key.html and what's printed in the Hardcover, the numbering is identical.

Kurt thought the list was provided by George, but evidently it wasn't.

Oh, and a minor cultural error: Issue 2 page 29 (page 95 in the HC):
Phillippus (the black Amazon) swears by the name of "Minerva". Minerva is a Roman goddess. Her Greek name would be "Athena" or "Athene".

Annotations
And in his annotations for page 131 (issue 3 page 13), when Kurt mentions the Red Skull being covered by a word balloon, he comments it with "Verdammte". If you want to use German, do it right - it should be "Verdammt!" (which means "Damn!" - "Verdammte" would only work with either a feminin or a plural noun following it).

And Kurt mentions another error in his annotations, an error George Perez admits too: when Krona blasts the Grandmaster at the end of issue 2, the remainder of the Grandmaster's costume suddenly has sleeves. The error was spotted in time to correct the inked art for issue 3 (when they discover the "dying" Grandmaster).

Clash of the Titans
It did mention the "Rutland" stories and even gave a complete list, but it failed to mention that three of them (Amazing Adventures Featuring the Beast #16, Justice League of America #103 and The Mighty Thor #207) were sort of an unofficial "crossover", with the three parts being connected via a background story featuring Steve Englehart, Gerry Conway and Len and Glynis Wein, the writers of this story.

And it was also missing a quick rundown on Avengers vs. Squadron Supreme/Justice League vs. Assemblers of Angor.

Aquaman Got Leid
Aquaman's Missing Lei was not corrected.