DC Comics' Identity Crisis: The Full Story

6. Doctor Light Remembers!

Batman Identity Crisis
DC Comics / Rags Morales

During his autopsy, Doctor Mid-Nite had discovered that Doctor Light hadn’t killed Sue Dibny. That information had not reached the League in time. Deathstroke was ready for their attack and systematically took each Leaguer down in fairly rapid and ingenious ways. Slade paused to get into a battle of wills with Kyle while he was crushing his ring hand. Oliver takes the opportunity to jam an arrowhead in Wilson's blind eye. Deathstroke changes from controlled to chaotic and the newly freed League dog piles on Slade.

Watching the fight triggers a memory and power return to Dr. Light. He uses a blinding flash to knockout the League and escape with Deathstroke. They awake to Superman standing over them. He tells them that Light is innocent. Flash interrogates Green Arrow further and he reveals a time when five members of the Secret Society of Super-Villains switched bodies with five members of the League. They mind wiped them and it has happened again at least a dozen times.

It is also discovered that the Sue Dibney murder was not an isolated incident. Jean Loring, lawyer, and ex-wife to Ray Palmer, AKA the Atom, is attacked in her own home. Loring is hung from a noose over a door. She manages to place a call to Palmer before the noose tightens.

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