What Happened To Everyone Who Killed Batman?

It wasn't just Batman who ended up dead in JLA #74, for a who's who of the Justice League's biggest names ended up on the deceased list courtesy of some legendary Atlantean warriors known as the League of Ancients.

These no-nonsense Atlanteans are nothing if not brutally effective in their work, which here involved taking down the Justice League.

First up, poor Flash had his legs ripped off. But that's the tip of the iceberg, as the narrative sees the Atlanteans methodically target each member of the League and take them out.

For Superman, he ends up dead after zooming around the planet and hitting an Atlantean plaza; Wonder Woman bit the dust after being stabbed in the shoulder; Martian Manhunter likewise succumbs to extensive battle wounds; Kyle Rayner's Green Lantern has the grizzly fate of his heart being ripped out; and Plastic Man is turned to stone and smashed into smithereens.

In amongst the chaos, the death of Batman is somewhat of a footnote that largely takes place in the background of this bloodshed.

Making things more bizarre, the Justice League shuffled around as undead version of themselves in the following issue, before a mixture of Green Lantern's might, Aquaman's spirit, sparkly magic and general 'stuff' brought the JLA back to the land of the living.