Membership in the Justice League In
The Brave and the Bold #28, the Justice League of America faces the threat of
Starro, a starfish-like alien with mind-control powers. Snapper Carr, who is spreading
lime on his family's lawn, is unaffected by Starro when the alien takes mental control of the population of
Happy Harbor, Rhode Island. Members of the Justice League realize that Starro can be incapacitated using lime, and the alien is defeated. In the 1985–1986
crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC Comics rebooted its fictional universe and the back-stories of nearly all its characters. This required retellings of many of
origin stories, including that of the Justice League of America. The first adventures of the Justice League, and that of Snapper Carr, were retold in the 12-issue
maxi-series comic book
JLA: Year One. The first several issues of the maxi-series involved the alien
Appellaxians, which had first appeared in
Justice League of America #9 (February 1962). In the fictional character chronology, this story occurs before and shortly after
The Brave and the Bold #28, but in the publication history of the character it is printed in 1998. In the story, the Appellaxians conspired with a new criminal organization, Locus, to take over Earth. Snapper's uncle, Simon Carr, made his first appearance in the second issue. The adventure with Starro took place between
JLA: Year One issues #3 and #4, and Snapper played a critical role in issue #9 in alerting the League to the Appellaxian attack on Earth. In issue #10, he deduced that his uncle had been possessed by the Appellaxian leader, and had the League defeat Simon and then free him from alien control.
Betrayal of the JLA Gardner Fox left
Justice League of America with issue #65, and
Dennis O'Neil took over scripting duties. By this time, Snapper Carr was immensely unpopular. O'Neil felt Snapper was outdated and no longer fit with the Justice League. He considered two options: Letting the character disappear without explanation, or writing the character out of the book. O'Neil decided on the latter, even if it seemed abrupt. By the time the story "Snapper Carr—Super Traitor!" appeared, Snapper Carr had not been present in any Justice League of America stories for some time. The story begins with Snapper shown to be upset by the fact that people are interested in him only because of what he knows about the Justice League, and not because he is a hero in his own right. He is confronted by
John Dough, "the most average man in America", who wants to rid the world of superheroes. Snapper helps Dough kidnap
Batman, and addresses a public rally condemning superheroes. The crowd riots, and the Justice League members (except for new member
Black Canary) lose control of their powers. After a fake Batman attacks people attending a congressional hearing into causes of the riot, Snapper resigns his honorary membership in the Justice League. When the League returns to its
Secret Sanctuary (located in a seaside cave near Happy Harbor), they are attacked by Dough—who turns out to be the
Joker. Joker reveals that Snapper told him the location of the League's Secret Sanctuary. The League captures the Joker, but Snapper has departed. "Snapper Carr—Super Traitor!" was the last Joker story for four years, and the last time the
Silver Age Joker was seen in print. A much darker, more
gothic Joker later appeared in
Batman #251, and is the first appearance of the modern Joker. This story also arguably marked the end of the Silver Age version of the Justice League of America as well. Although Snapper Carr was, in later comic book appearances, shown to have made money by writing a memoir about his time with the League, he was also depicted as feeling immense shame for having been tricked by the Joker into betraying the team.
Role in the Justice League Snapper's role in the Justice League was a varied one. In many early adventures, he often (and unintentionally) provided information or scientific clues which enabled the League to solve mysteries or defeat enemies. For example, in the team's third published adventure, "Case of the Stolen Super Powers!", several important zoo specimens have gone missing. Snapper mentions a few facts about long-lived creatures that he's incorporating into a term paper. Members of the JLA realize that the missing animals were all long-lived. This enables them to deduce the plans of
Professor Ivo (who is trying to create an immortality serum) and defeat his android,
Amazo. Usually, Snapper was depicted on "monitor duty", using the JLA computers and satellites to monitor national and world events for trouble to which the heroes could respond. Later, he was depicted as being a
journalist, reporting on the League's activities and providing the "official" record of their exploits, as well as overseeing the JLA's mail handling and processing and responding to fans and admirers. Throughout the comic book series
JLA: Year One, Snapper was also depicted as a mechanic and
I.T. worker, overseeing the installation of a great deal of technology in the Secret Sanctuary and maintaining the hideout's machinery.
Post-JLA In the character's fictional biography, Snapper Carr made a number of appearances between 1969 and 1989. His first appearance came in 1972 100th issue, a story in which the JLA has a celebration. Snapper is invited to attend, but is too ashamed by his betrayal of the League to do so. His second appearance came in 1974, when
Justice League of America writer
Len Wein decided to have Snapper and his family get kidnapped by a mentally ill man calling himself Anakronus. Anakronus claims to be a supervillain who has attacked the Justice League numerous times, but Snapper knows that the man has never tangled with the League before. Snapper succeeds in having Anakronus tell his (rather lengthy) stories about how he destroyed the League. This prevents the man from killing the Carr family for several hours. Members of the JLA show up and easily apprehend Anakronus.
The Star-Tsar The Snapper Carr character was depicted as a supervillain in 1977.
The Key was a villain who had brainwashed Snapper in 1965, and induced him to poison the JLA's food. In 1968, Key implanted a post-hypnotic suggestion in the members of the JLA, which forced them to stay in their headquarters for one hour. At the end of that time, they would kill one another. Key planned for Snapper to kill
Superman with a
kryptonite ray-gun. Key battled the Justice League again in 1974, attempting to blow up the city of
St. Louis, Missouri, but Snapper Carr was not present for this event (having resigned from the JLA five years earlier). The Key's 1977 involvement with Snapper Carr came in the story "The Face of the Star-Tsar!"
Doctor Light, a long-time JLA foe, attempts to access the JLA Satellite.
Mark Shaw, the former villainous
Manhunter now in a new guise as the heroic Privateer, tries to stop him but is defeated. The JLA arrives and Light flees, only to run into a new villain—the Star-Tsar. When the JLA catches up to the two villains, the Star-Tsar flees to
Washington, D.C. and attacks an embassy there. The JLA apprehend the Star-Tsar's henchmen and find Snapper Carr lurking nearby. The JLA then rush off to Doctor Light's underwater lair in a
lake in New York City's Central Park. Anticipating their arrival, Doctor Light traps the heroes with a device that phases them into another dimension. The Star-Tsar helps the Justice League escape before fleeing himself. Trapped in his own hideout by the JLA, Light blows a hole in the wall and escapes. Leaving the villain's lair, the JLA discover the unconscious Star-Tsar, who had been knocked out by debris from the blast. They unmask him, only to discover that the Star-Tsar is Snapper Carr. The story continued in "The Key—Or Not The Key", with Snapper/Star-Tsar freed by Star-Tsar henchmen. Several League members trace the henchmen's flying getaway vehicles to the Star-Tsar's lair. They are swiftly captured by Key.
Post-Star-Tsar The Snapper Carr character made a number of appearances in
The Superman Family comic book from 1978 to 1982. Superman gets Snapper at job at
S.T.A.R. Labs, a research corporation devoted to creating high-tech weapons and prisons to handle various supervillain and alien menaces. Snapper surreptitiously stole the wreck of a
Kryptonian space-sled in the story "Birthright of Power!", and briefly appeared in the story "Kandor vs. Supergirl" as a witness at the trial of
Supergirl. Three issues later, he made a brief appearance in the Supergirl story "What Goes Up Can't Come Down" and its conclusion "The Gravity War". At the end of "Nightmare in New Athens", Snapper is shown to have used the space-sled to fix a
Superboy robot, but a disembodied intelligence takes control of the android. In "The Screamin' Demon", it is revealed that student teacher Paul French has tried to wipe the memories of his criminal past by developing a "transistorized brain". Somehow, it all went wrong, and while he slept his unconscious mind seized control of the robot (Supergirl briefly battled the robot before Paul woke). The Snapper Carr character also played a role in the resignation of Green Arrow from the JLA. The story, which is told in
flashback, depicted Black Canary and Green Arrow investigating an explosion at the
Star City Museum. They were attacked by the Star-Tsar, felled, and hospitalized. Snapper Carr, who just happened to be in Star City, arrives at the hospital to tell them that his Star-Tsar suit was stolen from the
Metropolis police by an astronomer named Richard Rigel, who was working on technology powered by starlight. Green Arrow manages to stop the new Star-Tsar by deducing where he will attack next, but not before members of the JLA almost allow the villain to kill thousands of people. In annoyed at the JLA's conduct, Green Arrow resigned from the Justice League. Writer
Gerry Conway brought Snapper Carr back to the Justice League for the comic book's 200th issue. A post-hypnotic suggestion makes the League's original seven members try to reassemble the seven Appellaxian meteorites from the 1962 adventure and use them to clone new Appellaxians who will initiate a second invasion of Earth. Snapper Carr waits with superhero
Firestorm aboard the JLA Satellite, while the other heroes battle the aliens. The Snapper Carr character appeared again in 1999 in the comic book
Legends of the DC Universe. In the fictional character chronology, this story occurs some time after
Green Arrow's 1980 resignation from the Justice League, but before Green Arrow rejoins the League in 1982. In this story ("Critical Mass Stages 1-5"/"Critical Mass Stages 6-16"), Snapper witnesses five JLA members growing to monstrous size. He believes this is a side-effect of a long-ago attack by a minor villain named Packrat. Snapper finds Green Arrow, who locates Packrat's shrink ray and restores the heroes to their correct size. As Snapper departs, Green Arrow tells the boy that he needs to forgive himself.
The Blasters In 1989, DC Comics published a three-issue limited series titled
Invasion!. The
Dominators, an alien race usually seen in the
Legion of Super-Heroes comics, decide to invade Earth to learn the secret of the
metagene—a
gene that can give certain human beings
superpowers. In the first issue of
Invasion!, it is revealed that thousands of Earthlings have been kidnapped and taken to the Dominator homeworld, where they are forced to run a gauntlet of traps and experiments known as "the Blaster". Six humans, including Snapper Carr, survive the Blaster, an indication that they have the metagene. The Blaster itself forces the metagene in each person to manifest, and Snapper gains the ability to teleport whenever he snaps his fingers. In the third issue, these six new heroes are transferred to Starlag, a Dominator prison. There, they meet up with the extraterrestrial superhero team the
Omega Men. They also meet
Brainiac 2 and his super-team, the Licensed Extra-Governmental Interstellar Operatives Network (
L.E.G.I.O.N.). Together, the three groups break out of Starlag and flee aboard a shuttle piloted by the feline alien, Churljenkins. They run into a superhero task force led by Superman, and assist in the invasion of the Dominator homeworld. There, they discover a cure for the Dominators' "gene bomb" (a device which accelerates metagene activity and destabilizes superpowers, ending with the death of the person with the metagene). Snapper and his group, now called the
Blasters, return to Earth while Churljenkins joins the Omega Men and flies off into space. The Snapper Carr character next appeared in a
one-shot comic,
Blasters. The story in this comic book begins with Snapper Carr in an alien insane asylum. Snapper had decided to keep his eyes open during a teleport, to see what occurs. On his dismay, he witnessed an eternity of time passing, and was driven temporarily insane. The reader also learns that each of the Blasters has had trouble adjusting to their new superpowers, and are also incarcerated in the asylum. Snapper escapes by teleporting directly to Churljenkins' ship, which had broken down on an alien world. Churljenkins restores Snapper's sanity, and the two of them repair the ship and flee—stranding the Omega Men. They learn that the Dominators have destroyed the Churljenkins' home planet, so they return to Earth. On the journey there, they discover that the Spider Guild (an alien race of humanoid arachnids) has created a weapons depot near Earth. Snapper breaks the Blasters out of the hospital, and the team destroys the depot.
Valor and the loss of Snapper's hands The Snapper Carr character next appeared in the comic book
Valor. The planet
Daxam had helped the Dominators invade Earth, but were convinced by Superman to switch sides. The
Daxamites, a sub-species of
Kryptonian, also gain superpowers under a yellow sun, and this vast army of supermen helped turn the tide and save Earth. The father of
Lar Gand (later named Mon-El) died during this battle. Deciding to honor his father, Lar Gand becomes a superhero, joins L.E.G.I.O.N., and meets Superman—who gives him the name Valor. Snapper Carr's involvement in the Valor story begins after Valor is accidentally imprisoned on Starlag II, a Dominator prison near a red sun. Valor signals for help, and his
artificial intelligence unit sends for the Blasters. By this time, the Blasters had a number of adventures (none of them depicted in the comic book, just mentioned by the characters) which had turned out poorly, and were about to disband. While rescuing Valor, the team accidentally releases the energy being known as The Unimaginable. Valor and the Blasters battle The Unimaginable, and Valor escapes Starlag II. The Blasters, however, become trapped there. Some time thereafter, Snapper Carr and the Blasters are able to escape Starlag II, but Snapper becomes separated from his friends (their escape, and how Snapper became separated from them, is not depicted in any comic). In stories first published in 2000, but occurring in the character's chronology at a point after the adventure with Valor, Snapper finds himself being pursued by the
Khunds, an aggressive alien species. Snapper is captured, and his fingers are locked together to prevent him from teleporting. Snapper mulls over his past, and concludes that he has always been a disappointment—first to the Justice League, then to the Blasters. The Khunds torture Snapper, then cut off his hands—depriving him of the ability to teleport. At some point soon thereafter, Snapper Carr is reunited with Brainiac 2 on the planet Cairn, where Brainiac gives him new hands, but Snapper still cannot teleport.
Encountering the Hourman android The character of Snapper Carr is a main character in the
Hourman comic book, which was published from April 1999 to April 2001. Throughout the comic book's run, a
running gag depicts Snapper wearing a series of T-shirts, each emblazoned with a different superhero's logo or uniform colors. In this comic book,
Hourman is an android from the 853rd century. He was built by Tyler ChemoRobotics, a company founded by
Hourman (Rick Tyler) in the late 20th century. The Hourman android traveled permanently to the 20th century, which is the one place he believed he could grow and evolve as a lifeform. He joined the Justice League, and at one point accessed all of
Batman's memories of the League. These memories made the Hourman android realize that Snapper Carr would be a good "humanity coach". The reader learns that, after having his hands restored, Snapper returned to Earth. He married and was divorced by a young woman named Bethany Lee (whose mother is the Happy Harbor chief of police). Snapper is depicted spending most of his time at a trendy if run-down Happy Harbor
coffeehouse, the Mad Yak Café, and caring for his pet cat, whom he has named Starro. In a tie-in to "
Day of Judgment", Snapper fantasizes about two alternative futures—one in which he never betrays the Justice League and becomes a super-hero, and one in which he betrays them and becomes a washed-up alcoholic. Snapper is able to deduce that demons are harassing him and his friends, causing these fantasies, and he not only gets rid of the demons but convinces one of them to reject evil and become good by (feeding it
cheesecake). Shortly thereafter, Snapper Carr and his friends are accidentally trapped aboard Hourman's timeship for months, nearly going insane. After being freed, Snapper is kidnapped by demons and tortured for several days, but is freed by Hourman. Snapper is shown suffering from severe depression after this experience. Hourman asks Snapper to tell him about his time with the Justice League, and in flashback Snapper relates the events of
Justice League of America #77. The reader learns that Snapper regrets quitting the Justice League, and that Bethany divorced him because Snapper felt he was not good enough for her. Hourman says that Snapper fights for the common man, and that's what people like about him. This lifts Snapper out of his depression. Snapper is not dead but back in time, caught in a loop where he is forced to relive the loss of his hands over and over.
Helping Young Justice The character of Snapper Carr has a major recurring role in the comic book
Young Justice, a group consisting of teenagers and young adults. Initially, the group is mentored by Red Tornado, but in
Young Justice #38, Impulse (
Bart Allen) decides to leave the group to live a life away from super-heroics.
Robin (
Tim Drake) resigns, too, feeling no one trusts him.
Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark) asks Red Tornado for help, and he persuades Snapper Carr to provide daily oversight of the group. Snapper Carr appears irregularly over the remaining publication history of
Young Justice. During and after Snapper Carr's run in
Young Justice, the character appeared in
cameos three times in other comic books. The first appearance was when he attended Green Arrow's funeral. The second appearance showed him hanging out with the Justice League during a meeting with the
Avengers from
Marvel Comics. The third appearance was when he attended Green Arrow's wedding to Black Canary. In this last outing, Snapper's invitation to the wedding is stolen and restolen by a host of villains, but Snapper manages to attend the event all the same.
Working for Checkmate DC Comics rebooted their comic universe in 1985 and 1986 in the crossover event
Crisis on Infinite Earths, again in
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time in 1994, then in
Infinite Crisis in 2005 and 2006, in
Final Crisis in 2008, in
Flashpoint and "
The New 52" in 2011. The initial reboot was intended to resolve continuity problems which had crept into the DC Comics universe over the past 50 years, and the subsequent reboots were to correct problems created by
Crisis on Infinite Earths. During the build-up to
Infinite Crisis, DC Comics published a limited series titled
Identity Crisis. Batman is surprised to discover that many supervillains have gained access to the JLA Satellite, the
Justice League Watchtower (a base on the moon), and (after the Watchtower's destruction) the new
JLA Satellite. Worse, many villains have learned the secret identity of a wide range of heroes.
Zatanna, a sorceress and Justice League member, has (with the consent of nearly all members of the League) been wiping the memories of these villains. Batman, who opposed this decision, also had his memories wiped. It is revealed that Batman designed and constructed an artificial intelligence and placed it aboard a satellite called
Brother MK I, nicknamed "Brother Eye". The purpose of Brother Eye is to keep track of superhero activities in case Batman's memories are wiped again. The hero-turned-villain
Alexander Luthor Jr. gives the satellite sentience and
Maxwell Lord, leader of the government agency
Checkmate, takes control of it. Lord secretly alters millions of people around the globe with Checkmate technology, turning them into "Observational Metahuman Activity Constructs" (
OMACs)—superpowered creatures which will do Lord's bidding. Brother Eye frames
Wonder Woman for Lord's death and then unleashes a quarter million OMACs against the world's heroes. Brother Eye is eventually defeated, although hundreds of thousands of people still have OMAC technology within their bodies. The storyline
52 included several one-off and limited series comic books. One of these limited series was the six-part comic book
52: Aftermath.
52 had established the existence of the
Science Squad, a group of supervillain
mad scientists based in the nation of Oolong Island (which is ruled by evil superscientist
Veronica Cale). The Science Squad unleashes the Four Horsemen of Apokolips—
Yurrd (famine), Rogga (war), Zorrm (pestilence), and Azraeuz (death). These bioengineered beings were created specifically to attack the
Black Marvel Family, rulers of the
Middle Eastern nation of
Kahndaq. Black Adam's lover, the superheroine
Isis, dies after being infected by Zorrm, and Yurrd eats her brother,
Osiris. Black Adam goes mad with rage and grief and murders every person in
Bialya (where he believes the Four Horsemen originated). After being briefly imprisoned by the Science Squad, Black Adam is freed by his friend
Atom Smasher and kills hundreds of thousands of people in Italy and China. Black Adam is finally stopped by
Captain Marvel. The Four Horsemen return in a new limited series comic book,
52 Aftermath: The Four Horsemen, which began publication in November 2007 (six months after the events of
52 and
World War III). In this story, the spirits of the bioengineered beings survived their destruction by Black Adam and flee to Bialya, where millions of bodies lay unburied. Veronica Cale (hoping to regain control of the beings) secretly gives them "morphogenetic technology" to make their bodies more adaptable to Earth and less capable of being destroyed. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman arrive in Bialya in time to see the Four Horsemen constructing new bodies from the millions of corpses lying around them. Snapper Carr appears at the end of the second issue, where he is shown monitoring the three heroes for Checkmate. Snapper reveals himself to the heroes in the third issue, and explains that he not only joined Checkmate during the OMAC crisis but has been secretly monitoring the Justice League's activities since the dissolution of Young Justice. Superman is angered by this and demands an end to Snapper's spying, but Batman argues that Snapper can help in case the battle against the Four Horsemen does not go well. In the fourth issue of the limited series,
Mister Terrific, one of the four heads of Checkmate, arrives on Oolong Island. He teleports Snapper, Superman, and Batman out of Bialya and to Oolong Island, where he tells the heroes that the Science Squad is alarmed that the Four Horsemen remain out of their control. The villains, he says, are now attempting to build a device to contain them, and Checkmate is assisting that effort. Snapper is present when Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman defeat the Four Horsemen, and is left behind on the island by the heroes when they leave.
Final Crisis: Resist The
Final Crisis storyline begins with
Darkseid's death, and his spirit and the spirit of all the Apokoliptian New Gods falling to Earth. This creates a
quantum singularity that will consume all creation. The supervillain
Libra seizes control of a large number of nations and organizations on Earth on behalf of Darkseid. Darkseid obtains a new body, and releases the
Anti-Life Equation, a metaphysical virus which allows Darkseid to control the mind of anyone it infects. After a month, nearly all the people of Earth are under Darkseid's control. So are most superheroes and supervillains, whom Darkseid organizes into a terrorist unit called the Justifiers. Darkseid is eventually defeated, and the universe rebooted by Superman using the Miracle Machine. The one-off publication
Final Crisis: Resist features Snapper Carr. It begins the same day the Anti-Life Equation is released, and the events in the story take place over the next few days. In the book's opening pages, Snapper is shown to be at Checkmate's headquarters in
Antarctica. While nearly all Checkmate staff, heroes, and villains are infected with Anti-Life, a few barricade themselves inside the compound, which is protected by force fields. Snapper, whose teleportation abilities have now remanifested (how is not explained in the story), spends the first few days after the release of Anti-Life teleporting around the globe disrupting Darkseid's hold on various scientific organizations. But supplies are almost nonexistent at the Checkmate base. After several days, Snapper teleports to France to seek food for the Checkmate hold-outs. He is attacked by the Anti-Life-infected hero
Firehawk, but the supervillain
Cheetah knocks Firehawk unconscious. A few days later, Snapper teleports to a hospital in the United States to find medical supplies. He is sickened to see children being infected with Anti-Life. He discovers Cheetah in an empty medical ward of the hospital, bandaging an injury. Cheetah reacts to Snapper's presence by seducing him, and they end up having sex. Cheetah tells Snapper she is impressed by his physical endowment and love-making skills. Their post-coital interlude is interrupted by the Justifier
Gorilla Grodd. Snapper teleports himself and Cheetah to Checkmate headquarters, but the strain of teleporting another person (which he is doing for the first time) burns out his teleportation power. Mister Terrific activates OMACs worldwide to help defeat Darkseid, with Snapper leading a group of OMACs, Mister Terrific, Cheetah, and the remaining Checkmate staff in a charge out of the bunker.
Battle against Epoch The next appearance of the Snapper Carr character occurred in 2009 in
Justice League of America 80-Page Giant. In this story, Snapper Carr is biding his time at the Secret Sanctuary in Happy Harbor, and summons Cheetah for some romance and perhaps sex. Their tryst is interrupted by the appearance of the supervillain
Time Commander (who had recently battled Hourman). Time Commander claims that his grandmother is about to be born today, and that the supervillain
Epoch (formerly known as the Lord of Time, and an old JLA enemy) wants to kill the infant so that Time Commander will never be born. Epoch, he says, is already in the hospital and searching for the child. Furthermore, Epoch is also trying to kill the Justice League by attacking them when they were children. Time Commander has already scattered the JLA through time in an attempt to stop Epoch from carrying out his plans (if the Justice League never survives infancy, they will not form the League and Snapper Carr will not be around to help Time Commander). Most of the issue follows the adventures of six teams, composed of one or more League members, as they try to stop Epoch at various points in the past. At the end of the issue, Snapper persuades Cheetah to help by distracting Epoch so Snapper can teleport into the hospital, grab Epoch, and then teleport himself and Epoch back outside. Having done so, Snapper then grabs Epoch's "time gauntlet" and teleports to the side of the Time Commander—with Epoch's forearm and hand in his grasp (the re-emergence of Snapper's teleportation powers is not explained in the story). With Epoch's technology (and limb) stolen, the attack in the past ceases. The JLA reappear and quickly subdue Epoch. Cheetah, Snapper, and Time Commander bid goodbye to the newborn grandmother in the hospital, and Time Commander takes Epoch to the Timepoint (a frozen moment in time that serves as a prison). In the story's final panels, Cheetah reveals that the baby is not Time Commander's grandmother. Snapper realizes he has been duped: The Time Commander merely wanted to distract Snapper so that he could steal Hourman's time machine.
DC Rebirth In 2016, DC Comics implemented a relaunch of its books called "
DC Rebirth" which restored its continuity to a form much as it was prior to "
The New 52". Snapper Carr makes an appearance in the 2019 run of
Dial H for Hero. The H-Dial (which can turn a person into a wide range of super-powered beings) is found by Miguel Montez. The H-Dial proves to be addictive, so that anyone who has used it in the past now craves to possess and use it. The mysterious villain Mister Thunderbolt is one of these seeking the device. Snapper was seen reacting to the H-Dials's re-emergence. Miguel and his friend Summer Pickens arrive at the
Justice League's Detroit headquarters and meet Snapper Carr, who is managing robotic doubles of the Justice League. As Snapper Carr tries to contact the
Hall of Justice, Mister Thunderbolt programs the robots to attack Miguel, Summer, and Snapper. Using the H-Dial, Summer transforms into Chimp Change, Snapper turns into Alien Ice Cream Man, and Miguel turns into Lil' Miguelito. As Chimp Change and Alien Ice Cream Man subdue the robots, Mister Thunderbolt tricks Miguel into dialing "S" for Sockamagee. This releases Mister Thunderbolt from his prison. Summer and Snapper return to normal. Mister Thunderbolt disappears into a dimensional portal, and Miguel follows him. With Snapper still unable to contact the Hall of Justice, Summer borrows the
Supermobile and flies to
Metropolis to find Superman. ==Powers and abilities==