DC: The New Frontier 2004 #2 - No Condition Defined - $7.00

J'onn J'onzz arrives on Earth, while Superman investigates what Wonder Woman has been up to in Indo-China. J'onn J'onzz studies Earth culture through television and takes on the role of police detective John Jones in Gotham City in 1955. Time passes, and in Central City police scientist Barry Allen is struck by lightning, the Russians launch Sputnik, and Eisenhower ramps up the space race. In Gotham City in 1957, John Jones and Slam Bradley's attempt to break up a cult dedicated to "The Centre" involves an encounter with Batman and the confiscation of a large, sealed book.

In Las Vegas, retired masked man Ted Grant boxes against the young contender Cassius Clay. When Captain Cold crashes the party afterwards, The Flash crosses the country to stop him. Later, Ace Morgan and Hal Jordan discuss life after combat, and Ace tells Hal he has lined up a meeting for Hal at Ferris Aircraft.

This issue dedicated to Gardner Fox, Carmine Infantino, Johnny Craig, and Bernard Krigstein.

• Book Two: Strange Adventures - Title from inside front cover. Colors credit based on note in Graphic Ink: The DC Comics Art of Darwyn Cooke (DC, 2015 series).
• Chapter Five: Fun City - The announcer is identified as Jack Ryder (later to become The Creeper) in Absolute DC: The New Frontier (DC, 2006 series).
• - Back cover. Colors credit based on note in Graphic Ink: The DC Comics Art of Darwyn Cooke (DC, 2015 series).