JLA Annual #1 (1983): Plot by Paul Levitz, script by Len Wein, art by Rick Hoberg.
Chapter 4 takes us to Gotham City, where Wonder Woman and Flash are joined by the John Stewart Green Lantern to continue the search for Dr. Destiny.
John isn't a League member at the time, was suddenly found himself in costume with his ring filling him in on the case. Apparently, the Guardians have sent him to lend a hand.
I don't think we get an explanation for what brought the heroes specifically to Gotham, but John is soon using his ring to home in on some delta wave activity. This gives us a wonderful panel in which John manifests a giant green bloodhound sniffing out the delta waves. It's probably not a necessary thing for John to do, but it's awesome all the same and using a GL ring to call up cool images to represent whatever practical thing you are doing should be standard practice among all members of the Lantern Corps.
Soon, they find the missing artists mentioned in the previous chapter. When John tries to free them from the equipment to which they are attached, this manifests villains from Wonder Woman's subconscious. The three heroes are fighting dream versions of the Tornado Tyrant, Amazo and Dr. Light.
What follows is a short fight scene--each hero only gets a few panels for his/her part of the fight. But in each case, the hero uses his/her powers intelligently to defeat one of the dream villains. I especially like the swift and practical method Wonder Woman uses--wrapping the Amazo manifestation in her Lasso of Truth, forcing it to realize its just an illusion, which in turn forces it to vanish.
The heroes find Dr. Destiny in a back room, but this is just a hologram. The real Destiny has become "one with his dream machine," though Wonder Woman wonders how he can do this when he can no longer dream.
That's it for Chapter 3. Next week, we'll pay a visit to the Dream Dimension,
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