Mister Miracle will create a Boom Tube and teleport this thing to the edge of the Source! The ultimate escape from the ultimate death trap! 
- — Big Barda
The Final Night #1 is an issue of the series The Final Night (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1996.
Synopsis for "Dusk"
An alien space vessel crash-lands on Earth just off the West River in Metropolis. A woman named Dusk emerges only to find Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes standing before her. Saturn Girl uses her telepathy to translate the frightened woman's thoughts. Dusk warns them that an entity known as a Sun-Eater is enroute to this star system. When it arrives, it will consume all of the energy from the sun, thus destroying all life on the planet Earth.
Superman calls together a special convention of superheroes. Attending are members of the Justice League (past and present), the Legion, the Marvel Family and many others. Mister Miracle decides to create an over-sized Boom Tube to funnel the Sun-Eater to an unoccupied domain. The Sun-Eater overloads the Boom Tube and the plan fails.
The next strategy involves the creation of a secondary sun to act as a lure for the Sun-Eater. All of the energy-based heroes pour their powers into the creation of a new sun, but this too proves to be a fruitless endeavor.
Elsewhere, Lex Luthor decides that it is time to step up and lend a hand.
Appearing in "Dusk"
Featured Characters:
- Alpha Centurion
- Dusk
- Captain Atom
- Legion of Super-Heroes
- Mister Miracle
- Doctor Polaris
- Kitty Faulkner
- Maxima
- Superman
- Takion
- Waverider
Supporting Characters:
- Batman
- Big Barda
- Contessa
- Fire
- Firestorm
- Green Lantern
- Jimmy Olsen
- Lex Luthor
- Metropolis Special Crimes Unit
- Phantom Stranger
- Ray
- Sentinel
- Spectre
- Superboy
- Warrior
- Wonder Woman
Antagonists:
- Sun-Eater (1st Post-Crisis appearance)
Other Characters:
- Amanda Waller
- Black Canary
- Doctor Light
- "Extreme Justice"
- Flash
- Impulse
- Jade
- Justice League America
- Justice League Task Force
- Robin
- Steel
- Wildcat
- Marvel Family
- The Presence (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth
- Metropolis
- Hawaii
- Mauna Kea Observatory
- Earth's Moon (On a TV or computer screen)
- Mars (Mentioned only)
- New Genesis (Mentioned only)
- Outer Space
- Source Wall (Mentioned only)
Items:
- Boom Tube
- Green Lantern Ring
- Legion Flight Ring
- Steel's Third Armor
- Kinetic Hammer
- Mother Box
- U-Tran device
Vehicles:
Notes
- The Final Night (Volume 1) was shipped on a weekly publishing schedule.
- This issue is reprinted in The Final Night and The Final Night New Edition.
Trivia
- The tagline for this issue is "Week One: Armageddon".
- This issue includes a S.T.A.R. Labs Earthwatch Web page and timeline.
See Also
Recommended Reading
Links and References
  The Final Night Crossover Core Issues
Tie-Ins
Green Lantern #80 • The Power of Shazam! #20 • Sovereign Seven #16 • Superman #117 • Adventures of Superman #540 • Batman #536 • Green Arrow #114 • Supergirl #3 • Action Comics #727 • Aquaman #26 • Detective Comics #703 • Superboy #33 • Flash #119 • Hitman #8 • Legion of Super-Heroes #86 • Robin #35 • Spectre #47 • Superman: The Man of Steel #62 • Takion #6 • Parallax: Emerald Night #1 |