- Script:
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils:
- Mike Sekowsky
- Inks:
- Bernard Sachs
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Gaspar Saladino
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Justice League of America [Aquaman; Batman; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Martian Manhunter; Superman; Wonder Woman; Snapper Carr; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]]; aliens from Appellax (flashback); Amazons of Paradise Island (flashback)
- Synopsis:
- The Justice League of America uses the occasion of its third anniversary to tell Snapper Carr and Green Arrow about the formation of the League, involving the discovery of strange meteors that nearly doomed them forever.
- Reprinted:
- in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #8 (March 1965)
- in Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #97 (March 1972) [worked into a new story there]
- in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #5 (November-December 1980)
- in More Secret Origins Replica Edition (DC, 1999 series) #1
- in The Justice League of America Archives (DC, 1992 series) #2
- in Showcase Presents: Justice League of America (DC, 2005 series) #1 [black and white]
featuring the origin and first case of the JLA