Justice League of America #97

(March 1972)

The Day the Earth Screams (Table of Contents: 1)

Justice League / comic story / 37 pages (report information)

Script

Mike Friedrich (pages 1-14, 27, 29-37); Gardner Fox (pages 15-26, 28)

Pencils

Dick Dillin (pages 1-14, 18 (first panel), 21 (first panel), 24 (first panel), 27, 29-37); Mike Sekowsky (pages 15-26, 28)

Inks

Joe Giella (pages 1-14, 18 (first panel), 21 (first panel), 24 (first panel), 27, 29-37); Bernard Sachs (pages 15-26, 28)

Colors

?

Letters

John Costanza (1-14, 27, 29-37); Gaspar Saladino (15-26, 28)

Job Number

S-1078

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice League of America [Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Black Canary; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Hawkman [Katar Hol]; Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz] (flashback); Superman; Wonder Woman (flashback)] (origin); Sargon the Sorcerer (cameo); Starbreaker (villain)

Synopsis

Starbreaker arrive on Earth and easily defeats the League's most powerful members, which causes despair among the team. Hawkman gives them a pep talk that leads them to review the circumstances of their first case, which then inspires them to fight on.

Reprints

• from Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #9 (February 1962) [selected pages, see notes], #9 (February 1962), #9 (February 1962)
• in Showcase Presents: Justice League of America (DC, 2005 series) #5 ([April] 2011)
• in Justice League of America: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #1 ([May] 2017)

Keywords

Batplane; green kryptonite; origin

Indexer Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Most of the story from issue #9 is retold here; some of it redrawn, some pages reprinted directly (15-26, 28 in this issue; from pages 6-17, 19 in the original).

The story was changed slightly; for instance in the original the final creature was turned into a "pile of slivers and splinters" by Wonder Woman (Flash says "destroyed"), while in the updated story it was "planed down to its bare essence", still clearly intact.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

JLA Mail Room / letters page / 1.67 pages (report information)

Script

Julius Schwartz (signed as JS)

Pencils

Murphy Anderson (logo illustration)

Inks

Murphy Anderson (logo illustration)

Colors

? (logo illustration)

Letters

typeset

Job Number

S-1132

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Ted Waller, Paul Dushkind, Greg Potter, Anthony Kowalik, Tom Calhoun, and Steve G. Johnson.

Statement of the Ownership, Management and Circulation (Table of Contents: 3)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of October 1, 1971
Owner: National Periodical Publications, Inc., 909 Third Avenue, N.Y., N.Y. 10022, wholly owned by Kinney Services, Inc., 10 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y., N.Y. 10020, a publicly-held corporation
Average number of copies sold preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 210,108
Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date (total paid circulation): 219,767