Secret Origins #32

(November 1988)

The Secret Origin of the Justice League of America (Table of Contents)

Justice League of America / comic story / 38 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Keith Giffen (plot); Peter David (dialogue); Gardner Fox (story)

Pencils:

Eric Shanower

Inks:

Eric Shanower

Colors:

Gene D'Angelo

Letters:

Gaspar Saladino

Job Number:

G-3530

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Justice League of America [Martian Manhunter [J'Onn J'Onzz, Manhunter from Mars]; Aquaman; Black Canary [Dinah Lance]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Flash [Barry Allen]; Batman [Bruce Wayne] (cameo); Green Arrow [Oliver Queen] (cameo); Atom [Ray Palmer] (cameo); Hawkman [Katar Hol] (cameo); Elongated Man (cameo); Phantom Stranger (cameo); Red Tornado [John Smith] (cameo); Hawkgirl [Shayera Thal] (cameo); Zatanna (cameo); Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond; Martin Stein] (cameo); Steel [Hank Heywood] (cameo); Vixen (cameo); Gypsy (cameo)); Vibe (cameo)]; Superman

Synopsis:

When contenders for the leadership of Appellax stage their combat on Earth through "battle form" surrogates, the Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Black Canary, the Flash, and Green Lantern first encounter and defeat the first 5 individual battle forms separately, but have to work together to defeat the sixth one. As they are about to face the seventh one in Greenland, they arrive to see Superman finishing up defeating it (while he worries how he's going to explain his sudden disappearance to Lois at the lodge they were at) and flying off. This experience gives them the idea to join together as the Justice League of America.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Secret Origins of the World's Greatest Super-Heroes (DC, 1989 series) #[nn] (1989)

Indexer Notes

A retelling and updating of the origin story from Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #9, with Black Canary replacing Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is not pictured as a member of the JLA as she did not yet exist post-Crisis at the time the story occurred. Wonder Woman would later become a member of Justice League International (later Europe) and a later incarnation of the JLA.