Justice League of America #79

(March 1970)

Come Slowly Death, Come Slyly! (Table of Contents: 1)

Justice League / comic story / 21.83 pages (report information)

Script

Denny O'Neil

Pencils

Dick Dillin

Inks

Joe Giella

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

S-255

First Line of Dialogue or Text

As Superman and Green Lantern stumble over the ashen soil of the planet Monsan...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice League of America [JLA; Atom [Ray Palmer]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Hawkman [Katar Hol; Carter Hall]; Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]]; The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Jason Crass; Chokh (villain); The Doomsters (villains)

Synopsis

The heroes of the League discover that the polluting factory is an alien plot to conquer the planet.

Reprints

• in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #16/1970 (august 1970)
• in Justice League of America Archives (DC, 1992 series) #9 (2004 [February 2005])
• in Showcase Presents: Justice League of America (DC, 2005 series) #4 ([May] 2009)
• in Justice League of America: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #1 ([May] 2017)
• in Justice League of America: The Last Survivors of Earth (DC, 2019 series) ([October] 2019)

Keywords

pollution

Indexer Notes

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

Story across 23 pages, but pages 6 and 23 are 2/3-pages and page 14 is a 1/2-page.

Story continued from the previous issue.

Can You Believe? (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Jerry Lewis / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Our Valentine for You! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Supergirl / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

And Here's Your Sneak Preview of Our Next Sensational Giant! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

The Flash / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

JLA Mail Room / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Julius Schwartz

Pencils

Mike Sekowsky (logo illustration)

Inks

Bernard Sachs (logo illustration)

Colors

? (logo illustration)

Letters

typeset

Job Number

S-364

Indexer Notes

letters submitted by Rand Lee; M. D. Kelly; Martin Pasko; Joe Rusnak; Gary Skinner; Alan Brennert

Shift Gears... and Burn Rubber (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Hot Wheels / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of October 1, 1969
Average number of copies sold preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 232,726
Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date (total paid circulation): 248,641
Subscriptions preceding 12 months: 726
Owner: National Periodical Publications, Inc., 909 Third Avenue, N.Y., N.Y. 10022, wholly owned by Kinney National Service, Inc., 10 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y., N.Y. 10020, a publicly-held corporation