- Pencils
- Dick Giordano
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Bruce Wayne [Batman]; Thomas Wayne; Martha Wayne; Joe Chill
Title page. Image taken from story in this volume.
- Pencils
- Eric Shanower (illustration)
- Inks
- Eric Shanower (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Characters
- Justice League of America [Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Flash [Barry Allen]; Aquaman; Black Canary [Dinah Lance]; Martian Manhunter]
Illustrated with a detail from the story from Secret Origins (DC, 1986 series) #32.
- Script
- Mark Waid
- Pencils
- Joe Shuster; Carmine Infantino; Bob Kane; Sheldon Moldoff; Gil Kane; Mike Sekowsky; Joe Certa
- Inks
- Joe Shuster; Joe Kubert; Bob Kane; Sheldon Moldoff; Joe Giella; Bernard Sachs; Joe Certa
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Clark Kent [Superman]; Barry Allen [Flash]; Bruce Wayne [Batman]; Martha Wayne; Thomas Wayne; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Justice League of America [Aquaman; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]]; Martian Manhunter; Dr. Erdel
This text piece covers the origins (and the evolution of the origins) of the characters in the book, with illustrations from their first origin stories: Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (Superman illustration), Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #33 (Batman illustration), Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #225 (Martian Manhunter illustration), Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #4 (Flash illustration), Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #22 (Green Lantern illustration), and Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #9 (JLA illustration).
- Script
- Mark Verheiden
- Pencils
- Ken Steacy
- Inks
- Ken Steacy
- Colors
- Ken Steacy
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I just couldn't sleep...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Martian Manhunter [John Jones; J'Onn J'Onzz]; Dr. Erdel
- Synopsis
- A former associate of John Jones' suddenly wakes up and realizes that he once knew his friend was the Martian Manhunter.
- Reprints
Coloring credit confirmed with Ken Steacy.
- Script
- Keith Giffen (plot); Peter David (script)
- Pencils
- Eric Shanower
- Inks
- Eric Shanower
- Colors
- Gene D'Angelo
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- 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 individual battle forms separately, but have to work together to defeat the final one. This experience gives them the idea to join together as the Justice League of America.
- Reprints
A retelling and updating of the story from Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #9, with Black Canary replacing Wonder Woman. Superman and Wonder Woman are not pictured as members of the JLA as they were considered to never have been members of the JLA at the time the story was written.