Comic Title: Justice League of America #6
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Aug/Sep 1961
On Sale Date: June 20, 1961 Copyright Date June 20, 1961
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1961


Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "The Wheel of Misfortune"
Pages: 26

Feature(s):
Justice League of America (of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky
Inker: Bernard Sachs

Reprinted In:
Justice League of America #58 (1967)
Justice League of America Archives Vol. 1 HC (1992)
Showcase Presents:Justice League of America Vol. 1 TPB (2006)
Justice League of America Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2014)
Justice League of America:The Silver Age Vol. 1 TPB (2016)

Feature Character(s)

• Justice League of America (last appearance in Justice League of America #5; next appearance in Justice League of America #7)
• Flash (last appearance in Flash #122; next appearance in Flash #123)
• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #124; next appearance in Wonder Woman #125)
• Green Lantern (last appearance in Green Lantern #7; next appearance in Green Lantern #8)
• Martian Manhunter (last appearance in Detective Comics #293; next appearance in Detective Comics #294)
• Aquaman (last appearance in Showcase #33; next appearance in Detective Comics #294)
• Green Arrow (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #119; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #120)

Supporting Character(s)

• Snapper Carr (last appearance in Justice League of America #5; next appearance in Justice League of America #7)

Villain(s)

• Professor Amos Fortune (first appearance; last appearance in Justice League of America #43; next appearance in Justice League of America #14)
• Charles Hobart (a museum custodian; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Hazel Deeping (a young girl; no further appearances)
• August Jones (a museum curator; no further appearances)
• Amos Fortune’s stockbroker (no further appearances)

Comments:
Superman and Batman do not appear in this story.

The cover of this issue reprises that of All-Star Comics #42.

Synopsis:
After breaking various superstitious taboos on individual cases, the Justice League members are plagued by ill fortune. This is caused by Professor Amos Fortune, who has learned how to control luck through the stimulation of twin "luck glands" which he has discovered in the body. By gifting himself with good luck and the JLA with bad, he plans to rob at will, unhampered by the super-heroes.

Meanwhile, the assembled heroes are alerted to two new cases via the mail: Flash, Green Arrow, and J’onn J’onzz search for a hidden family treasure, while Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern try to catch a museum thief. In each case, Amos Fortune attempts to abscond with the loot, but the JLA nevertheless enjoys good fortune, and solves the crimes. Realizing that this good fortune has come to the team to compensate for the earlier bad fortune caused by his own "Stimuluck" device, the villain captures the six members, and imprisons them in his Wheel of Fortune, which is designed to destroy their good luck glands completely.

This plan is foiled when J’onn J’onzz breaks free and captures the villain. Being a Martian, J’onn has no luck glands, and so is unaffected by the devices. His earlier "bad luck" had been nothing more than coincidence.