Cover Credits |
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky Inker: Murphy Anderson |
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Comic Title: Justice League of America #8
Publisher: DC
(National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Dec/Jan 1961
On Sale Date:
October 19, 1961 Copyright Date October 19, 1961
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1961
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Notes:
First 12 cent issue.
Story |
Title: "For Sale -- the Justice League"
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. 2 HC (1993)
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 Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #29; next appearance in Justice League of America #9)
- Flash (last appearance in Flash #125; next appearance in Flash #126)
- Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #126; next appearance in Wonder Woman #127)
- Green Lantern (last appearance in Green Lantern #9; next appearance in Green Lantern #10)
- Martian Manhunter (last appearance in Detective Comics #297; next appearance in Detective Comics #298)
- Aquaman (last appearance in Detective Comics #297; next appearance in Detective Comics #298)
- Green Arrow (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #122; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #123)
Supporting Character(s)
- Snapper Carr (last appearance in Justice League of America #7; next appearance in Justice League of America #9)
Villain(s)
- Pete Ricketts (a small-time gangster; no further appearances)
- The "Top Ten" (a group of underworld leaders; no further appearances)
Other Character(s)
- Caleb West (an inventor; no further appearances)
Comments:
Superman and Batman do not appear in this story as they are visiting Dimension X.
Synopsis:
An inventor’s Cyberniray, a device that enables the user to control the wills of others, falls into the hands of Pete Ricketts, a small-time crook. When a group of underworld leaders offers a million-dollar reward for the elimination of the Justice League, Ricketts uses the ray-gun to capture them. He then auctions off the services of the various members to the crime chiefs, who send the heroes to rob some of the same targets as a test of their comparative abilities.
Flash and Green Lantern battle over jewels which both have been ordered to steal; Aquaman and Green Arrow match wits to rob a gambling ship; and Wonder Woman fights J’onn J’onzz over the theft of a radium shipment. Meanwhile, Snapper Carr, discovering the heroes’ plight, borrows the anti-gravity discs of Dr. Destiny from the Souvenir Room and saves the various treasures so that none of the heroes succeeds in his attempted crime. Alerted to their locations when they signal him on each other’s signal devices, Snapper frees the members from the influence of the Cyberniray, enabling them to help each other escape from the death-traps devised by the gangsters.
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