Comic Title: Brave and the Bold (Facsimile Edition) #28 [MB Artist Exclusive]
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2023
Approx. On Sale Date: December 6, 2022
Cover Price: $3.99
Page Count: 32
Printing: Second
UPC: 37792-00121

Title: "Starro the Conqueror"
Pages: 26

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky
Inker: Bernard Sachs
Inker: Joe Giella
Inker: Murphy Anderson

Reprinted From:
Brave and the Bold #28 (1960)

Feature Character(s)

• Justice League of America (first appearance; last appearance in Justice League of America #9; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #29)
• Superman (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #15; next appearance in Action Comics #261)
• Batman (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #107; next appearance in Detective Comics #276)
• Flash (last appearance in Flash #111; next appearance in Flash #112)
• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #112; next appearance in Wonder Woman #113)
• Green Lantern (last appearance in Showcase #24; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #29)
• Martian Manhunter (last appearance in Detective Comics #275; next appearance in Detective Comics #276)
• Aquaman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #268; next appearance in Adventure Comics #269)

Supporting Character(s)

• Snapper Carr (a teenager of Happy Harbor; becomes an honorary member of the Justice League in this story; first appearance; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #29)

Villain(s)

• Starro (an alien being resembling a giant starfish; first appearance; next appearance in Justice League of America #65)
• Three ordinary starfish (transformed into duplicates of Starro in this story; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Steve Trevor (last appearance in Wonder Woman #112; next appearance in Wonder Woman #113)
• Captain Harding (last appearance in Detective Comics #275; next appearance in Detective Comics #276)

Other Character(s)

• Peter the Puffer Fish (Aquaman’s fish ally; no further appearances)
• John Carr and his wife (Snapper’s parents; next appearance in Justice League of America #114)
• Janet Carr (Snapper’s sister; next appearance in Justice League of America #114)
• Citizens of Happy Harbor (no further appearances)
• The pilot and co-pilot of a U.S. Air Force jet bomber (no further appearances)

Comments:
Chap. 1: Introduction
Chap. 2: "Starro vs. Green Lantern"
Chap. 3: "Starro vs. Wonder Woman and John Jones, Manhunter from Mars"
Chap. 4: "Starro vs. the Flash"
Chap. 5: "Starro vs. Justice League of America"

The Flash is the chairman of the JLA meeting in this story.

Superman and Batman make only cameo appearances in this story.

John Jones is mistakenly depicted with blond hair in this story.

Synopsis:
Aquaman’s fish allies telepathically alert him to the menace of Starro, a giant starfish-like alien, who has landed in the seas of Earth, and is bent on conquering the planet. Starro has mutated three ordinary starfish into gigantic duplicates of himself for this purpose. Aquaman uses his signal device (described as being "ultrasonic vibrations caused by solar power") to summon the members of the Justice League of America to what is presumably their first official meeting.

Besides Aquaman, attending are Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash, and J’onn J’onzz, the Manhunter from Mars. Superman and Batman are also shown to be members, but other duties prevent them from answering the summons.

Flash, as chairman of the group, disperses the members to battle Starro’s duplicates: Green Lantern uses his power ring to transform one back to its original form, Wonder Woman and J’onn J’onzz team up to stop the second, and, while Aquaman scouts the seas for the original, Flash finishes off the third. Discovering that, alone of the populace of the town of Happy Harbor, teenager "Snapper" Carr is unaffected by the mental powers of Starro’s deputy, Flash asks the young man to meet the other League members, who discover that the lime he had been spreading on his lawn is the enemy’s weakness. They are then able to overcome the alien conqueror, by bombarding him with the substance, and in gratitude for his aid, they make Snapper an honorary League member.