Comic Title: Brave and the Bold #29
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Apr/May 1960
On Sale Date: March 1, 1960 Copyright Date March 1, 1960
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1960

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

Title: "Challenge of the Weapons Master"
Pages: 26

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

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

Reprinted In:
Justice League of America #48 (1966)
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 Brave and the Bold #28; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #30)
• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #264; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #109)
• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #278; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #109)
• Flash (last appearance in Flash #112; next appearance in Flash #113)
• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #113; next appearance in Wonder Woman #114)
• Green Lantern (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #28; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #30)
• Martian Manhunter (last appearance in Detective Comics #278; next appearance in Detective Comics #279)
• Aquaman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #271; next appearance in Adventure Comics #272)

Supporting Character(s)

• Snapper Carr (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #28; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #30)

Villain(s)

• Xotar (an arch-criminal of 11,960 A.D.; no further appearances)
• Ilaric (Xotar's robot; also functions as a time machine; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• The Intersolar Police (law officers of 11,960 A.D.; no further appearances)
• General Morgan Anderson and Chief Warner Hunter (officials of a Florida missile base; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Arch-criminal Xotar of the year 11,960 A.D. has collected an arsenal of four super-weapons, one of which, a partly legible page of the JLA casebook informs him, will enable him to defeat the Justice League. Since the police of his era have counter-weapons to three of his devices, but he does not know which ones, he journeys back in time to battle the super-heroes, and learns which weapon is the unbeatable one.

Paralyzing the members in their Secret Sanctuary mountain headquarters, he releases them individually to fight against the various weapons: Flash overcomes the Microscopitor, which has shrunk him in size, Aquaman and J’onn J’onzz defeat the De-Evolutionizer Ray, and Green Lantern and Wonder Woman triumph over the Magneto-Bubble weapon. All five heroes are saved from the fourth device, an Illusion-Maker, which creates imaginary, undefeatable menaces, by the appearance of Superman, who had been located by Batman and Snapper, after his non-appearance at the team’s recent meeting.

Returned to his own time, Xotar discovers that the full text of the Casebook entry chronicles his defeat, instead of his victory.