*DC: From 1960, one of the most important and significant comics of the Silver Age this week. The Justice League Of America, teaming up all of DC’s then current key heroes, debuted in The Brave & The Bold #28, and thus a legend was born. In these early stories, the roles of Superman & Batman were kept pretty much to cameos (presumably because DC felt they had enough exposure elsewhere), but the JLA kept up the tradition of reviving Golden Age concepts for this new Silver Age (in this case the Justice Society). The baddie in this inaugural outing was Starro the Conqueror. In a manner of speaking, this comic was also responsible for launching the Marvel Age of Comics, since Stan Lee’s response to the success of the JLA was to create the Fantastic Four.
This is a decent (unobtrusively) stamped pence copy, pretty solid with some Marvel chipping (how ironic!) along the right edge, but very minor. A short diagonal crease across the right bottom cover corner breaks colour for a few cms. The cover colours are strong and the staples are tight and firm at the spine (the lower only being off at centrefold). Page quality is a nice off-white to cream; some corner blunting, but nothing too bad. High resolution images are available on request.
PICTURED: BRAVE & BOLD #28 VG- p £2,350