American Update: Three Early Justice League of America
*DC: The comics edited by Julius Schwartz for DC in the early 1960s are those that I grew up reading and remain my favourites. Here we have three early Justice League of America issues (#6, #7 & #8) with clever and intelligent stories by Gardner Fox, accomplished art by Mike Sewowsky, juggling a huge cast, with real class added to the covers in the form of Murphy Anderson’s inks. Aliens and gangsters are the main foes in these issues, although Amos Fortune, who would return to plague the JLA many times, made his debut in #6. All in the winning formula where the JLA split up into sub-teams to take on separate missions in each chapter, a format used to great effect in their predecessors the Justice Society. All nice copies and great entertainment.
PICTURED: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#6 VG/FN p £95 Pence stamped. Brilliant colour and gloss, good staples, flat with lovely white to off-white pages. Small signs of wear and small colour-breaking creases at edges only.
#7 VG+ p £85 Pence stamped. Brilliant colour and gloss, flat with lovely white to off-white pages. There is a weakness at bottom staple, which is coming loose, but still attached. Minimal wear, with just minor creasing towards bottom which does not break colour.
#8 VG/FN p £95 Pence stamped. Brilliant colour and gloss, good staples, flat with lovely white to off-white pages. Little wear except for a couple of short colour-breaking creases at centre spine, which are flattened out.