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Justice League of America, #116

Published: March-April 1975

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Justice League of America #116

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Issue Contents:
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Justice League of America [Elongated Man
  • Aquaman [Arthur Curry]
  • The Flash [Barry Allen]
  • Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]]
  • Starman [Ted Knight]
  • Black Canary
  • The Joker (inset)
  • Johnny Peril (inset)
  • Matter Master
Credits
Story Notes

Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Colors and letters credits from Carl Gafford via the GCD Error Tracker.

Story 1 1 page superhero
Characters
  • Justice League of America [Batman
  • Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
  • Aquaman
  • Wonder Woman
  • Green Arrow
  • Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz]
  • The Flash [Barry Allen]
  • Superman]
Credits
Story Notes

Justice League figures reprinted from the cover of Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #58 (November-December 1967).

The Kid Who Won Hawkman's Wings!
Story 2 20 pages superhero
Storyline

Green Arrow investigates a letter set to the JLA and meets Charley Parker, who is following in Hawkman's crime-fighting footsteps as Golden Eagle. When the Matter Master challenges Golden Eagle, thinking that he's Hawkman, The Justice League steps in to help. After the villain is defeated, the real Hawkman makes a surprise appearance.

Characters
  • Justice League of America [Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]
  • Aquaman [Arthur Curry]
  • The Flash [Barry Allen]]
  • Golden Eagle [Charley Parker] (introduction)
  • Matter Master [Mark Mandrill] (villain)
  • Commissioner George Emmett
  • Hawkman [Katar Hol] (cameo)
Credits
Story Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Colors credit from Carl Gafford via the GCD Error Tracker. First Charley Parker, the Golden Eagle.

JLA Super-Villain Quiz!
Story 3 2 pages superhero
Storyline

Match the villain to his super-hero nemesis.

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Angle Man
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Captain Cold
  • The Flash [Barry Allen]
  • Shadow-Thief
  • Atom [Ray Palmer]
  • Joker
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
  • Chronos
  • Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
  • Lex Luthor
  • Hawkman [Katar Hol]
  • Clock King
  • Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
  • Tattooed Man
Credits
Story Notes

Art taken from various past issues of DC comics. The answers to the quiz are printed on a 1/3 page on the page numbered 56 in this issue.

JLA Puzzle
Story 4 1 page
Characters
  • Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • The Flash [Barry Allen]
  • The Atom [Ray Palmer]
  • Black Canary
  • Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
Credits
Story Notes

Justice League figures reprinted from the cover of Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #110 (March-April 1974). The answer is printed on a 1/3 page on the page numbered 85 in this issue.

Mastermind of Menaces!
Story 5 23 pages superhero
Storyline

The villainous Mist returns to his life of crime by using flowers from Dinah Drake's floral shop to hypnotically induce wealthy people into parting with large sums of money, and when Starman gets involved in the case, his Gravity Rod suddenly stops working.

Characters
  • Starman [Ted Knight]
  • Black Canary [Dinah Drake Lance]
  • The Mist (villain)
  • Larry Lance
  • Alan Moreland
  • Freda Van Taller
  • Mr. Burton
Credits
Story Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Story in three parts of 7.67, 9.67, and 5.67 pages.

Fog... Mist... (1)
Story 6 0 pages non-fiction
Credits
Story Notes

Positioned at the bottom of page 8 of the previous sequence

Answers to JLA Super-Villain Quiz
Story 7 0 pages
Credits
Story Notes

Answers to the JLA Super-Villain Quiz in this issue.

The Challenge of the Untouchable Aliens!
Story 8 24 pages superhero
Storyline

Superman and Wonder Woman save the Satellite Sky Fortress, and The Flash sees its cannon aiming at a skyscraper in Central City. Superman and Wonder Woman destroy it, and they summon the Justice League. Searching the world, they find stone giants that can't be touched.

Characters
  • Superman [also appears as Clark Kent]
  • Batman
  • Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
  • Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
  • Wonder Woman [also appears as Lt. Diana Prince]
  • Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz
  • also appears as John Jones]
  • The Flash [also appears as Barry Allen]
  • the Atom [also appears as Ray Palmer]
  • Aquaman
  • Jean Loring
  • Snapper Carr
  • stone giants from a parallel earth (villains)
Credits
Story Notes

Story across 25 pages in three chapters: unnumbered part 1 (7.67 pp.), Part 2 (7.67 pp.), Part 3 (8.67 pp.).

Story 9 0 pages humor; science fiction

"It'll be easy to land here -- it's nothing but arid desert!"

Credits
Story Notes

Positioned at the bottom of page 16 of the previous sequence, shrunk from the original half-page size.

Answers to JLA Puzzle
Story 10 0 pages
Credits
Story Notes

Answers to the JLA Puzzle in this issue.

Featuring Just a Story

Story 11 8 pages drama

"You lazy brat! I want the dishes washed..."

Storyline

An anonymous man wrongly accused of murder comes to the aid of an abused child and helps her find her real family.

Characters
  • Johnny Peril (introduction) [Mr. Nobody]
  • Joan Fleming
  • Ma Flack
  • Pa Flack
Credits
Story Notes

Johnny Peril is not actually named in this story.

Story 12 2 pages
Credits
Story Notes

Letters from: Tom Bierbaum, Bob Rodi, J. Douglas Wellington, Kenneth Caples, Allen R. Kretschmar, Steve Pick, David Larkin, Craig Haynes, Richard Ekparian, Scott Loos, Gary Cole, and David Rodriguez.