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Issue Details

Issue #38
Published September 1965
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Inking and lettering credit from reprint in JLA Archives.

Cover Details - "Crisis on Earth-A!"

Characters Superman [Earth-A]; Dr. Fate; The Atom [Al Pratt] (inset); Dr. Fate (inset); The Flash [Jay Garrick] (inset); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (inset); Hawkman [Carter Hall] (inset); Mr. Terrific (inset); The Atom [Earth-A] (inset); Batman [Earth-A] (inset); The Flash [Earth-A] (inset); Green Lantern [Earth-A] (inset); Martian Manhunter [Earth-A]
Genre superhero
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Murphy Anderson (center panel); Bernard Sachs (vignettes)
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes Inking and lettering credit from reprint in JLA Archives.
Reprinted in Justice League of America Archives, The (DC, 1992 series) #5; in Crisis on Multiple Earths (DC, 2002 series) #nn [1]

24 page Justice League of America story "Crisis on Earth-A!"

Characters The Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Fate; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Mr. Terrific; Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA, guest stars); The Atom [Earth-A]; Batman [Earth-A]; The Flash [Earth-A]; Green Lantern [Earth-A]; Martian Manhunter [Earth-A]; Superman [Earth-A] (all as the Lawless League, villains); Superman [Earth-1]; The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Martian Manhunter [Earth-1]; Green Arrow [Earth-1]; Snapper Carr; Aquaman [Earth-1]; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Hawkman [Katar Hol]; Batman [Earth-1]; Wonder Woman [Earth-1] (all cameo, all as the Justice League of America/JLA) Johnny Thunder [Earth-1] (villain); Medusa-Man (villain); Absorbo-Man (villain); Repello-Man (villain)
Synopsis The JSA defeats the Lawless League and then the three monstrous creatures created by the Johnny Thunder of Earth-1. He concedes defeat and tells the Thunderbolt to turn back time to before he ever heard of him. T-Bolt then later stops Johnny when he's about to wonder if he has a counterpart on Earth-1 again, since all previous events were erased from everyone's minds.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Bernard Sachs
Letters Joe Letterese
Notes Credits for script, pencils, inks and letters confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (May 2007).
Reprinted in Justice League of America Archives, The (DC, 1992 series) #5; in Crisis on Multiple Earths (DC, 2002 series) #nn [1]

Half page Star Names! filler "Star Names"

Genre fact
Script Julius Schwartz
Pencils Morris Waldinger
Inks Tom Nicolosi
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (May 2007).

1 page public service announcement "Nature's Bill of Rights"

Characters A man; two boys
Synopsis Two boys who are polluting a stream are given an anti-pollution lesson by a fisherman. Includes an excerpt from an 1869 Massachusetts Board of Health document.
Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes Credits from a list by Lionel English.