Justice League of America #100

Aug 1972 · DC · 0.20 USD

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“The Unknown Soldier of Victory!”

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Justice League of America #100 arrived carrying a double milestone: it was both the hundredth issue of the series and the tenth annual JLA/JSA summer crossover event, and Len Wein seized that convergence to stage the most ambitious of those team-ups to date — the first one ever spread across three consecutive issues. Beyond the structural expansion, the story restored the Seven Soldiers of Victory to DC continuity after nearly three decades of absence, reintroducing a team of Golden Age heroes who had been completely dormant since the 1940s and giving them lasting narrative weight in the DC multiverse. The issue also marks the first in-continuity meeting between the Golden Age (Earth-Two) Wonder Woman and her Silver Age (Earth-One) counterpart, a character moment that deepened DC's two-Earth mythology. Its story elements proved genuinely durable: the villain Nebula Man was revived decades later as a central figure in Grant Morrison's celebrated Seven Soldiers maxi-series, and the events of #100–102 were revisited in the post-Crisis era by Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. and again in the Infinite Frontier era by Stargirl Spring Break Special #1.

In "The Unknown Soldier of Victory!", the Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America find their annual celebration interrupted by a chilling return: The Hand, a threat tied to the legendary Seven Soldiers of Victory. With the Seventh Soldier lost across time on Earth-2, the two teams split up to uncover the mystery, guided by the enigmatic Oracle. Written by Len Wein and brought to life by Dick Dillin’s art with inks by Joe Giella and letters by Ben Oda, this pivotal issue features a cover by Nick Cardy that captures the tension of a battle across eras.

writer Len Wein · artist Dick Dillin · inker Joe Giella · letterer Ben Oda · cover Nick Cardy

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History

When editor Julius Schwartz handed the JLA assignment to the 23-year-old Len Wein in the spring of 1972, he immediately told him that his very first issue would be #100 — the opening chapter of the tenth annual JLA/JSA crossover — and to make it special. Wein, a devoted fan of Gardner Fox's earliest JLA/JSA team-ups, modeled his approach on Fox's structure of breaking the assembled heroes into smaller sub-groups, each featured in their own chapter; to justify a story large enough to fill three issues, he reached back into DC's Golden Age archives and built the plot around the long-forgotten Seven Soldiers of Victory. A planned reprint of the original Seven Soldiers story from Leading Comics #1 (1941) was originally intended to be woven into the three-parter but was cut when the page count was reduced.

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Written by Len Wein (his first issue on the series), penciled by Dick Dillin, inked by Joe Giella, with a cover by Nick Cardy; edited by Julius Schwartz.
Cover-dated August 1972; published on newsstands June 27, 1972.
Marks the first in-continuity meeting between the Golden Age Wonder Woman (Earth-Two) and the Silver Age Wonder Woman (Earth-One / Diana Prince).
Features the first appearance of the Nebula Man, an energy creature whose earlier battle with the Seven Soldiers had scattered that team across different eras of Earth-Two's past.
Serves simultaneously as the series' 100th issue and the tenth annual JLA/JSA crossover — the first such crossover to expand to three consecutive issues (#100–102).
Marks the return of the Seven Soldiers of Victory (Star-Spangled Kid, Stripesy, Vigilante, Shining Knight, Crimson Avenger, Green Arrow, and Speedy of Earth-Two) to DC continuity after approximately 27 years of absence.
The story's title is 'The Unknown Soldier of Victory!' — the 'unknown soldier' referring to a mystery member of the Seven Soldiers whose fate drives the three-part plot.
The events of this issue have been revisited and adapted multiple times: a post-Crisis retelling appeared in Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #9, and an Infinite Frontier-era adaptation appeared in Stargirl Spring Break Special #1; the Nebula Man villain was revived as 'Neh-Buh-Loh' by Grant Morrison in the 2005–2006 Seven Soldiers maxi-series.