Justice League of America #115
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeJustice League of America #115 holds its place in Bronze Age history as a penultimate entry in DC's 100-Page Super Spectacular run on the JLA title — a format experiment that married new lead stories with decades of reprint material and represented DC's most ambitious value-packaging initiative of the early 1970s. Its lead story, 'The Last Angry God!', is a direct continuation of J'onn J'onzz's ongoing post-Mars exile saga, picking up narrative threads laid down in World's Finest Comics #212 and, before that, Justice League of America #71, making it a meaningful chapter in the slow, serialized rehabilitation of the Martian Manhunter as a figure with genuine cosmic stakes rather than a mere team utility player. The issue's power-swapping plot device — where four JLA members literally exchange abilities to outwit an enemy who has studied each hero's individual strengths — is a creative showcase for writer Denny O'Neil's fondness for lateral, puzzle-box storytelling within superhero action. As one of the final issues before the Super Spectacular format was abruptly discontinued across DC's line, it also documents the end of a brief editorial era that gave Bronze Age readers the closest thing the pre-trade-paperback market had to an anthology omnibus.
In "The Last Angry God!", the Justice League of America faces a terrifying threat born not from a villain, but from a well-intentioned man’s failed attempt to build peace. When Andrew Helm’s machine goes awry, unleashing nightmares from the heroes’ own minds, the League must confront their deepest fears and shut down the device before it destroys everything. Written by Gardner Fox and illustrated by Mike Sekowsky, with inks by Bernard Sachs and lettering by Gaspar Saladino, this 1975 classic features a striking cover by Nick Cardy.
In "Evil Star Over Hollywood!", the spotlight turns sinister when a film crew on the set of *Thief in the Night* begins to vanish under eerie circumstances. With a cryptic warning from the notorious criminal "Evil Star" demanding the production halt, the Justice Society of America is called in to uncover the truth behind the mysterious script—and the real-life crimes it may be exposing.
When scientist Andrew Helm’s peace machine goes awry, it unleashes nightmare creatures born from the Justice League’s deepest fears. As the heroes fight illusions forged in their own minds, they must track down the source before the machine’s corruption spreads further.
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The issue was produced under editor Julius Schwartz, whose meticulous editorial records — later provided to the Grand Comics Database — confirmed the creative credits for the lead story: script by Denny O'Neil, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Dick Giordano, and lettering by Ben Oda. Dillin was deep into his remarkable 12-year, 115-issue tenure as the JLA's penciler by this point, providing the series with an unusual continuity of visual voice across the Bronze Age. The 100-Page Super Spectacular format had been adopted for Justice League of America beginning with issue #110 (cover-dated March–April 1974) and ran bimonthly at a cover price of sixty cents; the format's economics ultimately failed to deliver for DC, and publication in that format ended with issue #116, the very next issue.
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- Cover date: February 1975 (on-sale: October 3, 1974); published by National Periodical Publications Inc. (DC Comics).
- Lead story: 'The Last Angry God!' — 20 pages; script by Denny O'Neil, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Dick Giordano, letters by Ben Oda; assistant editor E. Nelson Bridwell, editor Julius Schwartz.
- Cover art penciled and inked by Nick Cardy, with colors by Tatjana Wood.
- The lead story continues the multi-issue Martian Manhunter exile arc directly from World's Finest Comics #212, in which J'onn J'onzz and his people settled on planet Vonn; JLA #115 is explicitly noted as their next appearance after that issue.
- Villain of the lead story is Korge, an alien who styles himself a god and exploits the Martian Manhunter's vulnerability to fire; the JLA defeats him by using a space-warp mechanism to swap their powers among themselves.
- 100-page squarebound format; also reprints 'Evil Star Over Hollywood!' (Part 1) from All-Star Comics #44 (Dec. 1948–Jan. 1949), featuring the Golden Age Justice Society, and 'Indestructible Creatures of Nightmare Island!' from Justice League of America #40 (Nov. 1965).
- Issue #115 was part of the JLA's run in the 100-Page Super Spectacular format, which applied to issues #110–116 (March–April 1974 through March–April 1975) — making this the penultimate issue in that run before the format was cancelled across DC's line.
- The lead story was later collected in Showcase Presents: Justice League of America Vol. 6 (April 2013) and Justice League of America: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 2 (May 2018).
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↩ Reprints All-Star Comics #44 (1948), Justice League of America #40 (1965), Justice League of America #48 (1966)
Reprinted in Comic Reader #111 (1974), The Flash #133 (1977), Gigant #4/1978 (1978), Gigant #4/1978 (1978), Superman Taschenbuch #51 (1983), Showcase Presents: Justice League of America #6 (2013), Justice League of America: The Bronze Age Omnibus #2 (2018)
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