Justice League of America #93
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeJustice League of America #93 occupies a specific and instructive place in DC's Bronze Age publishing history as one of four planned all-reprint 'Giant' issues deliberately inserted into Dick Dillin's otherwise unbroken penciling run on the series. It is a product of the 'Bigger & Better' era (roughly June 1971 through April 1972), when DC raised both page count and cover price in an attempt to outcompete Marvel — a strategy that backfired commercially and contributed to Marvel overtaking National Periodical Publications in newsstand sales for the first time. For readers, it served as a curated Silver Age sampler, giving 1971 buyers their first accessible look at early-1960s JLA adventures that had never been widely reprinted; for historians, it stands as a snapshot of an editorial moment when reprint packaging was DC's main competitive tool, and when that tool demonstrably failed.
In "The Riddle of the Robot Justice League!", the League is whisked to the mysterious lair of Sforll, who enlists them in a desperate mission: stop the rogue scientist Zed Brann from siphoning the universe’s vita-matter. To test their resolve, they must battle perfect robot duplicates of themselves—each a chilling reflection of their own powers and will. Written by Gardner Fox and illustrated by Mike Sekowsky, with inks by Bernard Sachs and letters by Gaspar Saladino, this 1971 classic features a cover by Dick Giordano.
When Sforll summons the Justice League to his hidden lair, they’re thrust into a high-stakes trial by fire: to stop the rogue scientist Zed Brann from siphoning the universe’s vita-matter, they must battle perfect robot duplicates of themselves. The Riddle of the Robot Justice League! pits heroes against their own reflections in a test of will, identity, and resolve.
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The issue was edited by E. Nelson Bridwell — not regular JLA editor Julius Schwartz — which itself reflects the administrative nature of an all-reprint package rather than an ongoing story arc. The cover was penciled and inked by Dick Giordano and lettered by Gaspar Saladino; it carries the dual designation 'Giant #G-89' both on the cover and in the indicia, placing it within DC's numbered Giant series as well as the main JLA run. The on-sale date, established by copyright registration, was August 26, 1971, though the cover date reads November 1971. Regular series penciler Dick Dillin had no involvement in the issue's interiors, as confirmed by his publishing record, which explicitly lists #93 among the four planned reprint gaps in his 115-issue tenure.
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- Cover date: November 1971; on-sale date (per copyright registration): August 26, 1971. Published by National Periodical Publications, Inc. (DC Comics).
- The issue is an all-reprint Giant, designated 'Giant #G-89' on both the cover and the indicia — it contains no new story content.
- Story 1 reprints 'Riddle of the Robot Justice League' from Justice League of America #13 (1962): the League is teleported by alien Sforll to fight robot duplicates of themselves and stop Zedd Brann's universe-draining device.
- Story 2 reprints a tale from Justice League of America #18 (1963): the League is shrunk to sub-atomic size and must defeat three virtually indestructible androids — Terrane, Ocana, and Etheran — the Protectors of Starzl.
- Editor: E. Nelson Bridwell. Cover art: pencils and inks by Dick Giordano. Lettering: Gaspar Saladino. Regular series penciler Dick Dillin had no involvement in this issue.
- IMPORTANT DISAMBIGUATION: Some price-guide sites list a 'Justice League America #93' with the 1st appearance of Scarabus — this refers to the entirely separate Justice League America vol. 1 #93 (cover date November 1994, written by Gerard Jones), not this 1971 issue.
- The material in this issue has been reprinted multiple times in collected editions: Showcase Presents: Justice League of America Vol. 5 (April 2011), Justice League of America Archives Vol. 10 (April 2012), Justice League of America: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (May 2017), and Justice League of America: The Last Survivors of Earth (October 2019).
- Starbreaker does NOT appear in this issue; that character's first appearance is Justice League of America #96 (February 1972), created by writer Mike Friedrich and penciler Dick Dillin.
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↩ Reprints Justice League of America #13 (1962), Justice League of America #18 (1963)
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: Justice League of America #5 (2011), Justice League of America Archives #10 (2012), Justice League of America: The Bronze Age Omnibus #1 (2017), Justice League of America: The Last Survivors of Earth #[nn] (2019)
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