World's Best Comics: Silver Age Sampler #[nn]
"Doom of the Star Diamond!" is a standout tale from the World's Best Comics: Silver Age Sampler, featuring a classic Gardner Fox script and dynamic art by Mike Sekowsky, with inks by Bernard Sachs and lettering by Gaspar Saladino. When dictator Xandor exiles the alien Carthan to Earth with three mysterious machines that threaten to blind him if he leaves—unless he destroys the planet—Carthan challenges the JLA, now including Green Arrow, to stop them. The cover, a collaborative effort by Sekowsky, Kubert, and Swan with inks by Sachs and Anderson, captures the high-stakes tension of a planet in peril.
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Dictator Xandor banishes Carthan to Earth, and, to ensure he stays there, also sends three machines. If Carthan attempts to leave Earth without removing their coverings, he will go blind; he can leave with his sight if he removes the coverings first, but that will destroy the planet. Carthan challenges the JLA, now including Green Arrow, to disable the machines. After disabling the machines, the JLA enters Carthan’s ship, where he imprisons them in a hollow diamond until he can explain. When Carthan is unable to release the JLA, Green Arrow finds the diamond’s weak spot and shatters it.
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