Justice League of America 1960 #97 - back issue - $9.00

Starbreaker arrive on Earth and easily defeats the League's most powerful members, which causes despair among the team. Hawkman gives them a pep talk that leads them to review the circumstances of their first case, which then inspires them to fight on.

On-sale date from Comic Reader #79.

• The Day the Earth Screams! - Cover art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
• The Day the Earth Screams - Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Most of the story from issue #9 is retold here; some of it redrawn, some pages reprinted directly (15-26, 28 in this issue; from pages 6-17, 19 in the original). The story was changed slightly; for instance in the original the final creature was turned into a "pile of slivers and splinters" by Wonder Woman (Flash says "destroyed"), while in the updated story it was "planed down to its bare essence", still clearly intact.
• - Letters from: Ted Waller, Paul Dushkind, Greg Potter, Anthony Kowalik, Tom Calhoun, and Steve G. Johnson.
• Statement of the Ownership, Management and Circulation - Statement of October 1, 1971 Owner: National Periodical Publications, Inc., 909 Third Avenue, N.Y., N.Y. 10022, wholly owned by Kinney Services, Inc., 10 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y., N.Y. 10020, a publicly-held corporation Average number of copies sold preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 210,108 Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date (total paid circulation): 219,767