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Issue Details

Issue #101
Published September 1972
Frequency nine times a year (biweekly in nov.)
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Cover art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics

Cover Details - Can The Greatest Heroes of Two Earths Defeat..."The Hand That Shook the World!"

Characters Justice League of America [Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Wonder Woman (as Diana Prince, inset); Batman (inset); Hawkman [Katar Hol]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Metamorpho (guest star, inset)(all Earth-1)]; Justice Society of America [Starman; Dr. Mid-Nite [Charles McNider] (inset); Wonder Woman [Diana Prince Trevor]; Hourman [Rex Tyler] (inset); Sandman [Wesley Dodds] (all Earth-2)]
Genre superhero
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy
Notes Cover art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Earth-2 Wonder Woman referred to on cover as Golden Age Wonder Woman.
Reprinted in Crisis on Multiple Earths (DC, 2002 series) #3

24 page Justice League of America story "The Hand That Shook the World"

Characters Justice League of America [Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Hawkman [Katar Hol]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Wonder Woman (as powerless Diana Prince); Batman; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Balck Canary]; Justice Society of America [Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson; Nabu]; Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Robin [Dick Grayson] (cameo); Thunderbolt; Johnny Thunder; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince Trevor]; Mr. Terrific [Terry Sloane](all Earth-2)]; Seven Soldiers of Victory [Star-Spangled Kid ; Green Arrow [Ollie Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Shining Knight; Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Crimson Avenger; Stripesy (all Earth-2)]; Oracle; Zatanna (cameo); Nebula-Man (flashback); Metamorpho; Elongated Man; Genghis Khan (Earth-2); Robin Hood (Earth-2); The Hand (villain)
Synopsis The split up groups of the JLA and JSA continue their quest to reunite the Seven Soldiers of Victory scattered throughout time as the Hand begins to make his move in the present. The Seven Soldiers are scattered throughout these eras: King Arthur (Shining Knight); Caveman/Bronze Age (Star-spangled Kid); Mideval England (Green Arrow); Ancient Greece (Speedy); Late 1800's Wild West (Vigilante); 1600's South America (Crimson Avenger); 1800's Europe (Stripesy). To be concluded...
Genre superhero
Script Len Wein
Pencils Dick Dillin
Inks Joe Giella
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Continued from issue 100, concludes in issue 102.
Reprinted in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #11; in Crisis on Multiple Earths (DC, 2002 series) #3

1 page The JLA Mail Room letters page "The JLA Mail Room"

Characters Black Canary [Dinah Drake-Lance]; Flash [Barry Allen]; Aquaman; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Superman [Kal-El, aka. Clark Kent]; Hawkman [Katar Hol]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Atom [Ray Palmer]
Genre superhero
Script Julius Schwartz
Letters typeset
Notes Letters from: Guy H. Lillian III; Stephen Barry; Perry Beider, with an illustration.