Justice League of America: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1
Part of the DC Omnibus guide — every release, in reading order
A massive hardcover collecting JLA's earliest adventures from 1960-1964.
This begins with the three Brave and the Bold appearances, then moves into the JLA’s own long-running title, with wonderful covers by Murphy Anderson and interior art by Mike Sekowsky and Bernard Sachs. Many of the covers and stories here are icons of the early Silver Age, including the first cross-overs with the 1940s Justice Society, and lots of iconic villains.
And all this starring all the newly-recreated Silver Age DC heroes: The Flash, Green Lantern, The Atom and Martian Manhunter. And the continuing DC Comics icons: Wonder Woman, Superman, Green Arrow, Aquaman. Later on we are joined by The Black Canary, Dr. Midnite.
Gardner Fox, prolific DC writer in the 1940s and author of many of the original Justice Society stories, is here writing EVERY story here. How’s THAT for continuity?
Includes the famous stories “Crisis on Earth-One,” “Crisis on Earth-Two,” and “Crisis on Earth-Three.”
3 printings · 3 variants · 2014–2026
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Printings
Printing #1$99.99
April 16, 2014
Standard Cover — Mike Sekowsky, Murphy Anderson & Allen Passalaqua
ISBN: 978-1401248420
Printing #2$99.99
August 11, 2020
Standard Cover — Mike Sekowsky & Murphy Anderson
ISBN: 978-1779501745
Printing #3$125.00
July 7, 2026
Standard Cover — Mike Sekowsky & Murphy Anderson
ISBN: 978-1799508526
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Creators
click a creator to highlightWriterGardner Fox
PencilerMike Sekowsky +1
InkerBernard Sachs +2
ColoristJack Adler
LettererGaspar Saladino +3
Percentages may exceed 100% when multiple creators share a role on the same issue.
Issues (33)
Order from GCD1. #28 The Brave and the Bold (1955)27pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🎨Colorist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"Superboy Says: "It's Fun to Help Others!" [PSA]"1pp
"The "Starfish" Family [Illustration]"1pp
"Faster Than Light!"1pp
2. #29 The Brave and the Bold (1955)27pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🎨Colorist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 4 stories
"Prairie Wolf (Coyote) & Timber Wolf"1pp
"Aloha... Hawaii! [PSA]"1pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That"1pp
"Wonders of Time"1pp
3. #30 The Brave and the Bold (1955)28pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 4 stories
"Secrets of Long Life!"1pp
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That [Cartoon]"1pp
"Be Your Own Boss! [PSA]"1pp
4. #1 Justice League of America (1960)27pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🎨Colorist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 4 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
"How Are Your Shopping Manners? [PSA]"1pp
"Porpoise... Dolphin... [Cartoon]"1pp
"What's Wrong? [Cartoon]"1pp
5. #2 Justice League of America (1960)27pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 4 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
"Children of Tomorrow! [PSA]"1pp
"Amazing Ratios [Cartoon]"1pp
"What's Wrong? [Cartoon]"1pp
6. #3 Justice League of America (1960)27pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"What's Wrong? [Cartoon]"1pp
7. #4 Justice League of America (1960)27pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"A Salute to Our American Indians! [PSA]"1pp
"Diamonds of Destiny! [Cartoon]"1pp
8. #5 Justice League of America (1960)27pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"Arrow Releases! [Illustration]"1pp
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
9. #6 Justice League of America (1960)26pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
"Amazing Ratios! [Cartoon]"1pp
10. #7 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"A Safety Match & A Lucifer [Cartoon]"1pp
11. #8 Justice League of America (1960)26pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That [Illustration]"1pp
"The JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"People Are People! [PSA]"1pp
12. #9 Justice League of America (1960)27pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"Total Solar Eclipse... Partial Solar Eclipse... Annular Solar Eclipse..."1pp
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
13. #10 Justice League of America (1960)26pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That [Cartoon]"1pp
14. #11 Justice League of America (1960)27pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That [Cartoon]"1pp
"Time-Out for Talk! [PSA]"1pp
15. #12 Justice League of America (1960)27pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That [Cartoon]"1pp
16. #13 Justice League of America (1960)26pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 1 story
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
17. #14 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
"Age... Era... Period..."1pp
18. #15 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"Our Strange Universe"1pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That [Cartoon]"1pp
19. #16 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"Planets of Wonder [Cartoon]"1pp
"Superman Talks About... "Pennies for UNICEF!" [PSA]"1pp
20. #17 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"Health Myths Debunked! [PSA]"1pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That [Cartoon]"1pp
21. #18 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That"1pp
"Safety First -- All Year! [PSA]"1pp
22. #19 Justice League of America (1960)26pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
"Countdown on Excellence [PSA]"1pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That [Cartoon]"1pp
23. #20 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 4 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"Not Wanted: High School Dropouts! [PSA]"1pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That [Cartoon]"1pp
"Defect... Blemish... Flaw... [Cartoon]"1pp
24. #21 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
"How Not to Enjoy a Vacation! [PSA]"1pp
25. #22 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"Decay... Rot..."1pp
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
26. #23 Justice League of America (1960)26pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
"Your United Nations at Work [PSA]"1pp
"Sure... Certain... Positive... [Cartoon]"1pp
27. #24 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Murphy Anderson · 1pp
🖌️Artist
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
"Your Free Trip Around the World! [PSA]"1pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That [Cartoon]"1pp
28. #25 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 4 stories
"Special Christmas Quiz "Christmas in Many Lands!" [PSA]"1pp
"Satellite... Moon..."1pp
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That"1pp
29. #26 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"Give and Take [PSA]"1pp
"The JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That-- [Cartoon]"1pp
30. #27 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That"1pp
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
31. #28 Justice League of America (1960)25pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"2pp
"Are You a Good Neighbor? [PSA]"1pp
"Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That [Cartoon]"1pp
32. #29 Justice League of America (1960)24pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 2 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
"Scienti-Fact [Cartoon]"1pp
33. #30 Justice League of America (1960)24pp
🖼️Cover — Mike Sekowsky · 1pp
✏️Penciler
🖋️Inker
🔤Letterer
📋Editorial — 1 credit
📋Editor
Not included — 3 stories
"JLA Mail Room [Letters]"1pp
"Star Names!"1pp
"Our Strange Universe [Cartoon]"1pp
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Period-appropriate paper
The lightweight, matte, old-comics-style paper DC has been printing its classic-era omnibus reprints on since 2026. DC's own solicitations call it “period appropriate paper”; collectors call it Norbrite.
What it actually is
A high-bulk, uncoated groundwood book paper — the same family of stock trade paperbacks and novels are printed on — instead of the coated gloss or matte sheet most collected editions use. The Norbrite name comes from a NORPAC paper line made from thermomechanical (groundwood) pulp: roughly 80 brightness, about 52–67 gsm, and 400–570 pages per inch. Standard coated omnibus paper runs closer to 90–100 gsm at 510–600 pages per inch.
What that means in hand
- Lighter book: the sheet weighs roughly a third less than coated stock.
- Thicker spine: it is bulkier per sheet, so the same page count needs more shelf space.
- Matte, low-glare pages with softer colour — closer to how the original newsprint comics looked.
- Groundwood paper carries lignin, so like the comics it imitates it can tone over the years, especially in sunlight.
Who likes it
Fans praise the comfortable reading weight and the period feel on vintage art. Detractors find the colours muted and the stock less premium than gloss — and it costs shelf space. Neither camp is wrong; it is a taste call, which is why you can filter by it.
Check the printing, not just the book
Paper is chosen per printing. A 2026 reprint may be on period paper while the first printing of the same book is on coated stock. Each printing carries its own badge, and a catalog card names which printing(s) qualify when only some do. No badge means we have not recorded period-appropriate paper for that printing.