| Issue | #9 |
| Published | February 1962 |
| Cover Price | 0.12 |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Julius Schwartz |
| Characters | The Flash [Barry Allen]; Martian Manhunter; Aquaman; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Wonder Woman |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Mike Sekowsky |
| Inks | Murphy Anderson |
| Reprinted | in Justice League of America Archives, The (DC, 1992 series) #2; in Showcase Presents: Justice League of America (DC, 2005 series) #1 |
| Characters | Aquaman; Batman; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Martian Manhunter; Superman; Wonder Woman; Snapper Carr; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; aliens from Appellax (flashback); Amazons of Paradise Island (flashback) |
| Synopsis | The Justice League of America uses the occasion of its third anniversary to tell Snapper Carr about the formation of the League, involving the discovery of strange meteors that nearly doomed them forever. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Mike Sekowsky |
| Inks | Bernard Sachs |
| Notes | Featuring the origin/first case of the JLA |
| Reprinted | in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #8 (March 1965); in Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #97 (March 1972) [worked into a new story there]; in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #5 (November-December 1980); in More Secret Origins Replica Edition (DC, 1999 series) #1; in Justice League of America Archives, The (DC, 1992 series) #2; in Showcase Presents: Justice League of America (DC, 2005 series) #1 |