Justice League of America Archives, Vol. 8

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Summary: Sekowsky's Last Stand on the Justic League of America
Review: Its sort of ironic that the Justice League of America are holding hands on this Archive's cover, because this is the volume that signals the end of the silver age League.

Mike Sekowsky puts done his pencil midway through this volume and turns it over to Dick Dillin (one of the silver age's most under appreciated artists). Dillin would draw the League through the end of the sixties and into the seventies.

But before Mike Sekowsky left he did leave some gems in this volume. Of particular intrest is issue #61's story, "Operation Jail the Justice League." In which heroes and villians swap identities. Something that would be touched upon three decades later in Identity Crisis (the comic limited series).

In issue #69 Wonder Woman shows up depowered and leaves the League (due to events in her own title drawn and edited by former League artist Mike Sekowsky) but its okay because the woman who will replace her Black Canary (plus future JLA member Red Tornado) make appearances in the Justice League/Society crossover in issue #64.

Also of note is the Creeper's guest appearance (ala Metamorpho's early appearance) in Justice League #70.

We begin to see the shift from cosmic classic hero epics to social issues something that becomes more and more the League's stock in trade as they try to become relevant in the 70's.

This is a good volume filled with many milestones as silver age begins to draw to a close.

As for the quality of the book itself, this is part of the DC Archive series so everything from paper to binding is top draw.