Justice League of America #29 for Sale - First Appearance of Ultraman - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series)
Issue: #29
Publication date: August 1964
Key date: 1964-08-00
On-sale date: 1964-06-11
Indicia publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Ultraman - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Power Ring - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Johnny Quick - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Owlman - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Superwoman - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Crisis on Earth-Three!	cover	1	pencils: Mike Sekowsky; inks: Murphy Anderson; letters: Ira Schnapp	Barry Allen, Batman, Black Canary, Doctor Fate, Dr. Mid-Nite, Dinah Drake, The Flash, Green Lantern, Carter Hall, Hawkman, Hal Jordan, Clark Kent, Ted Knight, Charles McNider
2	Crisis on Earth-Three!	comic story	23	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Mike Sekowsky; inks: Bernard Sachs; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Barry Allen, Aquaman, The Atom, Batman, Black Canary, Snapper Carr, Arthur Curry, Doctor Fate, Dr. Mid-Nite, Dinah Drake, The Flash, The Flash, Jay Garrick, Green Lantern
4	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
7	-	cartoon	0.25
10	-	letters page	1	letters: typeset

Plus 9.74 pages of advertisements and other matter across 13 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
From Beyond the Unknown #10	1971	On eBay ›
Justice League of America #114	1974	On eBay ›
Crisis on Multiple Earths #[1] ISBN 1-56389-895-0	2002	On eBay ›
Justice League of America Archives #4 ISBN 1-56389-412-2	1998	On eBay ›
Showcase Presents: Justice League of America #2 ISBN 1-4012-1203-4	2007	On eBay ›
The Justice League of America Omnibus #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-4842-0	2014	On eBay ›
Justice League of America: The Silver Age #3 ISBN 978-1-4012-6862-6	2017	On eBay ›
Justice League of America: A Celebration of 60 Years #[nn] ISBN 978-1-4012-9951-4	2020	On eBay ›
Justice League of America: The Silver Age Omnibus #1 ISBN 978-1-77950-174-5	2020	On eBay ›
Crossing Over ISBN 978-1-77950-753-2	2021	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #2829 of 261#30 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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