Justice League of America #58
Justice League of America #58
Cover Credits
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Sid Greene

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Title: "The Wheel of Misfortune"
Pages: 20

Feature(s):
Justice League of America (of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky
Inker: Bernard Sachs

Reprinted From:
Justice League of America #6 (1961)

Feature Character(s)

Supporting Character(s)

Villain(s)

Other Character(s)

  • Hazel Deeping (a young girl; no further appearances)
  • August Jones (a museum curator; no further appearances)
  • Amos Fortune’s stockbroker (no further appearances)

Comments:
Superman and Batman do not appear in this story.

The cover of this issue reprises that of All-Star Comics #42.

Pages 2-7 are omitted from the original story. 3 additional pages have been partially relettered and redrawn.

Synopsis:
After breaking various superstitious taboos on individual cases, the Justice League members are plagued by ill fortune. This is caused by Professor Amos Fortune, who has learned how to control luck through the stimulation of twin "luck glands" which he has discovered in the body. By gifting himself with good luck and the JLA with bad, he plans to rob at will, unhampered by the super-heroes.

Meanwhile, the assembled heroes are alerted to two new cases via the mail: Flash, Green Arrow, and J’onn J’onzz search for a hidden family treasure, while Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern try to catch a museum thief. In each case, Amos Fortune attempts to abscond with the loot, but the JLA nevertheless enjoys good fortune, and solves the crimes. Realizing that this good fortune has come to the team to compensate for the earlier bad fortune caused by his own "Stimuluck" device, the villain captures the six members, and imprisons them in his Wheel of Fortune, which is designed to destroy their good luck glands completely.

This plan is foiled when J’onn J’onzz breaks free and captures the villain. Being a Martian, J’onn has no luck glands, and so is unaffected by the devices. His earlier "bad luck" had been nothing more than coincidence.


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