Mike Sekowsky — Team Effort
Justice League of America #25, February 1964
Here’s a very cool—and not all that common—page from Mike Sekowsky’s run on Justice League of America.
What jumps out right away is that you’ve got all five Leaguers from the issue sharing the same page. That wasn’t always the case—these stories often split the team into smaller groups, each getting their own chapter. So having everyone here, across multiple panels, really gives the page that full-on “team book” feel.
And then there’s Superman—front and center.
That’s actually a bit unusual in those early JLA years. He was around, sure, but often used a little more sparingly. Cover-wise, he’d only popped up a handful of times before this—and even then, kind of on the margins. Here, he feels like a real driver of the story, not just part of the roster.
This one’s from before my own newsstand era, which is part of the fun. Big, bold, early Silver Age stuff—goofy aliens, interdimensional problems, the kind of threats where you actually need a whole team. You’re not calling in the Justice League for a bank robbery.
And Sekowsky—never really labeled a top-tier stylist—but the guy could draw anything, in any situation, and keep the story moving. That’s a skill that’s easy to overlook, and shouldn’t be.
Just a great page—and a really nice slice of JLA history.
