We begin with "The Devil in Paradise" by Robert Kanigher, Dick Dillin and Joe Giella. At the annual presentation of the Nobel Prizes, the Justice League receives a special award for its rescue of a top chemist from the crime syndicate known as the 100, and Dr. Viktor Willard wins the Peace Prize for his creation of the Pax serum, which turns aggressors into "doves." Black Canary is surprised when she is able to read the thoughts of Willard's fiancée, Phyllis Temple.
Some time later, the Flash rescues Phyllis from a capsized boat in the ocean after she escapes Willard 's island hideaway and warns the Justice League that Willard has gone mad, and intends to use the serum to unleash hatred in all the world's nations, causing humanity to exterminate itself. The JLA are powerless when Willard threatens to kill Phyllis if they intervene. It is Villard's own android creation, Nether Man, who turns on his master, and sacrifices his own existence to save Phyllis and the world.
I believe this was Robert Kanigher' s only Justice League story an the only appearance of the 100 outside of his stories in Lois Lane till Tony Isabella would resurrect the group in the pages of Black Lightening in 1977. This story was reprinted in Showcase Presents: Justice League of America Vol. 5 TPB, Justice League of America Archives Vol. 10 HC and Justice League of America: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC.
The filler story is "Great Ant Circus" by Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson and reprinted from Strange Adventures #30.
Edited by Julius Schwartz.
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