The Brave and the Bold #28 · 1960
A league against the impossible.
The Justice League takes on Starro in a spinning, star-shaped battle. Explore the covers that reinterpret Mike Sekowsky and Murphy Anderson’s debut team composition.
The origin pointThe Brave and the Bold #28 · Mike Sekowsky; Murphy Anderson
The original cover
The Brave and the Bold #28
The Justice League takes on Starro in a spinning, star-shaped battle. Explore the covers that reinterpret Mike Sekowsky and Murphy Anderson’s debut team composition.
This catalog follows the original cover’s composition across published comics and announced editions. Trade dress, virgin, foil and sketch treatments are described in edition notes. Connecting sets identify their participating issues and panels.
Verified records have source support for the exact cover and target. Partial records retain attribution or edition gaps. Reprints, interior-scene homages, different targets and unresolved references are listed separately below.
Cover dated February–March 1960; originally released December 29, 1959. Superman and Batman appear inside the issue but are absent from its cover. The Justice League of America’s debut cover shows five heroes battling Starro, with the giant starfish’s arms framing the team. This composition anchors the Brave and the Bold #28 homage lineage. Image presentation: a clean digital reproduction of the original cover art.
The Brave and the Bold #28 collection
Browse the lineage
- Homage entries
- 17
- Verified
- 13
- Qualified
- 4
Search by title, artist, publisher, character or edition. Entries may represent an individual panel or a documented connecting set; the count is not a count of unique complete panoramas.
Complete the Lineage · Beta
Make this lineage yours.
Track one distinct drawing per card. Any edition counts.
See your Wants across all catalogs and share your list.
Loading your saved list…
Published covers count toward progress. Upcoming and unconfirmed releases can be Wanted.
Beta: your list is saved on this device/browser only. Accounts coming soon.
CSV and TXT include every cover, artist, known edition, and your Have/Want/Missing status, regardless of filters. Use JSON to restore your list.
As an eBay Partner Network Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Affiliate disclosure.
Research & releases · Reviewed October 19, 2026
New editions and open questions
A verified 2026 addition with new artwork is the SDCC U.S. Mint custom BB28 reprint with a Dan Jurgens cover. DC announced a second connecting half for later in 2026, but no exact release date, final edition title, image or new 2027 homage was verified in this pass. Keep this as an undated announced follow-up, rather than a confirmed upcoming record. The January 7, 2026 regular, foil and blank facsimiles do not introduce new homage artwork.
Undisclosed print quantities, ambiguous credits and conflicting edition dates remain identified as unknown. This catalog can grow as publishers, artists and collectors provide new evidence.
Research changes and source notes
- CL-BB28-0001: Cover homage
Exact edition reviewed 2026-10-19.
- CL-BB28-0002: Cover homage
Exact edition reviewed 2026-10-19. Additional characters or incarnation identities remain unresolved. Contemporary retailer solicitation variants conflict with database cover credit; exact inspected art is signed MH/after Sekowsky. Ratio not verified for this exact variant; do not transfer other cover ratios.
- CL-BB28-0003: Cover homage
Exact edition reviewed 2026-10-19. Retailer native 1952 × 2972 full scan. Retailer product additional-information Publisher=Marvel is a cataloging error; correct publisher remains BOOM!/KaBOOM!.
- CL-BB28-0004: Cover homage
Exact edition reviewed 2026-10-19.
- CL-BB28-0005: Cover homage
Exact edition reviewed 2026-10-19.
- CL-BB28-0006: Cover homage
Exact edition reviewed 2026-10-19. Additional characters or incarnation identities remain unresolved. Original three-entry grouping retained. Crain secret variant may alter character renderings; catalog as related editions, do not assert all three artworks identical. Primary scan is the supplied homage artwork.
- CL-BB28-0007: Cover homage
Exact edition reviewed 2026-10-19. Additional characters or incarnation identities remain unresolved. Book cover says Lexington’s Best Comic Con 2019. January 1 in workbook was a placeholder, not verified street date. Disney figures wear DC-inspired outfits; do not tag the borrowed DC identities as depicted characters.
- CL-BB28-0008: Cover homage
Exact edition reviewed 2026-10-19. Additional characters or incarnation identities remain unresolved.
- CL-BB28-0009: Cover homage
Exact edition reviewed 2026-10-19. Additional characters or incarnation identities remain unresolved. These are Stan Lee Just Imagine/Earth-6 versions, not the standard DC alter egos; do not attach Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Hal Jordan or Barry Allen from the original composition.
- CL-BB28-0010: Cover homage
Exact edition reviewed 2026-10-19. Additional characters or incarnation identities remain unresolved.
- CL-BB28-0011: Cover homage
Exact edition reviewed 2026-10-19. Additional characters or incarnation identities remain unresolved. Publisher-era branding Whatnot retained; current reprints may use Massive. Exact unfamiliar human cast is unresolved, so characters intentionally empty.
- CL-BB28-0012: Cover homage
Exact artwork visually reviewed 2026-10-19. Retain both treatments under one art group. Retailer currently labels second exclusive; title/date ordering is not proof of a new publication.
- CL-BB28-0013: Cover homage
Exact artwork visually reviewed 2026-10-19. Downloaded image is unlettered preview artwork, not published trade dress; media upgrade needed.
- CL-BB28-0014: Cover homage
Exact artwork visually reviewed 2026-10-19. Native 900 × 1367 solicitation artwork includes publisher promo footer, not full final trade dress; no upscaling. Distinguish release year 2010 from cover date 2011.
- CL-BB28-0015: Cover homage
Exact artwork visually reviewed 2026-10-19. Incomplete character or incarnation research. Only small comparison image recovered; crop right-hand artwork with full title/outer content. Do not use left-hand original as this record’s image. Original linked press asset returned HTTP 404.
- CL-BB28-0016: Cover homage
Exact artwork visually reviewed 2026-10-19.
- CL-BB28-0017: Cover homage
Exact artwork visually reviewed 2026-10-19. DC promised second half later in 2026 with details to follow. Do not treat that undated announcement as a second verified published issue. Exact viewed first half only shows these four heroes; do not infer other members from original BB28.
- Original BB28 and 2020/2022/2026 regular or foil facsimiles; Loot Crate; Millennium Edition; Silver Age Classics: Exclude from unique homage art
Original cover reproduced with trade-dress/finish changes. Hardin and Jurgens new-art covers treated separately.
- The Bold and the Brave collected Volume 3 (Yonami): Wrong target
Publisher/gallery comparison shows BB30/Amazo target, not BB28.
- Justice League #23 interior pages; Supreme #48 faux Allies cover; DC Super Friends #12 interior: Exclude interiors
Interior homage panels/faux cover rather than actual published exterior cover.
- Justice League 3001 #3 Dale Eaglesham variant: Candidate needs exact-image verification
Contemporary review explicitly identifies a BB28 homage and credits Eaglesham, while the initial official solicitation names Howard Porter for the 1:25 variant. GCD lists the Dale Eaglesham edition. Preserve this lead pending exact artwork and character review.
The Lineage Dispatch
New discoveries,
straight from the archive.
