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The Silver Age Comics blog has done a head count of the appearances of Justice League members on the covers of the original Justice League comic book.
I went through the covers of Justice League of America to see who did (and who didn’t) appear on each cover through 1969. I broke it down by 20 issues at a time:
As you can see, Superman and Batman only made rare appearances on the cover of JLA during the first 20 issues. Note that Green Arrow was not inducted until #4 (the Atom in #14, and Hawkman in #31), so aside from them, the Martian Manhunter was the first member not to appear on a cover, Green Arrow was the second, MM the third and then Aquaman became the first to miss two covers in a row.
It’s interesting to see just how rare Superman and Batman’s appearances were. If you read any books about DC publishing they’ll tell you the old mantra that DC were nervous about over exposing their two biggest heroes. Therefore DC were cautious about how heavily Superman and Batman were featured in the JLA. Well, these numbers actually seem to back that old story up.
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