All-Star Comics #2

(Fall 1940)

[Attention!] (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Creig Flessel; Bernard Baily; Everett Hibbard; Martin Nodell

Inks:

Creig Flessel; Bernard Baily; Everett Hibbard; Martin Nodell

Letters:

?; also typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Spectre (upper body view); Green Lantern (upper body view); Flash (upper body view); Sandman (upper body view)

Synopsis:

Readers were thanked for the great sales on the previous issue, and, in response to their requests for two new features for this issue, Green Lantern & Johnny Thunder appear, and Doctor Fate could be found in the next issue. Readers were also informed of a contest to be found later in the issue (opposite Hour-Man) that they can participate in to win free copies of All-Star #3, being asked to select the most popular feature in All-Star...the one they would most like to get their own book, like Superman and Batman.

Reprinted:

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #13

Indexer Notes

On inside front cover.

[Sacrifice for Yum-Chac] (Table of Contents)

Hawkman / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox

Pencils:

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks:

Sheldon Moldoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Hawkman; Chet Norris; Irene; Nyola (villain)

Synopsis:

While flying over the city one evening, looking for any hint of crime, the Hawkman spots the Police leaving a suburban home. Investigating, he discovers the body of a woman inside who appears to have drowned, and a glass knife near her body. Taking the knife with him, as Carter Hall he researched the knife and finds that it was involved in Aztec ritual involving Yum-Chac, their rain god. Carter decides to visit a noted Aztec specialist about it and discovers he has been tied up, and learns that his sister has been kidnapped to be sacrificed to the Aztec god. Immediately Hawkman heads out to rescue her.

Reprinted:

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #13
• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #0

[The "Robot" Men] (Table of Contents)

Green Lantern / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger

Pencils:

Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)

Inks:

Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Baron Von Zorn (villain)

Synopsis:

Throughout many U.S. cities, hoards of men: vagrants, hobos and tramps, have disappeared, but then are suddenly pillaged by troops of wild-eyed, robot-like figures. Alan Scott, reading of these crimes, visits the morgue where bodies of some of these robot-men are found and examines a sample of their blood, recognizing a drug in their systems that paralyzes the human nerve cells. Scott disguises himself as a bum, is taken into captivity with other such men, then changes into the Green Lantern to clean up this evil plot by Baron von Zorn and restore the others to their sanity.

Reprinted:

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #13
• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #0

[The Curse of Kulak] (Table of Contents)

Spectre / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Bernard Baily (signed)

Inks:

Bernard Baily (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Bernard Baily

Content Information

Genre:

superhero; occult

Characters:

The Spectre; Kulak (introduction, villain); Benson; The Legions of Brztal

Synopsis:

Jim Corrigan investigates the theft of an ancient manuscript so old that it had to have belonged to a lost civilization. The guard on duty the night of the theft was in shock and could only say "Kulak! Kulak!" The Spectre takes over, materializes a vision of the stolen parchment, reads it, and then comes face-to-face with Kulak, High Priest of Brztal, who warns the Ghostly Guardian to lay off or else!

Reprinted:

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #13
• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #0

Indexer Notes

Kulak next appears in All Star Squadron #20. Letters credit from Craig Delich.

[The Glowing Globe] (Table of Contents)

Sandman / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox

Pencils:

Creig Flessel

Inks:

Chad Grothkopf

Colors:

?

Letters:

Chad Grothkopf

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Sandman; Sir Basil Lorimer (death); Sir Basil's brother (villain)

Synopsis:

Wes Dodds is visiting a noted medical man, Sir Basil, when the radio blares a story of mysterious deaths in which lives were taken by an unknown force. Changing to the Sandman, he discovers Sir Basil dead, but is then over-come by a strange glowing globe known as the life stealer. Fortunately he recovers and sets a trap for the villain.

Reprinted:

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #13
• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #0

Indexer Notes

Pencils and letters credits from Craig Delich. Inks and letters credits confirmed by Chad Grothkopf.

[Invisble-Ink Gas] (Table of Contents)

Red, White and Blue / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

William Smith

Inks:

William Smith

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Red Dugan; Whitey Smith; Blooey Blue; Doris West; Truck Bieler; Rusty; Professor Leaman; Sherm

Synopsis:

Red Dugan and Doris are walking along the street when a fire truck races by them, and they follow it to the fire. Checking the building over with an arson investigator, they discover a body in the rubble.....and gas tanks. Red picks up a Department of Street Cleaning badge at the scene and investigates how it could have gotten there. With the help of Whitey and Blooey, they discover a plot by someone to use a peculiar gas to make the writing on important government documents disappear, then steal them to obtain the secrets.

Reprinted:

• in Comic Cavalcade (DC, 1942 series) #1 [modified, see note]
• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #13
• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #0
• in Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1 [as modified for Comic Cavalcade, see note]

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Craig Delich.

The story was edited from its original format for Comic Cavalcade #1 to reflect changing editorial policies to remove swearing, provacative clothing, and a dead body, per Kevin Wilkens.

[The Darling Apartment] (Table of Contents)

Johnny Thunderbolt / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

John Wentworth

Pencils:

Stan Aschmeier

Inks:

Stan Aschneier

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Johnny Thunderbolt; Daisy Darling; Herman Darling; Mr. Throstle; Hiram Crooker (villain); Faber

Synopsis:

Herman Darling has just bought up some property in order to build apartment houses, but when he goes over to that property, the former owner refuses to leave. Johnny decides to help his girl friend's father, so he goes over to do the job of throwing the former owner out...but he gets thrown out himself! Through a series of mis-adventures, and the help of the Thunderbolt, Johnny accomplishes the task.

Reprinted:

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #13
• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #0

The Invisible Star (Table of Contents)

text story / 1.5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Evelyn Gaines

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

Ric Martin, U.S. Ambassador to Mars, is very concerned about a Martian military build-up as a precursor to war. A sign of trouble was that Earth's temperature, in the dead of winter, had reached 125 degres plus and rising, and the body count was mounting. To Ric, the only solution was to move Earth's population to another planet, which he helped to accomplish.

Reprinted:

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #13
• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #0

[Here's How You Can Get the Next Issue of All-Star Comics Free] (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

Readers were asked to write down the namess of heroes from Flash, All-American, All-Star, Adventure and Fun Comics that they'd like to see win their own complete book [like Superman and Batman].

Reprinted:

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #13

[Dr. Morte, Spiritualist] (Table of Contents)

Hour-Man / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ken Fitch

Pencils:

Bernard Baily (signed)

Inks:

Bernard Baily (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Bernard Baily

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Hour-Man; Minute Man Martin; Minute Men of America; Dr. Morte (villain)

Synopsis:

A fake spiritualist, Dr. Morte, cons people out of their money by convincing his victims he can make contact with their dead loved ones. Rex Tyler decides to get Minute Man Martin & the Minute Men involved in investigating the situation, while he, as the Hour-Man, tracks down Morte himself.

Reprinted:

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #13
• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #0

Indexer Notes

Script and letters credits from Craig Delich.

[The One-Man Newspaper] (Table of Contents)

Flash / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox (signed)

Pencils:

Everett Hibbard (signed)

Inks:

Everett Hibbard (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Synopsis:

Jay Garrick decides to visit a friend, Bill Jackson, at the Daily Column newspaper office, but is shocked to find the building absolutely empty of people! As the Flash, he decides to go ahead and publish an edition of the newspaper to see if those responsible for the staff's disappearance will be curious enough to come over to the newspaper office and investigate.

Reprinted:

• in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #13
• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #0