All-American Comics #22

(January 1941)

[Fix the Fight Game] (Table of Contents)

The Green Lantern / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils:

Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)

Inks:

Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Carrie Nodell

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Irene Miller; Tyler (radio announcer); Kid McKay (prize fighter); Mary McKay; Mark Karaste (villain); Brute Nolan (villain, champion prize fighter)

Synopsis:

After Green Lantern stops two attempts on prize-fighter "Kid" McKay's life, mobsters working for Mark Karaste kidnap Kid's wife Mary to force him to take a dive in the big fight. Green Lantern convinces the Kid to go ahead with the fight, taking a dive in the last round if he has to, while GL looks for Mary. He finds Mary and gets her to the arena in time so Kid can knock out the champ before the bell, while he corrals Karaste and gets a confession from him.

Reprints:

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1 (1999)

Keywords:

APEX Broadcasting; green lantern (called the green lamp); power ring

Indexer Notes

Story takes place in Capitol City. Oddity: a crook was destroyed when he placed GL's power ring on his finger. Letterer credit verified by Marty Nodell.

[Search for the Red Tornado] (Table of Contents)

Scribbly / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Pencils:

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Inks:

Sheldon Mayer (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Sheldon Mayer

Content Information

Genre:

humor; superhero; teen

Characters:

Red Tornado [Ma Hunkel]; Scribbly Jibbet; Sisty Hunkel; Dinky Jibbet

Synopsis:

Scribbly's newspaper editor, knowing that the Red Tornado operates solely in the neighborhood, assigned Scribbly to try and get a drawing made of the hero so that his paper could get a scoop over the other newspapers in town.

Reprints:

• in A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics (Smithsonian Institution / Harry N Abrams, 1981 series) #[nn] (1981)
• in The JSA All Stars Archives (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([October] 2007)

Indexer Notes

Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-26-08.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Believe It or Not / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert L. Ripley

Pencils:

Robert L. Ripley

Inks:

Robert L. Ripley

Colors:

?

Letters:

Robert L. Ripley

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mutt and Jeff / Cicero's Cat / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)

Pencils:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)

Inks:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Al Smith

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's cat

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Daisybelle / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Pencils:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Inks:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Gene Byrnes

Content Information

Genre:

humor; children

Characters:

Daisybelle

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints.

[Secret on the Mountain] (Table of Contents)

Hop Harrigan / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jon L. Blummer (signed)

Pencils:

Jon L. Blummer (signed)

Inks:

Jon L. Blummer (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jon L. Blummer

Content Information

Genre:

aviation

Characters:

Hop Harrigan

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 3-2-08.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation / text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jon L. Blummer

Pencils:

Jon L. Blummer

Inks:

Jon L. Blummer

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Characters:

Hop Harrigan (spot illo)

Indexer Notes

Writer/artist credits added by Craig Delich 3-2-08.

[Truckers' War] (Table of Contents)

The Atom / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill O'Connor (signed)

Pencils:

Ben Flinton (signed)

Inks:

Leonard Sansone

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Atom [Al Pratt]; Mr. Tarbell; Truck Tarbell; Joe Morgan; Mary James; Lefty Lou Albano (villain)

Synopsis:

The Atom decides to help out a fellow student's father, who is being forced to pay protection money to racketeers.

Reprints:

• in The JSA All Stars Archives (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([October] 2007)

Indexer Notes

Inker credit verified by Craig Delich & Jerry Bails (Nov. 2005). Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-26-08.

Rescue on Mars: Part 3 (Table of Contents)

Adventures in the Unknown / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carl H. Claudy (signed)

Pencils:

Stan Aschmeier

Inks:

Stan Aschmeier

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Alan; Ted; Jack

Crime, Inc. Part 1 (Table of Contents)

Jimmy Stone / text story / 1.5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Evelyn Gaines

Pencils:

Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)

Inks:

Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Jimmy Stone

Officer O'Toole (Table of Contents)

Popsicle Pete / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Art Helfant

Pencils:

Art Helfant

Inks:

Art Helfant

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Pete; Officer O'Toole

The Prince and the Pauper (Table of Contents)

All-American Comics Monthly Book Review / text article / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Daisybelle / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Pencils:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Inks:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Gene Byrnes

Content Information

Genre:

humor; children

Characters:

Daisybelle

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mutt and Jeff / Cicero's Cat / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)

Pencils:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)

Inks:

Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Al Smith

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's cat

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Believe It or Not / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert L. Ripley

Pencils:

Robert L. Ripley

Inks:

Robert L. Ripley

Colors:

?

Letters:

Robert L. Ripley

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprint.

[The Gold Mine Stock] (Table of Contents)

Ben Webster / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Russell Cole (signed as Edwin Alger)

Pencils:

Russell Cole (signed as Edwin Alger)

Inks:

Russell Cole (signed as Edwin Alger)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ben Webster

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprint. True writer/artist credit [Cole] added by Craig Delich 3-2-08.

[The Mining Accidents] (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 White; Blooey Blue