All-American Comics #29

(August 1941)

[The Patent Medicine Racket] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils:

Irwin Hasen [as Mart Nodell] (signed)

Inks:

Irwin Hasen [as Mart Nodell] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Irene Miller; Doiby Dickles; Mr. Hendricks (druggist); Mrs. Hendricks; un-named daughter of the Hendricks; un-named Judge; Mitch Hogan (villain, racketeer); Mortimer Pestle (villain, chemist, death)

Synopsis:

Green Lantern and Doiby work to stop a drug counterfeiting ring directed by Mitch Hogan forcing legitimate pharmacies to carry their wares. But they have problems making the charges stick when Hogan intimidates the star witness and then pulls a gun on the judge until Doiby stumbles into court long enough to distract Hogan so GL can knock him cold.

Reprints:

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

Keywords:

green lantern (called a queer looking old lamp); oath; power ring

[The Red Tornado vs. Kid Marblehead] (Table of Contents)

Scribbly and the Red Tornado / 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

Characters:

Red Tornado [Ma Hunkle]; Scribbly; V: Kid Marblehead.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mutt and Jeff / filler / 1 page (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

Indexer Notes

Newsspaper reprints. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 3-11-08.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mutt and Jeff; Cicero's Cat / filler / 1 page (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:

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters:

Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's cat

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mutt and Jeff / filler / 1 page (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

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints.
Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 3-11-08.

[Sabotage] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Bill O'Connor

Pencils:

Ben Flinton

Inks:

Leonard Sansone

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Atom [Al Pratt]

Indexer Notes

Inker credit by Jerry Bails- changed 8/04.

[Ikky and the Soaring Wings] (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; Ikky.

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 3-11-08.

Captain Boris Sergievsky (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jon L. Blummer

Pencils:

Jon L. Blummer

Inks:

Jon L. Blummer

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Characters:

Hop Harrigan; Boris Sergievsky.

Indexer Notes

Credits added by Craig Delich 3-11-08.

[The Menace of King Cobra] (Table of Contents)

Dr. Mid-Nite / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Charles Reizenstein

Pencils:

Stan Aschmeier

Inks:

Stan Aschmeier

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Dr. Mid-Nite [Charles McNider]; Myra Mason; Hooty; Jack Denton; Silas Carr; V: King Cobra [I].

Synopsis:

Dr. McNider decides to write a crime article on King Cobra and his gang, exposing him as the owner of a copper mine, who has blamed Jack Denton for a murder he didn't commit.

Reprints:

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

Indexer Notes

Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-27-08.

[Arrested for Murder] (Table of Contents)

Sargon the Sorcerer / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

John B. Wentworth

Pencils:

Howard Purcell

Inks:

Howard Purcell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Sargon [John Sargent]

Indexer Notes

Writer credit by Craig Delich 8/04.

Rip Van Winkle (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Harry Greene (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Characters:

Rip van Winkle

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mutt and Jeff / filler / 1 page (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

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 3-11-08.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mutt and Jeff; Cicero's Cat / filler / 1 page (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:

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters:

Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's cat

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mutt and Jeff / filler / 1 page (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

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 3-11-08.

Murder by Messenger Part 2 (Table of Contents)

Jimmy Stone / text story / 1.75 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Evelyn Gaines (signed)

Pencils:

Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)

Inks:

Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Jimmy Stone

[The Case of the Murdered G-2 Agent] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

John B. Wentworth?

Pencils:

Howard Purcell

Inks:

Howard Purcell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Red Dugan; Whitey White; Blooey Blue; Doris West.

Indexer Notes

Credits corrected per Craig Delich 8/04.