All-American Comics #34

(January 1942)

[The Building Racket] (Table of Contents)

Green Lantern / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils:

Irwin Hasen [as Martin Nodell] (signed)

Inks:

Irwin Hasen [as Martin Nodell] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Irene Miller; Doiby Dickles; un-named building inspector; John; un-named District Attorney; Nick Darcy (villain, head of the Blake Construction Company, death); Mayor Kastor (villain); Mr. Livingston (villain, owner of the Livingston Construction Company)

Synopsis:

An investigation by the Green Lantern into the faulty construction of buildings by the Blake Construction Company reveals that the company is just a dummy corporation designed to protect the real one: the Livingston Company, supposedly above reproach. To escape prosecution, the Livingston Company decides to pin a murder rap on the Master of Light!

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #2 (January 2002)

Keywords:

APEX Broadcasting Company; Blake Construction Company; green lantern (called the old lamp); Livingston Construction Company; oath; power ring

Indexer Notes

Art credits corrected August 2004 per Craig Delich. Credits in the Golden Age Green Lantern Archives are wrong. Story takes place in Capitol City.

[Twink's Secret] (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; Twink.

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 4-1-08.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Hop Harrigan's History of Aviation / filler / 0.67 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jon L. Blummer

Pencils:

Jon L. Blummer

Inks:

Jon L. Blummer

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jon L. Blummer

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Characters:

Hop Harrigan (inset)

[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 4-1-08.

[The Defense Bond Manipulators] (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]; Mary James; Pete; Joe (villain); Mike (villain).

Synopsis:

The Atom discovers that men who sold Al Pratt phony defense bonds and who had kidnapped Mary Jane are actually foreign spies.

Indexer Notes

Inker credit per Jerry Bails, corrected 8/04. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-9-09.

[Hunt for the Red Tornado's Identity] (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 Hunkel]; Scribbly Jibbet.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mutt and Jeff / filler / 0.67 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 4-1-08.

[Terror of the Man-Made Meteors] (Table of Contents)

Red, White and Blue / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

John B. Wentworth?

Pencils:

Harry Lampert

Inks:

Harry Lampert

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

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

Indexer Notes

Credits corrected per Craig Delich 8/04.

[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 4-1-08.

[Sargon's Challenge] (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]; Flora Styles; Mrs. Vandervan; Prince Stroganoff (villain); Ivan (villain).

Synopsis:

Sargon puts a halt to a scheme of a phony Prince, in reality a side show performer and a fraud, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy family.

Indexer Notes

Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-30-09.

Bomb on Board! (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Evelyn Gaines (signed)

Pencils:

Sheldon Mayer [spot illos]

Inks:

Sheldon Mayer [spot illos]

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Jimmy Stone

[Dr. Kwack] (Table of Contents)

Dr. Mid-Nite / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Charles Reizenstein

Pencils:

Stan Aschmeier

Inks:

Stan Aschmeier

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Myra Mason; Hooty; Dr. Kwack (villain).

Synopsis:

The Man of Night suspects that a new physician in town is a fraud, especially when he diagnoses a healthy patient having a rare disease!

Indexer Notes

Writer credit per Craig Delich, added 8/04. Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-9-09.