All-American Comics #37

(April 1942)

[The Sinister Plot of Professor Caspar] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils:

Martin Nodell (signed as Mart Nodell)

Inks:

Martin Nodell (signed as Mart Nodell)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles; Fog Blake (I); Prof. Blau; Professor Vogt; Prof. Caspar (villain); Prof. Steinholtz.

Synopsis:

A vicious scientist kills to obtain a gun that shoots sound, and then kidnaps world famous scientists in order to gain their inventions.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

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

Indexer Notes

Credits in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives 2 are wrong. Credits updated per Craig Delich 8/04. Modified synopsis added by Craig Delich 4-5-08.

[The Phony Doctor] (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 4-5-08.

[no title indexed] (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:

fact

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:

sitcom

Characters:

Mutt; Jeff

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 4-5-08.

The Car Racket (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]; Joe Morgan.

Synopsis:

Al takes a car out for a near-fatal test drive, forcing the Atom to round up the crooked car dealers and get them to confess to selling dangerous vehicles to unsuspecting buyers.

Indexer Notes

Inker credit per Jerry Bails, updated 8/04. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-10-09.

[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:

funny animal

Characters:

Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's cat

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints.

[Uncle Herman -- Detective] (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:

superhero; humor

Characters:

Red Tornado [Ma Hunkel]; Scribbly Jibbet; Uncle Herman.

[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:

funny animal

Characters:

Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's cat

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints.

[The Parrot Puzzle] (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.

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:

sitcom

Characters:

Mutt; Jeff

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 4-5-08.

[The Bomber] (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 per Craig Delich, updated 8/04.

The Murder of Chester Holmes Part 2 (Table of Contents)

Phil Hackett / text story / 1.67 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Evelyn Gaines (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Phil Hackett

[The Truth of Dr. Mid-Nite's Identity] (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 [Charles McNider]; Myra Mason; Hooty; N. N. Osgood; un-named foreign agents (villains).

Synopsis:

Two employees of a munitions manufactuirer's company are upset that their boss is selling munitions to the government at cost, so they hire foreign agents to kill him.

Indexer Notes

Writer credit per Craig Delich, updated 8/04. Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-10-09.