(October-November 1942)
- Volume:
- ?
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 68
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- All-American Comics, Inc.
- Brand:
- A Superman DC Publication
- Editing:
- Sheldon Mayer
- Format:
- Standard Golden Age U.S.; Full Color; Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior; Saddle-Stitched; was On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Dr. Fate, though listed on the cover, does not appear in this issue in order to accomodate a special Wonder Woman chapter.
All story synopses and notes from Craig Delich.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #52 (December 1985) [Adapted]
- in All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #55 (March 1986)
Shanghaied into Space!
Justice Society of America / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Jack Burnley
- Inks:
- Jack Burnley
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Justice Society of America [Starman [Ted Knight]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Wonder Woman; Johnny Thunder; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]]
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Indexer Notes
The cover is repeated as the splash page.
Shanghaied into Space [introduction]
Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils:
- Jack Burnley
- Inks:
- Jack Burnley
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Fate; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Johnny Thunder; Wonder Woman]
- Synopsis:
- Speaking to some of his officers, Adolf Hitler demands that something be done about the Justice Battalion, and a Nazi engineer says he has the way to accomplish that task: by rocketing the members into space and to other planets in the solar syatem by the use of special rocketships he has designed for interplanetary travel. Meanwhile the JSA is meeting in their HQ when they are suddenly overcome by gas pumped into the room by Nazi agents, placed into the rockets and shot into space.
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Indexer Notes
Story later adapted in All-Star Squadron #50.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 1]
Justice Society of America / comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils:
- Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed)
- Inks:
- Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Hawkman [Carter Hall]
- Synopsis:
- Hawkman wakens to find himself in a rocketship and getting ready to crash-land on Saturn. Exiting the ship before then, he sees a man being menaced by a vulture and saves his life. Hearing that the population is being menaced by a tyrant named Hora, Hawkman agrees to lend his services to the populace. He defeats them, is rewarded with a leaden box of radium and rockets back to Earth.
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Indexer Notes
Adapted in All-Star Squadron #52.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 2]
Justice Society of America / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils:
- Cliff Young (signed)
- Inks:
- Cliff Young (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Sandman [Wesley Dodds]
- Synopsis:
- Sandman finds himself heading toward Uranus, a planet so cold that the population's brains are housed in bodies of crystal! When Sandman lands on the planet, the lack of oxygen nearly kills him until a citizen rescues him with an oxygo-tank. In gratitude, Sandman agrees to help the King of the planet battle his nemesis, Kafta, the evil one, and defeats him. The King presents Sandman with a crystal that cures brain cancer and books that explain its use, which come in handy for reading on the long trip back to Earth.
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Indexer Notes
Adapted in All-Star Squadron #55.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 3]
Justice Society of America / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils:
- Stan Aschmeier
- Inks:
- Stan Aschmeier
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Dr. Mid-Nite
- Synopsis:
- Dr. Mid-Nite lands on Neptune, an ice-covered planet with some sort of a man-built communications system on the surface. He is met by several creatures and taken to meet Hydara, ruler of the subterranean people and made a slave. Just then, a person runs in and states that he has caught the dreaded plague that has been killing off his people. Dr. Mid-Nite deduces that they merely have the measles, which he can easily cure. He asks for herbs and makes a solution that the people can absorb through their feet-roots. As a reward, he is given a complete set of books describing their secrets of plant growth and surgical work.
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Indexer Notes
Adapted in All-Star Squadron #56.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 4]
Justice Society of America / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils:
- Jack Burnley
- Inks:
- Jack Burnley
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Starman [Ted Knight]
- Synopsis:
- As Starman awakens from his gas-induced sleep, he sees the planet Jupiter looming before him. As his ship begins to crash, he is saved by several flying men of metal, who explain that, due to the cold and lack of oxygen, they wear metal clothes for protection. They show Starman what had happened to the JSA back on Earth and how Hitler had had the members rocketed to different planets. The metal men then tell him that they are doomed because some mysterious force is eating the planet. Starman flies out to investigate and is attacked as he fliess over the mysterious red spot on the planet, which is the source of the problem. Starman then builds a giant gravity rod and uses it to fling the dangerous foreign matter into space. In gratitude, the men of Jupiter give Starman books that tell how to treat metal so it can be woven into cloth, or made transparent as glass or entirely invisible! Starman then uses the force of the giant gravity rod to propel his ship back to Earth.
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Indexer Notes
Adapted in All-Star Squadron #57.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 5]
Justice Society of America / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils:
- Joe Gallagher (signed)
- Inks:
- Joe Gallagher (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Atom [Al Pratt]
- Synopsis:
- Atom finds himself crash-landing on the planet Mars, and, strangely enough, he finds it to be like a garden paradise! He also discovers, because of the low gravity, he can jump and fly like Superman. He comes upon two groups battling and decides to fight for the weaker guys. As a reward, the inhabitants show him the canals of Mars, whcih actually have water in them, and is given an Educatograph, which conducts thought knowledge into the brain. The Atom then wages war on Butor, a renegade that threatens to poison the water supply of the plabet before heading back to Earth.
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Indexer Notes
Adapted in All-Star Squadron #57.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 6]
Justice Society of America / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils:
- Bernard Baily
- Inks:
- Bernard Baily
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Howard Ferguson
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero; occult
- Characters:
- The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]
- Synopsis:
- The Spectre finds himself heading towards Pluto and exits his ship before it crashes. Unaffected by the cold and ice, he decides to fully expore this planet when he finds a man-made cover for a shaft going into the ground. He shrinks down and enters the shaft, reaching a city below, and encountering a resident who believes him to be evil. Later, the man explains to the Spectre that they are being menaced by the "furred ones" who inhabited in the city's square buildings. The Ghostly Guardian finally makes peace between the two groups. Rewarded by Pluto's scientists with the secret of making heat used for travel in cold areas, Spectre heads back to Earth.
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Indexer Notes
Adapted in All-Star Squadron #59.
Letters credit from Craig Delich.
Turtles and T.N.T.
A Hop Harrigan Story / text story / 1.5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Evelyn Gaines ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- aviation
- Characters:
- Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker
- Synopsis:
- A Japanese prison replates to General Smithers about how Hop Harrigan and Tank Tinker helped to destroy a secret Japanese submarine base.
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Indexer Notes
Script credit from Craig Delich.
How to Spot Planes in the Skies
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Falcon Mathieu
- Pencils:
- Falcon Mathieu
- Inks:
- Falcon Mathieu
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- aviation; fact
Indexer Notes
Vultee Vanguard P48.
Script and inks credits from Craig Delich.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 7]
Justice Society of America / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils:
- Stan Aschmeier
- Inks:
- Stan Aschmeier
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero; humor
- Characters:
- Johnny Thunder; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt
- Synopsis:
- Johnny is headed directly at the planet Mercury and only the Thunderbolt keeps Johnny from roasting alive inside. Once on the planet, Johnny encounters a giant spider, is knocked silly and taken prisoner and put into a cage. Thunderbolt saves him again, this time from a giant ant-eater, and saves the giant spiders from it as well. Johnny is rewarded with an Occelerator, a device that can be used to get information out of people.
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Indexer Notes
Adapted in All-Star Squadron #58.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 8]
Justice Society of America / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gardner Fox (first draft); William Moulton Marston (re-write)
- Pencils:
- Harry G. Peter
- Inks:
- Harry G. Peter
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Wonder Woman
- Synopsis:
- The goddess Aphrodite directs the rocket bearing the unconscious Wonder Woman to the planet Venus, and the Amazon is brought before Queen Desira, who immediately recognizes her as the oracle of Aphrodite. Wonder Woman is asked to help battle giant men-warriors, who are killing and capturing the men of the planet. In a series of desperate adventures, Wonder Woman defeats the warriors and is given the gift of magnetic hearing by the Queen.
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Indexer Notes
Intro Queen Desira of Venus. Adapted in All-Star Squadron #57.
Shanghaied into Space [conclusion]
Justice Society of America / comic story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils:
- Jack Burnley
- Inks:
- Jack Burnley
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Johnny Thunder; Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Wonder Woman; Starman [Ted Knight]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]]; Adolf Hitler (cameo)
- Synopsis:
- After returning from their galactic adventures, the Justice Battalion members are informed as to the whereabouts of the German spies who were responsible for rocketing them into space, and they make short work of them. Wonder Woman, now an honorary member of the JSA, is assigned permanent duties as secretary for the group.
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Indexer Notes
Adapted in All-Star Squadron #60.
How to Spot Planes in the Skies
comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Falcon Mathieu
- Pencils:
- Falcon Mathieu
- Inks:
- Falcon Mathieu
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- aviation; fact
Indexer Notes
Messerschmitt ME 109E.
Script and inks credits from Craig Delich.
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
Shanghaied into Space [introduction]
Justice Society of America -
2.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 1]
Justice Society of America -
3.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 2]
Justice Society of America -
4.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 3]
Justice Society of America -
5.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 4]
Justice Society of America -
6.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 5]
Justice Society of America -
7.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 6]
Justice Society of America -
8.
Turtles and T.N.T.
A Hop Harrigan Story -
9.
How to Spot Planes in the Skies
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10.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 7]
Justice Society of America -
11.
Shanghaied into Space [chapter 8]
Justice Society of America -
12.
Shanghaied into Space [conclusion]
Justice Society of America -
13.
How to Spot Planes in the Skies
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- Jim Van Dore
- Per Sandell
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- Jon Ingersoll
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