All Star Comics Archives #5

(1999 [February 2000])

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Justice Society of America / insert or dust jacket / 0 pages (report information)

Pencils

Pete Poplaski (credited)

Inks

Pete Poplaski (credited)

Colors

Lee Loughridge (credited)

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Letters

?

Indexer Notes

Embossed with the All-Star Comics logo.

All Star Comics Archives Volume 5 (Table of Contents: 3)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Stan Asch

Inks

Stan Asch

Colors

?

Letters

?

Indexer Notes

Illustrated with a detail from the Starman chapter of the story from All-Star Comics #22.

Table of Contents (Table of Contents: 4)

table of contents / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher

Inks

Joe Gallagher

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Illustrated with a modified detail from the concluding segment of the story from All-Star Comics #22.

Foreword (Table of Contents: 5)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 3 pages (report information)

Script

R. C. Harvey (credited)

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Illustrated with a detail from the Hawkman chapter of the story from All-Star Comics #23.

Crimes Set to Music (Table of Contents: 6)

Justice Society of America / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Johnny Thunder; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]]

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #19 (Winter 1943)

The Crimes Set to Music!!! [Introduction] (Table of Contents: 7)

Justice Society of America / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Johnny Thunder; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]]

Synopsis

Hawkman has disappeared, and as the members make ready for a meeting that will not take place, hawks begin arriving with fragments of sheet music, each one with a single note on it. The members gather at a deserted country house to try and figure out what the notes mean. Wonder Woman sits at a piano in the house and plays one of the notes. Immediately, a small panel opens in the piano and out falls a hammer with a note attached, giving a name and address, along with a cryptic notation. Each member takes one of the notes to follow them up to see if they lead to the whereabouts of Hawkman.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #19 (Winter 1943)

Indexer Notes

The cover replicates the splash page except for the placement and style of some of the musical notes, reversal of moon emblems on Dr. Mid-Nite's vest and size of the piano.

[The Crimes Set to Music!!! Chapter 1] (Table of Contents: 8)

Justice Society of America; Starman / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Starman [Ted Knight]; Mark Nelson (violinist); Maestro Albert Palini (Nelson's violin teacher, flashback, death); Hector Bauer (villain); two thugs (villains)

Synopsis

Starman heads to the home of Mark Nelson, puzzling over the cryptic remark about a fiddle. Entering, he sees someone trying to smash a fiddle, saves the fiddle and kayos several thugs as well, who tell him a guy over on West Boulevard hired them to smash it before they flee. The Astral Avenger waits for Nelson to return....a young musician who can only compose on that Stradivarius violin, which once belonged to his teacher before he died. Just then, the thugs return to finish the job, but Starman finishes them for the Police. He then heads over to West Boulevard to see if Hawkman is there.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #19 (Winter 1943)

[The Crimes Set to Music!!! Chapter 2] Johnny Thunder Stops a Kidnaping! (Table of Contents: 9)

Johnny Thunder; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; superhero

Characters

Johnny Thunder; The Thunderbolt [Archibald]; Charles Norris (beekeeper); two thugs [Butch; other unnamed] (villains)

Synopsis

Johnny is heading over to the home of Charles Norris by bus, and he converses with the very thugs that are going to kidnap Norris, bragging about how he is going to protect the man! The crooks offer to help brother John and they arrive at the house, entering by window. They trick Johnny into trying a stunt while they go into another part of the house and snatch Norris. Fortunately, Johnny blurts out the magic words and the Thunderbolt shows up to save the day and save Norris, then both head out to find Hawkman.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #19 (Winter 1943)

[The Crimes Set to Music!!! Chapter 3] (Table of Contents: 10)

Doctor Fate; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Chester Kozlak

Inks

Chester Kozlak

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; Arturo Carasa (vocalist); two thugs (villain)

Synopsis

Dr. Fate is on his way to see Arturo Carasa, before the threat to take his voice away succeeds. As they talk, gas suddenly is pumped into the room and Fate grabs the man and heads out the window to the roof where both find that they have lost their voices! Talking in writing, Fate tells Carasa that he must go on as planned, hoping to smoke out the rats involved. Carasa "sings" as Doctor Fate plays a record, and it does smoke out the men involved, whom Dr. Fate puts a wrap on. Telling Carasa that his voice will come back soon, he drops the thugs off in jail and continues to track down Hawkman.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #19 (Winter 1943)

Indexer Notes

Art for this chapter credited to Stan Aschmeier in this volume.

[The Crimes Set to Music!!! Chapter 4] The Atom Solves a Fingerprint Mystery (Table of Contents: 11)

The Atom; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Atom [Al Pratt]; Arnold Murray (death); Calire Murray (Arnold's daughter); unnamed sculptor; unnamed thug (villain)

Synopsis

A young lady awaits death. Knowing her fingerprints were found at the crime scene, Atom decides to visit it for an overlooked clue, finds it and now knows that she is innocent. He next visits the sculptor who made her hand molds, and learns that they were stolen earlier. Finally, he plants a news story asking for the thief of the hands to see him privately at a certain address. When he shows, the Atom follows the thief, kayos him and finds the hand molds that prove the young lady's innocence. Turning them over to the authorities, Atom then heads over to West Boulevard to find Hawkman.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #19 (Winter 1943)

[The Crimes Set to Music!!! Chapter 5] (Table of Contents: 12)

Justice Society of America; Sandman / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited); Jack Kirby

Pencils

Jack Kirby (credited)

Inks

Joe Simon (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Theodore Korowski (pianist); The Spirits of Song (in a dream); three thugs [Chigger; others unnamed] (villains)

Synopsis

Pianist Theodor Koronski dreams a mysterious robed individual will cut his fingers off. However, as he relaxes and begins to play his favorite tune, a sharp blade above the piano falls toward his fingers. Fortunately, Sandman and Sandy arrive in time to save him and question him as to if he has any enemies. While they are talking, several thugs outside the musician's apartment attempt to kill the crime fighters and finish the job to cripple Koronski. But the duo has set a trap that the criminals fall into and wrap them up in short order, then head out to seek Hawkman.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #19 (Winter 1943)

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Craig Delich. Re-writes confirmed by Jack Kirby.

[The Crimes Set to Music!!! Chapter 6] (Table of Contents: 13)

Dr. Mid-Nite; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Loring Merkeroff (composer); three unnamed thugs (villains)

Synopsis

Dr. Mid-Nite's job to to save master composer, Loring Merkeroff, but is knocked out during the ensuing fight and awakens to find the composer gone. Searching the room, he sees that Merkeroff wrote a clue to his kidnappers on sheet music at the piano, so the Man of Night follows the lead. Meanwhile, the composer has been taken to an operating room where a surgeon is to deafen the composer so he can't finish the opus he is working on. But Dr. Mid-Nite takes his place, cleans up the opposition, frees Merkeroff and heads out toward West Boulevard to find Hawkman.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #19 (Winter 1943)

[The Crimes Set to Music!!! Chapter 7] (Table of Contents: 14)

Justice Society of America; The Spectre / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Bernard Baily (credited)

Inks

Bernard Baily (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Howard Ferguson

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Kang-Hi (villain, Chinese Emperor, flashback); T'ai Wu (a Princess, flashback); Ching Tso (a bell caster, flashback, death); Armand Baulaire (carillon player); Chinese "ghosts" (villains)

Synopsis

In ancient Peking, China, a bell has been cast by a lowly bell-caster, who is loved by royalty. Because of this, he is literally cast into a giant bell, leaving a curse before he dies. Years later, the bell broke and was re-cast into a set of Carillon Bells, now owned by Armand Baulaire. Armand learns of the curse and is hesitant to keep them. He heads home and is confronted by a pair of Chinese "ghosts" he thinks are associated with the curse. Spectre reads also of the curse and arrives at the home in time to deal with the intruders, then informs Armand that the curse is phony.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #19 (Winter 1943)

Indexer Notes

Letters credit from Craig Delich.

Hop Harrigan Over Torres Strait (Table of Contents: 15)

Hop Harrigan / text story / 1.33 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jon Blummer (illustration)

Inks

Jon Blummer (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

aviation

Characters

Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker; Colonel Bryson; Powers (tail gunner); Hastings (navaigator); the Japanese (villains, some die)

Synopsis

Hop is given orders to discover what happened to a hospital ship that left Cape York, Australia, a few days back on its way to Port Moresby to pick up wounded soldiers.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #19 (Winter 1943)

On Silver Wings (Table of Contents: 16)

text article / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (illustration)

Inks

? (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

biography

Characters

Sergeant George Philip Corl (death); Curly; Big Butch; SSGT Ed Bullian; the Nazis (villains, some die)

Synopsis

It was December 7, 1941, and the mine workers were getting their pay when they heard that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor and the U.S. was at war. George Corl enlisted and became an aerial gunner on a B-26 headed for North Africa. Flak came up as they got close to Trapani and a bullet from an ME-109 hit Corl and he slumped into a coma, passing away July 11, 1943.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #19 (Winter 1943)

Indexer Notes

The true story of Sergeant George Philip Corl, USAAF, whose parents received the second $1000 "Hop Harrigan Award for Flying Heroism."

[The Crimes Set to Music!!! Conclusion] (Table of Contents: 17)

Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Starman [Ted Knight]]; Charlie Norris; Lorie Merkeroff; Art Carasa; Armold Murray; Ted Korowski; Mark Nelson; "Boly" Beaulaire; Hector Bauer (villain)

Synopsis

Of eight budding musicians of 40 years ago, only one, Hector Bauer, had not made a success of himself, and was bitter about it. He visits his old friends who did made it. All agree to give him a chance to perform his symphony, but on his way to the concert hall, Hector is hit on the head, losing his memory. Only a newspaper article about the concert brings back his memory. Unfortunately, the symphony was a failure, and, as years pass, Hector broods and plans revenge on those who did succeed. The JSA breaks into Bauer's home on West Boulevard and releases Hawkman, who decides to tell his story.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #19 (Winter 1943)

Indexer Notes

Wonder Woman does not appear in the conclusion.

[The Crimes Set to Music!!! Chapter 8] (Table of Contents: 18)

Hawkman; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff (credited)

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders]; Charles Norris (singer); Hector Bauer (villain)

Synopsis

Hawk relates how he and Shiera attended the opening of the Music Academy when they note a queer man intently staring with hatred at the soloist, Charles Norris. Shiera sees a gun so Hawk stops the attempted murder, then follows the man to his home where he is sprayed with a special liquid that tightens Hawk's skin to marble-like rigidity. Hawk muses how he can warn the JSA so he calls the hawks to bring large leaves to him and he uses a forefinger dipped in ink to write notes to the JSA members. Once done, Bauer returns and sprays the Hawkman with a solution that will free him in five hours.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #19 (Winter 1943)

A Movie That Changed a Man's Life (Table of Contents: 19)

Justice Society of America / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited); Stan Asch

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited); Stan Asch

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Johnny Thunder; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Starman [Ted Knight]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]]; The Monster [Jason Rogers]

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #20 (Spring 1944)

Indexer Notes

Art credits from Craig Delich and confirmed by Stan Asch.

The cover is mostly replicated on the splash page except that the head-view of Wonder Woman on the cover was pasted on and is missing from the splash page, the movie projector is placed differently, and there is slobber coming from the Monster's mouth.

The Movie That Changed a Man's Life [Introduction] (Table of Contents: 20)

Justice Society of America / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Johnny Thunder; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (Secretary); Starman [Ted Knight]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]]; Jason Roger's unnamed wife (death); The Monster [Jason Rogers] (villain)

Synopsis

Jason L. Rogers attends the meeting of the JSA to tell them about a Monster who has been robbing his banks, dynamited his factories...even broken into his home. Rogers says that this fiend has been giving him problems ever since a picnic years back, shot on film, and when that film was shown, his wife passed out from the shock. Later, Rogers was left plans for more schemes by the Monster and has now brought them to the meeting for the members to deal with. After they leave, the Monster suddenly appears and taunts the JSA, threatening to drive Roger's mind from his body.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #20 (Spring 1944)

[The Movie That Changed a Man's Life, Chapter 1] (Table of Contents: 21)

Hawkman; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff (credited)

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Harlan Walsh (steel baron); The Monster [Jason Rogers] (villain); Marvin Walsh (villain, Harlan's twin brother, gambler); Monster's thugs (villains)

Synopsis

Hawkman notices that a man is being attacked near a bog, and he alights and dispatches the thugs, then takes off for the home of Harlan Walsh, steel baron, not realizing the man he saved has news about the Monster. Meanwhile, the Monster threatens Walsh to rebuff the Feathered Fury when he arrives...or else! Hawkman leaves and is approached by the man he saved...the twin of the man inside, who is really Marvin Walsh, the black sheep of the family, and in the employ of the Monster. Hawkman re-enters the home, captures Marvin, who then tells Hawkman where the Monster's gang hides out.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #20 (Spring 1944)

[The Movie That Changed a Man's Life, Chapter 2] (Table of Contents: 22)

Justice Society of America; The Spectre / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Bernard Baily (credited)

Inks

Bernard Baily (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Howard Ferguson

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Walter Noonan (architect, Jason's friend); The Monster [Jason Rogers] (villain); Monster's thugs (villains)

Synopsis

Spectre sees the Monster getting ready to blow up a building, quickly rescuing Walter Noonan, a friend of Jason Rogers, and tells Spectre how the Monster came to him demanding $50,000 or risk having a dam blown up that his company had built. Noonan is told to agree to the terms so that he can set a trap. But the Monster sets a trap of his own, and when he arrives for the payoff, it goes off without a hitch. To the Monster, that is good because he would have blown away Noonan at the first sign of the Spectre. However, on the way back to the hideout, the Monster somehow gets away.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #20 (Spring 1944)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit from Craig Delich.

[The Movie That Changed a Man's Life, Chapter 3] (Table of Contents: 23)

The Atom; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Monster [Jason Rogers] (villain); Monster's thugs (villains)

Synopsis

The Monster, intending to rob an office payroll, lowers a magnet from his weird aircraft and attracts the safe from the of office. The Atom hops aboard the magnet being drawn back up to the strange ship to confront the crew. As the sky-craft lands on a roof, a net is thrown over the Atom, trapping him. The Monster shows up, but the Atom cowers in fear and faints! Upon awakening, the Monster puts him up against the wall to shoot him, when Atom throws a brick, hitting a lever and starting up the magnet, attracting the thug's guns. Atom mops them up, but the Monster escapes in his aircraft.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #20 (Spring 1944)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 24)

Junior Justice Society of America / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Gallagher; Harry Peter (Wonder Woman only)

Inks

Joe Gallagher; Harry Peter (Wonder Woman only)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Free! A membership in the Junior Justice Society for all who help in the March of Dimes!

Genre

advocacy; superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Johnny Thunder; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Starman [Ted Knight]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]]

Synopsis

Members of the Justice Society make an appeal for the March of Dimes campaign. Wonder Woman offers a free membership in the Junior Justice Society to all who contribute to the March of Dimes

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #20 (Spring 1944)

Indexer Notes

Illustrated plea, with coupon, for readers to donate to the March of Dimes. All readers who contribute 15 cents to the March of Dimes campaign would receive a free membership in the Junior Justice Society of America.

Ghost Plane (Table of Contents: 25)

Hop Harrigan / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jon Blummer (Hop Harrigan illustration); ? (other illustration)

Inks

Jon Blummer (Hop Harrigan illustration); ? (other illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

aviation

Characters

Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker; Major Dunning; the Japanese (some die)

Synopsis

Time after time bombs hit Allied airfields, destroying planes, but no plane is ever seen or heard. Hop and Tank set out to solve the mystery, only to discover that a hot-air balloon is the culprit.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #20 (Spring 1944)

[The Movie That Changed a Man's Life, Chapter 4] (Table of Contents: 26)

Dr. Mid-Nite; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Dr. Horatio Hill (surgeon, death); unnamed U.S. Senator (death); Roland Cord; The Monster [Jason Rogers] (villain); Monster's thugs (villains)

Synopsis

Dr. Mid-Nite awakens strapped to an operating table as the surgeon relates how the Monster had drugged the doctor, then called in to operate on an important Senator, who died on the table. He lost his license and hope until the Monster persuaded him to operate on the wealthy, disfigure their faces, then blackmail them to restore their looks. But he refuses to operate on Dr. Mid-Nite to drive him insane and cuts him loose. Then the Monster shoots Hill and leaves. The doctor tells Dr. Mid-Nite how to restore people's faces before he dies.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #20 (Spring 1944)

Doiby Dickles Goes on a Case: Paper Salvage! (Table of Contents: 27)

Green Lantern / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Paul Reinman

Inks

Paul Reinman

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

advocacy; superhero

Characters

Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles

Synopsis

Doiby tackles a stranger and accuses him of wasting paper and explains its importance to the war effort. The stranger explains that the receptacle the paper was thrown into was not a waste bin but was rather specifically designated for collecting waste paper for the war effort.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #20 (Spring 1944)

[The Movie That Changed a Man's Life, Chapter 5] (Table of Contents: 28)

Justice Society of America; Starman / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Starman [Ted Knight]; Ira Young (millionaire); Hank (Young's assistant); The Monster [Jason Rogers] (villain); Monster's thugs (villains)

Synopsis

Starman arrives a millionaire Ira Young's estate knowing the Monster is due to strike there somehow. Jason Rogers happens to be there as a guest and is being shown the new planetarium when gas strikes down Rogers and friends, and thugs begin to pick the people's pockets. Starman dives right into action, and while he is busy bopping the bad guys, the Monster loots the unconscious victims and flees. Giving chase, the Astral Avenger is saved from being fried by artificial lightning by his gravity rod, saves the stolen money, but misses out on capturing the Monster.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #20 (Spring 1944)

[The Movie That Changed a Man's Life, Chapter 6] (Table of Contents: 29)

Johnny Thunder; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; superhero

Characters

Johnny Thunder; The Thunderbolt [Archibald]; unnamed Policemen; The Monster [Jason Rogers] (villain); Monster's thugs (villains)

Synopsis

As Johnny walks the streets, he noticed two Policemen laughing their heads off, and tell Johnny that the jewelry house is being robbed. Going inside, Johnny is overcome by the gas used on the Police and is taken to the Monster's hideout, where upon the Monster tells Johnny he is going to chop his head off. The Thunderbolt prevents that from happening and helps brother John to round up the gang. Thunderbolt takes on the Monster himself with little success and the Monster flees away into the night.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #20 (Spring 1944)

[The Movie That Changed a Man's Life, Conclusion] (Table of Contents: 30)

Justice Society of America / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Johnny Thunder; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Starman [Ted Knight]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]]; The Monster [Jason Rogers] (villain, death)

Synopsis

The JSA returns to Rogers home to see the film that caused the problem, and the film is blank, but Rogers restores it and disappears. The Monster appears and attacks the JSA as he tells them that Jason Rogers is his twin brother, whom he hates. After a struggle, the Monster is hit by a lethal ray and is fatally wounded. Dr. Mid-Nite concludes that while the two were twins, the Monster had never developed a body, just a mind, which would often inhabit Roger's body without his knowing it. Meanwhile, the Monster has reverted to his Roger's appearance and, now knowing the truth, dies at peace.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #20 (Spring 1944)

Indexer Notes

Wonder Woman does not appear in the conclusion.

The Man Who Relived His Life! (Table of Contents: 31)

Justice Society of America / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [The Atom [Al Pratt]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Johnny Thunder; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]]; Professor Everson; Joe Fitch

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #21 (Summer 1944)

Indexer Notes

The cover and splash are identical except that the Sandman and Doctor Fate only appear on the splash.

The Man Who Relived His Life [Introduction] (Table of Contents: 32)

Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (Secretary); Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; Johnny Thunder; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]]; Professor Everson; Joe Fitch (reformed villain, Everson's lab assistant)

Synopsis

The President asks the JSA to visit a man at the hospital that may change a man's life, and are greeted by Professor Everson. He tells them that the man for whom they are to do something for is Joe Fitch, a man with a shady past. The professor had created two serums, one that could save human life and one fatal. Fitch decides to become the guinea pig, but takes the wrong one and is dying. The JSA has one hour to change Fitch's criminal past, and use the professor's time ray to go into his past and correct his misdeeds.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #21 (Summer 1944)

[The Man Who Relived His Life, Chapter 1] (Table of Contents: 33)

Hawkman; Justice Society of America / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff (credited)

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Mrs. Spears (wife of Sapphire Slim); Joe Fitch [aka Joseph J. Fitch] (villain, bank teller); "Sapphire Slim" Spears (villain, gambler); Spear's gang (villains)

Synopsis

In 1904 Joe is a bank teller invited to a gambling den where he gambles and loses thousands of dollars. The crooked owner wants Joe to provide the safe combination in the bank, and by doing so will forgive his debt. When Joe says no, thugs beat on him until Hawk stops them. Then he and Joe lay a trap for the gambler, which works. Joe refuses the reward, deciding to give it to the gambler's wife to help her get by. In 1944 the mailman delivers a dusty letter to an old lady: Slim's wife, being told the mail was found in the old post office being torn down. Inside: the reward money on Slim!

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #21 (Summer 1944)

[The Man Who Relived His Life, Chapter 2] (Table of Contents: 34)

Justice Society of America; Sandman / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Joe's unnamed boss; Joe's unnamed Secretary; Lili D'Arcy (night club dancer); Joe Fitch (villain, bank employee); Big Mike McCullum (villain, death); Palmer (villain, McCullum's political enemy)

Synopsis

It's 1906 in San Francisco as Joe Fitch begins a banking job. One night, he is enthralled with a performer, Lily D'Arcy, whom he asks out, and which angers Big Mike McCullum. They have a fist fight and McCullum swears revenge. Sandman overhears the threat and tries to prevent Joe from gunning down the crook. An earthquake hits as Joe's fires the gun, and the theatre burns, and Joe thinks he's guilty. Sandman sees someone else fire the shot. Fast forward to 1944: an old lady, named Lily, reads an article in the paper that it was Palmer, not Fitch, who killed McCullum and she is much relived.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #21 (Summer 1944)

Indexer Notes

Art credits from Craig Delich.

[The Man Who Relived His Life, Chapter 3] (Table of Contents: 35)

Justice Society of America; Starman / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Starman [Ted Knight]; Joe Fitch (villain); Herman Smith (villain, runs a spy ring for Carranza); Pancho Villa (villain); two unnamed crooks (villains)

Synopsis

Joe Fitch flees to Mexico in 1914, and joins up with Pancho Villa, acting as an expert shot. Villa tells him to dynamite the Horseshoe Saloon, owned by a rival named Smith. Instead, Joe disables the explosives, plants them, but surprised when the saloon blows up! Starman chides himself for goofing up the assignment, then spots the two men overheard bragging about blowing up the saloon. Fast forward to 1944: on the very site where the saloon stood years before, a group of engineers uncover sticks of dynamite that hadn't exploded...because they were full of sand, not gun powder!

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #21 (Summer 1944)

Express to Berlin (Table of Contents: 36)

Hop Harrigan / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (illustration)

Inks

? (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

aviation

Characters

Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker; Chambers (villain, enemy spy); the Nazis (villains, some die)

Synopsis

Hop and Tank fly out in a B-25 toward Tunis carrying a glass cylinder containing a potent and powerful gas, when they are suddenly attacked by the enemy. One was shot down by others, who re-grouped and continued on their way. A German spy, hidden aboard, emerged from behind and demanded they fly to Berlin. Hop mentioned to the spy, Chambers, that the box at their feet contained a secret invention. Tinker opened it and dropped the glass cylinder, letting the gas overcome the German, while Hop and Tank put on oxygen masks. The spy fell over and Hop re-directed the plane back toward Tunis.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #21 (Summer 1944)

[The Man Who Relived His Life, Chapter 4] (Table of Contents: 37)

Dr. Mid-Nite; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Lieutenant Ed Jones; Joe Fitch (villain); the Germans (villains)

Synopsis

Joe heads to Texas and spends two years cow punching before being drafted into the A.E.F., sent to France. A German bomber drops bombs whose explosions drive Joe mad, remembering the Horseshoe Saloon, and thinks himself a coward. Mid-Nite can't convince him otherwise, but when the battle begins, Joe starts to desert his unit. But Mid-Nite revives Joe's spirit and he goes out and saves his unit and Lt. Jones from an enemy grenade. Fast forward to 1944: former Lt. Ed Jones, wheelchair bound since the Great War, suddenly feels that he wasn't really wounded in that attack and gets up and walks!

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #21 (Summer 1944)

[The Man Who Relived His Life, Chapter 5] (Table of Contents: 38)

Doctor Fate; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Kubert (credited)

Inks

Joe Kubert (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Jim Nason (newspaperman, death); Joe Fitch (villain, booze runner); Killer (villain); Al Crump (villain, Joe's boss, philanthropist)

Synopsis

After the war, Joe becomes a fur-trapper in Canada, but by 1924 is transporting rye and scotch to warehouses in the city. Joe's boss wants Joe to murder a nosy newspaperman and that he knows all about Joe's criminal past. Joe is ready to shoot Nason when his gun suddenly points to the floor and goes off, Nason falling over dead! Fate has caused the gun to do what it did, but Joe learns that Crump has secretly poisoned Nason. The two put an end to Crump's activities, then Joe sits down at a typewriter and types out a complete affidavit for the Police about Crump's illegal activities.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #21 (Summer 1944)

[The Man Who Relived His Life, Chapter 6] (Table of Contents: 39)

Johnny Thunder; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (signed)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; superhero

Characters

Johnny Thunder; The Thunderbolt [Archibald]; Joe Fitch (villain); Gus Gordon (villain, politician); Gordon's thugs [Butch; rest unnamed] (villains)

Synopsis

In 1932 an older Joe applies to Gus Gordon for a job on the local election board for the up-coming election, but realizes Gordon is a shady politician, but overlooks that fact in order to gain maybe an office himself. Johnny tries to convince Joe not to back Gordon for Mayor, but Gordon's thugs promptly give Johhny the treatment. Later, Johnny visits Joe and again tries to convince him not to do that illegal act. This time Joe sees the light, and Johnny and the Thunderbolt make short work of Gordon's plans. Joe decides to beat it, however, fearing retribution.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #21 (Summer 1944)

[The Man Who Relived His Life, Conclusion] (Table of Contents: 40)

Justice Society of America / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Starman [Ted Knight]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Johnny Thunder; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]]; Professor Everson; Lily D'Arcy; Joe Fitch (reformed villain, death)

Synopsis

Back in his hospital room, Joe Fitch tells Professor Everson that he suddenly feels like a different man, as though he knew that he never committed any of those crimes. As the JSA members re-appear and Joe is thankful, there is a knock at the door and in walks Lily D'Arcy. She walks over to Joe's bed and tells him she she accepts his proposal of marriage, even though she knows he is dying. Later that evening, Joe passes away.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #21 (Summer 1944)

Indexer Notes

Wonder Woman does not appear in the conclusion.

A Cure for the World (Table of Contents: 41)

Justice Society of America / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Frank Harry (credited)

Inks

Frank Harry (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Starman [Ted Knight]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Johnny Thunder]; Thomas Jefferson (image only); Abraham Lincoln (image only)

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #22 (Fall 1944)

The Test of Time! [Introduction] (Table of Contents: 42)

Justice Society of America / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Johnny Thunder; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]]; Conscience of Man (introduction); unnamed young boy

Synopsis

After witnessing an attack on a boy because of his religious beliefs, Dr. Mid-Nite takes the young victim to the JSA, and lets the boy tell his story. But the members aren't sure how they can help until suddenly a strange female being appears and tells them they can IF they are willing to undergo a test, which they agree to do. Each member will be hurled back in time to eras of great persecution and prejudice (without their present knowledge) to become opponents of those prejudices and hatreds. If they let the difficulties of the past overcome them, they will fail their missions.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #22 (Fall 1944)

[The Test of Time! Chapter 1] (Table of Contents: 43)

Hawkman; Justice Society of America / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff (credited)

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hawkman [Carter Hall; aka Ga]; Tow (caveman); Mok (caveman)

Synopsis

Hawkman is in the stone age era, whom the natives consider to be a large bird, enough for several meals. Hawk overcomes their attack and of a bear, and is hailed as the new leader of a tribe. He is shown a cave painting of a woolly mammoth, who members of the tribe believe not to be a painting, but a real animal, and they intend to kill the artist. Hawkman, now known as "Ga," prevents this. The artist tells him these animals indeed exist and helps Ga protect the tribe from a herd of the beasts. He is then accepted as one of their own as Hawkman disappears into the mists of time.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #22 (Fall 1944)

[The Test of Time! Chapter 2] (Table of Contents: 44)

Justice Society of America; Starman / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (signed)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Starman [Ted Knight; aka Theodoratus]; Galen (Theodoratus' aide); Leonidas (General); Phidias (a slave); Xerxes (villain, Persian leader)

Synopsis

Starman is in ancient Greece in 480 B.C. where he is a Greek soldier and member of the Strategoi. He recommends the training of their slaves in warfare, making the Greek Army second to none. But the Generals think the slaves are cowards and the plan foolish. Starman begins to train the slaves, until that day when they are first taken into battle. Accidentally discovering the power of the gravity rod, Starman uses it to push the foe back. The slaves win their freedom and word goes out to train their other slaves to fight and earn their freedom as well...all just as Starman fades from view.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #22 (Fall 1944)

[The Test of Time! Chapter 3] (Table of Contents: 45)

Johnny Thunder; Justice Society of America / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; superhero

Characters

Johnny Thunder; The Thunderbolt [Archibald]; Baron's unnamed daughter; unnamed Baron (villain)

Synopsis

Johnny finds himself in medieval England, a lowly shepherd boy, and is brutally flogged for accidentally hurting a soldier. He wants to go before the Baron and tell him that the Serfs are men, not be robbed and left to die, but, instead, makes the Baron laugh and he becomes court jester. The Baron is so impressed that, if Johnny enters the Knight's Tourney and wins, then he'll consider doing something good for the Serfs. With the help of the Thunderbolt, Johnny wins and is knighted by the Baron...but disappears just as the Baron's (ugly) daughter is brought before Johnny as his bride-to-be.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #22 (Fall 1944)

Lead-Lease for China (Table of Contents: 46)

Hop Harrigan / text story / 1.5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (illustration)

Inks

? (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

aviation

Characters

Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker; unnamed USAF Major; the Japanese (villains, some die)

Synopsis

Having just flown a shot-up bomber into the Calcutta airport for repairs, Hop learns that he is to pilot a transport plane, loaded down with engines for the free Chinese forces, to Chungking. "No problem," thinks the young airman, until he learns that every other transport plane to try the same thing has mysteriously vanished without a trace!

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #22 (Fall 1944)

Now! The Complete Old Testament Edition (Table of Contents: 47) (Expand) /

Picture Stories from the Bible / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[The Test of Time! Chapter 4] (Table of Contents: 48)

The Atom; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Atom [Al Pratt; aka Nathaniel Pratt]; Julie (Nathaniel's wife); Nathaniel's unnamed Mother; Mother Rathlow (supposed witch)

Synopsis

Atom is in old Salem in Colonial America, where witch hunts and trials occurred. At home hears of a "witch" living in the forest, and he later finds her trapped by a tree and saves her. Her knowledge of medicinal herbs brands her a witch. Later, using his disguise as the Atom, he tackles a mob and tries to convince them that she isn't. Instead, they believe him to be a wizard and flee. Then Mother Rathlow comes by and thanks him for understanding, and that she is going to live with relatives in Virginia. Just then, Atom begins to vanish, making Mother Rathlow to think he actually is a wizard!

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #22 (Fall 1944)

[The Test of Time! Chapter 5] (Table of Contents: 49)

Dr. Mid-Nite; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider; aka Dr. De Nider]; Le Duc De Harigny (a nobelman); Le Duc's unnamed son; Duc D'Ormonde (villain, military commander)

Synopsis

Dr. Mid-Nite is in Paris in 1793 during the French Revolution, embroiled in the deep-rooted mistrust and hatred of a royal family that has does much harm to the common people. As a city doctor named M'sieu De Nider, he is told about a seriously injured nobleman, and heads out to help, being branded a traitor by the common people, but is also fearful that the people have let their new freedom go to their heads. Re-disguising himself as Dr. Mid-Nite, he travels out into the night to keep the people from trying to kill all noblemen and succeeds only at the last moment.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #22 (Fall 1944)

[The Test of Time! Chapter 6] (Table of Contents: 50)

Justice Society of America; The Spectre / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Bernard Baily

Inks

Bernard Baily

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Stephen Hare (inventor); Robert Fulton (steamboat inventor); unruly mob (villains)

Synopsis

The Spectre, in the year 1815, meets Stephen Hare, who has invented a tiny motor powered by electricity, which is not well received by the townspeople who want to smash the invention. The Spectre intervenes, and afterwards, convinces Hare to continue with his inventing, that someday people will accept such things rationally. But Spectre's work is not finished, as other inventors are headed for the same treatment. Heading such an attack off, the Ghostly Guardian introduces a young inventor named Robert J. Fulton, who just invented a contraption called the steamboat, to Hare.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #22 (Fall 1944)

Indexer Notes

Art for this story credited to Joe Gallagher in this volume.

[The Test of Time! Conclusion] (Table of Contents: 51)

Justice Society of America / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Starman [Ted Knight]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Johnny Thunder; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (cameo); Johnny Thunder; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]]; Conscience of Man; unnamed young boy

Synopsis

The JSA members return to their HQ after having all succeed in their individual assignments. Conscience now identifies herself to the members as the Conscience of Man and tells them that by educating people, their understanding will then overcome their hatreds, fears and prejudices. Conscience then disappears, but the young lad whose dilemma started the whole matter, suggests that the JSA visit his school and start a program of education there. They do, with resounding success!

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #22 (Fall 1944)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 52)

Justice Society of America / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Johnny Thunder; Starman [Ted Knight]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]]

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #23 (Winter 1944)

The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate [Introduction] (Table of Contents: 53)

Justice Society of America / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Johnny Thunder]]; Rex Morgan (Editor of the Courier); Miss Ketch (Courier's Secretary); The Psycho-Pirate [Charley Halstead] (villain, linotyper for the Courier, introduction)

Synopsis

The Courier issues a challenge to the JSA re an individual called the Psycho-Pirate, who has been committing crimes based on emotions, whom the paper has spoken out against. The JSA visits Editor Morgan to inform him that they will help. Morgan shows a letter of challenge to them from the Psycho-Pirate just as Morgan's Secretary brings in telegrams addressed to the JSA members individually, challenging them to stop his crimes of emotions. Morgan is relived as the only person before that to give encouragement and support in the fight was one of his his linotypers, Charley Halstead.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #23 (Winter 1944)

[The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate, Chapter 1] (Table of Contents: 54)

Hawkman; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff (credited)

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Shiera Sanders; Heywood Carlson (industrial magnate); Betty Carlson (Heywood's daughter); Sam Maxon (villain, Betty's date); unnamed waiter (villain); Joey (villain)

Synopsis

Psycho-Pirate is using "love" as a weapon, Hawkman hurries over to see Heywood Carlson, who has been falsely notified that his daughter is being held for ransom. His love for his daughter is going to be his downfall until Hawk bursts in and over-powers the thugs. But one tells Hawkman to lay off or something will happen to Shiera. Hawk and Shiera finally escape a room with the walls closing in on them, and Hawkman rounds up the thugs involved. He returns to Carlson's home to find out that the kidnapping of Betty was a ruse, so he decides to return to the Courier.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #23 (Winter 1944)

[The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate, Chapter 2] (Table of Contents: 55)

Justice Society of America; Starman / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Starman [Ted Knight]; Hank Cannon; Augustus Hemsley (industrial magnate); The Hate Clinic [George] (fencing instructor); rest unnamed] (villains)

Synopsis

Hate figures in to the relationship between Augustus Hemsley and Hank Cannon, and both decide to enroll in "The Hate Clinic" to learn championship fencing, then duel it out. Starman enters the picture and convinces the men that only the Hate Clinic will come out this richer, to say the least. The Astral Avenger then cleans house at the clinic, suddenly feeling hate towards his opponents. That leads to Starman falling into a trap, but he escapes and then settles the argument between Carlson and Cannon.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #23 (Winter 1944)

[The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate, Chapter 3] (Table of Contents: 56)

Dr. Mid-Nite; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Psycho-Pirate's thugs (villains)

Synopsis

The emotion of fear sends Dr. Mid-Nite to Carse City, a wealthy suburb where he runs into a few residents who are crying with fear, and they tell him that the entire city has been kidnapped! Visiting local officials, Mid-Nite is told that the Psycho-Pirate's men are going to drop living disease germs on the city. The Man of Night heads out to the address from where the ransom note was issued, dispatches a sharpshooter, and is ready to enter the premises when a sudden fear comes over him. But he overcomes that and wraps up the thugs inside, learning that the germ threat was only a hoax.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #23 (Winter 1944)

[The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate, Chapter 4] (Table of Contents: 57)

Johnny Thunder; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Inks

Stan Asch (credited as Stan Aschmeier)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; superhero

Characters

Johnny Thunder; The Thunderbolt [Archibald]; Ben Martin (safe designer); Joe Martin (Ben's brother, safe designer); gang of thieves (villains)

Synopsis

Johnny's problem, conceit, is rather unusual since Johnny is rather conceited himself. The Martin brothers manufacture safes that are burglar-proof, and they get a call from a lighting company that they can't open one of their safes and want them to open it for them. Once done, the thieves enter and rob the safe, and even flatter Johnny not to resist. John and the officials are locked in the safe, but are saved by the T-Bolt. Johnny then rounds up the gang...with a little help from Thunderbolt.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #23 (Winter 1944)

[The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate, Chapter 5] (Table of Contents: 58)

Justice Society of America; The Spectre / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Cliff Young

Inks

Steve Brodie

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Ivar Mason (collector); Ephraim Smith (collector); unnamed stranger (villain); gang of thugs (villains)

Synopsis

Greed plays a role in this saga of two wealthy collectors who each possess one of two known Grinning Guardians. Both are visited by a mysterious person who asks each if they'd like to own both. The Spectre arrives and tells Mason what that guy is trying to do, so a trap is set. But the mysterious visitor tells Mason that, unless he forks over his Guardian, then he'll tell the Police that Mason bribed him to steal Smith's statue. Mason gives him the statue, but Spectre follows, falls into a trap and is gassed, but escapes and recovers the Guardian and returns it to Mason.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #23 (Winter 1944)

Indexer Notes

Art for this story credited to Joe Gallagher in this volume.

[The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate, Chapter 6] (Table of Contents: 59)

The Atom; Justice Society of America / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

superhero

Characters

The Atom [Al Pratt]; Rex Morgan; Mrs. Morgan (mention only); Miss Ketch; The Psycho-Pirate [Charley Halstead] (villain); phony Hawkman (villain); phony Spectre (villain); phony Johnny Thunder (villain); phony Dr. Mid-Nite (villain); phony Starman (villain)

Synopsis

Left behind to protect Mr. Morgan, Atom must face despair on a grand scale: Morgan's home foreclosed on, newsboys are on strike, Morgan's staff is quitting, the newspaper guild wants to kick him out of the Union, and Charley Halstead tells that his wife is suing for divorce. Then the radio says the JSA have failed and have been captured, but Halstead says to go to Psycho-Pirate's lair and try to free the captured members. Atom later finds out that the supposed JSA members are actually the Psycho-Pirate's thugs in disguise, so he mops them up, but is shot in the process!

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #23 (Winter 1944)

[The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate, Conclusion] (Table of Contents: 60)

Justice Society of America / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Inks

Joe Gallagher (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Johnny Thunder; The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]]; The Thunderbolt [Archibald]; Rex Morgan; The Psycho-Pirate [Charley Halstead] (villain); Psycho-Pirate's thugs (villains)

Synopsis

The JSA returns to the offices of the Courier, much to the surprise of Morgan, who tells them about the radio announcement and the Atom taking off to save the day. Suddenly, the voice of the Atom is heard through the ventilation ducts that he knows who the Psycho-Pirate is. But thugs find the Mighty Mite on the roof and toss him off to his doom. Fortunately, Johnny sees what is happening and orders the Thunderbolt to save Atom, which he does, and he brings Atom into Morgan's office, then grabs Charley Halstead! He protests and soon becomes the victim of his own emotions.

Reprints

• from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #23 (Winter 1944)

Biographies (Table of Contents: 61)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Mark Waid (credited); Jerry Bails (credited); Jim Spivey (credited); Bob Kahan (credited); Steven Rowe (credited)

Colors

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Letters

typeset