All-Star Squadron Annual #3

([September] 1984)

[" Midnight in Manhattan-- Late February 1942: "] (Table of Contents)

All-Star Squadron / comic story / 41 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Roy Thomas (CoPlot and Script); Dann Thomas (Researcher and Co-Plotter)

Pencils:

Jerry Ordway (pages 1-4, 40-41); Rick Hoberg (pages 4, 6-12, 35-39); Rich Buckler (pages 5); Wayne Boring (pages 13-16); Richard Howell (pages 17-18); Carmine Infantino (pages 19-21); Don Newton (pages 22-24); Mart Nodell (pages 25-27); George Perez (pages 28-30); Keith Giffen (pages 31-34)

Inks:

Jerry Ordway (pages 1-4, 13-16, 28-30, 40-41); Richard Howell (pages 17-18); Frank Giacoia (pages 19-21); Mike Machlan (pages 22-24); Joe Giella (pages 25-27); Keith Giffen (pages 31-34); Bill Collins (pages ?)

Colors:

Gene D'Angelo

Letters:

David Cody Weiss [as Cody]; L. Lois Buhalis

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

All-Star Squadron [Tarantula; Wonder Woman [known as Diana Prince for that era]; Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Johnny Thunder; Sandman [Wes Dodds]; Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-L]; Batman; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Thunderbolt; Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Charles McNider (joins); Starman [Ted Knight] (joins)]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Lois Lane; Joan Williams; Robert Cummings; Ian Karkull (main villain); Doctor Doog (villain); Catwoman (villain); Sieur Satan (villain); Alexander the Great (villain); Lightning Master (villain); Wotan (villain); Zor (villain); Tarantula (villain); Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Harry S. Truman; Dwight Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Lyndon B. Johnson; Richard Nixon; Jimmy Carter; Ronald Reagan; unknown future president (Death) (all Earth-2)

Synopsis:

Tarantula and Wonder Woman use her magic sphere to view a Justice Society case where the JSAers disrupt a plot of Ian Karkull's to murder the next eight future presidents and FDR on June 28,1941, though neither the JSAers nor Tarantula and Wonder Woman know what the seven men the JSAers saved will become (future Presidents), since one of the eight died due to Green Lantern's inability to save him from a falling tree caused by Wotan's ray (wood, Green Lantern's weakness). Wonder Woman wasn't in on the case, not yet having arrived in man's world when it happened.

Indexer Notes

The vitality of the JSAers and their associates into their old age is explained in this story as a side effect of being bathed in the time rays of Ian Karkull's shadow energy.
The story is arranged like a Golden Age JSA tale in that the team appears together at the beginning and end, but split up as individual characters or two-member teams in intermediate chapters.
It appears that Jerry Ordway and Rick Hoberg both worked on p. 4.
It is unclear precisely which pages Bill Collins inked, or if Mike Machlan, Frank Giacoia, or Joe Giella inked any pages other than the pages for which they are specifically credited.
Dann Thomas is credited as "researcher" on item, but as "co-plotter" in All-Star Companion, Volume Two.
The story was thoroughly researched for historical accuracy to see where the next seven Presidents after FDR were at the time FDR was president when Karkull attacked him.
We would also see why Doctor Mid-Nite and Starman would become the next JSA members, as Green Lantern and Hourman would step down as JSA'ers (Green Lantern due to the death and Hourman his Miraclo addiction), since Batman and Superman were already honorary members at the time this story was happening as seen post events from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #7.
We would also see why Kent Nelson would later doff the Fate helmet for his 1/2 helmet during All-Star Comics #8-on and later issues of All-Star Squadron following the events of this issue, as well as in All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #23. Robin was also not yet an All-Star Squadron member, since this event happened before Dec. 7, 1941, the day after which the All-Star Squadron was created by FDR (origin issue in Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #193 and All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #s 1-3) on Dec. 8, 1941.

All-Star Squadroom (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Roy Thomas

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

L-1691

Indexer Notes

Follows page 9 of sequence 1.
Normally a letters column, this issue has an article by Thomas.

["The Planet Earth..."] (Table of Contents)

Jemm, Son of Saturn / promo (ad from the publisher) / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Greg Potter

Pencils:

Gene Colan

Inks:

Klaus Janson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero; science fiction

Characters:

Jemm; Luther Mannkin

Synopsis:

Luther Mannkin encounters an alien.

Indexer Notes

Promo insert which includes two pages from Jemm, Son of Saturn (DC, 1984 series) #1, on glossy paper.
Not in all copies.