All-American Comics #18

(September 1940)

[At the World's Fair] (Table of Contents)

The Green Lantern / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger (signed)

Pencils:

Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)

Inks:

Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Martin Nodell

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Irene Miller (introduction); Danny Miller; Judge Wake; un-named daughter of Judge Wake; Murdock (villain, introduction, death); Lefty (villain)

Synopsis:

On the grounds of the World's Fair, Alan Scott meets Irene Miller when he stops her from shooting a man in cold blood. She explains that the man, Murdock, is a gang leader who framed her brother Danny for manslaughter when he tried to leave the gang. Investigating, Green Lantern discovers that Murdock framed Danny with the help of Judge Wake, an honest man forced to help when Murdock kidnapped his daughter. Green Lantern frees the girl and forces a confession out of Murdock before the gangster dies after falling off the Perisphere.

Reprints:

• in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1 (1999)

Keywords:

1940 World's Fair; green lantern (called the lamp of power); oath; power ring

Indexer Notes

In this story, GL says a variation of his oath: "And I shall shed my light over dark evil, for the dark things cannot stand the light of the Green Lantern!"

[The Hunt for Prof. Jurghens] (Table of Contents)

Adventures in the Unknown / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carl H. Claudy (signed)

Pencils:

Stan Aschmeier

Inks:

Stan Aschmeier

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Alan; Ted; Jack

Indexer Notes

A chapter of "The Infra-Red Destroyers".

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Believe It or Not / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert L. Ripley

Pencils:

Robert L. Ripley

Inks:

Robert L. Ripley

Colors:

?

Letters:

Robert L. Ripley

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprint.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mutt and Jeff / Cicero's Cat / filler / 2 pages (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 [as Bud Fisher]

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's cat

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Daisybelle / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Pencils:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Inks:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Gene Byrnes

Content Information

Genre:

humor; children

Characters:

Daisybelle

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprint.

[Hitchhikers] (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; Ichabod Mudd; Prop Wash; Miss Snap

Synopsis:

Ikky teaches Miss Snap to fly.

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 3-1-08.

[The Trip to Cobra Island] (Table of Contents)

Red, White and Blue / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel?

Pencils:

William Smith

Inks:

William Smith

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Red Dugan; Whitey White; Blooey Blue

[The Mattix Mansion Mystery] (Table of Contents)

Ben Webster / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Russell Cole [as Edwin Alger] (signed)

Pencils:

Russell Cole [as Edwin Alger] (signed)

Inks:

Russell Cole [as Edwin Alger] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ben Webster

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprint. True writer/artist name [Cole] added by Craig Delich 3-1-08.

[Business Problems] (Table of Contents)

Popsicle Pete / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Art Helfant

Pencils:

Art Helfant

Inks:

Art Helfant

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Pete

Murder in the Classroom Part 2 (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Evelyn Gaines

Pencils:

Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)

Inks:

Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Jimmy Stone

Alice in Wonderland (Table of Contents)

All-American Comics Monthly Book Review / text article / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Alice

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Daisybelle / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Pencils:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Inks:

Gene Byrnes (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Gene Byrnes

Content Information

Genre:

humor; children

Characters:

Daisybelle

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprint.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Mutt and Jeff / Cicero's Cat / filler / 2 pages (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; Cicero's cat

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprints.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Believe It or Not / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert L. Ripley

Pencils:

Robert L. Ripley

Inks:

Robert L. Ripley

Colors:

?

Letters:

Robert L. Ripley

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Newspaper reprint.

[Ma Hunkel's Grocery Bill] (Table of Contents)

Scribbly / 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; teen

Characters:

Scribbly; Ma Hunkel; Gus Hunkel; Sisty Hunkel; Dinky Jibbet

Synopsis:

Ma buys a grocery store and then refuses to pay protection money to some hoodlums, and Sisty and Dinky accidentally get themselves kidnapped by gangsters.

[The Insect Invasion] (Table of Contents)

Gary Concord the Ultra-Man / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jon L. Blummer [as Don Shelby] (signed)

Pencils:

Jon L. Blummer [as Don Shelby] (signed)

Inks:

Jon L. Blummer [as Don Shelby] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jon L. Blummer ?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction; superhero

Characters:

Gary Concord; Ginger; Alec; Slater; Gracia Darling

Synopsis:

Gary resigns as High Moderator after apparently embezzling money, but it's all a plot to infiltrate the Eastern Empire.

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 3-1-08.