All-Star Comics #30

(August-September 1946)

Editorial Advisory Board (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Help! (Table of Contents: 2)

public service announcement / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

?

Genre

advocacy

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Dreams of Madness [Introduction] (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Joe Gallagher; Martin Naydel (figures of Flash and Green Lantern)

Inks

Joe Gallagher; Martin Naydel (figures of Flash and Green Lantern)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Johnny Thunder; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (Secretary, cameo)]; Brain Wave [Henry King, Sr.; aka Forest Malone] (villain)

Synopsis

Hawkman brings a newspaper ad to the attention of the members from a Forest Malone, who wants them to participate in a never before done experiment for the good of humanity. They visit Malone and view his "dream recorder," a machine that will allow one not only to graph the electrical emanations from a person's thoughts as they dream, but to also translate those thoughts into pictures! The members agree to an experiment, they sleep and then Malone reveals himself as the Brain Wave, bragging that the machine is really a "dream inducer," which he plans to use to drive them totally insane.

Reprints

• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #7 ([July] 2001)

Keywords

Daily Bugle; Dream Inducer; Dream Recorder

Indexer Notes

Although Wonder Woman accepts "Forest Malone's" challenge, she doesn't appear after page two of the introduction.

[The Dreams of Madness, Chapter 1] (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Joe Kubert (signed)

Inks

Joe Kubert (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Ice Creatures (villains); Fire People (villains); Boreas (villain, The Wind); the Furnace Tenders (villains)

Synopsis

Hawkman finds himself in a city of iceboxes, among cold people expecting to battle the Fire People, their mortal enemies. One of them feels sorry for the birds there who suffer because of their battles, so Hawk manages to escape from the ice box he is in and attempt to help the bird creatures. If he fails, the battle will result in hot and cold waves that would kill them all. But try as he will, Hawk gets the worst of it...one minute hot, the other minute cold, until he believes that he is a thermometer!

Reprints

• in The Golden Age Art of Joe Kubert (Al Dellinges, 1979 ? series) #2 (1979)
• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #7 ([July] 2001)

Those Blokes with Jokes (Table of Contents: 5)

Fat and Slat / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Ed Wheelan

Pencils

Ed Wheelan

Inks

Ed Wheelan

Colors

?

Letters

Ed Wheelan (sourced)

Genre

humor

Characters

Fat; Slat

Indexer Notes

This filler does NOT appear in the Archives.

Tommy Holmes (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Wheaties / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[The Dreams of Madness, Chapter 2] (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Stan Asch

Inks

Stan Asch

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Alfred; The Germ People (villains, one dies)

Synopsis

Dr. Mid-Nite finds himself in a world where germs are the lords of creation and he saves a man they plan to save for future study. The humans there convince Mid-Nite that his former life is all a dream, but he uses his scientific ability to try and fight the Germ People. He develops a noxious gas to use on the Germ People, but it fails to work, and he is convinced the other humans are right. But his instinct to fight remains strong and he battles them with his fists until one of the Germ People with the plague enters, blaming it on Mid-Nite. He is then convinced that he is a living sickness.

Reprints

• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #7 ([July] 2001)

Indexer Notes

This chapter shows the only time a JSA member actually cried.

Swell New Prizes! (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Kellogg's Shredded Wheat / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[The Dreams of Madness, Chapter 3] (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Stan Asch; Martin Naydel (Green Lantern figures)

Inks

Martin Naydel (Green Lantern figures); Stan Asch

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; two astronomers; the Gemini Twins; the Man in the Moon; three unnamed crooks (villains)

Synopsis

The sputtering of a 4th of July sparkler arouses the interest of not only Green Lantern, but astronomers as well in this dream world, who seem to think that the sparks are actually new stars being born. The Emerald Crusader tells them no, but they think he is mad. Then several crooks steal the sparkler and the Emerald Crusader chases them through maddening situations, and finally he spots the astronomers below watching him (holding three balloons by strings), and he suddenly feels that he is the Sun and the three balloons are his little planets!

Reprints

• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #7 ([July] 2001)

Keywords

Power Ring

Indexer Notes

This chapter was originally drawn by Stan Aschmeier featuring Starman, so Martin Naydel drew figures of Green Lantern that were pasted over the Starman figures.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Popsicle Products / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[The Dreams of Madness, Chapter 4] (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Martin Naydel (signed as mn)

Inks

Martin Naydel (signed as mn)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Flash [Jay Garrick]

Synopsis

The Crimson Speedster finds himself plunged into a dream world of funny animals who talk and act as if they are human (humans are enslaved), but the Flash says otherwise, so the animals try to prove humans can't talk. Fact is the animals can't hear other humans, just the Flash, but Flash can hear men speak. The animals' law states that if a human can beat one of the animals in a race, enslaved humans will be freed. He races a frog, but when his feet grow large and heavy, and a series of calamities occur, the Scarlet Speedster loses. Flash now believes he is a laughing stock.

Reprints

• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #7 ([July] 2001)

Indexer Notes

This chapter originally featured the Spectre. However, the editors decided to scrap the original art and have Martin Naydel completely re-draw it featuring the Flash.

Captain Tootsie and Trouble "A-Head" (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[The Dreams of Madness, Chapter 5] (Table of Contents: 13)

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

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Joe Gallagher

Inks

Joe Gallagher

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Atom [Al Pratt]; two unnamed crooks (villains)

Synopsis

The Atom awakens to a world where the beings have umbrellas for arms and clocks for heads. Just then, Atom sees large crooks heading into a bank, and he attempts to combat them. But he finds out that the rain is shrinking his size and he falls into the water. He heads back after the thieves, only to discover that he has now grown tremendously, and he reaches up to a cloud and pulls a chain to turn on the sunlight, hoping it will shrink him back down to normal size. Catching up with the thugs, the criminals begin to wring him out, convincing the Mighty Mite that he is a sponge!

Reprints

• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #7 ([July] 2001)

Keywords

Tin Pan Alley

Submarine Man (Table of Contents: 14)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Jim Robinson (credited)

Pencils

? (spot illustration)

Inks

? (spot illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure

Characters

Jaimie (a giant); Professor Murock (villain, death)

Synopsis

The ad in the newspaper was short and sweet: man wanted who can swim underwater for two minutes, handsome salary. Seven men appeared to qualify in response to the ad, but only one, Jamie, made it. In fact, he eventually set a record, according to Professor Murock who was timing him, by staying underwater for thirty-two! This had been made possible by secret injections on Jamie by the Professor.

What Jamie didn't know was why the professor was training him to be a "human submarine". When he did find out one day, Jamie turned the tables on the professor!

Reprints

• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #7 ([July] 2001)

Keywords

Bronx; Brooklyn Navy Yard; East River; Explorer's Club; Gouveneur Hospital; New York City

Hits the Bull's Eye Every Time! (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[The Dreams of Madness, Chapter 6] (Table of Contents: 16)

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

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Stan Asch (signed as Stan Josephs)

Inks

Stan Asch (signed as Stan Josephs)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; superhero

Characters

Johnny Thunder; The Thunderbolt [Archibald]; four unnamed gangsters (villains); unnamed magician (villain)

Synopsis

Johnny arrives in the Land of Already Equipped and spots an artist with a brush for a hand and an artist pallet for a head, painting a picture of a young lady, whose head was a bowl of fruit! Johnny thinks that's normal, while the T-Bolt thinks he is nuts! Others in this world are also weird in appearance, but considered normal. Some human crooks get a magician to hex people into looking "normal", and Johnny sends the T-Bolt to capture them and the magician who hexed people. While other JSA members were driven insane in their dream worlds, Johnny was driven sane!

Reprints

• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #7 ([July] 2001)

Keywords

Land of Already Equipped; Say You

[The Dreams of Madness, Conclusion] (Table of Contents: 17)

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

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Joe Gallagher; Martin Naydel (Green Lantern and Flash figures)

Inks

Joe Gallagher; Martin Naydel (Green Lantern and Flash figures)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Johnny Thunder; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Chales McNider]]; The Thunderbolt [Archibald]; Brain Wave [Henry King, Sr.] (villain); Brain Wave's gang (villains)

Synopsis

In the Brainwave's lab, the JSA members are stirring restlessly in their dream-induced states. As the villain leaves the lab, the JSA members begin waking up, acting out their dreams. Johnny has had enough of this and calls for the T-Bolt to come and figures out what to do to restore them. Brainwave returns with his gang to see the JSA in their state. Johnny and the T-Bolt storm in and Johnny wades into them, fists flying, while the T-Bolt uses an electrical shock to restore the JSA back to themselves. Furious, the JSA wades into the crooks and mops up, then T-Bolt explains what happened.

Reprints

• in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #7 ([July] 2001)

Keywords

Dream Inducer

Indexer Notes

Wonder Woman does NOT appear in the conclusion.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 18) (Expand) /

Wonder House Gyroscope / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 19) (Expand) /

Schwinn Bicycles / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 20) (Expand) /

Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns / advertisement / 1 page (report information)