| Characters |
Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Dr. Fate; Atom [Al Pratt]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Superman [Earth-2] (inset first page, not in story); Batman [Earth-2] (inset first page, not in story); Flash [Jay Garrick] (inset first page, not in story); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (inset first page, not in story) (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA) |
| Synopsis |
Arriving at JSA headquarters, the members remark to each other that, oddly enough, each member was working on a different case, yet their witnesses suddenly went mad. Just then, Dr. Mid-Nite arrives with a story to tell the members that may help solve their dilemma. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Gardner Fox |
| Pencils |
Everett E. Hibbard |
| Inks |
Everett E. Hibbard |
| Notes |
Dr. Mid-Nite & Starman join replacing Green Lantern and Hourman, and Hawkman becomes the JSA Chairman. The splash page is the same exact piece that appeared in the previous issue as the promo for this issue. |
| Reprinted |
in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2; in Millennium Edition: All Star Comics No. 8 (DC, 2001 series) #nn |
| Characters |
Dr. Mid-Nite; Myra Mason |
| Synopsis |
While dictating a letter to his secretary, Charles McNider hears over the radio that a former city official has escaped from a mental institution. Noting that the official had a fear of light, McNider decides that this is a case for Dr. Mid-nite. He runs into the escaped official, binds him and takes a blood sample, indicating that the man had a rare blood disease only found in apes! He goes to see a famed specialist, Professor Able, who has discovered a cure for the disease, but, while the doctor is gone, Mid-nite does find a vial of strange serum, which he discovers is the antidote. He brings the city official back to sanity, but then runs across two criminals in the employ of a Dr. Elba. Capturing both, the Man of Night is suddenly struck from behind by Dr. Elba and would have been shot to death had not Hooty intervened. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Gardner Fox |
| Pencils |
Stan Aschmeier |
| Inks |
Stan Aschmeier |
| Reprinted |
in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2; in Millennium Edition: All Star Comics No. 8 (DC, 2001 series) #nn |
| Characters |
Atom [Al Pratt] |
| Synopsis |
Al Pratt, while working behind the counter at a jewelry store, is visited by a man who shows the owner a jewel worth a fortune, offering to sell it. The suspicious owner has the man arrested for trying to sell a stolen gem. Later, an "attorney" shows up, threatening to sue to store owner for false arrest, but will agree to a $1000 settlement out of court. Al smells a rat, so he follows the lawyer back to his abode and confronts the two men. During the struggle, the man who tried to sell the gem is driven insane by a drug-laden wooden sliver. Atom gives the man the Solution K, then heads out to round up the rest of the gang. After doing so, he discovers a note to the gang to see Dr. Elba for more insanity serum, and sets out to track down the evil doctor. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Gardner Fox |
| Pencils |
Ben Flinton |
| Inks |
Ben Flinton |
| Reprinted |
in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2; in Millennium Edition: All Star Comics No. 8 (DC, 2001 series) #nn |
| Characters |
Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders] |
| Synopsis |
Hawkman arrives to the location of his insane witness and injects him with Solution K. The man relates that he is a part of a gang which studies newspaper clippings in order to dig up some dirt on people with money that they could blackmail. During the initial confrontation with the gang, Hawkgirl is stunned by radio-controlled lightning. Hawkman rescues her just in time, being aided by his hawks. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Gardner Fox |
| Pencils |
Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed) |
| Inks |
Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed) |
| Notes |
Hawkman is assisted by Hawkgirl in this story. |
| Reprinted |
in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2; in Millennium Edition: All Star Comics No. 8 (DC, 2001 series) #nn |
| Characters |
Spectre [Jim Corrigan] |
| Synopsis |
The Ghostly Guardian visits the State hospital to inject his witness, Louis Scaloni, only to discover that the man is missing. Reverting to his Jim Corrigan identity, he visits gang "Boss" Williams to discover Scaloni's whereabouts, and is knocked out. When he recovers, he is shown Scaloni in the basement, now totally insane, so that he couldn't go to the cops about Boss Williams. Spectre then injects Scaloni with Solution K and rounds up the entire gang of Boss Williams. |
| Genre |
superhero; occult |
| Script |
Gardner Fox |
| Pencils |
Bernard Baily [as Baily] (signed) |
| Inks |
Bernard Baily [as Baily] (signed) |
| Letters |
Bernard Baily |
| Notes |
Lettering credit by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). |
| Reprinted |
in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2; in Millennium Edition: All Star Comics No. 8 (DC, 2001 series) #nn |
| Characters |
Hop Harrigan; Superman; Batman; Green Lantern; Flash; Dr. Mid-Nite; Hawkman (the other JSA members are alluded to). |
| Synopsis |
Hop decides to attend an air stunt show, put on by a guy named Ryan, who billed himself as The Super Duper Man....a man who could out-do any JSA member living! Suddenly, as Ryan's plane goes into a dive, it couldn't pull up, and Superman raced across the sky to save the plane and pilot, who turned out to be Hop's friend, Tank Tinker! Hop then agrees to test the sports plane himself along with Tank. Tank bails out at 5,000 feet, only to face drowning after landing in a lake, but is saved by the quick-thinking of the Flash! Tank then went up a third time to bails out at 2000 feet with wings attached to his back. After bailing out, one of Tank's wings loosened and he was saved by the Hawkman, and together they glided down for a safe landing. Upon reaching the reviewing stand, Tank was awarded the prize of $50,000 for completing the stunts. |
| Genre |
aviation |
| Pencils |
Jon L. Blummer (spot illo) |
| Inks |
Jon L. Blummer (spot illo) |
| Letters |
typeset |
| Notes |
Credits by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). |
| Reprinted |
in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2; in Millennium Edition: All Star Comics No. 8 (DC, 2001 series) #nn |
| Characters |
Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt; Daisy Darling (cameo) |
| Synopsis |
With hypo in hand, Johnn heads out for the house where the insane man was left, telling the Thunderbolt to butt out of this case. Unfortunately for Johnny, when he arrives at the house, he is confronted by a pair of thugs, who beat him up and throw him in with the crazed man. Fortunately, the T-Bolt shows up with the Solution K, and it's successfully injected. Johnny discovers the man was not a crook, but someone who was about to turn in the crooks to the D.A. for selling colored sand as cement to construction companies. The crooks are rounded up, but Dr. Elba shows up and knocks out brother John. |
| Genre |
superhero;humor |
| Script |
Gardner Fox |
| Pencils |
Stan Aschmeier |
| Inks |
Stan Aschmeier |
| Reprinted |
in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2; in Millennium Edition: All Star Comics No. 8 (DC, 2001 series) #nn |
| Characters |
Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dr. Fate; Dr. Mid-Nite; Superman [Earth-2] (inset last page, not in story); Batman [Earth-2] (inset last page, not in story); Flash [Jay Garrick] (inset last page, not in story); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (inset last page, not in story) |
| Synopsis |
As Dr. Elba is about to inject Johnny with the insanity serum, the Thunderbolt arrives with the JSA members. As the JSA approaches Elba, the lights go out and Elba disappears. Dr. Mid-nite approaches a man in the shadows, believing him to be the missing Professor Able, and, as that man beckons the Man of Night closer, he suddenly tells him that he is BOTH Able and Elba, and attempts to jab Mid-nite with a hypo of insanity serum. However, he injects himself accidently, and falls out a window to his death. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Gardner Fox |
| Pencils |
Everett E. Hibbard |
| Inks |
Everett E. Hibbard |
| Reprinted |
in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2; in Millennium Edition: All Star Comics No. 8 (DC, 2001 series) #nn |
| Characters |
Wonder Woman (intro, origin); Hippolyta (intro, as Hippolyte); Steve Trevor (intro); Hercules (flashback) |
| Synopsis |
The story opens when a plane carrying Captain Steve Trevor crashes on Paradise Island. He is nursed back to health, and has to be returned to the U.S. immediately. Queen Hippolyte's daughter Diana has fallen in love with this man....so the Queen tells her daughter the story of the Amazons and how she must not leave the island, lest she lose her eternal life. She uses the Magic Sphere to show how Captain Trevor was waylaid by criminals, who put the Captain in a robot-controlled plane, that eventually runs out of gas and crashes on Paradise Island. The Queen refuses to allow Diana to return the Captain to the U.S., so she holds a contest to select the suitable Amazon to do the chore. Diana, in disguise, wins the contest, and is allowed the return the Captain home. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
William Marston [as Charles Moulton] |
| Pencils |
Harry G. Peter |
| Inks |
Harry G. Peter |
| Notes |
Origin and first appearance of Wonder Woman. Continued in Sensation Comics (DC, 1942 series) #1. The illustration of Wonder Woman on the splash was used on the cover of Sensation #1. |
| Reprinted |
in Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #196 (September-October 1971) [abbreviated]; in Wonder Woman (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972 series) #nn [as abbreviated in Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #196]; in Wonder Woman (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972 series) #nn [as abbreviated in Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #196]; in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2; in Millennium Edition: All Star Comics No. 8 (DC, 2001 series) #nn; Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #1 |