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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published October 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Sheldon Mayer
Notes In this issue, Scribbly makes an advertizing plug for All-Star Comics #2. However, this plug curiously appears on the "All-American Stamp Page" instead of next to the cover reproduction elsewhere in the issue.

Cover Details

Characters The Green Lantern
Genre superhero
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Reprinted in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

8 page The Green Lantern story "The Insurance Racket"

Characters The Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Joe Prentiss (Death); Hodges (Villain); Gambler Slade (Villain; Intro); Wolfe (Villain); Mr. Titus (Death)
Synopsis Green Lantern struggles to stop Gambler Slade, who has been murdering men who owed him money, after first forcing them to sign insurance policies naming him as beneficiary.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger (signed)
Pencils Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)
Inks Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)
Letters Martin Nodell
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-1-08.
Reprinted in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

6 page The Mighty Atom story "Introducing the Mighty Atom"

Characters The Atom [Al Pratt] (intro, origin); Mary James; Joe Morgan.
Synopsis Poor little Al Pratt, dubbed "Atom Al" by his friends, meets up with a fight trainer that agrees to help him build up his body to help deal with bullies who harrass him. But it proves of better use when Mary is kidnapped.
Genre superhero
Script Bill O'Connor (signed)
Pencils Ben Flinton (signed)
Inks Leonard Sansone
Notes Inker credit verified by Craig Delich & Jerry Bails (Nov. 2005). The Atom does NOT appear in uniform in this story. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-35-08.
Reprinted in Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1976 series) #nn; in JSA All Stars Archives, The (DC, 2007 series) #1.

1 page Mutt and Jeff/Cicero's Cat filler

Characters Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's cat
Genre humor; sitcom
Script Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Pencils Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inks Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Letters Al Smith
Notes Newspaper reprints.

2 page Mutt and Jeff filler

Characters Mutt; Jeff
Genre sitcom; humor
Script Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Pencils Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inks Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Letters Al Smith
Notes Newspaper reprint.

1 page Daisybelle filler

Characters Daisybelle
Genre children; humor
Script Gene Byrnes (signed)
Pencils Gene Byrnes (signed)
Inks Gene Byrnes (signed)
Letters Gene Byrnes
Notes Newspaper reprint.

6 page Hop Harrigan story "The Payroll Robbers"

Characters Hop Harrigan
Genre aviation
Script Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Pencils Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Inks Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Letters Jon L. Blummer
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 3-1-08.

1 page Believe It or Not filler

Genre facts
Script Robert L. Ripley
Pencils Robert L. Ripley
Inks Robert L. Ripley
Letters Robert L. Ripley
Notes Newspaper reprint.

8 page Gary Concord the Ultra-Man story "On the Side of the Enemy"

Characters Gary Concord
Genre superhero; science fiction
Script Jon L. Blummer
Pencils Jon L. Blummer
Inks Jon L. Blummer
Letters Jon L. Blummer?
Notes Last appearance. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 3-1-08.

2 page Popsicle Pete filler "Introducing Luke McLuke"

Characters Pete; Luke McLuke (Intro)
Genre gag
Script Art Helfant
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant

1 page Believe It or Not filler

Genre facts
Script Robert L. Ripley
Pencils Robert L. Ripley
Inks Robert L. Ripley
Letters Robert L. Ripley
Notes Newspaper reprint.

1 page Jimmy Stone text story "Murder in the Classroom Part 3"

Characters Jimmy Stone
Genre adventure
Script Evelyn Gaines
Pencils Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)
Inks Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)
Letters typeset

5 page Ben Webster story "Briar Disappears"

Characters Ben Webster
Genre adventure
Script Russell Cole [as Edwin Alger] (signed)
Pencils Russell Cole [as Edwin Alger] (signed)
Inks Russell Cole [as Edwin Alger] (signed)
Notes Newspaper reprint. Writer/artist's true name [Cole] added by Craig Delich 3-1-08.

1 page All-American Comics Monthly Book Review text article "Roughing It in the Bush"

1 page Daisybelle filler

Characters Daisybelle
Genre humor; children
Script Gene Byrnes (signed)
Pencils Gene Byrnes (signed)
Inks Gene Byrnes (signed)
Letters Gene Byrnes
Notes Newspaper reprint.

2 page Mutt and Jeff filler

Characters Mutt; Jeff
Genre humor; sitcom
Script Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Pencils Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inks Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Letters Al Smith
Notes Newspaper reprints.

1 page Mutt and Jeff/Cicero's Cat filler

Characters Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's cat
Genre humor; sitcom
Script Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Pencils Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inks Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Letters Al Smith
Notes Newspaper reprints.

4 page Scribbly story "Sisty and Dinky Are Kidnapped"

Characters Scribbly Jibbet; Sisty Hunkel; Dinky Jibbet; Ma Hunkel
Genre humor; teen; adventure
Script Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Pencils Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Letters Sheldon Mayer

8 page Red, White and Blue story "The Booby-Trapped Bridge"

Characters Red Dugan; Whitey White; Blooey Blue
Genre adventure
Script Jerry Siegel?
Pencils William Smith
Inks William Smith