| Issue | #26 |
| Published | Fall 1945 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 |
| Pages | 52 |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
| Notes | Cover pencil & ink credits from Craig Delich (April 30, 2004). All notes and synopses by Craig Delich (Jan. 2006). This issue carries the All-American instead of the DC bullet for the last time. Writer Gardner Fox originally wrote this story to include the Spectre and the Starman, but, because of the AA-DC split, they had to be replaced by Flash and Green Lantern. |
| Characters | Flash [Jay Garrick]; Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Wonder Woman [Earth-2] (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA) |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Joe Gallagher; Martin Naydel (Flash & Green Lantern figures) |
| Inks | Joe Gallagher; Martin Naydel (Flash & Green Lantern figures) |
| Notes | Cover pencil & ink credits from Craig Delich (April 30, 2004). All notes and synopses by Craig Delich (Jan. 2006). This issue carries the All-American instead of the DC bullet for the last time. Writer Gardner Fox originally wrote this story to include the Spectre and the Starman, but, because of the AA-DC split, they had to be replaced by Flash and Green Lantern. |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #6 |
| Characters | Wonder Woman [Earth-2]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Atom [Al Pratt] (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA) |
| Synopsis | At the monthly meeting of the JSA, an impatient Hawkman awaits the arrival of Herbert Crawford, a renowned scientist, astronomer, metallurgist and physicist. As Carter Hall, the Feathered Fury had attended a lecture Crawford gave, in which he said the Earth was soon to be invaded by the planet Jupiter. He had studied Crawford's calculations, even spotting a spaceship on one of the charts heading towards Earth. According to Crawford's studies, he discovered the ship just after it had passed Mars and had determined that only metal was on board --- living metal that could eat and grow! Just then, the JSA member's attention is drawn to a radio announcement of strange things occuring in different parts of the nation that leads Hawkman to believe that the invasion has already begun. Each member is assigned to investigate one of the areas involved with an eerie occurance. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Joe Gallagher; Martin Naydel (Flash & Green Lantern figures) |
| Inks | Joe Gallagher; Martin Naydel (Flash & Green Lantern figures) |
| Notes | The splash page repeats the cover art except that JSA members and space ship are flip-flopped, with the heroes' chest symbols adjusted. |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #6 |
| Characters | Hawkman [Carter Hall] |
| Synopsis | Hawkman heads towards Silverland City and the silver mine which disappeared. Previously, the Jovian spaceship shook loose some of the metal creatures near that mine, and they began feeding of the metal, turning a silver color in the process and starting to grow under the warmth of the Earth's sun. Some of the miner's tried to fight the beings, but were flung aside like rag dolls. Alighting in Silverland City, the Feathered Fury is met by townsfolk, who tell him the details of what has happened, so he heads for the mine. He attempts to strike the silvery beings down with his mace, but is knocked to the ground, and as he lay there, he notes the creatures entering the mine's payroll office and stealing cash! Taking to the air, he follows them....when all of a sudden, they run smack into a dynamo, which charges them with electricity, making them walking electric chairs! He hears the cries of angry miners, Police and townfolk, who begin to charge the beings. Hawkman quickly pushes them back, telling them of the danger. Once he has explained, he flies to town and secures one hundred pennies, which he then drops on the creatures, shorting them out, and fusing the atomic structure of their bodies. Still puzzled by the creatures robbing the payroll, he takes off to alert the other members of this fact and to see if they can find out why they steal. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Joe Kubert [as Kubert] (signed) |
| Inks | Joe Kubert [as Kubert] (signed) |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #6 |
| Characters | Atom [Al Pratt] |
| Synopsis | The Atom's assignment is to discover how the subway system of a great metropolitan city has been destroyed. As he heads out from the meeting to investigate, the Jovian beings are attacking the iron rails of the city's subway system, literally eating the tracks. The Police try to bring them down with their rifles, but this has no effect. Then the Atom shows up and attacks one of the creatures with an axe, but the creature grabs it out of his hand, and hurls it at him. The Mighty Mite runs when a group of the Jovians chase after him, but stops long enough to take a phone call from Hawkman, who explains what happened in Silverland City, how he overcame them and the fact that the beings rob. Atom stops off at the Police station and asks them to make up a defense against the creatures for him to use, then darts off to a jewelry store where the creatures were heading. He notes them stealing jewelry.....then tries to stop them from doing do until the equipment he asked for arrives. When things look grim, the Police show up with the equipment, and the Atom takes the device and shoots a stream of high-pressure oxygen at the metal men, who freeze in their tracks and begin turning red. Atom explains that the beings were eating [and becoming] iron, and that by feeding that iron with oxygen at high pressure, he literally "rusted" the creatures to death! |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Joe Gallagher |
| Inks | Joe Gallagher |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #6 |
| Characters | Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Frankie Tweed |
| Synopsis | At the Ute Magnesium Factory, as Frankie Tweed was at work, one of the strange Jovian metal men approaches him from the rear, grabbing him and the invention he was working on: an alloy as strong as steel, but as light as aluminum. As the creature prepares to throw the man to his death, Green Lantern dives from overhead and saves Tweed from certain death. Upon landing, G.L. receives a message from Hawkman thru the help of his power ring, giving him valuable information. The Emerald Crusader grabs Tweed and flies back to the factory, where they discover the Jovians stealing cash from the safe. Remarking that he couldn't use his ring on them, G.L. puts Tweed down and goes hand-to-hand with the metal men until they throw our hero to the ground and leave the factory. Awakening, Green Lantern once more takes Tweed airborne with him and explains that he couldn't use his ring because the creatures had been feeding on magnesium, which is a highly infammable metal, and he would have burned the factory down destroying the creatures. Instead, he is now following them to open country, where he can use the ring ray.....and he does, destroying them. As G.L. leaves, Frankie mentions that he will study the metal to see what secrets he can learn from it. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Stan Aschmeier; Martin Naydel (Green Lantern figures) |
| Inks | Stan Aschmeier; Martin Naydel (Green Lantern figures) |
| Notes | This chapter was originally written and illustrated by Stan Aschmeier with Starman, so Martin Naydel went back in and drew figures of G.L. to be pasted over the Starman's figure. During the filming process, some of this fell off, revealing Starman's gravity rod (see panels 1 & 3 on page 3). |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #6 |
| Characters | Dr. Mid-Nite [Charles McNider] |
| Synopsis | Underneath the Smithville River, the Jovian beings are attaching their weird antennas to the telephone cables running underground, feeding on the copper. Smithville's phone system immediately goes down as the creature move on to find more of this delicious metal, but stop off the at the city's bank to steal some cash from the vault. Dr. Mid-Nite arrives on the scene at the bank and tries to stop the looting, but with no success. Then an idea comes to mind and meets with metal workers, plumbers and carpenters in town to arrange a death trap for the beings. While the workers prepare the trap, the Man of Night grabs a bag of money and leads the creatures on a merry chase of several miles, then returns to town and throws the sack of remaining cash into another bank. Inside, the creatures begin to feed on the hanging light fixtures, become ill and drop over dead. Dr. Mid-Nite explains that the being ate the metal, not knowing that lead had been substituted for the copper.....and the creatures died of lead poisoning. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Stan Aschmeier |
| Inks | Stan Aschmeier |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #6 |
| Characters | Tippie |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Ed Winiarski [as Ed Wina] ? |
| Pencils | Ed Winiarski [as Ed Wina] (signed) |
| Inks | Ed Winiarski [as Ed Wina] (signed) |
| Notes | Credits verified by Craig Delich (Jan. 2006). This filler does NOT appear in the Archives. |
| Characters | Hawkman; Wonder Woman; Wildcat; Atom; Flash; Dr. Mid-Nite; Green Lantern; Johnny Thunder |
| Synopsis | Ad promoting membership in the JJSA, showing kit items, and providing a coupon for readers to mail in, with 15 cents, to join. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | various |
| Inks | various |
| Letters | ?; some typeset |
| Notes | Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich (Jan. 2006). |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #6 |
| Characters | Flash [Jay Garrick] |
| Synopsis | This chapter's tale is told by a gold necklace on display at the Metropolis Museum, and it relates how, one evening, the windows suddenly burst in and strange, tiny metal men entered the museum and began feeding on gold bracelets and rings. Then a golden hand reached towards it and picked it up, but before it could start feeding on it, the Flash appeared and begun struggling with the Jovians. The necklace then settled about the neck of the one of the creatures as the Flash raced away to see Hawkman and get more information on these beings. In the meantime, the creatures began breaking apart crates and taking out valuable pictures , and placing them in scaks. Just then the Flash returned, and as he watched the beings feeding on gold objects and becoming more gold themselves, an idea occurs to the Fastest Man Alive....the fact that gold is very malleable. Telling the Police to stay back, at super speed, the Flash took on each of the creatures and reducing each to lumps of gold metal, thus saving the pictures and the solitary gold necklace. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Joe Gallagher; Martin Naydel (Flash figures) |
| Inks | Joe Gallagher; Martin Naydel (Flash figures) |
| Notes | This chapter was originally written and illustrated by Joe Gallagher with the Spectre, so Martin Naydel had to draw new Flash figures and paste them over the figures of the Ghostly Guardian for much of the story, although he completely re-drew some panels. |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #6 |
| Characters | Fletcher Bourne; 'Tater Tomkins |
| Synopsis | Ex-Navy pilot Fletch is asked by his friend 'Tater to go aboard The Albatross and test her airworthiness. It's a lucky thing that he did, for he spotted an approaching hurricane and was able to telegraph a warning to all aircraft and ships at sea about the danger. |
| Genre | adventure |
| Script | Jim Robinson (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #6 |
| Characters | Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt |
| Synopsis | Johnny heads up to the frozen north to find the location of the spaceship, which landed there somewhere, and he meets up with some freindly natives, who supply him with provisions and a dog sled for his trip. Although warned not to seek out the shop, Johnny doesn't listen and eventually comes across the ship. Unimpressed with it, he kicks at it and the ship not only eats the bottom of his shoe off, but begins to roll down the hill, growing in size as it does. The natives think Johnny is responsible and try to do him in until brother John calls on the Thunderbolt to save him. Johnny then asks the T-Bolt to gather up the rest of the JSA and bring them there. |
| Genre | superhero; humor |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Stan Aschmeier |
| Inks | Stan Aschmeier |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #6 |
| Characters | Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Mid-Nite (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA); Hebert Crawford (villain) |
| Synopsis | The Thunderbolt rounds up the members and they ponder the size of the ship and what peril it presents. Green Lantern figures that acid may dissolve the ship, so he brings an entire string of acid vats to the scene and dumps them on the ship, wasting it away. They return to HQ to find Herbert Crawford waiting for them....he suddenly changes colors and begins to attack the members, stating that he has all the powers of the metal men they had destroyed. Hawkman figures, then, that Crawford also has their weaknesses, and that's how the members finally subdue him. As he lie in a dazed condition, he explains that he had contacted the ship while it was still in flight and gave them locations of places to find "food" in exchange for them robbing for him. He apologizes, and the JSA vow to help Crawford get re-established and use his knowledge for the benefit of the world after he is released from prison. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Joe Gallagher; Martin Naydel [Flash & Green Lantern figures] |
| Inks | Joe Gallagher; Martin Naydel [Flash & Green Lantern figures] |
| Notes | Wonder Woman does not appear in the conclusion. The first page of the conclusion is numbered "1", while the rest of the pages have the letters "X, Y and Z." |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #6 |