| Issue | #55 |
| Published | October-November 1950 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 |
| Pages | 52 |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
| Notes | Professor Napier will re-appear in All-Star Squadron #12 (August, 1982), in a tale pre-dating All-Star #55's by eight years. All story synopses by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). |
| Characters | Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall] (both as the Justice Society of America/JSA) |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Arthur Peddy |
| Inks | Bernard Sachs |
| Notes | Professor Napier will re-appear in All-Star Squadron #12 (August, 1982), in a tale pre-dating All-Star #55's by eight years. All story synopses by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #11 |
| Characters | Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Black Canary; Wonder Woman [Earth-2]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Hawkman [Carter Hall] (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA) |
| Synopsis | The JSA members gather in a projection room, provided by their admirers in the movie industry, to view some of the latest newsreels. The first story about a man who holds the world's record in banana eating makes them chuckle....but the next story makes them think. It involves Texas oil millionaire John Morrison, who claims to have seen a UFO fly over and land while he was driving through the desert near Needles Point Mountain. Getting out of his car, he sees strange creatures come out and make their way up the mountain. Frightened, he left the scene, but later phoned the Police and the Army in Washington D.C. The Army investigated, but could find nothing. After the showing of the newsreel, the JSA returns to its HQ mystified about the UFO story when the Flash remembers that their friend, Professor Elwood Napier, wrote them letters from near that area....but they hadn't heard from him in over two years since he went into the desert to do some research. Seeing a possible connection, Hawkman suggests they visit the post office to see, if by chance, the Professor has written them. They find out that he has and that he needs to see them as soon as possible and a letter will be awaiting them at the Needles Point Post Office. Upon arrival, there is no letter waiting for them, so they decide to visit the mountain site of the UFO landing, and when they reach the top, they spot a cabin and a spaceship-rocket hidden among the trees. They go to the cabin, but no one is there. However, Dr. Mid-Nite notes a wire-recorder on the table and he turns it on. The voice of Professor Napier emerges and he tells them that he was building a rocketship of his own design, but was having a problem being able to build engines large enough to carry it out into space. Then, as he was sitting one day, a strange equation came into his mind and he wrote it down and solved it. Over the next 3 months, more equations came to him and he solved them. He figured that the message were coming from space itself, and, although he received no more equations, the ones he had already received enabled him to build a "gravity motor" that would enable him to blast off into space. But before he could build such a device, he heard strange creatures approaching the cabin and reasoned they were there to take him away in the far reaches of space, and it was up to the members to rescue him. Hawkman finds a clue on a strange footprint on the floor....a footprint made of solid ammonia, and only one planet contains that much ammonia: Jupiter. So, the JSA members finish the rocketship Napier had begun, built the motor and blast off towards the planet Jupiter. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | John Broome |
| Pencils | Frank Giacoia; Arthur Peddy (splash) |
| Inks | Frank Giacoia; Bernard Sachs (splash) |
| Notes | Pencil & ink credits from Craig Delich (April 30, 2004). |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #11 |
| Genre | Fact |
| Script | Martin Naydel |
| Pencils | Martin Naydel |
| Inks | Martin Naydel |
| Notes | Writer credit by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). |
| Characters | Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Wonder Woman [Earth-2]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Black Canary (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA) |
| Synopsis | Thanks to the gravity motor, the millions of miles to Jupiter are covered in just a few minutes. Landing, the JSA suddenly hears something crashing out of the nearby woods: a ten foot tall man being chased by strange green-headed creatures atop strange beasts of burden. The JSA decides to help the one being attacked and after a struggle, and Dr. Mid-Nite's thrown blackout bomb, the creatures scatter, and the man, called Miko, thanks them via thought communication for saving him. Miko knows they are from the Earth, he tells them, because the green heads have conquered every planet in the solar system except Earth. He tells the JSA that one day they saw UFO's flying over their city, Jovalus, and when they landed, their leader, Bakeelu, announced that the Jovians were to join them in their conquering of the entire solar system or perish. A few Jovians escaped death into the nearby woods where they hid out. Green Lantern mentions that they are there to rescue Professor Napier, and Miko says that such a man was brought to Jupiter from the Earth and he is now in Jovalus. The JSA leaves Black Canary and Dr. Mid-Nite to guard Miko, while the rest head for the city. On the way, they are attacked by a group of green head fish men, and G.L.'s power ring encases our heroes in a bubble until a strategy is figured out to deal with them. It's decided that Wonder Woman and Hawkman will stay behind while the rest enter the city looking for Napier. Close to the city, the Flash volunteers to search the city at ultra-speed to see if he can find the Professor, then return to the other members for help. He enters the HQ of the green heads and notices a helmeted figure on a throne giving instructions to the green head captains. Knowing the Earth will never surrender, the helmeted figure says that Bakeelu is at that minute equipping one of their ships with a giant disintegrator ray that will be fired at the Earth, splitting it in two! The Flash decides to head back to the group, but accidently runs into some green heads and is seen. He picks up a chair and throws it with such force that it goes through the wall, and he escapes. Meanwhile, the weary Hawkman and Wonder Woman have figured out a plan of attack against the green heads they are battling. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | John Broome |
| Pencils | Frank Giacoia |
| Inks | Frank Giacoia |
| Notes | Pencil and ink credits from Craig Delich (April 30, 2004). Pencil credit originally given to: "Arthur Peddy?" |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #11 |
| Characters | Hawkman [Carter Hall] |
| Synopsis | Readers are informed by Hawkman about the best way to begin a mineral collection, including pyrites (fool's gold), quartz and Rhodonite (maganese ore). |
| Genre | Fact |
| Pencils | Irwin Hasen |
| Inks | Bernard Sachs |
| Notes | This filler is NOT found in the Archives. Art credits by Craig Delich (Jan. 2006). |
| Characters | Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Wonder Woman [Earth-2]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Black Canary (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA) |
| Synopsis | Rising up into the lighter air, Hawkman and Wonder Woman's strength returns, and they overcome the battling green-headed fish men, then head toward Jovalus. They run into the Flash on the way, who tells them that G.L., the Atom, and himself spied the helmeted figure getting into a spaceship for Mars, and that the Atom was able to hold the ship at bay until the helmeted figure threw a switch inside, turning on a repelling ray, which threw the JSA'ers off the ship. Green Lantern and Atom were tagging along with that ship to Mars, and now that they [Hawkman, Wonder Woman and Flash] must get to the ship they came in, pick up Black Canary and Dr. Mid-Nite, and head for Mars immediately. Landing, they reason that the helmeted figure must be located to the east of their position due to the rotation of the planet, so they head into the wooded areas ahead of them. Suddenly they are attacked by gigantic ape-like creatures, but Wonder Woman uses fire to chase them away. Meanwhile, G.L. and Atom have gone on ahead and discovered a strange metal object.....while Green Lantern enters, Atom stays behind, where he is seen and approached by one of the green heads, who offers him a note from Professor Napier. Atom is to follow the creature to his location. Meanwhile, inside the strange metal enclosure, G.L. comes face to face with the helmeted Conqueror, who offers him the chance to join him in his plan for conquest. He shows the Master of Light, via a televisor screen, the rest of the JSA finding the same type helmet he wears, putting them on and coming under his control. He also is shown the same thing happening to the Atom. Green Lantern decides to fight, and suddenly, from a wooden cabinet called "the duplicator," emerges another Green Lantern, and two battle it out until the real G.L. overcomes his opponent with wood, the ring's only weakness. By that time, the Conqueror has disappeared. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | John Broome |
| Pencils | Arthur Peddy |
| Inks | Bernard Sachs |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #11 |
| Characters | Atom [Al Pratt]; Wonder Woman [Earth-2]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake](all as the Justice Society of America/JSA) |
| Synopsis | Bakeelu has the disintegrator aimed at Earth and ready to fire, awaiting orders from the Conqueror. Just then the helmeted members of the JSA: Atom, Wonder Woman, Dr. Mid-Nite and the Atom approach and are told by the Conqueror to find Green Lantern and destroy him. G.L. spots them first and comes down to greet them, not realizing they are under the hypnotic control of Bakeelu. Immediately, they attack the Green Gladiator....weakening quickly, G.L. uses his ring to remove the helmets from his fellow JSA'ers and they return to normal. All then head back to stop the disintegrating gun from destroying Earth, but they are a fraction too late as the gun fires as they arrive. Looking through the viewplate, Hawkman notices the target being destroyed is not the Earth, but the home of the green heads, the Green Star! Miko then jumps out and announces that he changed the settings on the ray after it was set by Bakeelu, and is attacked by the green heads. When the JSA intervenes, the green heads flee and Miko goes after them while the Justice Society closes in on the Conqueror, only to find him at the controls of the disintegrator ray, aimed directly at them. Thinking quickly, the Flash knocks off the helmet to reveal Professor Napier, who explains that after he was captured, they put a hypno helmet on him, thus paralyzing his will. He was telling the JSA how the helmet works when Miko returns with Bakeelu in his grasp. Miko returns to Jupiter with Bakeelu and Green Lantern buries the disintegrator ray in the ground, afterwhich the JSA and Professor Napier, with hypno helmets in hand for study, biard the rocketship home. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | John Broome |
| Pencils | Arthur Peddy |
| Inks | Bernard Sachs |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #11 |
| Genre | Fact |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Johnny Peril |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Pencils | Howard Purcell |
| Inks | Howard Purcell |
| Notes | Pencil & ink credits from Craig Delich (April 30, 2004). |