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Two New Members Win Their Spurs

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Genres: superhero

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Notes: Compare this cover with the cover on Justice League of America (1961 series) # 29.

Another Message to Our Readers

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First Line: When we announced the formation of our Editorial Advisory Board in all our publications last month, we really did not expect such a wonderful reaction.

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Two New Members Win Their Spurs, Introduction

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First Line: The Justice Society of America hereby elects Green Lantern as the fourth honorary member, like Superman, Batman and the Flash-- said honorary membership to be for life...

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.

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Notes: Dr. Mid-Nite and Starman join the JSA, replacing Green Lantern and Hourman, and Hawkman becomes the JSA Chairman.

First appearance of Dr. Fate's new half-helmet in a JSA story.

The splash page is the same exact piece that appeared in All-Star #7 as the promo for this issue except for Dr. Fate's helmet.

Two New Members Win Their Spurs, Chapter 1

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Character(s): John McGraw (former Commissioner of Roads); Professor Able's caretaker; Professor Elba's lawyer (villain); unnamed city political boss (villain)

First Line: It was late at night... I was dictating an important letter to my secretary, Myra Mason... Suddenly...

Synopsis: Dr. McNider hears on the radio that a former city official has escaped from a mental institution and has a fear of light. Dr. Mid-Nite captures the official, binds him and takes a blood sample, indicating a rare blood disease found in apes! He goes to see a Professor Able, who has discovered a cure for the disease, and also finds a vial of 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.

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Two New Members Win Their Spurs, Interlude

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Genres: superhero

First Line: ...and that's my problem, gentleman... and yours, too! We have to find this Professor Elba!

Synopsis: His story ended, Dr. Mid-Nite now provides each member a hypo full of the antidote, called Solution K, to use on the witnesses that had been driven insane. Then the JSA could possibly get a clue from them as to where to find Dr. Elba.

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Two New Members Win Their Spurs, Chapter 2

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Genres: occult, superhero

Character(s): Inza Cramer; Bill Ford [aka Bill Benson] (bus franchise owner); Marge Benson (Bill's wife); unnamed bus driver; Goopy Gus Gluck (villain); Gluck's gang (villains)

First Line: Inza! I have something that I think will clear up this mystery.... and help Bill and Marge at the same time!

Synopsis: Dr. Fate visits Inza, who is watching over a friend, Bill Ford, who was driven insane. Ford tells Fate that Goopy Gus Gluck was behind a city bus fraud ring and that he has kidnapped his wife, Marge. Fate disguises himself as a bus driver, and when he is attacked, he rounds up the ring and forces Goopy to sign a confession before heading out to look for Dr. Elba.

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Two New Members Win Their Spurs, Chapter 3

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Mr. Corson (jewelry store owner); Hartford Dormley (villain, attorney); Brent (villain); Butch (villain)

First Line: This Solution K that Doctor Midnite gave me will snap that rat out of his insanity!

Synopsis: Al Pratt, working at a jewelry store, is visited by a man who tries to sell a jewel worth a fortune, but is arrested for selling a stolen gem. Later, an "attorney" threatens to sue to for false arrest, but will agree to a $1000 settlement out of court. Al smells a rat, follows the lawyer back to his office and confronts the two. A fight ensues, Brent is driven insane by a drug-laden wooden sliver, then Atom gives the man the antidote. Atom rounds up the rest of the gang, then discovers a note to the gang to see Dr. Elba for more insanity serum, and sets out to track down the evil doctor.

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Two New Members Win Their Spurs, Chapter 4

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Character(s): Dian Belmont; District Attorney Belmont; Senator Kenneth Spring (mention only); unnamed photographer (villain); O'Hooliny (villain); two thugs (villains)

First Line: From the Justice Society meeting the Sandman races to a lonely little cabin in upstate New York, where two raving maniacs, await his return...

Synopsis: Armed with Solution K, Sandman injects his two witnesses with it, and they tell him of a racket they are involved in. It seems that they go to conventions and take compromising pictures of gentlemen there, then sells them back to those men at ridiculously high prices. Sandman then tracks down the other people involved in the scheme and turns them over to the Police.

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Two New Members Win Their Spurs, Chapter 5

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Doris Lee; Billy (young boy); B. Jamison Baker (baker, socialite, publisher); Whitey (villain); "Alabama" (villain); un-named gang members (villains)

First Line: With the counteragent to Professor Elbas 'insanity serum' clutched tightly in his hand, Starman drops from the sky toward an old wreck of a house, just off the main highway!

Synopsis: Billy discovers a trunk of money in an abandoned house, and hurries to tell his father when he runs in front of Ted Knight's car. The lad is saved and tells Knight and Doris about the trunk. Starman takes the boy back to the house just as several criminals are peering into the trunk's contents. He plows into them and all escape but one who is injected with the insanity serum. After injecting the antidote to the thug, Starman learns that his gang was forging phony letters to hurt the chances of a person running for Governor. Starman then captures the gang and heads out to find Dr. Elba.

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Two New Members Win Their Spurs, Chapter 6

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Big Red (a hawk); Preston Nevel (banker); Hunt (villain, death); Watkins (villain, death)

First Line: From the meeting of the Justice Society, the Hawkman wings his swift and silent way through the still reaches of the night to a lighted campfire in his hidden Valley of the Hawk!!

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, then he takes care of the two blackmailers.

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Two New Members Win Their Spurs, Chapter 7

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Genres: occult, superhero

Character(s): unnamed prison Warden; Louis Scaloni (villain); "Boss" Williams (villain); William's butler (villain); William's gang (villains)

First Line: The Spectre's supernatural powers proved of no avail when the star witness in the lottery racket went raving mad... now, with Dr. Midnite's Solution K in his possession, the Grim Ghost plummets down toward the city jail...

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.

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First Line: Thanks a million, boys and girls, for the swell reception you gave the first All-Flash quaterly!

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Here It Is!

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First Line: Thanks, boys and girls, for voting me the next honorary member of the Justice Society of America, and a whole book of my own, like Superman, Batman and Flash!

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Genres: aviation

Character(s): Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker [aka The Super Duper Man]; Tanner

First Line: Tank scowled slightly as Hop read aloud, then busied himself with a last minute checkup of his Ryan sports plane, 'The Sprite'.

Synopsis: Hop decides to attend an air stunt show, put on by a guy billing himself as The Super Duper Man, who could out-do any JSA member living! The plane goes into a dive and can't pull up, and Superman saves the plane and pilot, Tank Tinker! Hop agrees to test the plane himself with Tank, who bails out at 5,000 feet, saved by the Flash! Tank goes up again, bailing out at 2000 feet with wings attached to his back. A wing loosened but he was saved by Hawkman, and together they glided down for a safely. Upon reaching the reviewing stand, Tank was awarded the prize of $50,000 for completing the stunts.

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Notes: The other JSA members are alluded to.

The "Big Six" Now Becomes the "Big Seven"!

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Notes: Promo with cover previews for: Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #43 (by Fred Ray), Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #58 (by Fred Ray & Jerry Robinson), Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #24 (by E. E. Hibbard), All-American Comics (DC, 1939 series) #33 (by Irwin Hasen), Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #69 (by Jack Burnley), More Fun Comics (DC, 1936 series) #74 (by Howard Sherman).

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Two New Members Win Their Spurs, Chapter 8

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Genres: humorous, superhero

Character(s): Daisy Darling (cameo); Herman Darling (cameo); Oscar K. Doodle (contractor); Doodle's butler (villain); a thug (villain); Professor Elba (villain)

First Line: Armed with a supply of Solution K, Johnny Thunder starts on his quest--

Synopsis: Hypo in hand, Johnny heads out for the house where an 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.

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Two New Members Win Their Spurs, Conclusion

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Character(s): Dr. Elba (villain, death)

First Line: When the lights go on again the vicious professor is gone...

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, Elba injects himself accidentally, and falls out a window to his death.

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Notes: Oddity: in several panels in the story, artist Hibbard draws a white circle around Starman's yellow chest star.

Hooty is made the official mascot of the JSA.

All-Star Comics #9 Preview

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First Line: Hemisphere defense is the keynote of the next meeting of the Justice Society of America!

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Notes: Preview of the story "Hemisphere Defense" to appear in All-Star #9, on sale just before Christmas, in which the FBI Chief in Washington has a need for their services. Artwork used, with minor changes, for the cover and splash of that issue.

Introducing Wonder Woman

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Character(s): unnamed doctor; Athena (goddess of wisdom); Diana (goddess of the Moon, mention only); Hercules (flashback); Fritz (villain); von Storm (villain)

First Line: At last, in a world torn by the hatreds and wars of men, appears a woman to whom the problems and feats of men are mere child's play--

Synopsis: Captain Steve Trevor crashes on Paradise Island and is nursed back to health, and has to be returned to the U.S. Queen Hippolyte's daughter has fallen in love with him, so the Queen tells her Diana 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 Trevor crashed on Paradise Island, but 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.

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Notes: Storyline continued in Sensation Comics (DC, 1942 series) #1.

The illustration of Wonder Woman on the splash page was used on the cover of Sensation Comics #1.

Sensation Comics

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First Line: Boys and girls - Here's what Gene Tunney, former undefeated World's Heavyweight champion, thinks of 'Wonder Woman'!

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Superman Is in the Movies!

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First Line: I'll be seeing you on the screen... with more thrills than ever before!

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Here's Another Message from Hop Harrigan!

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First Line: If you are already a member, you can get five Army Air Corps 'Keep 'em Flying' stickers to paste on the windshield of your family automobile and to give to your friends to do likewise...

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