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Issue: All-Star Comics #14
Publication Date: December 1942
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Issues: #14 of 57 Issues (58 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: All-American Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/17/1942
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 25 (11 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Food for Starving Patriots!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Justice Society of America [Johnny Thunder; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Starman [Ted Knight]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]]
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Kit Carson: Trail Blazer and Scout

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Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Food for Starving Patriots! Introduction

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Justice Society of America [Johnny Thunder; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (Secretary); Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Starman [Ted Knight]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]]
Synopsis: Chairman Hawkman announces to the members that two things must be accomplished quickly: 1) the freedom-loving peoples of Europe must be fed, and 2) this must be done without the knowledge of the Nazis. To accomplish this feat, Hawkman has created tiny food capsules that, once treated with a special solution, become complete dinners. Each member is to carry these capsules to a different European nation.
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Food for Starving Patriots! Chapter 1

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Character(s): Hawkman [Carter Hall]; The Sly One; the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: Hawkman makes his way to an occupied city in France and meets up with a willing, but skeptical underground force. However, after a good meal, they tell the Feathered Fury about the man they call "The Sly One," who fearlessly fights the Germans, but has been captured by them. Hawkman and the underground take on the Nazis in order to free him, and Hawk promises them more food will be delivered in a dud bomb marked with an "X".
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Food for Starving Patriots! Chapter 2

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Character(s): Starman [Ted Knight]; The "Ghosts of the Polish Knights" [aka Bowmen of Mons]; the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: Starman is headed for Poland, conquered already by the Nazis, but a nation not willing to entirely give up. He spots an ancient order of Poles called the Bowman of Mons, who at once think he is an enemy, but a good meal changes their minds. Starman volunteers to help the group free their imprisoned peoples, capture guns and weapons, and aid in the world-wide fight for freedom. Starman disguises himself as an informer and gives the Nazis a "secret code" to decipher consisting of pro baseball players batting averages. After mopping up the Nazis, Starman promises more food dropped by parachute.
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Food for Starving Patriots! Chapter 3

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Character(s): The Atom [Al Pratt; also as an unnamed Gestapo officer]; unnamed Dutch boy; Hilda; unnamed Gestapo officer (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: The Atom arrives in Holland in disguise and helps wreck a small convoy of German vehicles, although he quickly captured and thrown into jail. Changing to his fighting togs, he bends the bars and escapes, soon meeting up with a young Dutch boy, whom he feeds along with many others. After dinner, the young boy shows the Atom Nazi artillery shells they have built, hollowed out, in which are encased maps of the locations of German secret hangers. They fire some shells where the R.A.F. can get hold of them and they arrive to bomb the hangers.
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Food for Starving Patriots! Chapter 4

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Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson; also disguised as a Nazi Captain]; Adolf Hitler (villain); Herman Göring (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: Hitler is having tea leaves read which indicate a visit soon by Doctor Fate. Fate arrives in the middle of a concentration camp to secretly feed the prisoners, and then shows the prisoners how to commit sabotage against the Germans without their knowledge by mixing sand with gunpowder in their artillery shells.
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The Junior Justice Society of America

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Food for Starving Patriots! Chapter 5

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Character(s): Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Hooty (an owl); Martha; Eric (brother of Gunther, Martha's wife, inventor); Harriet (Eric and Martha's daughter); Gunther (mention only); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: Dr. Mid-Nite and Hooty head for Norway, having the name of the underground leader in his possession. Upon arriving at his house, a young lady nervously tells him that the man isn't home, but the good doctor is not to be denied. After feeding the pair, the man shows Dr. Mid-Nite a special gun he has invented to fight submarines. Dr. Mid-Nite then aids he and his men in blowing up some German ammunition.
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Food for Starving Patriots! Chapter 6

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Character(s): The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: The Ghostly Guardian soon arrives in Belgium near a hidden Nazi airplane hanger, noting the capture of some members of the underground. He quickly frees them, feeds them and marks a path for Allied bombers to come in and destroy the hangers.
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The Statue of Buddha

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Genres: aviation
Character(s): Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker; Mitsui Mato (villain, spy); the Japanese (villains, some die)
Synopsis: Hop must deal with a Japanese spy, Mitsui Mato, who is trying to figure out where Allied attacks are coming from, and to eliminate them.
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Feature(s): Hop Harrigan; All-American Flying Club
First Line: Boys and girls - I'm on the radio now...
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Food for Starving Patriots! Chapter 7

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Johnny Thunder; The Thunderbolt [Archibald]; Gestapo agents (villains)
Synopsis: Johnny arrives in Czechoslovakia and immediately feeds members of the Czech underground. Unfortunately, a German soldier sees what is happening and Johnny asks the Thunderbolt to eliminate him. That done, Johnny secures the plans the Germans have drawn up and deals with their plan in a most unusual manner.
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Food for Starving Patriots! Chapter 8

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Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Adolf Hitler (villain); unnamed Nazi Captain (villains); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: The Sandman and Sandy are sent to Greece, and the German commander dreams about them coming and disrupting their operation. The duo help destroy some Nazi equipment, then claim that they are turning Nazi as a ruse to further learn more of the Nazi agenda, then they crush it!
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Food for Starving Patriots! Conclusion

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Character(s): Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Johnny Thunder; Starman [Ted Knight]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Johnny Thunder]
Synopsis: One by one the different members show up to file their reports with Hawkman...all except Johnny, who was so busy that he didn't have time to eat himself. So he grabs a handful of the capsules and downs them all at once, with distressing results!
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The Big Eight!

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