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Issue: All-Star Comics #38
Publication Date: December 1947
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Issues: #38 of 57 Issues (58 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/22/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 19 (5 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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History's Crime Wave!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America
Character(s): Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Johnny Thunder; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]]; Genghis Khan; Attila; Nero; Goliath; Cesare Borgia; Lucrezia Borgia; Captain Kidd
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In Issue: FlagAll Star Comics Archives #8 published October 2002
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Black Canary guest stars with Johnny Thunder and Wonder Woman becomes an active member. The Junior JSA ad in this issue is reprinted from All-Star #37.
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Flash Comics; The Flash
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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History's Crime Wave! [Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America
Character(s): Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall] (death); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (death); Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (cameo on splash page); Johnny Thunder (death); Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider] (death); The Atom [Al Pratt] (death); The Flash [Jay Garrick] (death)]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Sonia Gaye (concert pianist); John Gaye (violinist, Sonia's brother, death); unnamed prosecutor; unnamed judge; Big Boy Nelson (wrestler); Little David (wrestler, death, mention only); the Van West sisters (one dies); Mr. Benson (owner of Gem Rarities); unnamed partner of Mr. Benson (death); Mary; Stephen (Mary's wife, death); unnamed wax museum guard [as Genghis Khan; Attila the Hun; Nero; Goliath; Cesare Borgia; Captain Kidd] (villain, unseen in this chapter); Lucrezia Borgia (villain, splash only)
Synopsis: The Police are stunned and mystified with five separate crimes, each resulting in a death, and each being blamed on (by the suspects) by infamous villain in history. All the suspects are quickly tried, convicted and sentenced to death. To make matters worse, when six members of the JSA investigate, they are actually killed by the villains blamed for the other crimes! A dying Johnny Thunder sends his companion, the Black Canary, to JSA HQ to report all that has gone on to Wonder Woman.
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In Issue: FlagAll Star Comics Archives #8 published October 2002
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: The splash page replicates the cover.
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Bert La Brucherie

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Wheaties
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Captain Tootsie and the Radar Rescue

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Genres: superhero
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History's Crime Wave! Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America
Character(s): Justice Society of America [Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Johnny Thunder; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Paula; unnamed wax museum guard (villain); Nero (villain, wax figure); Genghis Khan (villain, wax figure); Goliath (villain, wax figure); Cesare Borgia (villain, wax figure); Lucrezia Borgia (villain, wax figure); Captain Kidd (villain, wax figure); Attila the Hun (villain, wax figure)
Synopsis: As Wonder Woman sits alone in JSA HQ wondering what has happened to the All-Stars, Black Canary enters and tells the Amazon Maiden what has happened to Johnny. Wonder Woman leaves and collects the corpses of the JSA members, and takes them back to HQ. Then, she and the Canary fly them to Paula's secret lab and bring them back to life again with the Purple Ray, after which the members dash to the wax museum, looking for the villains. Realizing they are only wax, they are perplexed. However, Black Canary, after listening to GL's incident, figures out a way to capture the true villain.
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In Issue: FlagAll Star Comics Archives #8 published October 2002
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: This is the only JSA story in which Paula appears, and the first JSA tale to feature the Invisible Plane.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Ton o' Fun
First Line: Does everybody understand that when the director says, 'Cut!'...
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Spalding
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History's Crime Wave! Part 3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America
Character(s): Justice Society of America [Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider; also as Nero]; The Atom [Al Pratt; also as Goliath]; The Flash [Jay Garrick; also as Captain Kidd]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott; also as Cesare Borgia]; Hawkman [Carter Hall; also as Genghis Khan]; Johnny Thunder [also as Attila the Hun]]; Big Boy Nelson (wrestler, mention only); Nero (villain, wax figure); Goliath (villain, wax figure); Captain Kidd (villain, wax figure); Cesare Borgia (villain, wax figure); Genghis Khan (villain, wax figure); Attila the Hun (villain, wax figure)
Synopsis: Soon after, a newspaper, the Globe Telegraph, announces that the JSA has caught the true killers who masqueraded as the ancient villains, and shows a picture as proof! Naturally, the "real villains" are perplexed...and, as each of the JSA members goes after the real villain involved at the scene of each crime, and overcome them, each villain breaks apart, proving only to be wax dummies! Simultaneously, as the figures break apart, they explode, knocking the JSA members unconscious.
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In Issue: FlagAll Star Comics Archives #8 published October 2002
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: The Chicago Globe Telegraph newspaper in panel 1, page 24 states that the paper was founded in 1801 and this issue is dated Saturday, October 25, 1947.
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The Chief Returns a Gift

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Genres: western
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Disclose Notes: This text story was NOT reprinted in the Archive.

Udall used this pen name for the text stories he did from 1946-49, verified by the Who's Who.
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Chemcraft
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Pages: 0.5
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Junior Jim

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Writer(s): ? [as S. B. Black]
Penciller(s): ? [as S. B. Black]
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Feature(s): Smith Brothers Cough Drops
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Pages: 0.5
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History's Crime Wave! Part 4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America
Character(s): Justice Society of America [Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Johnny Thunder; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake; also as Lucrezia Borgia]; unnamed wax museum guard [also as Attila the Hun] (villain, death); Nero (villain, wax figure); Goliath (villain, wax figure); Cesare Borgia (villain, wax figure); Captain Kidd (villain, wax figure); Genghis Khan (villain, wax figure)
Synopsis: The JSA awake to find themselves bound inside a huge wax vat in the basement of the museum, with hot wax raining down on them. As they look up, the evil villains are standing and gloating over their demise, when suddenly only one of them unmasks (Attila), revealing the security guard of the museum, who tells them that he had impersonated ALL of the villains. Why? Because the JSA dared to insult them, and thereby insulted him! Suddenly Lucrezia Borgia appears, catching the guard off guard, but her wax mask melts, revealing the Black Canary. She frees the JSA, the guard dies in the wax vat.
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In Issue: FlagAll Star Comics Archives #8 published October 2002
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Black Canary, after the adventure, is declared to be an "Honored Guest" of the JSA, with hopes that, one day, she will become a permanent member.
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Feature(s): The Junior Justice Society of America
First Line: Boys and girls! --- The Junior Justice Society of America is back in operation!!
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Feature(s): Lifebuoy
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Pages: 1
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Feature(s): Parker Johns
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Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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