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Issue: All-Star Comics #43
Publication Date: October 1948
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Issues: #43 of 57 Issues (58 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/23/1948
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Whitney Ellsworth (editor, credited); Julius Schwartz (uncredited)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.

This is the first issue with a brand new logo, and this is the last story in which the JSA operates out of Gotham City.
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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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The Secret of the Golden Universe!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Irwin Hasen
Inker(s): Irwin Hasen
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America
Character(s): Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]]; Golden Robot
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In Issue: FlagAll Star Comics Archives #9 published December 2003
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This is the first issue with a brand new logo, and this is the last story in which the JSA operates out of Gotham City.
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Kodak
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Secret of the Golden Universe! [Part I]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Broome
Penciller(s): Irwin Hasen (splash also)
Inker(s): Bob Oksner (splash also)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America
Character(s): Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Black Canary; Hawkman [Carter Hal]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; The Atom [Al Pratt]]; unnamed editor of the Gotham Globe; Benson (reporter); Mr. Ferris (manager of Simpson Timer Company); Thomas (employee at Simpson Timer Company); Bill (Midwest Limited engineer); Ed (Midwest Limited fireman); Raymond (master illusionist); Aurikon (villain); The Gold Men (villains)
Synopsis: Boston Globe reporter Benson sees a connection with amazing thefts of metal and begins an investigation. Elsewhere, the great Raymond tells the JSA that he went to an exhibit at Gotham Island to expose so-called men of gold as frauds, but discovered they WERE made of gold. The Gold Men followed him, knocked him out, put him in a crate and dumped him in the river. Having escaped, he takes the JSA to the exhibit, where they confront the Gold Men, and battle them unsuccessfully. The Gold Men then board the Caterpillar ride, which spins dizzily, and when it stops, the Gold Men are gone!
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In Issue: FlagAll Star Comics Archives #9 published December 2003
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: The splash somewhat replicates the cover, but was redrawn with JSA members in different spots and a different-looking robot.
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Johnny Mize

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Feature(s): Wheaties
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Bit-o-Honey Races to the Rescue!

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Feature(s): Bit-o-Honey
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The Secret of the Golden Universe! Part II

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Broome
Penciller(s): Arthur F. Peddy
Inker(s): Bernard Sachs
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America
Character(s): Justice Society of America [Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman; Hawkman [Carter Hall]]; Myrla (Chief Scientist of Xenca); Myrlan (Myrla's ancestor, flashback); Krano (Myrlan's son, flashback); Maxon (gold employee at the National Museum); Copper People (villains, flashback); Aurikon (villain, Myrla's half-brother); The Gold Men [Nikro; others unnamed] (villains); the Golden Robots (villains)
Synopsis: Having jumped on the Caterpillar ride, the JSA suddenly find themselves in a dimension of gold, meeting with a scientist, who informs them that the Men of Gold have stolen iron from Gotham City and brought it to Xenca to power giant robots, which will end 1000 years of peace, thanks to arrogant Aurikon. Hawkman, Dr. Mid-Nite and Atom witness a robot come back to life in a bay, they battle it and its occupants, but are captured. Black Canary and Wonder Women battle the Gold Men at Xenca's National Museum who have brought a robot back to life, but are soon overcome and taken away.
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In Issue: FlagAll Star Comics Archives #9 published December 2003
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Pages: 12
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Inker(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Spalding
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Feature(s): Bazooka the Atom Bubble Boy
First Line: What's that big crowd watching?
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The Secret of the Golden Universe! Part III

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Broome
Penciller(s): Irwin Hasen
Inker(s): Bob Oksner
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America
Character(s): Justice Society of America [The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]]; Myrla; Raymond; Benson; Aurikon (villain); The Gold Men (villains); Golden Robots (villains, destroyed)
Synopsis: At Myrla's estate, GL and Flash battle another of the Golden Robots and defeats it, but are overcome by the steam from a lake of molten gold. Myrla is captured and taken to the museum where the JSA are on display in a glass case in suspended animation. But Aurikon also has Raymond as prisoner, in an inescapable trap, from which he eventually frees himself, then busts the glass case holding the JSA. The JSA then makes short work of the robots, rounds up Aurikon and the Gold Men, jails them, and then re-creates their travel on the Caterpillar ride back to Civic City.
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In Issue: FlagAll Star Comics Archives #9 published December 2003
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Pages: 10
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Feature(s): Kellogg's Variety
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Bendix Coaster Brake
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Pages: 0.5
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To All Junior Justice Society of America Members

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Feature(s): The Junior Justice Society of America
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Secret code message from Hawkman.
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Messengers from Space

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 1.5
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Blue Boxer Crimes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Howard Purcell ?
Penciller(s): Howard Purcell
Inker(s): Howard Purcell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Johnny Peril's Surprise Story!
Character(s): Johnny Peril; The Blue Boxer [Ricky Jones] (villain)
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Pages: 5
Job Number: CC36
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Feature(s): Thom McAn
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Feature(s): Charles Atlas
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Hero on the Bench

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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Adventures of "R. C." and Quickie; Royal Crown Cola
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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