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Issue: All-Star Comics #55
Publication Date: October 1950
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Issues: #55 of 57 Issues (58 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/16/1950
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Whitney Ellsworth (credited editor); Julius Schwartz (actual editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.

Professor Napier will re-appear in All-Star Squadron #12 (August 1982), in a tale predating All-Star #55's by eight years.
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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 Man Who Conquered the Solar System!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Art Peddy
Inker(s): Bernard Sachs
Colorist(s): Jack Adler ?
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]]
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In Issue: FlagAll Star Comics Archives #11 published April 2005
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Pages: 1
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Feature(s): Tomahawk
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The Man Who Conquered the Solar System! [Part I]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Broome
Penciller(s): Frank Giacoia; Art Peddy (splash)
Inker(s): Frank Giacoia; Bernard Sachs (splash)
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]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]]; John Morrison (Texas oil millionaire); unnamed mailroom clerk; unnamed postmaster; The Conqueror of the Solar System [Professor Elwood Napier] (perceived villain, pictured on splash only); the Green Star people (villains)
Synopsis: The JSA members gather in their projection room to view the latest newsreels, and the story that shocks them involves Texas oil millionaire John Morrison, who claims to have seen a UFO fly over and land while driving through the desert, and witnessing strange creatures as well. The Army and Police cannot find a trace, but the JSA remembers a Professor Napier from that area, and decide to visit him. They don't locate him, but a wire recorder left behind tells of the Professor building a rocketship to fly to Jupiter, so the JSA finishes the Professor's rocketship and heads toward Jupiter.
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Penciller(s): ?
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Schwinn
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Martin Naydel
Penciller(s): Martin Naydel (signed)
Inker(s): Martin Naydel (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Martin Naydel
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Ma Nature's Curiosity Shop
First Line: A young growing blue whale...
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The Day's Best Bite!

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Feature(s): Nestlé's Crunch
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The Man Who Conquered the Solar System! Part II

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Broome
Penciller(s): Frank Giacoia
Inker(s): Frank Giacoia
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 Atom [Al Pratt]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]]; Miko (10' tall Jovian); Bolo (Jovian, friend of Miko, flashback); The Conqueror of the Solar System [Professor Elwood Napier] (perceived villain); The Green Star People [Bakeelu (their leader); others un-named] (villains); the Green Heads (villains, fish men)
Synopsis: Thanks to the gravity motor, the JSA reaches Jupiter in just a few minutes, and rescues a man named Miko being attacked by the Green Star people. Miko tells them that Professor Napier is in Jovalus. Leaving Black Canary and Dr. Mid-Nite to guard Miko, the rest head for the city, being attacked by green fish men, but making it into Jovalus. Wonder Woman and Hawkman stay behind while the rest enter the city looking for Napier, where they learn that Bakeelu has a ray that can sever the Earth in two. Wonder Woman, however, has a plan in mind to thwart that possibility.
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Start a Mineral Collection

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Irwin Hasen
Inker(s): Bernard Sachs
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America Laboratory Notes
Character(s): 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).
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Feature(s): Columbia
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The Man Who Conquered the Solar System! Part III

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Broome
Penciller(s): Art 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 [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]]; Miko; The Conqueror of the Solar System [Professor Elwood Napier] (perceived villain); The Green Heads (villains); The Green Star People [Limi; rest unnamed) (villains); giant ape men (villains); Bakeelu (villain, leader of the Green Star People)
Synopsis: Hawkman and Wonder Woman overcome the Green Heads, then head to Jovalus, where the Flash tells them that the Conqueror got into a ship and headed for Mars, and the JSA must get to Mars as soon as possible. After landing, they attempt to find their foe and are attacked by huge ape men, who they run off. Green Lantern makes his way into the presence of the Conqueror, who offers him the chance to join him in his plan for conquest, showing GL that the other members are putting his type of helmet on and are under his control, but while GL fights against his double, the Conqueror disappears.
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$100,000 in Smuggled Diamonds!

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Ray-o-Vac
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The Man Who Conquered the Solar System! Part IV

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Broome
Penciller(s): Art 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 [The Atom [Al Pratt]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]]; Miko; The Conqueror of the Solar System [Professor Elwood Napier] (perceived villain); Bakeelu (villain, leader of the Green Star People); The Green Star People (villains)
Synopsis: Bakeelu has the disintegrator aimed at Earth and ready to fire, awaiting orders from the Conqueror. The helmeted members of the JSA are told to find GL and destroy him, but the Green Gladiator uses his ring to remove the helmet and restore their sanity. They attempt to stop the disintegrator ray from destroying Earth, but it fires...destroying the Green Star instead! Miko captures Bakeelu and returns him to Jupiter while the JSA and Napier head back to Earth in the rocketship.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: It is revealed that the hypno helmet was the true "villain" in this story, not Professor Napier.
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Capes That Made History

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Julius Schwartz
Penciller(s): Raymond Perry
Inker(s): Raymond Perry
Colorist(s): Raymond Perry
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
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The Disappearance of Susan Duval

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howard Purcell
Inker(s): Howard Purcell
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Johnny Peril's Surprise Story!
Character(s): Johnny Peril; Susan Duvall
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed)
Inker(s): Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed)
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Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Dubble Bubble Gum
First Line: I got the knot hole first!
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Pages: 0.5
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Wilson Chemical Co.
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Feature(s): Motor's Auto Repair Manual
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Quicksand!

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Another Exciting "R. C." and Quickie Adventure; Royal Crown Cola
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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