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Issue: All-Star Comics #17
Publication Date: June 1943
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Issues: #17 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: All-American Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/18/1943
Volume: 2
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 22 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Sheldon Mayer (editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.

This All-Star was the first to have 56 interior pages. Internal evidences suggests the story was actually much longer, but panels were cut so that the story fell within the new War Production Board paper guidelines. The Editor's page features a Junior Justice Society of America code message in the Hawkman code.
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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 Brain Wave Goes Berserk

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Joe Gallagher
Inker(s): Joe Gallagher
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America
Character(s): Justice Society of America [Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Johnny Thunder; Starman [Ted Knight]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; The Atom [Al Pratt]]; Brain Wave [Henry King, Sr.] (inset)
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Husky - Co-Pilot of the Pilgrim

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Josette Frank
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Brain Wave Goes Berserk, Introduction

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): Joe Gallagher
Inker(s): Joe Gallagher
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America
Character(s): Justice Society of America [The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Johnny Thunder; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (Secretary); Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Starman [Ted Knight]]; Brain Wave [Henry King, Sr.] (villain)
Synopsis: Wonder Woman informs the JSA that all the minutes of past meetings have been stolen. The scene then shifts back to the moment the Brain Wave jumped from his tower, supposedly to his death. He survived and invented a way using electricity and special substance to shrink the JSA to 8" tall! Meanwhile, Wonder Woman heads home to look for the minutes and after she leaves, the members find themselves shrunk to 8" in height, and Brain Wave enters, imprisoning each member in a cage. When Brain Wave leaves the room, Hawkman calls his hawks, who come and take the members away as Brain Wave watches.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from the cover.
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The Brain Wave Goes Berserk, Chapter 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Inker(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America; Hawkman
Character(s): Hawkman [Carter Hall]; The Thunderbolt [Archibald] (cameo); Ted Purvis (JJSA member); Mr. Purvis (Ted's father); thugs (villains)
Synopsis: While flying along, Hawkman is captured by a JJSA member in a net, and he informs the young boy that his father is to be robbed by Brain Wave's men, so they head for the house, only to discover living tiny soldiers that are mixed in with the boy's regular toys. With a special yellow ray they regain their regular size and the Feathered Fury must come up with a different way of defeating the foe. As the Police arrive to arrest the thugs, Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt shows up and takes Hawkman away.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The Hawkman chapter was cut 2-3 pages from its original length and doesn't have a splash. Sheldon Moldoff said he purposely drew it that way, indicating he combined pages of Fox's script in order to shorten the chapter.
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The Brain Wave Goes Berserk, Chapter 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox; Jack Kirby (partial re-write)
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Joe Simon
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America; The Sandman
Character(s): The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; The Thunderbolt [Archibald] (cameo); Silk O'Mara (villain); O'Mara's thugs (villains)
Synopsis: Sandman is dumped out of his cage by the hawk who rescued him near a tree that grew money! Each $1 bill has a message on it to thugs connected with the Brain Wave, so he hides and awaits them. When they show, they read the bills, which tells them to take jewels from Riffanys. He follows them from the store and is able to whip them before a Policeman shows up to take them into custody. Then the Thunderbolt arrives to whisk him away.
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Pages: 6
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Popsicle
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The Brain Wave Goes Berserk, Chapter 3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): Bernard Baily
Inker(s): Bernard Baily
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Howard Ferguson
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America; The Spectre
Character(s): The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; The Thunderbolt [Archibald] (cameo); Spider (villain); the Brain Wave's thugs (villains)
Synopsis: Brain Wave's thugs use a special gun that shoots indestructible spider webs at some guards protecting a safe in a person's home, which incapacitates them while they begin looting the safe. The Spectre arrives and takes on the crooks, but has a difficult time because of his size, so he rockets into outer space, finds a meteor and aims it toward the house where the crooks are looting the safe. It crashes and knocks the men out. As the Spectre is setting off an alarm for the Police, the Thunderbolt arrives and takes him away to Johnny Thunder.
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Pages: 6
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The Brain Wave Goes Berserk, Chapter 4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): Howard Sherman
Inker(s): Howard Sherman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America; Doctor Fate
Character(s): Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; The Thunderbolt [Archibald] (cameo); Lucky Luke (villain); the Brain Wave's thugs (villains)
Synopsis: The Brain Wave's minions, headed by Lucky Luke, are posing as plumbers in order to get into a bank to loot it. Doctor Fate shows up in time to trail the thugs back to Lucky's apartment, and he uses a typewriter to type out some bad news to Lucky. Noting that he has one more job to do, and it's Friday the 13th, Lucky decides to go through with the job, and Fate puts a stop to the plot just as the Thunderbolt shows up.
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Pages: 6
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The Junior Justice Society of America

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Junior Justice Society of America
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The Brain Wave Goes Berserk, Chapter 5

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): Stan Asch [as Stan Josephs] (signed)
Inker(s): Stan Asch [as Stan Josephs] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America; Dr. Mid-Nite
Character(s): Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Augustus Flack; Edward (Flack's butler); Dr. Charles T. Grant; Brain Wave [Henry King, Sr.] (villain, cameo); the Brain Wave's thugs (villains)
Synopsis: A special newspaper is delivered to Augustus Flack (and others), telling of "The Ace of Spades." Then an ace of spades card falls out with a note telling him where to take his blackmail money. Mid-Nite arrives and discovers the address to which the men are asked to bring their money, so he heads over to it, takes on the thugs under cover of his blackout bomb, and convinces the men that they have gotten lead poisoning from handling the papers Brain Wave had printed. They head over to a doctor that Charles McNider has recommended, and the doctor gases them and calls the Police.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This chapter was probably shortened by a page, as the panel showing the Thunderbolt coming to get Dr. Mid-Nite is missing.
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Water, Water Everywhere

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Penciller(s): Jon L. Blummer (illustration of Hop Harrigan)
Inker(s): Jon L. Blummer (illustration of Hop Harrigan)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Hop Harrigan
Character(s): Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker
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Pages: 1.5
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Third Dramatic Issue

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Feature(s): Picture Stories from the Bible
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The Brain Wave Goes Berserk, Chapter 6

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman
Inker(s): Sam Burlockoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America; Starman
Character(s): Starman [Ted Knight]; The Thunderbolt [Archibald] (cameo); Brain Wave's thugs (villains)
Synopsis: Townspeople head over to Keller's Circus, which is putting on a free show for the people, a clever ruse by the Brain Wave because it leaves the town deserted and wide open to be robbed blind. While the people back at the circus have been gassed, Starman shows up and follows the crooks into town from the circus and takes them on until the Police arrive...and then Thunderbolt shows up to whisk him away.
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Pages: 5.67
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Model Planes

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.
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First Line: All these action-packed comic magazines...
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The Brain Wave Goes Berserk, Chapter 7

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): Joe Gallagher
Inker(s): Joe Gallagher
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America; The Atom
Character(s): The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Thunderbolt [Archibald] (cameo); The Brain Wave [Henry King, Sr.] (villain, cameo); Crafty Connors (villain); Knuckles O'Grady (villain); Slipper Joe Dixon (villain)
Synopsis: The Atom witnesses many strange accidents and the victims, taken to a nearby hospital, just happen to be crooks of every description. He discovers that the Brain Wave has taught the men how to fake accidents in order to commit theft. The men, in spite of the Atom's attempts, escape from the hospital with a supply of radium and head for their hideout, followed by the Mighty Mite. He attacks the best he can until the Police arrive to arrest the thugs...and the Thunderbolt appears to take the Atom away.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This chapter was probably shortened by one page.
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The Brain Wave Goes Berserk, Chapter 8

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): Stan Asch
Inker(s): Stan Asch
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America; Johnny Thunder
Character(s): Johnny Thunder; The Thunderbolt [Archibald]; Senator Sebastian J. Graves (bank President and multi-millionaire); phony Senator Graves (villain); Brain Wave's thugs (villains)
Synopsis: Johnny arrives at the Keystone Hotel, ready to take on the Brain Wave's thugs, but lands head first and is knocked out. Inside the hotel, a phony Senator Sebastian Graves overpowers the real Senator and takes his place. Johnny attempts to intervene, but his small size presents a real challenge to him until he thinks to have the Thunderbolt make his full size again! Still, Johnny is captured, so he asks the Thunderbolt to get the rest of the JSA pronto!
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Pages: 6
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The Brain Wave Goes Berserk, Conclusion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): Joe Gallagher
Inker(s): Joe Gallagher
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Justice Society of America
Character(s): Justice society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Johnny Thunder; Starman [Ted Knight]]; The Thunderbolt [Archibald]; Brain Wave [Henry King, Sr.] (villain, death?)
Synopsis: The JSA saves Johnny and the Senator, then head over to the Brain Wave's tower at Sharktooth Bay. Brain Wave has wired explosives outside the tower to blow up the JSA as they arrive, but the Thunderbolt moves the explosives inside the tower and the Brain Wave accidentally blows himself up!
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Anco Pub. Co.
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Charles Atlas
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Wonders of Science Simplified
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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