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Issue: The JSA All Stars Archives #1
Publication Date: December 2007
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC Archive EditionsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 10/17/2007
Volume: 1
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781401214722140121472X
UPC/EAN: 978140121472255999
Price: $73.99 CAD
$59.99 USD
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Content Items: 49 (35 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: hardcover with dust jacket
Publishing Format: collected edition
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34 Content Items from other Issues reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagFlash Comics #2 published February 1940 was Johnny Becomes a Boxer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #48 published March 1940 was Presenting Tick-Tock Tyler, the Hour-Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagFlash Comics #3 published March 1940 was Fight versus Gunpowder Glantz [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #49 published April 1940 was The Disappearance of Dr. Drew [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagFlash Comics #4 published April 1940 was Johnny Law [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #50 published May 1940 was The Dark Horse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagFlash Comics #5 published May 1940 was G-Man Johnny [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #51 published June 1940 was The Wax-Double Killers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAdventure Comics #52 published July 1940 was The Counterfeit Hour-Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #19 published October 1940 was Introducing the Mighty Atom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #20 published November 1940 was The Coming of the Red Tornado [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #20 published November 1940 was Action at the College Ball [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #21 published December 1940 was The Red Tornado to the Rescue [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #21 published December 1940 was The Monsters from the Mine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #22 [Without Canadian Price] published January 1941 was Search for the Red Tornado [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #22 [Without Canadian Price] published January 1941 was Truckers' War [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #23 published February 1941 was The Red Tornado Goes Ape [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #23 published February 1941 was Joe's Appointment [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #24 published March 1941 was Neither Man Nor Mouse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #25 published April 1941 was Dr. Mid-Nite: How He Began [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #26 published May 1941 was The Waterfront Mystery [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #27 published June 1941 was Prisoners by Choice [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #28 published July 1941 was The Mysterious Beacon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll-American Comics #29 published August 1941 was The Menace of King Cobra [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSensation Comics #1 published January 1942 was Who Is Mr. Terrific? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSensation Comics #1 published January 1942 was The Origin of Wildcat [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSensation Comics #2 published February 1942 was The One-Man Benefit Show [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSensation Comics #2 published February 1942 was Who Is Wildcat? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSensation Comics #3 published March 1942 was The Phony Presidente [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSensation Comics #3 published March 1942 was Case of the Phantom Killers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSensation Comics #4 published April 1942 was Dapper Joe's Comeuppance [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSensation Comics #4 published April 1942 was Introducing Stretch Skinner [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSensation Comics #5 published May 1942 was The Two Faces of Caspar Crunch [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSensation Comics #5 published May 1942 was Chips Carder's Big Fix [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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The JSA All Stars Archives Volume 1

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Table of Contents

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The Kidnapping of Johnny Thunder

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Character(s): Johnny Thunder (introduction, origin); Thunderbolt (introduction); Simon B. Thunder; Mildred Thunder; Priest of Aissor
Synopsis: Young Johnny Thunder is kidnapped from his home, given Badhnisian sacred rites and would become the most powerful person in the world at age 7. By a weird chance, Johnny is reunited with his parents, but is sought out once again by the Badhnesians, who are on the receiving end of a new, strange power Johnny has by saying the words "Say You."
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Johnny Becomes a Boxer

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Character(s): Johnny Thunder; Daisy Darling (introduction); Mike Trainer; Suicide Kid (boxer); unnamed thug (villain)
Synopsis: Through the use of his powers (that he knows nothing about), Johnny signs a fight contract to battle the Suicide Kid, and that same unknown power helps Johnny win the contest.
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Johnny versus Gunpowder Glantz

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Character(s): Johnny Thunder; Daisy Darling; Gunpowder Glanz (boxer)
Synopsis: After his initial win in the ring, Johnny begins training for his next fight against Gunpowder Glanz. To top things off, Daisy agrees to marry Johnny if he loses the fight, but Johnny's mysterious power strikes again and he becomes the heavyweight champion!
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Johnny Law

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Character(s): Johnny Thunder; The Thunderbolt; Daisy Darling; Herman Darling; Gyp the Jeep (villain)
Synopsis: Daisy's father wins a bundle off the fight that Johnny won, but a thug is determined to take that bundle of loot, no matter what. When Johnny rounds up the criminal, he is offered a position as a G-Man.
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G-Man Johnny

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Character(s): Johnny Thunder; The Thunderbolt; Daisy Darling; Herman Darling; Simon P. Thunder; Cut Perce (villain); Perce's gang (villains)
Synopsis: Johnny's life as a G-Man begins by looking into a case where crooks have stolen an entire safety deposit vault...and his father along with it!
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The Hour-Man!

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Character(s): The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; The Sandman [Wesley Dodds] (inset)
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Presenting Tick-Tock Tyler, the Hour-Man

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Character(s): The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Mr. Bannerman; Marcia Van Shelton; Mary Kennedy; Patsy; Randall (villain); John Kennedy (villain, reforms at end of story)
Synopsis: Chemist Rex Tyler discovers a powerful chemical he calls "miraclo", and decides to put his new powers to work helping the oppressed. His first case involves the recovery of stolen pearls and the reforming of a would-be crook.
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The Disappearance of Dr. Drew

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Character(s): The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Dr. Drew (intro); Miss Drew (intro)
Synopsis: Rex Tyler's second client is a Miss Drew, who asks that he help locate her missing father, whom she believes has been kidnapped because of his creation of a super type of cold pill.
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Character(s): The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; the Sandman [Wesley Dodds] (inset)
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The Dark Horse

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Character(s): The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; James Carren (introduction); Nick Bates (villain, introduction); Nick Bates' gang (villains, introduction)
Synopsis: Rex Tyler's third client, James Carren, has been told by a mobster that, unless he sells half interest in his race horse "Blue Bell", he and the horse will never see Kentucky again.
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The Wax-Double Killers

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Character(s): The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; an un-named mad scientist (villain, intro); Joe (villain); Mad-Dog Duncan (villain, animated wax figure, death); Alvin Kartis (villain, animated wax figure, death); Two Gun Carmody (villain, animated wax figure, death)
Synopsis: A crazed scientist has invented an artificial heart and plastic skin, which he uses to bring wax figures of three criminals to life to rob and kill.
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The Counterfeit Hour-Man

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Character(s): The Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Bob Wallave (introduction); Dr. Snegg (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Rex gets a new helper in the munitions lab, but is shocked to later discover that he has been hynotized by a Doctor Snegg into assuming the role of Hour-Man to bring the real Man of the Hour into the open so he could dispose of him!
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Introducing the Mighty Atom

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Character(s): The Atom [Al Pratt] (intro, origin); Mary James; Joe Morgan
Synopsis: Poor little Al Pratt, dubbed "Atom Al" by his friends, meets up with a fight trainer that agrees to help him build up his body to help deal with bullies who harrass him. But it proves of better use when Mary is kidnapped.
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Action at the College Ball

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Character(s): The Atom [Al Pratt]; Mary James; Joe Morgan
Synopsis: When Mary decides to wear the "Kador Necklace," worth $25,000, to the Calvin College "Diamond Ball," Al decides to attend, and soon has his hands full of action as The Atom when crooks appear to steal it.
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The Monsters from the Mine

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Character(s): The Atom [Al Pratt]; Professor Wilson; Mary James; Joe Morgan; Truck Tarbell; un-named "Emperor of America" (Intro, Death)
Synopsis: In the midst of the Calvin College Sophomore picnic, the students are rounded up by a madman, a man who has learned how to transmute his will into any person's body and thus take control of them as his slaves.
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Truckers' War

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Character(s): The Atom [Al Pratt]; Mr. Tarbell; Truck Tarbell; Joe Morgan; Mary James; Lefty Lou Albano (villain)
Synopsis: The Atom decides to help out a fellow student's father, who is being forced to pay protection money to racketeers.
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Joe's Appointment

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Character(s): The Atom [Al Pratt]; Nada (villain, introduction); Boris (villain, introduction); Joe Morgan
Synopsis: A mysterious woman in black succeeds in drugging Joe Morgan and getting him to take the blame for the theft of secret Cruiser plans, which ends up landing him and Al in jail.
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The Coming of the Red Tornado

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Character(s): Red Tornado [Ma Hunkel] (introduction); Scribbly Jibbet; Sisty Hunkel; Dinky Jibbet; Tubb Torponi (villain); Torponi's gang (villains)
Synopsis: When Ma learns of the kidnapping of Dinky and Sisty by the Torponi mob, a chance remark by Scribbly about the Green Lantern puts the idea into Ma's head of adopting the persona of a costumed heroine herself to save them.
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The Red Tornado to the Rescue

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Character(s): Scribbly Jibbet; Red Tornado [Ma Hunkel]; Dinky Jibbet; Sisty Hunkel; Tubb Torponi and his gang (Villain)
Synopsis: The Red Tornado wipes up the Torponi mob, but when the Police Chief takes credit for the the kids rescue, Ma Hunkel decides the Red Tornado should tell him off in no uncertain terms.
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Search for the Red Tornado

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Character(s): Red Tornado [Ma Hunkel]; Scribbly Jibbet; Sisty Hunkel; Dinky Jibbet
Synopsis: Scribbly's newspaper editor, knowing that the Red Tornado operates solely in the neighborhood, assigned Scribbly to try and get a drawing made of the hero so that his paper could get a scoop over the other newspapers in town.
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The Red Tornado Goes Ape

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Feature(s): Scribbly and the Red Tornado
Character(s): Red Tornado [Ma Hunkel]; Scribbly Jibbet; Big Eddie (Villain); Sisty Hunkel; Dinky Jibbet
Synopsis: When the Police learn that the Red Tornado is operating in the neighborhood, they attempt to capture her. Quickly thinking on her feet, Ma dresses up a gorilla in the zoo with her outfit, and when the Police round it up, are they surprised!
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Neither Man Nor Mouse

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Feature(s): Scribbly and the Red Tornado
Character(s): The Red Tornado [Ma Hunkel]; The Cyclone Kids [Sisty Hunkel; Dinky Jibbet] (introduction); Scribbly Jibbet; un-named Morning Dispatch editor; Gus (Dispatch typesetter); Smokey (villain)
Synopsis: When the local newspaper publishes a story that the Red Tornado is a hoax, the crooks that had left town decide to return....with a vengeance!
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Dr. Mid-Nite: How He Began

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Character(s): Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider] (Intro; Origin); Myra Mason (Intro); Hooty (Intro); Mr. Schlitz; "Killer" Maroni (villain); Buggsy (villain); Mike (villain)
Synopsis: Blinded by a mobster's bomb, Dr. McNider gives up the practice of medicine to write articles for crime magazines. But a chance accident, with an owl crashing through the former doctor's window during the night, allows McNider to discover that he can see in the dark [as well as in the daylight with special infra-red goggles he creates], so he decides to adopt the secret identity of Dr. Mid-Nite to round up "Killer" and bring him to justice for his crimes.
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The Waterfront Mystery

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Character(s): Dr. Mid-Nite [Charles McNider]; Myra Mason; Hooty; Merton Marlow (villain)
Synopsis: Dr. Mid-Nite exposes a crooked politician who is connected with a group of river pirates, and who is trying to use sabotage to become governor.
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Prisoners by Choice

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Character(s): Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Hooty; Myra Mason; "Diamond" Jack Gillian (death); "Gallows" Gallagher (villain)
Synopsis: The murder of Jack Gillian by "Gallows" Gallagher mystifies Dr. McNider, knowing that Gallagher is in State Prison. So the Man of Night busts Gallagher out of prison and learns that he is in reality the brother of the criminal, and that the real Gallagher is in cahoots with the crooked Warden of the prison.
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The Mysterious Beacon

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Character(s): Dr. Mid-Nite [Charles McNider]; Myra Mason; Hooty; Villains: unnamed gangsters
Synopsis: Dr. Mid-Nite investigates a mysterious "beacon" light that appears on the side of a mountain, causing airplanes to crash into it...airplanes carrying gold shipments!
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The Menace of King Cobra

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Character(s): Dr. Mid-Nite [Charles McNider]; Myra Mason; Hooty; Jack Denton; Silas Carr; King Cobra (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Dr. McNider decides to write a crime article on King Cobra and his gang, exposing him as the owner of a copper mine, who has blamed Jack Denton for a murder he didn't commit.
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Who Is Mr. Terrific?

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Character(s): Mr. Terrific [Terry Sloane] (introduction); Wanda Wilson; Billie Wilson (Wanda's brother); Fair Play Club; un-named Big Shot (villain)
Synopsis: Socialite and master of every field of human endeavor, Terry Sloane adopts the identity of Mr. Terrific to escape boredom, but soon finds a purpose in life after saving the life of Wanda Wilson and getting her brother out of the clutches of a local hoodlum.
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The One-Man Benefit Show

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Character(s): Ivanovitch Bizochki; Hugo Snitz (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Wanda Wilson, the girl Terry rescued last issue, reveals that she knows he is Mr. Terrific and becomes his assistant. This case revolves about a famous violinist who has his valuable Stradivarius taken and held by crooks, who tell him to perform no concerts for the next three weeks.
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The Phony Presidente

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Character(s): Mr. Terrific [Terry Sloan]; Wanda Wilson; Presidente Del Rio (of Santa Flora); Miguel (villain, introduction); Carlos (villain, introduction); Jose (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: While visiting Santa Flora, Terry saves the life of the newly elected Presidente, who decides to return with Sloan to America in order to obtain a large loan to help out his poor populace.
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Dapper Joe's Comeuppance

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Character(s): Mr. Terrific [Terry Sloane]; Wanda Wilson; Dapper Joe (villain, introduction); Buster Anderson (a policeman, introduction)
Synopsis: When Buster Anderson arrests a big time hood, he discovers to his dismay that he and his goons have too much pull to remain in jail. So Mr. Terrific decides to intervene by distributing specially marked "bribe money" through underground channels to entrap Dapper Joe.
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The Two Faces of Caspar Crunch

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Character(s): Mr.Terrific [Terry Sloane]; Wanda Wilson; Caspar Crunch (introduction, villain)
Synopsis: A well-known reformer asks the public to contribute to his cause of closing up all the gambling houses in the city. But when Terry Sloane helps save the life of a man thrown from a car, he discovers the man's attacker is none other than the reformer, Caspar Crunch!
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This Is the Story of Wildcat!

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Character(s): Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Joan Fortune (introduction); Henry Grant (Ted's father, death); Socker Smith (introduction, boxer, death); Ralph Flint (villain, fight promoter); Natie Skinner (villain, fight promoter); Fain (villain)
Synopsis: Boxer Ted Grant kills the former champ in the ring and is inspired by Green Lantern to adopt the identity of Wildcat to clear himself.
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Who Is Wildcat?

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Character(s): Barney (villain, introduction); Wiley (villain, introduction); their gang (villain, introduction); Kid Nelson (introduction)
Synopsis: After becoming the Wildcat in order to find the murderers of his friend and clear his own name (as Ted Grant), Wildcat has further work to do when a gang seeks to silence the witness in the case.
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The Case of the Phantom Killers

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Character(s): Wildcat [Ted Grant]; The Purple Mask Gang [Mitch Daly (death); Joe Conti (death); Malcom Glibson] (villains, introduction)
Synopsis: When the Police round up members of the Purple Mask gang, convict them in court and see them executed, they are warned beforehand that they WILL return and seek their own revenge on those responsible. But Wildcat soon discovers their clever ruse and ends their reign of terror.
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Stretch Skinner, De-teca-tif!

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Character(s): Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Hiram Skinner [Stretch] (introduction); Giles (villain, introduction); Hogg (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: While on his daily training run, Ted runs into a "newly certified" detective, Stretch Skinner...then he smells a rat when he makes the connection between jewel heists taking place and the firm that awarded Stretch his diploma!
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Chips Carder's Big Fix

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Character(s): Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Stretch Skinner; Joan Fortune; Sgt. Grogan; Chips Carder (villain, introduction); L. J. Decker (introduction, death)
Synopsis: Just after Stretch hires Joan to be his secretary, he has two men around him die, and Wildcat figures they are connected. So he assists Skinner round up a crooked gambler responsible for one of the murders.
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Biographies

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Disclose Notes: Back cover portion of the dustjacket, illustrated with small reproductions of the covers from Adventure Comics #48-50 & 52.

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