| Issue | #10 |
| Published | April-May 1942 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 |
| Pages | 68 |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
| Notes | This issue's editorial page features a message in the Supermen of America code. All story synopses and notes by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). |
| Characters | Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Dr. Fate; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Superman [Earth-2] (inset); Batman [Earth-2] (inset); Flash [Jay Garrick] (inset); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (inset) (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA) |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Everett E. Hibbard |
| Inks | Everett E. Hibbard |
| Notes | This issue's editorial page features a message in the Supermen of America code. All story synopses and notes by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 |
| Characters | Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Superman [Earth-2] (inset on first page, not in story); Batman [Earth-2] (inset on first page, not in story); Flash [Jay Garrick] (inset on first page, cameo in story); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (inset on first page, not in story); Atom [Al Pratt]; Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Dr. Fate; Starman [Ted Knight]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA); Professor Everson |
| Synopsis | After cleaning up a group of criminals, the Hawkman, Dr. Mid-Nite and Sandman are informed by a Professor Everson that the scientific community is endeavoring to find a way to protect America from aerial attack. Hawkman sends his hawk, Big Red, out to fetch the other members, and they sit down to dinner with Everson, who casually mentions to Johnny that he has perfected a time ray, and he has used it successfully. At Johnny's suggestion, the members will travel 500 years into the future to try and secure the bomb defense formular, while honorary members Flash and Green Lantern will protect the scientists while the JSA is away. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Everett E. Hibbard |
| Inks | Everett E. Hibbard |
| Notes | With Prof Everson, also in 21. First issue with the new Sandman costume. |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 |
| Characters | Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Superman [Earth-2] (photo); Flash [Jay Garrick] (photo); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (photo); Batman [Earth-1] (photo); Spectre [Jim Corrigan] (photo); Dr. Fate (photo); Atom [Al Pratt] (photo); Starman [Ted Knight] (photo); Dr. Mid-Nite (photo); Johnny Thunder [Earth-2] (photo); Sandman [Wesley Dodds] (photo) (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA) |
| Synopsis | Hawkman arrives in the year 2442 and is immediately cornered by the local police who believe that he is a Martian highwayman or insane, but not the fabled Hawkman of years past. He is imprisoned, but with the help of his Nth metal, escapes from jail and heads for the National Televisabrary, where he to discover information on the formula he seeks. He asks the automated system about the formula and the speaker gives him the location of each part of the formula, then heads out to find the first part, secures it and makes ready to hand the other locations off to members as they pass through his time period. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed) |
| Inks | Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed) |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 |
| Characters | Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dr. Fate; Starman [Ted Knight] (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA) |
| Synopsis | As the other JSA members arrive in his time era, Hawkman gives the locations of the forumla parts to each member along with special flying belts for those who cannot fly. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Everett E. Hibbard |
| Inks | Everett E. Hibbard |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 |
| Characters | Sandman [Wesley Dodds] |
| Synopsis | Sandman arrives overlooking a glass-domed city, and quickly disguises himself as a workman to avoid detection, and takes an elevator down to the underground area where he pulls out his wirepoon to shoot across an open area to a stalagmite where the Chamber of the Manuscripts is located, housing the formula. A fellow worker sees this and, believing this guy has stolen the wirepoon from a museum, sounds the alarm. He writes down the formula, then makes good his escape from an army of flying workmen. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Cliff Young (signed) |
| Inks | Cliff Young (signed) |
| Notes | 1st wears yellow and purple costume in All Star. The costume Sandman wears in the intro and conclusion does not look the same. |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 |
| Characters | Atom [Al Pratt] |
| Synopsis | The Atom meanwhile crosses the Atlantic Ocean and up to a majestic, massive city, towering upon snow-capped peaks where he finds a race of giants. He is captured and put into a birdcage...but he notes a mountain eagle in another cage and uses the bird language taught to him by Hawkman to communicate with it. The bird helps him escape and flies him to a cave where the forumla is hidden, which is quickly written down. Atom is discovered and must fight his way clear in order to return his part of the formula to 1942. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Ben Flinton |
| Inks | Ben Flinton |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 |
| Characters | Starman [Ted Knight] |
| Synopsis | As Starman arrives at his destination, he is startled to see a city built on trees, his gravity rod is snatched from his hands by a magnetic ray and he is taken prisoner and is placed in a hanging glass sphere by several men. The Man of Light swings the sphere against a rock wall, it breaks and he lands on a giant spring in the valley below, vaulting him through the window of a manuscript room containing the formula he seeks. He copies the formula and then makes his escape back to 1942. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Jack Burnley |
| Inks | Jack Burnley |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 |
| Characters | Dr. Fate |
| Synopsis | Dr. Fate must go underwater to reach a sub-merged city of marine dwellers in order to locate his part of the formula, and is greeted by a pair that houses the Man of Might. After viewing newsreels of where the formula is hidden, Fate dons an underwater suit and is allowed to escape. He finds the formula, copies it and makes a daring escape from those wishing to stop him. |
| Genre | occult; superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Howard Sherman |
| Inks | Howard Sherman |
| Letters | Howard Sherman |
| Notes | Letterer credit by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 |
| Characters | Hop Harrigan |
| Synopsis | Hop seeks out the answer to an airplane that, at one time, had 25 people on board, but now has no one on board....and is still flying! |
| Genre | aviation |
| Script | Eveyln Gaines? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Writer credit by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 |
| Characters | Dr. Mid-Nite |
| Synopsis | Dr. Mid-Nite and Hooty head for the City of Knowledge, where he knows his part of the formula is located in a place called the Shrine of Science. No one believes he is THE Dr. Mid-Nite until he performs an operation on a man that only Mid-Nite was known to have performed. Grateful, the inhabitants agree to give him the formula he seeks....but finds that others want the secret, too, and he must stop them first. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Stan Aschmeier |
| Inks | Stan Aschmeier |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 |
| Characters | Spectre [Jim Corrigan] |
| Synopsis | The Spectre is sent to the planet Ultima and discovers an inhabited floating island in the air on his way. Landing, he decides to revert to his Jim Corrigan identity, and boards a rocket ship heading to Ultima. Criminals on board shoot him and dump his body into space, where he reverts to the Spectre and races on ahead to the planet. There, he turns back into Corrigan and visits the High Savant of Ultima, who is told of the criminals coming. The Savant agrees to help him get the formula if the criminals show up, which they do. The "Savant" [actually the Spectre] is shot down while the real Savant watches, and the Spectre mops up the crooks and gets his part of the formula. |
| Genre | superhero; occult |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Bernard Baily |
| Inks | Bernard Baily |
| Letters | Bernard Baily |
| Notes | Letterer credit by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 |
| Characters | Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt |
| Synopsis | Johnny approaches yet another floating city in the sky in the American Northwest. Unable to control his flying device properly, he crashes into some of the populace, who know who he is. Just then, Johnny learns his part of the formula has been stolen by a Black Butch, so he heads out [with the Thunderbolt] to confront this character and get the formula. |
| Genre | superhero;humor |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Stan Aschmeier |
| Inks | Stan Aschmeier |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 |
| Characters | Dr. Mid-Nite; Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dr. Fate; Atom [Al Pratt]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Flash [Jay Garrick] (cameo) (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA); Professor Everson |
| Synopsis | The JSA members return to the secret lab at the same exact time they originally left, give their parts of the formula to the scientists [who quickly build the device] and a test is made to see if it works. Once that is confirmed, the JSA leave to take the Professor and the device to Washington D.C.. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Everett E. Hibbard |
| Inks | Everett E. Hibbard |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #2 |