| Issue | #17 |
| Published | June-July 1943 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 |
| Pages | 60 |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
| Notes | 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 JJSA code message in the Hawkman code. All story synopses and notes by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). |
| Characters | Wonder Woman [Earth-2]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Dr. Fate; Atom [Al Pratt] (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA); Brain Wave (inset) |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Joe Gallagher |
| Inks | Joe Gallagher |
| Notes | 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 JJSA code message in the Hawkman code. All story synopses and notes by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #4 |
| Characters | Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Dr. Fate; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Wonder Woman [Earth-2]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Atom [Al Pratt]; Starman [Ted Knight] (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA); Brain Wave (villain) |
| Synopsis | As the JSA members gather for their monthly meeting, Wonder Woman informs them 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. But he survived and invented a way using electricity and a special substance that will shrink the JSA members to 8" tall! At the meeting rooms of the JSA, 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. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Joe Gallagher |
| Inks | Joe Gallagher |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #4 |
| Characters | Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt (cameo) |
| Synopsis | While flying along, Hawkman is captured by a JJSA member in a net. He informs the young boy that his father is to be robbed by Brain Wave's men, so they head for the house, to discover living tiny soldiers, mixed in with the boy's regular toys. Unfortunately, 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. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Inks | Sheldon Moldoff |
| 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. |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #4 |
| Characters | Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt (cameo) |
| 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 AND the Thunderbolt arrives to whisk him away. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox; Jack Kirby (partial re-write) |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Joe Simon |
| Notes | Writer credit from Craig Delich (April 30, 2004). Re-writes confirmed by Jack Kirby. |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #4 |
| Characters | Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt (cameo) |
| 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 Spectre is setting off an alarm for the Police, the Thunderbolt arrives and takes him away to Johnny Thunder. |
| Genre | superhero; occult |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Bernard Baily |
| Inks | Bernard Baily |
| Letters | Howard Ferguson |
| Notes | Letterer credit by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #4 |
| Characters | Dr. Fate; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt (cameo) |
| 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. |
| Genre | occult; superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Howard Sherman |
| Inks | Howard Sherman |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #4 |
| Characters | Dr. Mid-Nite; Brain Wave (cameo) |
| Synopsis | A special newspaper is delivered to wealthy Augustus Flack....a paper that tells of "The Ace of Spades," and that those who refuse to pay up die. As he leafs through the paper, an ace of spades card falls out with a note on it, telling him where to take his blackmail money. Others also receive these threats. Dr. Mid-Nite arrives and discovers the address to which the men are asked to bring their money, so he heads over to see what he can do. The Wonder of the Witching Hours 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. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Stan Aschmeier [as Stan Josephs] (signed) |
| Inks | Stan Aschmeier [as Stan Josephs] (signed) |
| Notes | This chapter was probably shortened by a page, as the panel showing the Thunderbolt coming to get Dr. Mid-Nite is missing. |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #4 |
| Characters | Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker |
| Genre | aviation |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Starman [Ted Knight]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt (cameo) |
| 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 the Thunderbolt shows up to whisk him away. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Paul Reinman |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Sam Burlockoff |
| Notes | Pencil & ink credits from Craig Delich (April 30, 2004). Ink credits confirmed by Sam Burlockoff. Pencil credits originally credited to: Ed Dobrotka. This chapter was shortened by a 1/3 of a page. |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #4 |
| Characters | Atom [Al Pratt]; Brain Wave (cameo); Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt (cameo) |
| Synopsis | The Atom witnessess many strange accidents and the victims just happened 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 him away. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Joe Gallagher |
| Inks | Joe Gallagher |
| Notes | This chapter was probably shortened by one page. |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #4 |
| Characters | Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt |
| 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 Sebastin Graves overpowers the real Senator and talkes 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! |
| Genre | superhero;humor |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Stan Aschmeier |
| Inks | Stan Aschmeier |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #4 |
| Characters | Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Dr. Fate; Dr. Mid-Nite; Johnny Thunder [Earth-2]; Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt; Starman [Ted Knight] (all as the Justice Society of America/JSA); Brain Wave (villain) |
| 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 accidently blows himself up! |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Joe Gallagher |
| Inks | Joe Gallagher |
| Notes | Wonder Woman does not appear in the conclusion. |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #4 |