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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published Summer 1945
Cover Price 0.15
Pages 76
Editing M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer (editor) , Julius Schwartz, Ted Udall (story editors)
Notes All-American bullet on cover. This issue contains an ad for Hop Harrigan's All-American Flying Club.

Cover Details

Characters Flash; Green Lantern; Wonder Woman.
Genre superhero
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes All-American bullet on cover. This issue contains an ad for Hop Harrigan's All-American Flying Club.

13 page Wonder Woman story "The Cheetah Returns"

Characters Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor; Etta Candy; the Holliday Girls; the Cheetah Priscilla Rich]; Mala; Aphrodite; Claudia Rich.
Synopsis Wonder Woman arrives in Paradise Island after being informed that the Cheetah had escaped and supposedly drowned in the ocean. However, the Cheetah stows away in the Invisible Plane, returns to the Man's World, and impersonates her twin Claudia, capturing Steve and Wonder Woman.
Genre superhero
Script Joyce Murchison
Pencils Harry G. Peter
Inks Harry G. Peter
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich, updated 8/04. Much info and expanded synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-2-09.

3 page Mutt and Jeff filler "Mutt & Jeff Gags"

Characters Mutt; Jeff.
Genre humor
Script Al Smith (signed as Bud Fisher)
Pencils Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]
Inks Al Smith (signed as Bud Fisher)
Letters Al Smith
Notes Newspaper reprints. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 9-2-09.

13 page Green Lantern story "Two Characters in Search of a Brain"

Characters The Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles; Sure-Shot Mob (villains); Murphy.
Synopsis Two petty thieves kidnap a college professor in order to convince fellow criminals that they are the "brains" of their mob, and to cover up their theft of stolen funds.
Genre superhero
Script Alfred Bester?
Pencils Jon Chester Kozlak
Inks Jon Chester Kozlak
Notes Doiby uses a green signal flare to summon the Green Lantern in this story. Note, most info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-2-09.

8 page Hop Harrigan story "The Lucky Rings"

Characters Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker; Corporal "Tooky" Jones; Captain Arthur Isaac; the Japanese (villains).
Synopsis Using Corporal Jones to infilitrate a Japanese- held island to try and enlist the support of islanders in the on-going fight against the Japanese, Hop and Tink head for the island by plane to deliver stones, used by the natives as their currency. Their plane is damaged, but Hop decides to drop the stones on the enemy intallation, thus destroying it.
Genre aviation
Script Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Pencils Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Inks Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Letters Jon L. Blummer
Notes Most info, letterer credit and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-2-09.

8 page Johnny Everyman story "Birds over China"

Characters Johnny Everyman
Genre adventure
Pencils John Daly
Inks John Daly
Notes Writer credit revision from John Daly to ? by Craig Delich, updated 8/04.

6 page Red, White and Blue story "Whitey in Germany"

Characters Red Dugan; Whitey White; Blooey Blue.
Genre adventure
Script John B. Wentworth
Pencils Dennis Neville
Inks Dennis Neville

1 page Mutt and Jeff filler

Characters Mutt; Jeff.
Genre humor
Script Al Smith (signed as Bud Fisher)
Pencils Al Smith (signed as Bud Fisher)
Inks Al Smith (signed as Bud Fisher)
Letters Al Smith
Notes Newspaper reprints. Changes to sequencing by Len Wolinsky, 3/15/2006. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 9-2-09.

12 page The Flash story "Shenanigans in Sherwood Forest"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; nephew of Joan Willaims; Robin Hood; Maid Marian; Little John; Baliff of Sherwood Forest & his men (villains); two un-named hoods (villains).
Synopsis After a particularly hard day of catching criminals, the Flash decides to travel into the past in order to get away from crime and take a well-deserved rest. Unfortunately, he picks Sherwood Forest at the time of Robin Hood, and is mistaken for one of Robin's men!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes Changes to sequencing by Len Wolinsky, 3/15/2006. Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-2-09.