All-Star Comics #1

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CGC records 91 graded copies for All Star Comics #1 (1940). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.

Hawkman: "The Sorcerer Trygg"

Hawkman) is flying over the Welsh Mountains in search of adventure, and finds some. He saves a brother and sister from their uncle Trygg, a sorcerer who has learned the Haitian secret of zombies, and who wishes to kill them for their inheritance, a mine. Trygg has an ally, a witch named Beldame Gaffy. An army of zombies are working the inherited mine. In order to protect the madman's niece and nephew, Hawkman) destroys Trygg, his accomplice, and their mountain headquarters in an explosion. | Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Hawkman (Carter Hall)) **Antagonists:** * Trygg the Sorcerer) * Beldame Gaffey * an army of zombies **Other Characters:** * Jan (Beldame's nephew) * Margo (Beldame's niece) **Locations:** * Earth-Two ** Welsh Mountains **Items:** * Nth Metal

| Writer2_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler2_1 = Creig Flessel | Inker2_1 = Chad Grothkopf | Letterer2_1 = Chad Grothkopf | StoryTitle2 = Sandman: "The Twin Thieves" | Synopsis2 = Wesley Dodds is shopping in Kennedy's, when it is robbed at gunpoint. Dodds follows the robber, but is surprised to see a man who is the exact twin of the holdup man, but in a light suit. He follows the man in his car to a private home. Returing home, Dodds changes into The Sandman and then returns to 266 Nolan Drive. Breaking in, he finds one man asleep and then open a safe, which contains a fortune in precious stones. Failing to hear a door open behind him, The Sandman is shot and falls to the floor. The crook decides to remove The Sandman's outfit so that he commit crimes under his identity, but The Sandman is not out and gasses the crook. When he revives the twins leave to commit another robbery. The Sandman follows them to the Steamship offices and informs the police, before tackling the crooks. A bullet tears his gas-gun from his hand and the crooks overpower him as loud police sirens can be heard approaching. The crooks scram and The Sandman leaves by a window, catching them in the main lobby. Fighting the pain of his wound, The Sandman places the crooks in the police car, leaves a note to where the stolen jewelry is and his calling card - fine grains of sand. | Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Sandman (Wesley Dodds)) **Antagonists:** * Don, thief * Jed, thief **Other Characters:** * NYPD Cops **Locations:** * New York City ** Manhattan *** Kennedy's Jewelry *** 266 Nolan Drive, hideout *** Dodds Manor, on Park Drive *** Steamship Line Office **Items:** * Sandman's Gas Gun **Vehicles:** * Sandman's 1938 Black Plymouth) Coupe

| Writer3_1 = Sheldon Mayer | Penciler3_1 = Jon L. Blummer | Inker3_1 = Jon L. Blummer | StoryTitle3 = Ultra-Man: "The European war in 2240" | Synopsis3 = Two nations of Europe are at war and with American exports cut off, thousands of workers lose their jobs. Inflamed by propaganda violence flares in the streets. Gary Concord arrives at a large town in the uranium mining region and breaks up a riot. He promises to see the mine owners to get the mines open. Lord Criket, the Sylvanian ambassador, offers to lend the money to re-open the mines, with the mines as security, but the owners refuse. Concord orders all people who to fight about the war must do so in the boxing ring. He then tells the mine owners to accept Lord Criket's offer, because he is going to Europe to stop the war. Before he can do so, foreign agents form roving bands who wreak havoc in the mining region. Gary Concord realises the he must shed his official robes and step out as Ultra-Man. Day after day Gary swoops down on the night riders, until he finds the name of their leader. At the Balkanian embassy he overhears a man agreeing to supply arms in exchange for all rights to uranium deposits and then making the same deal at the Toutonian embassy. At the Sylvanian embassy he confronts Lord Criket and gets him to admit his plan in front of a telecaster. Criket tries to kill Ultra-Man, but falls ninety floors to the ground.

| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters** * Ultra-Man) **Supporting Characters:** * United States of North America President **Antagonists:** * Lord Criket (Sylvanian ambassador) **Other Characters:** * Uranium mine owners * Foreign agents **Locations:** * United States of North America ** Toutonian Embassy ** Balkanian Embassy ** Sylvanian Embassy **Vehicles:** * Strato-Racer

| Writer4_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler4_1 = Everett E. Hibbard | Inker4_1 = Everett E. Hibbard | StoryTitle4 = The Flash: "The Murder of Widow Jones" | Synopsis4 = The Flash investigates a murder, and manages to solve it before the policeman present can even return to the station to report the crime. In the process, the Flash harasses the police chief so badly that he is deputised as a police detective by Commissioner Gardner. | Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Flash (Jay Garrick)) **Supporting Characters:** * Commissioner Gardner **Antagonists:** * John "Clutch" Widdles * unnamed accomplice **Other Characters:** * Mrs. Jones * Keystone City police officers **Locations:** * Earth-Two ** Keystone City, Pennsylvania

| Writer5_1 = Jerry Siegel | Penciler5_1 = Bernard Baily | Inker5_1 = Bernard Baily | StoryTitle5 = The Spectre: "The Tenement Fires" | Synopsis5 = When an epidemic of tenement fires breaks out in Cliffland, the Spectre investigates. He finds that the fires are caused by arsonists in the employ of the tenements' owner, Dr. Cragg, to collect the insurance. But in his initial investigation, after finding a scrap of cloth in a burned out warehouse, the Spectre goes to the afterlife to question the spirit who had once worn the cloth. The dead man informs the Spectre that he spotted the arsonist responsible for the deadly blaze. In the end, when he confronts the businessman responsible, he shows him the faces of all those who died in the fires, which causes the businessman to drop dead, from either fright or shame. And there's no doubt that the Spectre kills him on purpose. | Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Spectre (Jim Corrigan)) ** Spectre Force) **Antagonists:** * Doctor Cragg, slumlord * Nick "Bates" Brant * Pete, arsonist **Other Characters:** * Fire Warden Zane * Several disembodied spirits **Locations:** * Earth-Two ** Cliffland, New Jersey * Heaven

| Writer6_1 = Albert Sulman | Penciler6_1 = Joseph Sulman | Inker6_1 = | Letterer6_1 = | StoryTitle6 = Biff Bronson: Remembo | Synopsis6 = The secret plans for the government bomber have been stolen, so Dan Druff and Biff Bronson go right over. Mulligan tells them that the plans are there and there wasn't time for someone to copy them. Biff finds a clue and goes to see The Great Remembo, memory man. Remembro is on stage, so Biff waits in his desssing room. An enemy agent arrives looking to buy the plans, but realises Biff is not Remembro and pulls a gun. Biff disarms him with a thrown jar of make-up cream and punches him out. He hides the agent in the closet before Remembro returns. Biff pretends to be Agent Y and offers to buy the plans. Remembro memorised the plans and begins writing them down, before Biff says he will turn him in to the FBI. Remembro throws a dagger at Biff, who ducks and slugs him. When Dan arrives he recognises the traitor as Jackson, who works night shift at the factory. Biff reveals that he found a blue diamond ring at the factory, which he remembered seeing on Remembro's finger at yesterday's performance. | Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Biff Bronson) **Supporting Characters:** * Dan Druff (unnamed) **Antagonists:** * Remembro * Agent X **Other Characters:** * Mulligan **Locations:** * Government factory * Theater

| Writer7_1 = Ken Fitch | Penciler7_1 = Bernard Baily | Inker7_1 = Bernard Baily | Letterer7_1 = Bernard Baily | StoryTitle7 = Hourman: "The Forest Fire" | Synopsis7 = Rex "Tick-Tock Tyler," in his civilian identity, puts out a forest fire which threatens a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. He also undoes the plan of arsonist John Blair, to force Peggy and her father to turn over the land they own in Mill Meadows to him, so that he may make a huge profit selling it to the government. | Appearing7 = **Featured Characters:** * Hourman (Rex Tyler)) **Antagonists:** * John Blair ** two thugs: Blackie, other **Other Characters:** * Peggy * Peggy's father **Locations:** * Civilian Conservation Corps Camp * Mill Meadows ** Peggy's Father's old house ** Old Mill * Millville ** hotel ** Blair Real Estate Office (penthouse office in the Millville skyscraper) **Items:** * Miraclo

| Writer8_1 = Jerry Siegel | Penciler8_1 = William Smith | Inker8_1 = William Smith | StoryTitle8 = Red, White, & Blue: "The Volcano Invasion" | Synopsis8 = Red, Whitey and Blooey are called into G-2 HQ and informed that they have been doing such a good job that they have earned a vacation: in Alaska! After getting settled in a local hotel, they discover that Doris West is already there. She tells them that Alaska is being overrun by Kalvanise men who are disguising themselves as Eskimos, and who are believed to have captured or killed a G-2 operative in that area. The trio then go on to round up the oriental crooks and save the life of the G-2 man.

| Appearing8 = **Featured Characters:** * Red, White and Blue) **Red Dugan) **Whitey Smith) **Blooey Blue) **Supporting Characters:** * Doris West) **Antagonists:** * Wolf Mechant **Other Characters:** * Spear Forty Seals (an Eskimo) * Spear Forty Seals' wife * Ig Kluk * Hal Cool **Locations:** * Alaska

| Notes = * Published quarterly by All-American Comics, Inc. * The first two issues of this series serve as an anthology title spotlighting various costumed heroes and adventurers in individual stories. With All-Star Comics Vol 1 3, the format changes, merging eight super-heroes into a shared continuity where they band together as the Justice Society of America. Prior to that issue, the individual characters are regarded as operating within their own insular continuities, separate from that of everyone else. * The **Flash**) appeared last in Flash Comics #6. He chronologically appears next in the first flashback story from All-Star Comics #3. * **Hawkman**) appeared last in Flash Comics #6. He appears next in Flash Comics #7. ** Hawkman) may be en route to New York from Arabia, scene of his previous adventure, at this story's opening. ** Shiera Sanders) doesn't appear in this story. ** This is the only Golden Age appearance of **Trygg**) the sorcerer. Trygg doesn't appear again until Hawkman Vol 4 #35. ** Hawkman) body count > 11. * **Hourman**) appeared last in Adventure Comics Vol 1 52. He appears next in New York World's Fair Comics Vol 1 2. ** Hourman is shown in the opening panel firing a handgun at an unseen target. Hourman doesn't carry a handgun, and he doesn't fire one in this story. See also Adventure Comics Vol 1 50 and Adventure Comics Vol 1 52. ** Once again, Hourman's Miraclo wears off, and he takes another dose shortly later that same day. See also Adventure Comics Vol 1 51. * The **Sandman**) appeared last in Adventure Comics Vol 1 52. He appears next in New York World's Fair Comics Vol 1 2. ** This shoulder wound is the Sandman's fourth bullet wound. ** Sandman gets head-konked unconscious, with a pistol butt. ** Sandman gets his gas gun shot out of his hand, Lone Ranger style, by one villain. This keeps happening to him. * The **Spectre**) appeared last in More Fun Comics #56. He appears next in More Fun Comics #57. ** Spectre body count > 8. * Biff Brannon used to pitch for Yale. * This issue also includes "Exile to Jupiter" (text story) by Evelyn Gaines. * This issue is reprinted in All-Star Comics Archives Vol. 0 (Collected).

| Trivia = * This issues hosts a contest offering a free copy of All-Star Comics #2. The contest asks readers to fill out a coupon listing three characters to leave out of the next issue, and then list three others that they'd like to see in All-Star Comics #2. * New York City police commissioner, Gardner is likely named after writer Gardner Fox. * Jon L. Blummer is credited as "Don Selby" in this issue. * This issue was not renewed for copyright after 28 years, effectively making its debut stories and characters public domain under United States law.

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Creative credits

Writers: Gardner Fox, Gardner Fox, Sheldon Mayer, Gardner Fox, Jerry Siegel, Albert Sulman, Ken Fitch, Jerry Siegel

Interior art: Sheldon Moldoff, Creig Flessel, Jon L. Blummer, Everett E. Hibbard, Bernard Baily, Joseph Sulman, Bernard Baily, William Smith

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