All-Star Comics #12

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CGC records 110 graded copies for All Star Comics #12 (1942). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.

Justice Society of America: "The Black Dragon Menace, Introduction"

A secret organization of Japanese spies in America known as the Black Dragon Society) strikes across the country, abducting eight inventors to seize their inventions for Japan. The War Dept. asks the Justice Society) to investigate the Black Dragons and recover the inventors in order to keep their work out of Japanese hands. | Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Justice Society of America/Justice Battalion) ** Atom) ** Doctor Fate) ** Doctor Mid-Nite) ** Hawkman) ** Johnny Thunder) ** Sandman) ** Spectre) ** Starman) ** Wonder Woman)

**Supporting Characters:** * Hooty) * Myra Mason) * Thunderbolt) **Antagonists:** * Black Dragon Society) * Dr. Smallheimer **Other Characters:** * Charles Reagan * Dr. Stander * Ivoren * Weldon * W.P.A. **Locations:** * Earth-Two ** Chicago ** JSA Headquarters ** New York City ** San Francisco **Items:** * Amulet of Anubis * Cloak of Destiny * Flame Throwing Tank * Giant Propeller * Gravity Rod * Doctor Fate's Half-Helmet * Huge Dirigible * Modern Greek Fire * Nth Metal Wings * Rocket-Bomb * Wirepoon * Y-Ray **Vehicles:** * The Sandcar

| Writer2_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler2_1 = Sheldon Moldoff | Inker2_1 = Sheldon Moldoff | Letterer2_1 = | StoryTitle2 = Chapter 1: "Hawkman and the Giant Propeller" | Synopsis2 = Hawkman) must locate a giant propeller that is guided by a human brain. But when he finds it, he is shot and tied to the propeller, which is sent to bomb New York. He escapes, and then he and his hawks catch all the bombs. He then sends the propeller to destroy the Black Dragon hideout. | Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Hawkman) **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer3_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler3_1 = Cliff Young | Inker3_1 = Cliff Young | Letterer3_1 = | StoryTitle3 = Chapter 2: "Sandman and the Greek Fire" | Synopsis3 = The Sandman) sets out to find the lost "Greek Fire" which can burn on water. He investigates reports of burning water in a desolate spot in northern New England and finds the kidnapped inventor, but is knocked out. When he awakens, he is thrown into a flaming lake. Using sand to smother some of the fire, he escapes the flaming lake and finishes off the rest of the Japanese. | Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Sandman) **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer4_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler4_1 = Ben Flinton | Inker4_1 = Ben Flinton | Letterer4_1 = | StoryTitle4 = Chapter 3: "The Atom in San Francisco" | Synopsis4 = The Atom) heads to San Francisco to retrieve a powerful explosive. Aided by a Japanese-American man, he locates the local base of operations and learns that the Black Dragon intends to blow up the city of San Francisco. He overpowers the workmen tunneling under the city and recovers the explosive. | Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Atom) **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer5_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler5_1 = Jack Burnley | Inker5_1 = Jack Burnley | Letterer5_1 = | StoryTitle5 = Chapter 4: "Starman and the Giant Dirigible" | Synopsis5 = While flying, Starman) finds a huge dirigible with stolen U.S. dive bombers hanging from it. He fights off the bombers but the dirigible climbs out of his range. Returning to a military base, he rigs up a warming system with his gravity rod that allows him to pursue the stolen craft into the stratosphere. Using his gravity rod, he rescues the scientist and lands the dirigible. | Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Starman) **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer6_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler6_1 = Bernard Klein | Inker6_1 = Bernard Klein | Letterer6_1 = | StoryTitle6 = Chapter 5: "Doctor Fate and the Giant Tank" | Synopsis6 = Doctor Fate) finds and captures a flame-thrower tank, but the Japanese force Native Americans men to get the tank back by taking their women and children hostage. Fate tracks down the Japanese, and seeing that Fate is fighting for them, the Native Americans help Fate round up the enemy forces. | Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Doctor Fate) **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer7_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler7_1 = Stan Aschmeier | Inker7_1 = Stan Aschmeier | Letterer7_1 = | StoryTitle7 = Chapter 6: "Doctor Mid-Nite and the Y-Ray" | Synopsis7 = Doctor Mid-Nite) tracks down Dr. Stander, inventor of the healing Y-Ray. To find the Black Dragon, he goes to Stander's lab and forges a note that says Dr. McNider (Mid-Nite's alter ego) also has a copy of the Y-ray formula. Newspapers run the story, and the Black Dragon locks Dr. McNider in a cell with Dr. Stander, where he learns that the Y-ray has been reversed to make a death ray. Dr. Mid-Nite escapes and frees Dr. Stander. In the melee the death ray kills the kidnappers. Dr. Stander then destroys the ray to prevent it from ever harming anyone again. | Appearing7 = **Featured Characters:** * Doctor Mid-Nite) **Supporting Characters:** * Hooty) **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer8_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler8_1 = Bernard Baily | Inker8_1 = Bernard Baily | Letterer8_1 = Bernard Baily | StoryTitle8 = Chapter 7: "The Spectre and the Rocket Bomb" | Synopsis8 = The Black Dragons kidnap Charles Reagan, inventor of the rocket bomb, and torture him until he tells how to build the one. Once they do, they launch it on a collision course with Chicago. The Spectre) sees the launch and diverts the bomb to Japan. He traces the launch back to the submarine, rescues the inventor, and captures the sub. | Appearing8 = **Featured Characters:** * Spectre) **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer9_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler9_1 = Stan Aschmeier | Inker9_1 = Stan Aschmeier | Letterer9_1 = | StoryTitle9 = Chapter 8: "Johnny Thunder Versus the Black Dragons" | Synopsis9 =

At the end of each of these previous missions, the Thunderbolt) has been whisking the heroes away before they can finish debriefing with local authorities.

Johnny)'s orders from the War Dept. are to stay out of the way of the other members. Frustrated, Johnny wishes aloud that he could get to the bottom of the situation. The Thunderbolt obliges, putting him in the middle of the Black Dragon Society's headquarters. After bumbling around, Johnny is captured by the Black Dragon, but not before sending his Thunderbolt to stop a Black Dragon raid on a nearby airplane factory. | Appearing9 = **Featured Characters:** * Johnny Thunder) **Supporting Characters:** * Thunderbolt) **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer10_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler10_1 = Jack Burnley | Inker10_1 = Jack Burnley | Letterer10_1 = | StoryTitle10 = Justice Society of America: "The Black Dragon Menace, Conclusion" | Synopsis10 = Believing the Thunderbolt needs more time to save the factory, Johnny refuses to call his Thunderbolt back to save his life. After resolving himself to dying as a martyr for his country, he wishes the other members of the Justice Society could see what a hero he is. The Thunderbolt happily brings every member to his rescue. They round up the entire Black Dragon Society on the spot. | Appearing10 = **Featured Characters:** * Justice Society of America/Justice Battalion) ** Atom) ** Doctor Fate) ** Doctor Mid-Nite) ** Hawkman) ** Johnny Thunder) ** Sandman) ** Spectre) ** Starman) ** Wonder Woman) **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| StoryTitle21 = Hop Harrigan: "Mystery Island" | Synopsis21 = Hop Harrigan) and Tank Tinker) investigate a mysterious light coming from a deserted island, only to be shot down by Japanese fighter planes. Hop and Tank manage to get ashore and overrun the hidden base. | Appearing21 = **Featured Characters:** * Hop Harrigan) **Supporting Characters:** * Tank Tinker) **Antagonists:** * Japanese armed forces **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Notes = * Published bi-monthly by All-American Comics, Inc. * Reprinted in All-Star Comics Archives Vol. 3 (Collected). * Comic book stories from 1942 may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society. Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While not representing the DC Comics view of today's society, these stories are being indexed and summarized as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed. That said, this issue of All-Star is a particularly infamous example. The entire plot of the JSA's story is predicated on a treacherous cabal of American-based, grossly caricatured, Japanese spies performing espionage acts against the USA. In the time period this issue was published, there was widespread belief in conspiracy theories about real-life Japanese-Americans being saboteurs. Modern historians have re-examined the unconstitutional incarceration of Japanese-Americans in FDR's containment camps, and shed light on the massive civil rights abuses which took place. | Trivia = | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: Gardner Fox, Gardner Fox, Gardner Fox, Gardner Fox, Gardner Fox, Gardner Fox, Gardner Fox, Gardner Fox, Gardner Fox, Gardner Fox

Interior art: Jack Burnley, Sheldon Moldoff, Cliff Young, Ben Flinton, Jack Burnley, Bernard Klein, Stan Aschmeier, Bernard Baily, Stan Aschmeier, Jack Burnley

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