All-American Comics #41

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Green Lantern: "The Tribe of Terror"

Lone Hawk, the son of a dead Indian chief, returns to his people after studying at a white man's university. He's ridiculed for his clothes and behavior, and even more when he tries to talk his people out of their ancient worship of the great Buffalo Spirit. Lone Hawk's attempts to go to the Indian Affairs office for help are foiled when Wycker, a lawyer working on behalf of the tribe, brings up freedom of religion rights, causing Lone Hawk's case to be thrown out. He sneaks along to watch a ritual for the great Buffalo Spirit, noticing the tribe offering piles of red stones, which they'd never done before. When he investigates after the ritual, realizes they're valuable cinnabar. Unfortunately for him, Lone Hawk's caught in the act and bopped on the head by those responsible. Meanwhile, Alan Scott, Irene Miller and Doiby Dickles show up from across the country to broadcast a story on the tribe, only to be told by Lone Hawk's uncle, Blue Claw, that white men aren't welcome there. Lone Hawk's old girlfriend, Sunbright, interrupts and says Lone Hawk's gone missing. Irene appeals to Alan for help, but he demurs. That is, until he has a chance to slip away and become Green Lantern.

Some criminals kidnap Sunbright and Green Lantern follows them, but is brained by their boss throwing a rock, a non-metal that his powers don't protect him against. Green Lantern wakes up to find himself being thrown into a snake pit by the head of the operation, Jay Wycker, but escapes by burning his ropes away with his ring. Following the gang, they lead the hero to a factory where the cinnabar's being processed into mercury, and on the way grabs Lone Hawk's uncle, Blue Claw, so he can see the duplicity of Wycker's operation. Joining Doiby in beating up Wycker's gang, Green Lantern makes short work of them. Blue Claw realizes Lone Hawk only wanted the best for his people, and they decide to commandeer Wycker's factory and use the wealth from the mercury for the good of the tribe.

| StoryTitle2 = Atom: "The Society of the Black Dragon" | Synopsis2 = One of the Japanese aliens scheduled for collection by the FBI is Yoshimi Makahashi, secretly a member of the subversive organization, the Society of the Black Dragon. He escapes the agents, but his trail is accidentally picked up on by Al Pratt when the student's paying an after-hours visit to a Japanese teacher. The man's been stabbed for refusing to aid Makahashi in his anti-American plot, but survives long enough to give Al a clue that Makahashi plans to sabotage the Allison Steel Works. Investigating as the Atom, he catches the foreign spy in the act, but is surprised by Makahashi's jiu jitsu skills. Coming after Makahashi for a second try, however, Atom gets the upper hand with an American football tackle and boxing.

| StoryTitle3 = Doctor Mid-Nite: "Dr. McNider Appeals to Patriots" | Synopsis3 =

| StoryTitle4 = Sargon: "The Barber Shop Gangsters" | Synopsis4 = Arriving in a new town, Sargon stops off at the first barbershop he sees for a shave, only to find out a gang of hoods have tied up and impersonated the real barbers in order to extort an envoy of a foreign country into signing over all their national funds to the traitors who've overthrown the government. Sargon easily corrals and torments the hoods with his magic, and compels one to be dragged back to his employers by his necktie. Once there, the foreign spies try to incinerate incriminating documents, but Sargon magically restores them. He leaves the foreign envoy they were trying to coerce holding them up at gunpoint until the FBI get there. Back at the barbershop, the hood relates to his compatriots how much more rewarding being good is. Meanwhile, Sargon finally sits down to get his shave.

| StoryTitle5 = Hop Harrigan: "The Blueprints" | Synopsis5 =

| StoryTitle6 = Scribbly: "The Broken Window" | Synopsis6 =

| StoryTitle7 = Red, White, and Blue: "Death Test" | Synopsis7 =

| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** *Green Lantern) **Supporting Characters:** * Doiby Dickles) **Antagonists:** * Jay Wycker attorney * Bear-Man **Other Characters:** * Irene Miller) * Lone Hawk * Sunbright * Chief Blue Claw * Snakes **Locations:** * Tsichah Tribe Reservation Home **Items:** * Green Flame Power Ring * Cinnabar * Buffalo Spirit totem **Vehicles:** *

| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** *Atom) **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * Black Dragon Society) **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** *Dr. Mid-Nite) **Supporting Characters:** * Myra Mason) * Hooty) **Antagonists:** * Slimey Gats ** Lefty ** Benny * Hugo Schultz **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** *Sargon) **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** *Hop Harrigan) **Supporting Characters:** * Tank Tinker) * Prop Wash)

**Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:**

**Items:** * Gerry)'s photo **Vehicles:** *

| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Scribbly) * Ma Hunkel (Red Tornado)) **Supporting Characters:** * Cyclone Kids) ** Sisty Jibbet) ** Dinky Jibbet) **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Appearing7 = **Featured Characters:** * Red, White, and Blue) ** Red Dugan), USMC ** Whitey Smith), USA ** Blooey Blue), USN **Supporting Characters:** * Doris West), G2 **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Notes = * These stories are from the 1940s. In the context in that period, the Native Americans are referred as "Indians", which sounds "politically incorrect" today. Comic book stories from 1942 may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American culture. 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. * During this part of Green Lantern's career, any non-metal objects could hurt him, not only wood. A Native Indian manages to head-konk him him with a stone. * Also appearing in this issue of *All-American Comics* was: ** *Mutt & Jeff // Cicero's Cat* (newspaper strip reprints) by Al Smith | Trivia = * Tsichah is a fictional tribe. * The Buffalo spirit worshipped by Tsichah might be an allusion to one of two Lakota personified concepts: 1) Ta Tanka (Great Beast) - The male Buffalo spirit of plenty. 2) Tatankan Gnaskiyan (Crazy Buffalo) - The malevolent spirit who wreaks havoc on love affairs, causing feuds, murders, and suicides. * When asked if he would help a Native American girl, Alan Scott answers: "I am a radio engineer, not Hiawatha." Hiawatha was a precolonial Indian leader and co-founder of the Iroquois Confederacy. He was a leader of the Onondaga people, the Mohawk people, or both. According to some accounts, he was born an Onondaga but adopted into the Mohawks. | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: Bill Finger, Bill O'Connor, Charles Reizenstein, John B. Wentworth, Jon L. Blummer, Sheldon Mayer, John B. Wentworth

Interior art: Irwin Hasen, Ben Flinton, Stan Aschmeier, Irv Novick, Jon L. Blummer, Sheldon Mayer, Howard Purcell

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