All-American Comics #54

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Green Lantern: "Crime Is an Art"

The heads of the Pitney Museum out west are afraid of the destruction of all their art treasures should the Japanese bomb their city, and decide to move their exhibits somewhere safer for the time being. This announcement reaches Alan Scott and Doiby, who are there to make sure radio installations are in place in case the warning of an air raid needs to be made. Unfortunately, it also reaches unscrupulous parties who'd love to possess the museum's priceless pieces. Afraid of criminals having exactly this thought, Alan becomes Green Lantern, powers up his ring and heads over to the museum to warn them. They explain to the hero the announcement was actually a feint: the exhibits are being moved that night, not a few days from then. The details of the route are hidden in a secret place in the museum.

An unscrupulous guard tips off some of the interested criminals, such as crooked art dealer Lon Snade and gangster Gat Holster, and when Green Lantern returns to the museum to check on the directors he finds criminals have already been there and shot them dead. The only help he gets from a dying director are the cryptic words "key...up". The only other survivor has amnesia. While wandering the museum trying to puzzle it out, Lantern and Doiby end up in a room with replicas of ancient Egyptian marvels of engineering, and realize "key...up" probably means "Cheops". Sure enough, they find the details of the route hidden in a replica of the Pyramid of Cheops. After pounding the criminals who've caught up with them, the director who survived shows up and pulls a gun on the heroic duo. *He* was actually the one who hired Gat Holster's mob to rob the place, and killed the other directors so he could steal the treasures. Lantern and Doiby catch him, then the rest of the gang when it tries to ambush the convoy carrying the art treasures. | Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Green Lantern) **Supporting Characters:** * Doiby Dickles) **Antagonists:** * Lon Snade, art dealer * Gat Holster, bandit chief ** his gang * Museum Director Watkins **Other Characters:** * Museum Directors: Wright, Loft, both die. **Locations:**

* Apex Broadcasting Company * unnamed west coast city ** Pitney Museum **Items:** * Green Lantern's Power Ring

| Writer2_1 = Ted Udall | Penciler2_1 = Joe Gallagher | Inker2_1 = Joe Gallagher | StoryTitle2 = Atom: "Al Pratt's Disguise" | Synopsis2 = | Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Al Pratt, the Atom), as "Denver Ed" **Antagonists:** * protection racketeer ** his gang **Other Characters:** * three business proprietors **Locations:** * Calvin City, Connecticut ** Calvin College ** Candy Store, corner of Pine Street

| Writer3_1 = Charles Reizenstein | Penciler3_1 = Stan Aschmeier | Inker3_1 = Stan Aschmeier | StoryTitle3 = Dr. Mid-Nite: "The Man Who Defeated Death" | Synopsis3 = Dr. McNider's been made the executor of a colleague named Jamison's estate. This consists of a device that can shrink anything its beam is projected on. Meanwhile, a man's shot by gangsters and has a bullet lodged in his heart. Despite his blindness, Dr. McNider's called upon to operate to save the man's life, but he "volunteers" Dr. Mid-Nite to perform the job instead. He does so by using the shrink ray to reduce himself to microscopic size, and after fighting his way through giant germs to where the bullet rests, shrinks that as well and saves the victim's life. | Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Dr. Mid-Nite) **Supporting Characters:** * Myra Mason) * Hooty) **Antagonists:** * Clipper Jackson ** his gang **Other Characters:** * Jamison Deceased * NYPD Detective Wounded **Locations:** * Keystone City * Dr. McNider's Office ** Memorial Hospital ** Jackson's Waterfront Hideout **Items:** * Jamison's Shrinking Ray

| Writer4_1 = Sheldon Mayer | Penciler4_1 = Sheldon Mayer | Inker4_1 = Sheldon Mayer | StoryTitle4 = Scribbly and the Red Tornado: "Trip to the Zoo" | Synopsis4 = | Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Scribbly) * Ma Hunkel (Red Tornado)) **Supporting Characters:** * Cyclone Kids) ** Sisty Jibbet) ** Dinky Jibbet) * Uncle Gus * Uncle Herman **Animals:** * Looey the Lion **Locations:** * New York City ** Vine Street, Hunkel's Grocery ** City Zoo

| Writer5_1 = Ted Udall | Penciler5_1 = Joe Gallagher | Inker5_1 = Joe Gallagher | StoryTitle5 = Red, White, and Blue: "Blooey Got a Cinder in His Eye" | Synopsis5 = | Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Red, White, and Blue) ** Red Dugan), USMC ** Whitey Smith), USA ** Blooey Blue), USN **Supporting Characters:** * Doris West), G2 **Antagonists:** * counterfeiting saboteurs **Locations:** * Mobbins Shipyard **Items:** * Incendiary Liquid (looks like water, acts like dynamite)

| Writer6_1 = Jon L. Blummer | Penciler6_1 = Jon L. Blummer | Inker6_1 = Jon L. Blummer | StoryTitle6 = Hop Harrigan: "Lightning Strikes" | Synopsis6 = | Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** *Lieutenant Hop Harrigan) **Supporting Characters:** * Hippity) ** his Pararompers and Paratots **Antagonists:** * Blitz Fritz (wears a monocle) ** his submarine crews ** his troops **Other Characters:** * international assortment of refugees * Dutch radio operator * operator's young son joins Paratots * U.S. Marines **Locations:** * Northern Coast of South America ** Dutch Guiana *** Refugee Camp "Vrijhopen" *** Oil Depot, "Nieuw Olie" **Vehicles:** * Harrigan's Scouting Plane * Nazi Submarine Flotilla * Me-109 * U.S. P-51s and B-24s

| Notes = * Published monthly except May, August, November, and February by J.R. Publishing Company. * The **Atom** uses putty and make-up to transform his appearance, and infiltrates a robbery gang. This is a skill he rarely uses. * **Dr. Mid-Nite** is able to duplicate Jamison's Shrinking Ray technology, and builds a miniature model of it, which is later expanded to full size by the original device. He then reduces himself to "sub-microscopic size", and enters a patient's body via a skin pore. Inside it, he reduces and removes a bullet from the patient's heart, saving his life. ** After this story, this amazing technology is never used, seen, or mentioned again. * In this point of time, any non-metal objects could hurt Green Lantern, not only wood. **Green Lantern** gets head-konked unconscious with a wooden chair. ** Museum Director Watkins gets knocked out by a scalp-grazing bullet-wound, which gives him amnesia. * **Hop Harrigan** survives another plane crash. ** Hop's sidekick *Hippity* understands all languages, but cannot speak. He carries a battery-powered buzzer and communicates via morse code. ** Hippity recruits his international gang of *Pararompers and Paratots* from an international accumulation of refugees. Next issue, they'll go up against the Japanese Navy. * **Red, White and Blue:** Whitey and Blooey get head-konked unconscious with wooden clubs. * Also appearing in this issue of *All-American Comics* were: ** *Mutt & Jeff* (newspaper strip reprints) by Bud Fisher ** *Cicero's Cat* (newspaper strip reprints) by Bud Fisher ** Jimmy Stone: "Chinese Puzzle, Part One" (text story) by Evelyn Gaines ** 2/3 page advertisement for Wonder Woman Vol 1 6, Mutt & Jeff Vol 1 11, All-Flash Vol 1 12, and All-Star Comics Vol 1 18 | Trivia = * Stan Aschmeier signed his *Dr. Mid-Nite* story as "Stan Josephs". * The final panel of most of the stories in this issue are advertisements for War Bonds, featuring a cartoon rendition of Emperor Hirohito, signed by Dr. Seuss. | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: Bill Finger, Ted Udall, Charles Reizenstein, Sheldon Mayer, Ted Udall, Jon L. Blummer

Interior art: Paul Reinman, Joe Gallagher, Stan Aschmeier, Sheldon Mayer, Joe Gallagher, Jon L. Blummer

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