Comic Cavalcade #21

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CGC records 22 graded copies for Comic Cavalcade #21 (1947). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.

Wonder Woman: "The Siege of the Flying Mermaids"

Despite the efforts of Wonder Woman and Paula to get Gerta to submit to and listen to authority willingly, and despite her seeming to agree to stop conducting experiments unsupervised, Gerta sneaks into the laboratory and invents a serum, with which she turns a batch of young sharks into mermaids. While Gerta and the mermaids are moved to Paradise Island for better supervision, Gerta's continued observation and study of the mermaids leads them to despise her and the Amazons, for treating them as less than human, and they plot their vengeance by attacking a Amazonian ceremony. | Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Wonder Woman) **Supporting Characters:** * Paula von Gunther) * Gerta von Gunther) * Amazons of Paradise Island ** Mala) ** Hippolyte) ** Leeta **Antagonists:** * Queen Sharkeeta) **Other species:** * Winged Mermaids, grown from baby sharks, at least seven of them * Swordfish, natural enemies of sharks **Locations:** * Paradise Island ** Reform Island **Items:** * Chlorofleur Vines * Gerta's Supervitalitee Solution * Gerta's Humanizing Solution * Venus Girdle * Wonder Woman's Tiara * Lasso of Submission **Vehicles:** * Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane

| Writer2_1 = Howard Purcell | Penciler2_1 = Howard Purcell | Inker2_1 = Howard Purcell | StoryTitle2 = Just a Story: "Behind the 8-Ball" | Synopsis2 = | Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Percival Drizzle **Antagonists:** * Gilmore, brother in law * Random Hoodlum * Gang of Thieves **Other Characters:** * Bertha Drizzle * Mr. Stout, boss * The Great Ziggenfoos, hypnotist **Locations:** * Ajax Metal Co.

| Writer3_1 = Bob Kanigher | Penciler3_1 = Martin Naydel | Inker3_1 = Martin Naydel | StoryTitle3 = Flash: "The Making of a Reporter" | Synopsis3 = | Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Flash) **Supporting Characters:** * Joan Williams) **Antagonists:** * "Big Boss" Edwards (Courier managing editor) ** his hijacking mob **Other Characters:** * J. Rocky Kummer, Courier publisher * Ken Kummer, Courier writer * Marge, friend of Joan **Locations:** * Keystone City ** The Courier Offices ** Lower East Side *** Warehouses *** Slum Saloon *** Photography Shop ** Hastings Road **Items:** * Ken's Infra-Red Camera

| Writer4_1 = Jon L. Blummer | Penciler4_1 = Jon L. Blummer | Inker4_1 = Jon L. Blummer | StoryTitle4 = Hop Harrigan: "Mixy Pixy Brews a Bruiser" | Synopsis4 = | Appearing4 = **Narrator:** * Mixy Pixy **Featured Characters:** * Hop Harrigan) **Supporting Characters:** * Tank Tinker) * Miss Snap **Antagonists:** * corrupt security guard * Sir Sam, burglar (wears a monocle) * Morpheus, burglar **Other Characters:** * Doc Groan * McGooch, antique appraiser * Sinkovitch, antique appraiser **Locations:** * Harrigan Aerodrome * Hoosic Falls ** Warehouse **Items:** * Packet of old letters **Vehicles:** * Hop's Helicopter * Burglars' Cargo Helicopter * Burglars' Furniture Truck

| Writer5_1 = | Penciler5_1 = Irwin Hasen | Inker5_1 = Irwin Hasen | StoryTitle5 = O'Malley, of the Fourth Precinct: "Big Dipper & Little Dipper" | Synopsis5 = Big Dipper and Little Dipper escape from the Fourth Precinct, steal the cell door on their way out, and embark on a pocket-picking spree. The Chief calls in Long John O'Malley and sends him after them. Completely by accident he crashes into them at the skating rink, then punches them out and hauls them back to the station house. In the holding cell he has a big laugh at their expense but when he leaves, without him noticing, they've stolen his trousers. | Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Long John O'Malley **Supporting Characters:** * Chief **Antagonists:** * Big Dipper * Little Dipper **Other Characters:** * two robbers * two stick-up victims **Locations:** * Fourth Precinct * Skating Rink

| Writer6_1 = John Broome | Penciler6_1 = Paul Reinman | Inker6_1 = Paul Reinman | StoryTitle6 = Green Lantern: "The Man Who Couldn't Fail" | Synopsis6 = Alan Scott is called back to his alma mater, Hale U, by his math professor, who asks him to broadcast an appeal on WXYZ, for help... with a math problem. Someone had left a perplexing formula on his desk and the professor has been unable to solve it, but also unable to think of anything else. It's driving him mad. He asks Alan to use his broadcast to contact, and request for help from, the long-missing prodigy, Ira Selby, who famously graduated from Hale at age eleven, 20 years earlier.

It turns out that Selby, despite being renowned as a child prodigy, was unable to get any academic positions because of his age. And because he had no practical skills, he found no other employment besides playing bit parts in stage plays, where he mastered the art of disguise. Now Selby was working as a lowly janitor at the university, plotting revenge. He was the one who planted the all-consuming formula, allowing his gang to rob the professor's house without being noticed. Alan and Doiby are nearby and intervene, but Selby bumps into them while disguised as an old professor, giving his men time to escape. Green Lantern mentions the faux professor's name to his old professor and is told there's no "Professor Ybelsari" working for Hale, but when he tries to pick up the trail only finds Selby back in his role as the campus janitor.

Later Alan also finds one of those perplexing formulas, this one being about radio broadcasts, and soon can't think of anything else. Fortunately he has his sidekick Doiby around to dump cold water over his head and shock him out of it. This also helps him clarify his mind, to figure out that "Ybelsari" is "Ira Selby" backwards, and that the former prodigy is the cause of the recent campus deviltry. Lantern and Doiby attack, but Selby warns the heroic duo off, saying he's the only one who can solve the problems, which are driving many professors on campus crazy. Selby and his henchmen leave the two tied to a pipe in the basement, unguarded. Green Lantern easily frees them with his ring and flies off to stop Selby from using the university's cyclotron to create an atomic blast that would level the school.

To make up for Selby's neglect, the university agrees to give Selby a professorship, after he's served his prison term. Later, as Alan and Doiby are driving home, the cabbie remarks being around all those professors made him feel dumb, but Alan praises his practical smarts for the cold water trick that ultimately saved the day. | Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** *Green Lantern) **Supporting Characters:** *Doiby Dickles) **Antagonists:** * Ira Selby) former genius child ** his henchmen **Other Characters:** * Professor Daly math professor * Professor Dean Mook professor of Greek **Locations:** * Hale University * Employment agency * Travelling stock company **Items:** * Alan Scott's Power Ring * Alan Scott's Power Battery * WXYZ Radio portable transmitter * Hale University's cyclotron **Vehicles:** * Goitrude

| Notes = * Published bi-monthly by National Comics Publications, Inc. This 76-page magazine sold for fifteen cents a copy, in an era when almost all other comics were 64 pages, for ten cents. * Alan Scott was originally mentioned as having attended Hale University in All-American Comics Vol 1 83. * **O'Malley, of the Fourth Precinct** wears a fedora and smokes a cigar, in bed. | Trivia = * Also appearing in this issue of *Comic Cavalcade were: ** Editorial Advisory Board (promotional text) ** Table of Contents ** *Mutt & Jeff* (newspaper strip reprints) by Bud Fisher ** *"The Changeling"* (full-page black & white ad for the current issue of Flash Comics Vol 1 84) | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: William Moulton Marston, Howard Purcell, Bob Kanigher, Jon L. Blummer, John Broome

Interior art: Harry G. Peter, Howard Purcell, Martin Naydel, Jon L. Blummer, Irwin Hasen, Paul Reinman

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