All-Star Comics Vol 1 1

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 * Title              = All-Star Comics
 * Image              = All-Star Comics 1.jpg
 * Volume             = 1
 * Issue              = 1
 * Month              = Summer
 * Year               = 1940


 * Executive Editor   =
 * CoverArtist1       = Creig Flessel
 * CoverArtist2       = Everett E. Hibbard
 * CoverArtist3       = Jon L. Blummer
 * CoverArtist4       = Bernard Baily


 * PreviousIssue      = &mdash;
 * NextIssue          = All-Star Comics #2


 * Quotation          =
 * Speaker            =


 * StoryTitle1        = "Hawkman vs. the Sorcerer Trygg"
 * StoryTitle2        = "The Twin Thieves"
 * StoryTitle3        = "The Murder of Widow Jones"
 * StoryTitle4        = "The Tenement Fires"
 * StoryTitle5        = "The Forest Fire"
 * StoryTitle6        = "The Volcano Invasion"


 * Synopsis1          = Synopsis not yet written
 * Synopsis2          = Synopsis not yet written
 * Synopsis3          = Synopsis not yet written
 * Synopsis4          = Synopsis not yet written
 * Synopsis5          = Synopsis not yet written
 * Synopsis6          = Synopsis not yet written


 * Editor1_1          = Sheldon Mayer
 * Editor2_1          = Sheldon Mayer
 * Editor3_1          = Sheldon Mayer
 * Editor4_1          = Sheldon Mayer
 * Editor5_1          = Sheldon Mayer
 * Editor6_1          = Sheldon Mayer


 * Writer1_1          = Gardner Fox
 * Writer2_1          = Gardner Fox
 * Writer3_1          = Gardner Fox
 * Writer4_1          = Jerry Siegel
 * Writer5_1          = Ken Fitch
 * Writer6_1          = Jerry Siegel


 * Penciler1_1        = Sheldon Moldoff
 * Penciler2_1        = Chad Grothkopf
 * Penciler3_1        = Everett E. Hibbard
 * Penciler4_1        = Bernard Baily
 * Penciler5_1        = Bernard Baily
 * Penciler6_1        = William Smith


 * Inker1_1           = Sheldon Moldoff
 * Inker2_1           = Chad Grothkopf
 * Inker3_1           = Everett E. Hibbard
 * Inker4_1           = Bernard Baily
 * Inker5_1           = Bernard Baily
 * Inker6_1           = William Smith


 * Colourist1_1       =
 * Letterer2_1        = Chad Grothkopf
 * Letterer5_1        = Bernard Baily

Featured Characters:
 * Appearing1 =


 * Hawkman (Carter Hall)

Supporting Characters:

Villains:


 * Trygg the Sorcerer {{1st}}
 * Beldame Gaffey

Other Characters:


 * Jan (Beldame's nephew)
 * Margo (Beldame's niece)

Locations:


 * Welch Mountains

Items:


 * Nth Metal

Vehicles:


 * None

Featured Characters:
 * Appearing2 =


 * Sandman (Wesley Dodds)

Supporting Characters:


 * None

Villains:


 * Don (a thief)
 * Jed (a thief; Don's brother)

Other Characters:


 * New York City police officers

Locations:


 * New York City
 * Manhattan

Items:


 * Sandman's Gas Gun

Vehicles:


 * None

Featured Characters:
 * Appearing3 =


 * Flash (Jay Garrick)

Supporting Characters:


 * Commissioner Gardner {{Only}}

Villains:


 * John "Clutch" Widdles

Other Characters:


 * Mrs. Jones {{BTS}}

Locations:


 * Keystone City

Items:


 * None

Vehicles:


 * None

Featured Characters:
 * Appearing4 =


 * Spectre (Jim Corrigan)

Supporting Characters:


 * None

Villains:

Other Characters:
 * Doctor Craig
 * Nick "Bates" Brant
 * Pete (an arsonist)


 * Fire Warden Zane
 * Several disembodied spirits

Locations:


 * Cliffland
 * Heaven

Items:


 * None

Vehicles:


 * None

Featured Characters:
 * Appearing5 =


 * Hourman (Rex Tyler)

Supporting Characters:

Villains:


 * Blackie
 * John Blair

Other Characters:


 * Peggy

Locations:


 * Mill Meadows
 * Civilian Conservation Corps campground

Items:


 * Miraclo

Vehicles:


 * None

Featured Characters:
 * Appearing6 =


 * Red, White and Blue
 * Red Dugan
 * Whitey Smith
 * Blooey Blue

Supporting Characters:


 * Spear Forty Seals (an Eskimo)
 * Spear Forty Seals' wife

Villains:


 * Wolf Mechant

Other Characters:


 * Doris West
 * Ig Kluk
 * Hal Cool

Locations:


 * Alaska

Items:


 * None

Vehicles:


 * None


 * Cast1              = Biff Bronson
 * Cast2              = Blooey Blue
 * Cast3              = Flash (Jay Garrick)
 * Cast4              = Gary Concord
 * Cast5              = Hawkman (Carter Hall)
 * Cast6              = Red Dugan
 * Cast7              = Sandman (Wesley Dodds)
 * Cast8              = Spectre (Jim Corrigan)
 * Cast9              = Trygg
 * Cast10             = Whitey Smith


 * Location1          = Alaska
 * Location2          = Cliffland
 * Location3          = Keystone City
 * Location4          = New York City
 * Location5          = Manhattan


 * Item1              = Miraclo
 * Item2              = Nth Metal
 * Item3              = Sandman's Gas Gun


 * Vehicle1           =
 * Vehicle2           =


 * Notes              =
 * This issue is reprinted in All-Star Archives, Volume 0.


 * The first two issues of this series serve as an anthology title spotlighting various costumed heroes and adventurers in individual stories. With issue #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 continuity separate from that of everyone else.


 * This issue includes a Gary Concord story entitled, "The European War in 2240" by Jon L. Blummer. Jon L. Blummer is credited as Don Selby in this issue.


 * This issue also includes a Biff Bronson story entitled, "Remembo" by Albert and Joseph Sulman.


 * The Flash appeared last in Flash Comics #7. He chronologically appears next in the first flashback story from All-Star Comics #3.


 * Hawkman appeared last in Flash Comics #7. He appears next in Flash Comics #8.


 * Hourman appeared last in New York World's Fair Comics #2. He appears next in Adventure Comics #52.


 * The Sandman appeared last in New York World's Fair Comics #2. He appears next in Adventure Comics #52.


 * The Spectre appeared last in More Fun Comics #56. He appears next in More Fun Comics #57.


 * Only Golden Age appearance of Trygg the sorcerer. Trygg doesn't appear again until Hawkman (Volume 5) #35.


 * 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.


 * Recommended        =
 * Adventure Comics
 * All-American Comics
 * All-Star Comics Archives
 * Justice Society of America (Volume 1)
 * Justice Society of America (Volume 2)
 * Justice Society of America (Volume 3)
 * JSA
 * JSA All-Stars
 * JSA Classified
 * JSA: Strange Adventures
 * More Fun Comics


 * CustomSection1     = Related Articles
 * CustomText1        =
 * 1940
 * 2240
 * Justice Society image gallery
 * Justice Society members list
 * Justice Society Reserves list
 * Justice Society Rogues Gallery
 * Justice Society villains
 * Justice Society titles

Appearances

 * Flash appearances list
 * Hawkman appearances list
 * Hourman appearances list
 * Sandman appearances list
 * Spectre appearances list

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 * Links              =
 * All-Star Comics article at Wikipedia
 * Justice Society of America article at Wikipedia
 * Justice Society of America article at Don Markstein's Toonopedia
 * Justice Society of America article at the Hembeck Files
 * Justice Society of America at DrakeSix's Web Site
 * JSA: Fact File
 * JSA Chronology