All-American Comics Vol 1 54

"Green Lantern: "Crime Is an Art"": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

Appearing in Green Lantern: "Crime Is an Art"

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
  
  

Synopsis for Green Lantern: "Crime Is an Art"

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Appearing in Atom: "Al Pratt's Disguise"

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
    

Synopsis for Atom: "Al Pratt's Disguise"

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Appearing in Dr. Mid-Nite: "The Man Who Defeated Death"

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
  

Synopsis for Dr. Mid-Nite: "The Man Who Defeated Death"

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Appearing in Scribbly and the Red Tornado: "Trip to the Zoo"

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
    

Synopsis for Scribbly and the Red Tornado: "Trip to the Zoo"

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Appearing in Red, White, and Blue: "Blooey Got a Cinder in His Eye"

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)
  

Synopsis for Red, White, and Blue: "Blooey Got a Cinder in His Eye"

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Appearing in Hop Harrigan: "Lightning Strikes"

Featured Characters:

• Lieutenant Hop Harrigan

Supporting Characters:

• Hippity
  • his Pararompers and Paratots (First appearance)

Antagonists:

• Blitz Fritz (wears a monocle)
  • his submarine crews
  • his troops

Other Characters:

• international assortment of refugees
• Dutch radio operator (Dies)
• 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 (Destroyed)
• Nazi Submarine Flotilla
• Me-109
• U.S. P-51s and B-24s
  

Synopsis for Hop Harrigan: "Lightning Strikes"

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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 #6, Mutt & Jeff #11, All-Flash #12, and All-Star Comics #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.

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