It does work! Probably is some sort of magnetic ray that draws the electrons of matter closer to each other, making an object shrink! I've made that book so small I need a microscope to see it! This offers a marvelous new field of research! I wonder if I could make one!
All-American Comics #54 is an issue of the series All-American Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1943.
Appearing in Green Lantern: "Crime Is an Art"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
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"
- Synopsis not yet written.
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"
- Synopsis not yet written.
Appearing in Dr. Mid-Nite: "The Man Who Defeated Death"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
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"
- Synopsis not yet written.
Appearing in Scribbly and the Red Tornado: "Trip to the Zoo"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Cyclone Kids
- 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"
- Synopsis not yet written.
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:
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"
- Synopsis not yet written.
Appearing in Hop Harrigan: "Lightning Strikes"
Featured Characters:
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"
- Dutch Guiana
Vehicles:
- Harrigan's Scouting Plane (Destroyed)
- Nazi Submarine Flotilla
- Me-109
- U.S. P-51s and B-24s
Synopsis for Hop Harrigan: "Lightning Strikes"
- Synopsis not yet written.
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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