All-Star Comics Vol 1 57

"Justice Society of America: "The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives!"": A criminal mastermind, the Key, captures four detectives in different parts of the globe, and the Justice Society sets out to capture him and free his captives.

All-Star Comics #57 is an issue of the series All-Star Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1951.

Appearing in Justice Society of America: "The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives!"

Featured Characters:

• Justice Society of America
  • Atom
  • Black Canary I
  • Doctor Mid-Nite
  • Flash I
  • Green Lantern
  • Hawkman
  • Wonder Woman

Supporting Characters:

• Chief Harry Van (Single appearance)
• Mustapha Hakim (Single appearance)
• Jacques Durand (Single appearance)
• Inspector Drew Dawes (Single appearance)

Antagonists:

• Key (First appearance; dies)
• Pierre (Single appearance)
• The Emir of Kasdan (impostor) (Single appearance)
• The Great Gordini (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

• Chief Inspector MacReady (Single appearance)
• Jenkins (Single appearance)
• Harris (Single appearance)
• Malcolm (Single appearance)
• Bill (Single appearance)
• M. Commissaire (Single appearance)
• The Emir of Kasdan (Single appearance)
• Colonel Masir (Single appearance)
• F. Fred Wallis (Single appearance)

Locations:

• United States of America
  • Civic City
    • Civic City Palace
    • Tiffanier (Mentioned only)
  • Hawaii
    • Honolulu
• England
  • London
    • Trafalgar Square
    • The Charing Cross Bank (Single appearance)
    • Paddington Station
    • Scotland Yard
• Turkey
  • Istanbul
• France
  • Paris
    • Notre-Dame Cathedral
    • Eiffel Tower
    • Club Atilla (Single appearance)
    • Sûreté Central Office

Items:

• Blackout Bomb

Vehicles:

• Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane
  
  

Synopsis for Justice Society of America: "The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives!"

A criminal mastermind, the Key, captures four detectives in different parts of the globe, and the Justice Society sets out to capture him and free his captives.

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• Johnny Peril

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Synopsis for Johnny Peril: "The Lady of Mars"

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Notes

• Reprinted in All-Star Comics Archives Vol. 11.

Trivia

Final Golden Age appearance of the Justice Society of America and nearly all of its members. Wonder Woman was the only Justice Society member who remained in continuous publication throughout the 1950s.

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