The Big All-American Comic Book

"Wonder Woman: "Danny the Demon Had Plans"": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

The Big All-American Comic Book is a one-shot with a cover date of December, 1944.

Appearing in Wonder Woman: "Danny the Demon Had Plans"

Featured Characters:

• Wonder Woman

Supporting Characters:

• Holliday Girls
  • Etta Candy
• Steve Trevor
• General Darnell

Antagonists:

• Danny the Demon, safecracker

Other Characters:

• General Courtney (Dies)
• Colonel Fuzz
• Bingley, park manager
• Danny Deft, watchman
• Dipsy the Clown
• Officer O'Leary and his partner

Locations:

• Washington, D.C.
  • Cookoo Amusement Park
  • Holliday College
  • Intelligence Service, @ War Department

Items:

• Mental Radio
• Bracelets of Submission
• Lasso of Truth
  
  

Synopsis for Wonder Woman: "Danny the Demon Had Plans"

• Synopsis not yet written.

Appearing in Scribbly: "The Ten Buck Nut"

Featured Characters:

• Scribbly Jibbet

Supporting Characters:

• Dinky Jibbet
• Sisty Hunkel
• Ma Hunkel

Other Characters:

• random racetrack crackpot

Locations:

• New York
  • New York City
    • Hunkel's Grocery
    • Racetrack
      

Synopsis for Scribbly: "The Ten Buck Nut"

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Appearing in Atom: "Putting on the Dog"

Featured Characters:

• Atom

Supporting Characters:

• Herminetta Wallabi

Antagonists:

• Big Mouth Bo-Bo
  • Goo Goo
  • other stooge

Other Characters:

• Rollo the Wonder Dog

Locations:

• New York
  • New York City
    • Rocket Theater
    • Mulligan's Cafe
    • Mrs. Wallabi's 5th-Avenue Mansion
    • Central Park
      

Synopsis for Atom: "Putting on the Dog"

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Appearing in Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys: "Three Fugitives from Clarence"

Featured Characters:

• Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys
  • Little Boy Blue
  • Toughy
  • Tubby

Supporting Characters:

• Clarence Bates
• Mrs. Rogers
• Dan Rogers

Antagonists:

• Monk Healy
  • his mugs

Locations:

• Big City
  

Synopsis for Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys: "Three Fugitives from Clarence"

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Appearing in Johnny Thunder: "Little Peachy Pet Riding Hood"

Featured Characters:

• Johnny Thunder

Supporting Characters:

• Peachy Pet
• Mrs. Thunder, Johnny's Mother

Antagonists:

• Big Bad Wolf (only in Johnny's story)

Other Characters:

• Mrs. Thunder
• her lady friends
• Peachy's kid friends
  

Synopsis for Johnny Thunder: "Little Peachy Pet Riding Hood"

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Appearing in Hop Harrigan: "The Fatal Charm of Tank Tinker"

Featured Characters:

• Hop Harrigan

Supporting Characters:

• Tank Tinker

Antagonists:

• Japanese Military Forces

Other Characters:

• United States Army
• United States Navy

Locations:

• Pacific Theatre of World War II
  • well-fortified Japanese-held island

Items:

• Microfilmed Intel
• Special Cameras

Vehicles:

• Japanese light bomber (stolen, destroyed)
• three Japanese pursuit planes (one destroyed)
• Japanese 2-man Submarine (captured)
• Japanese Destroyer (Destroyed)
• U.S. Destroyer
• U.S. Cruiser
  

Synopsis for Hop Harrigan: "The Fatal Charm of Tank Tinker"

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Appearing in The Whip: "Warpath"

Featured Characters:

• Whip

Antagonists:

• Charley
• Daggett
• Shelby

Other Characters:

• Pueblo Indians
  • Yellow Horse
  • Chief Laughing Dog
• Professor Brahmer

Locations:

• New Mexico
  • Gaynor's Ranch
  • Pueblo Reservation
  • Piute
    

Synopsis for The Whip: "Warpath"

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Appearing in Pint-Size Pete: "Simply Shocking"

Featured Characters:

• Pint-Size Pete

Supporting Characters:

• Minus, Pete's Pooch Pal

Antagonists:

• B. Goat, City Dog-Catcher
• Foxy Finageller
  • his crook gang: Snapper, others

Other Characters:

• Cops

Locations:

• Earth-C
  

Synopsis for Pint-Size Pete: "Simply Shocking"

Pint-Size Pete has terrible bad luck and complains about it a lot.

Appearing in Green Lantern: "Heroes Are Born... Not Made"

Featured Characters:

• Green Lantern

Supporting Characters:

• Doiby Dickles

Antagonists:

• Leslie "Pop" Banks, as Medusa (Dies)
  • three thugs

Other Characters:

• Banker Adams (Dies)
• Leslie Banks, Leslie's daughter
• at least 10 orphans

Locations:

• Baxton, USA
  • Bell Tower
  • Many Monuments
  • Secour Hotel
  • Orphanage
• École Rodin, France (Mentioned only)

Items:

• Baxton's Iron Bell
• Green Lantern Ring
• Medusa's Portable Short-Wave Transmitter (death ray)
  

Synopsis for Green Lantern: "Heroes Are Born... Not Made"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  
  

Appearing in Ghost Patrol: "Meet Honest John"

Featured Characters:

• Ghost Patrol
  • Fred
  • Pedro
  • Slim

Antagonists:

• Honest John Gyppem, mayor
• Big Charlie Bildit, builder

Other Characters:

• Bricklayer

Locations:

• Argus City
  • new train station (collapses)
    

Synopsis for Ghost Patrol: "Meet Honest John"

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Appearing in Mr. Terrific: "Models for Crime"

Featured Characters:

• Mr. Terrific

Antagonists:

• "Money" Lowy
  • his hoods

Other Characters:

• Jack Tarr, ship modeler
• Chickie Tarr
• night watchman (wounded)

Locations:

• New York
  • New York City

Items:

• Tarr's scale model ships, concealing deadly mechanisms
• Sloan's scale model ship, concealing radio equipment
  

Synopsis for Mr. Terrific: "Models for Crime"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  
  

Appearing in Wildcat: "Wildcat Meets the Kidder"

Featured Characters:

• Wildcat

Supporting Characters:

• Stretch Skinner

Antagonists:

• The Kidder
  • his gang

Other Characters:

• D. Dunn, opposing boxer (K.O.)

Locations:

• Boxing Arena
• Toy Store

Items:

• sneezing powder, squirting pens, cigarette charges, etc.
  

Synopsis for Wildcat: "Wildcat Meets the Kidder"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  
  

Appearing in Hawkman: "A Hot Time in the Old Town"

Featured Characters:

• Hawkman

Supporting Characters:

• Hawkgirl

Antagonists:

• Hot Shot (Only appearance; dies)
  • Slick, hench thug
  • 3 more hench

Locations:

• Hot Shot's specially overheated secret base
• Hawk Valley
• Amalgamated Metals Building

Items:

• Nth Metal Wings

Vehicles:

• Hot Shot's specially heated sedan
  

Synopsis for Hawkman: "A Hot Time in the Old Town"

An arsonist endangers Hawk Valley with a forest fire. Hawkman hunts down and out-fights his gang, while Hot Shot flees and hides in a walk-in freezer. Such a place is actually Hot Shot's worst nightmare, because he has an extremely strong phobia about cold. By bad luck, his special asbestos suit gets wedged in the doorway, delaying any rescue from the freezer, in which Hot Shot dies.

Appearing in Bulldog Drumhead: "Leary Leery McSneery"

Featured Characters:

• Bulldog Drumhead

Supporting Characters:

• L'il Oliver Wendell McDuffy, sidekick

Antagonists:

• Leery McSneery
  • his gang

Other Characters:

• J. Mortimer Goldenbucks

Locations:

• Earth-C
  

Synopsis for Bulldog Drumhead: "Leary Leery McSneery"

• Synopsis not yet written.
  
  

Appearing in Flash: "The Million Dollar Apple"

Featured Characters:

• Flash

Supporting Characters:

• Joan Williams
• Three Dimwits
  • Winky Moylan
  • Blinky Boylan
  • Noddy Toylan

Antagonists:

• Jocko Wolfe, theater owner
  • his gang

Other Characters:

• Robert Cromwell, noted explorer
• private detective
• Tony, apple peddler

Locations:

• Palace Theater
• Five Penthouse Drive, Cromwell's apartment

Items:

• Cromwell's emerald

Vehicles:

• S.S. Luck
  

Synopsis for Flash: "The Million Dollar Apple"

As a protective measure, a very expensive emerald is concealed within an apple. The apple gets lost and thru an exceedingly unlikely series of coincidences, works its way back to the rightful owner.

Notes

• The Big All-American Comic Book was a one-shot comic book published in December 1944 by William H. Wise & Company. The product of World War II paper restrictions, the book was a collaboration with All-American Publications: All-American provided the properties and wrote the content, while Wise & Company printed it using their surplus paper allotment.
  • The book was 128 pages, featured all original stories, and sold for 25 cents. Almost all other comics at that time were 64 pages and sold for a dime.
  • This issue is reprinted in The DC Comics Rarities Archives Vol. 1.
• Green Lantern's oath is the second version, later used by Hal Jordan and the Earth-One Green Lanterns.
  • Doiby gets head-konked unconscious, one more time.
• Hawkman gets head-konked unconscious, with a wrench.
• Hop Harrigan: At the time of this story, the Battle of Tarawa has already taken place.
  • Story picks up with Hop and Tank disguised as Malay tribesmen, carrying a carved wooden figure packed with important microfilm.
• Pint-Size Pete is a funny-animal-style black cat, wandering in a funny-animal world.
• Wonder Woman: Steve Trevor is a major and Phil Darnell is a general, at the time of this story.
• Also appearing in this issue of The Big All-American Comic Book was:
  • Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher.
  • Who's Who in Zooville: Meet J. Groaner Crooner by R. Santi.
  • Full-page ad for Ed Wheelan's Joke Book, Featuring Fat and Slat.

Trivia

• William Moulton Marston signed his Wonder Woman story as "Charles Moulton".
• Stan Aschmeier signed his Mister Terrific artwork as "Stan Josephs".

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