All-Star Comics# 16

April. 1943 ....................$0.10

Cover Credits: Frank Harry ( pencils/inks )

Title: The Justice Society Fights for a United America ..........57pgs.

Credits: Gardner Fox ( plot/script ); Joe Gallagher ( pencils/inks ), Sheldon Moldoff ( pencils/inks ), Stan Asch ( pencils/inks ), Joe Simon and Jack Kirby ( pencils/inks ), Ed Dobrotka ( pencils/inks ), Bernard Baily ( pencils/inks ), Howard Sherman ( pencils/inks ); ?( letters ); ? ( colors ); Sheldon Mayer ( plot/editor ); Dorothy Roubicek ( assistant editor )

Featured Charaters: Hawkman ( last ..., next Action Comics #663 ); The Atom ( last All-American Comics #49, next... ), Dr. Mid-Nite ( last All-American# 49 , next Action Comics #663 ); The Sandman, Starman ( last Adventure Comics(v1)# 85, next Action Comics #663 ); The Spectre, Doctor Fate ( both last More Fun# 90, next Action Comics #663 ); Wonder Woman ( last Wonder Woman(v1) #232, next ... )

Guest Stars:

Guest Appearance: Sandy, The Golden Boy ( last Adventure# 85, next Adventure# 86 )

Villains: Adolf Hitler ( last, next ? ); Ernst Buehler, Kurt Schultz, ( bund member and gangster ), two "mining union reps", Mr. Fortune ( crooked sooth-sayer ), Henry Overman ( Emil Obermeyer, a newspaper publisher ) ( all working for Hitler and Nazis, first and only appearance for all )

Other Characters: Jim Bolton ( son of plant manager ), Bill and Al Reed ( father and son steel plant workers ), Johnny Morris, Frank Chestler, Charley Gunpert( factory workers ), "Tough Tony" Scarlotti ( a reformed gangster, dies ), Mr. Brackus, Jim Cassidy, "Chick" Slobodkin ( miners ), Peg Kelley Szybowski and Jan Szybowski ( a Polish-American factory worker and his wife ), Tony Scarlotti, Jr., Eddie Brackus, Jimmy and Eddie, Ted Worth( members of Junior Justice Society )


Commments:

Last mention of "Justice Battalion" in JSA stories.

Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and Flash mentioned in Roll Call

Last 64 page issue, goes to 56 pages next issue. The Justice Society appeared last in Wonder Woman(v1) #231-232 and appears next in Action Comics #663.

Other features include a Hop Harrigan text piece and Victory Puzzles by A.W. Nugent

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