All-Star Comics# 17

June. 1943 ....................$0.10

Cover Credits: Joe Gallagher ( pencils/inks )

Title: The Brain Wave Goes Berserk! ..........50pgs.

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

Featured Charaters: Hawkman ( next ... ); The Atom, Dr. Mid-Nite ( next All-American# 51 ); The Sandman ( next in Detective Comics# 76 ); The Spectre, Doctor Fate ( next More Fun# 91 ); Starman ( next Adventure# 87, the above seven all last Action Comics #663 );Wonder Woman ( last..., next... )

Guest Stars:

Guest Appearance: Sandy the Golden Boy ( last Adventure# 86, next in Detective# 76 )

Villains: The Brain Wave ( last #15, next # 37 ); Silk O'Hara, Spider, Lucky Luke ( gangsters, all working for Brain Wave, first and only appearance for all )

Other Characters: Big Red ( Hawkman's hawk, last, next ) , Augustus Flack ( millionarie extortion victim ), Dr. Charles T. Grant ( helps Dr. Mid-Nite ), Senator Sebatian J. Graves ( kidnap victim ), Ted Purvis( member of Junior Justice Society )

Commments: The Justice League was last seen in Action Comics #663.
The Brain Wave steals The "shrink ray" last seen in Young All-Stars Annual# 1, and one of Tarantula's web guns while stealing the Justice Society's meeting minutes from the Perisphere.
First 56 page issue, end # 19.
Atom and Johnny Thunder are in Keystone City during this issue. Chronological note: takes place around Friday the 13th. Other features include a Hop Harrigan text piece

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