All-Star Comics# 18

Fall. 1943 ....................$0.10

Cover Credits: Frank Harry ( pencils/inks )

Title: Insects Turn To Crime! ..........48pgs.

Credits: Gardner Fox ( plot/script ); Joe Gallagher ( pencils/inks ), Sheldon Moldoff ( pencils/inks ), Stan Asch ( pencils/inks ), Pierce Rice and Arthur Cazenueve ( 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 ); The Atom, Dr. Mid-Nite ( last All-American# 52 ,next All-American# 53 ); The Sandman, Starman ( last Adventure Comics(v1)# 87, next Adveture# 88 ); The Spectre, Doctor Fate ( both last More Fun Comics# 92, next More Fun# 93 ); Wonder Woman ( last , next )

Guest Stars:

Guest Appearance:

Villains: The King Bee ( Elmer Pane, an exterminator, first appearance, transported during the last chapter to 1942 during All-Star Squadron# 1-3, then returned to proper time, no further appearances to date ); "Slick", The Hasher ( gangsters, working for King Bee, first and only appearance for all ); Insect Men ( including Termite-men, Borers, WaterBugs, Spider-men, Ant-men, Grasshopper-men, Fly-men and Hornet-men transformed humans, some Hornet-Men appear in All-Star Squadron# 1-3, then transported back to 1943 )

Other Characters: Abner Mason and his son, Serge Astrakoff ( chemist who escaped from Europe "last spring" ), "Chick" Dempsey ( swimming star, transformed into a WaterBug, reforms ), Brown ( a pilot ), Fred Norman( bank clerk who is afraid of spiders ), Percival Norman ( a millionaire ),Enitmology Department of State University


Commments:

56 page issue, begins Quarterly publishing status.

Chronological Comments: takes place over a week. Other features include a Hop Harrigan text piece

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