Title: "The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives!" ..........32pgs.

Credits: John Broome ( plot/script ); Arthur Peddy( pencils ), Bernard Sachs ( inks Chapters II and IV ) Frank Giacoia ( inks Chapters I and III ); ?( letters ); ? ( colors ); Julius Schwartz and Robert Kanigher ( assistant editors );Whitney Ellsworth ( managing editor )

Featured Charaters: Hawkman, The Atom, Dr. Mid-Nite, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Black Canary ( all last All-Star(v1)# 56, all next flashback Adventure Comics(v1)# 466/3 )

Villains: The Key ( first appearance, not to be confused with the later villain called The Key ), Burt and Harry ( two London crooks ), Pierre ( a Parisian crook ), The Great Gordini ( a crooked stage magician ), The Turtleneck Gang ( all working for The Key, no further appearance for any to date )

Other Characters: Harry Wan ( of Honolulu PD ), Inspector Drew Dawes ( of Scotland Yard ), Mustapha Hakim ( of Turkey ), Jacques Durand ( of the Paris Surete, above four are world-famous detectives ),Chief Inspector Mac Ready of Scotland Yard, The Emir of Kasdan, F. Fred Wallace ( a millionaire, first and only appearance for all to date )

Commments:

Reprinted in JSA Super-Spectacular # 1, 2000.

48 page issue

Other features are a Johnny Peril Suprise Story: The Lady of Mars; author unknown, pencils and inks by Joe Kubert, Flag Facts by Martin Naydel and JSA Laboratory Notes: How to Build a Periscope.

All-Star Comics become All-Star Western with the next issue; publication of All-Star Comics resumes with # 58 in February, 1976.

The Justice Society appears next in flashback in Adventure Comics# 466/3, then Flash(v2)# 137.

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