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38December 1947-January 1948
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All-Star Comics #38

DC · December 1947-January 1948 · on sale 1947-10-22

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Identification plate

Series
All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series)
Issue
#38
Publication date
December 1947-January 1948
Key date
1947-12-00
On-sale date
1947-10-22
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
52

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0History's Crime Wave!cover1pencils: Alex Toth; inks: Alex TothJustice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Johnny Thunder; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]]; Genghis Khan; Attila; Nero; Goliath; Cesare Borgia; Lucrezia Borgia; Captain Kidd
1Editorial Advisory Boardpromo (ad from the publisher)0.33letters: typeset
2Flash Comics; The Flashpromo (ad from the publisher)0.67
3History's Crime Wave! [Part 1]comic story12script: Robert Kanigher; pencils: Alex Toth; inks: Alex TothJustice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall] (death); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (death); Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (cameo on splash page); Johnny Thunder (death); Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider] (death); The Atom [Al Pratt] (death); The Flash [Jay Garrick] (death)]; Black Canary [Dinah Dr
6History's Crime Wave! Part 2comic story11script: Robert Kanigher; pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: Frank GiacoiaJustice Society of America [Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Johnny Thunder; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Paula; unnamed wax museum guard (villain); Nero (villain, wax fig
7-cartoon1script: Harry Lampert; pencils: Harry Lampert; inks: Harry Lampert; letters: Harry Lampert
9History's Crime Wave! Part 3comic story11script: Robert Kanigher; pencils: Bob Oksner; inks: Bob OksnerJustice Society of America [Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider; also as Nero]; The Atom [Al Pratt; also as Goliath]; The Flash [Jay Garrick; also as Captain Kidd]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott; also as Cesare Borgia]; Hawkman [Carter Hall; also as Genghis Khan]; Johnny Thunder [also as Attila the Hun]];
10The Chief Returns a Gifttext story2script: Charles King
13History's Crime Wave! Part 4comic story4script: Robert Kanigher; pencils: Alex Toth; inks: Alex TothJustice Society of America [Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Johnny Thunder; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake; also as Lucrezia Borgia]; unnamed wax museum guard [also as Attila
14The Junior Justice Society of Americapromo (ad from the publisher)1

Plus 8 pages of advertisements and other matter across 9 sequences, as published.

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All Star Comics Archives #8
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