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All-American Comics 18

ALL-AMERICAN COMICS #18

Cover Date: September 1940
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Sheldon Moldoff


Story: [At the World's Fair] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Finger
ArtMartin Nodell
LetteringMartin Nodell
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Green Lantern (also in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #18/2 with new details; next in flashback in Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends)

Villain(s):

Murdock (first appearance; a gangster, dies)
Murdock's gang (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

Irene Miller (first appearance; trying to help her brother; next in issue #20)
Danny Miller (first appearance; Irene's brother)
Judge Wake and his daughter (first appearance; blackmailed into helping Murdock to help his kidnapped daughter)

Location(s):

Flushing Meadows, NY
New York World's Fairgrounds
Trylon and Perisphere

Comment(s):

Martin Nodell credited as Mart Dellon

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 (1999)


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Second Story: "Adventures in the Unknown... The Infra-Red Destroyers" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryCarl Claudy
ArtStan Aschmeier
LetteringStan Aschmeier
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Alan Kane
Ted Dolliver

Villain(s):

The Dictator (Professor Eric Jurghens; dies)
Venusians (invisible aliens; all die)

Other Character(s):

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Location(s):

New York City, NY

Comment(s):

This story continues from last issue.
The last panel in this story is an advertisement for the Mighty Atom strip beginning in the next issue.


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Third Story: [No title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJon L. Blummer
ArtJon L. Blummer
LetteringJon L. Blummer
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Hop Harrigan

Supporting Character(s):

Prop Wash (behind the scenes)
Ikky Tinker
Miss Snap (gets her pilot's license in this story)

Comment(s):

Jon L. Blummer credited as Jon Elby


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Fourth Story: [No title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel (?)
ArtWilliam Smith
LetteringWilliam Smith
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Red, White and Blue:
Red Dugan
Whitey Smith
Blooey Blue
Doris West (revealed to be undercover)

Villain(s):

Ardala (first appearance; a foreign power trying to get the US to go with them into war with Kartania)

Location(s):

Washington DC
Corala Island (first appearance)


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Fifth Story: [No title] (4 Pages)

Credits:

StorySheldon Mayer
ArtSheldon Mayer
LetteringSheldon Mayer
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Scribbly Jibbet

Supporting Character(s):

Mrs. Jibbet
Dinky Jibbet
Ma Hunkel
Sisty Hunkel
Gus Hunkel (hits a big payday at the racetrack)
Felix Hunkel

Villain(s):

Tubbs Torpoli and his extortion gang (Dumpy named; first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Mr. Schultz (sells his market to Ma Hunkel)

Location(s):

New York City, NY

Comment(s):

This story continues into next issue.


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Sixth Story: [No title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJon L. Blummer
ArtJon L. Blummer
LetteringJon L. Blummer
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Ultra-Man

Supporting Character(s):

Senator Jones
Ginger Jones
President of the United States of North America
Alec

Villain(s):

Emperor of an Asiatic Empire (first appearance)
Gracia Darling (first appearance; the great American biographer)

Comment(s):

Jon L. Blummer credited as Don Shelby
This story continues next issue.


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