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Publisher: DC

Title: All-American Comics
Issue: 19
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: October 1940
Volume: 2
Contributors: Editor: M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer (assistant editor)

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:The Green Lantern
Pages:1
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff
Inks:Sheldon Moldoff
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Green Lantern [Alan Scott]


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Johnson Smith & Co.
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Insurance Racket - comic story
Features:The Green Lantern
Pages:8
Pencils:Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)
Inks:Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)
Letters:Martin Nodell
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Green Lantern [Alan Scott; also as Mr. Titus]; Joe Prentiss (death); Mrs. Hodges; Mr. Hodges; Slade (villain, introduction, death); Wolfe (villain, lawyer)
Synopsis:After a man Alan Scott saves from a near hit-and-run dies under mysterious circumstances, Green Lantern uncovers a gambling ring run by a man named Slade where those in debt are made to take out insurance policies and sign them over to Slade, before they meet untimely ends. By posing as a gambler who runs up a large debt, Green Lantern scares a confession out of Slade's lawyer, then confronts Slade himself, but Slade falls into the deathtrap he plans for the hero.


Story Title: Introducing the Mighty Atom - comic story
Features:The Mighty Atom
Pages:6
Pencils:Ben Flinton (signed)
Inks:Leonard Sansone
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Atom [Al Pratt] (intro, origin); Mary James; Joe Morgan
Synopsis:Poor little Al Pratt, dubbed "Atom Al" by his friends, meets up with a fight trainer that agrees to help him build up his body to help deal with bullies who harrass him. But it proves of better use when Mary is kidnapped.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Cicero's Cat
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inks:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Letters:Al Smith
Genre:humor
Characters:Cicero's cat
Reprinted:from Cicero's Cat Sunday (Bell Syndicate) ?


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Cicero's Cat
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Inks:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals
Reprinted:from Cicero's Cat Sunday (Bell Syndicate) ?


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Mutt & Jeff
Pages:1
Pencils:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inks:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Letters:Al Smith
Genre:humor
Characters:Mutt; Jeff
Reprinted:from Mutt & Jeff Sunday (Bell Syndicate) 1937-09-19


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Mutt & Jeff
Pages:1
Pencils:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Inks:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Genre:humor
Reprinted:from Mutt & Jeff Sunday (Bell Syndicate) 1937-05-16


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Daisybelle
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Gene Byrnes (signed)
Inks:Gene Byrnes (signed)
Letters:Gene Byrnes
Genre:humor; children
Characters:Daisybelle
Reprinted:from Daisybelle Sunday (Gene Byrnes) ?


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Daisybelle
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Gene Byrnes (signed)
Inks:Gene Byrnes (signed)
Letters:Gene Byrnes
Genre:humor; children
Reprinted:from Daisybelle Sunday (Gene Byrnes) ?


Story Title: The Payroll Robbers - comic story
Features:Hop Harrigan
Pages:6
Pencils:Jon L. Blummer [as Jon Elby]
Inks:Jon L. Blummer [as Jon Elby]
Letters:Jon L. Blummer
Genre:aviation
Characters:Hop Harrigan


Story Title: [ no title ] - activity
Features:All-American Flying Club
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:non-fiction
Synopsis:Information about, and an application to join, Hop Harrigan's Flying Club


Story Title: The Human Tree - cartoon
Features:Believe It or Not
Pages:1
Pencils:Robert L. Ripley
Inks:Robert L. Ripley
Letters:Robert L. Ripley
Genre:non-fiction
Reprinted:from Believe It or Not daily (King Features Syndicate) 1935-09-04


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Baby Ruth; Butterfinger
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: On the Side of the Enemy - comic story
Features:Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man
Pages:8
Pencils:Jon L. Blummer [as Don Shelby]
Inks:Jon L. Blummer [as Don Shelby]
Letters:Jon L. Blummer ?
Genre:science fiction; superhero
Characters:Gary Concord


Story Title: Introducing Luke McLuke - comic story
Features:Popsicle Pete
Pages:2
Pencils:Art Helfant
Inks:Art Helfant
Genre:humor
Characters:Pete; Luke McLuke (intro)


Story Title: Collect Postage Stamps - advertisement
Features:Popsicle
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Iccolo Miccolo - cartoon
Features:Believe It or Not
Pages:1
Pencils:Robert L. Ripley
Inks:Robert L. Ripley
Letters:Robert L. Ripley
Genre:non-fiction
Reprinted:from Believe It or Not daily (King Features Syndicate) 1935-07-26


Story Title: Murder in the Classroom [Part 3] - text story
Features:Jimmy Stone
Pages:1.5
Pencils:Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)
Inks:Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)
Letters:typeset
Genre:adventure
Characters:Jimmy Stone


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:New York World's Fair Comics; Mutt & Jeff
Pages:0.5
Genre:non-fiction
Synopsis:House ad for New York World's Fair, and Mutt & Jeff Comics, with cover reproductions


Story Title: Briar Disappears - comic story
Features:Ben Webster
Pages:4
Pencils:Edwin Alger
Inks:Edwin Alger
Letters:Edwin Alger
Genre:adventure
Characters:Ben Webster
Reprinted:from Ben Webster's Career Sunday (Bell Syndicate) ?


Story Title: Roughing It in the Bush - text article
Features:All-American Comics Monthly Book Review
Pages:1


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Daisybelle
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Gene Byrnes (signed)
Inks:Gene Byrnes (signed)
Letters:Gene Byrnes
Genre:humor; children
Characters:Daisybelle
Reprinted:from Daisybelle Sunday (Gene Byrnes) ?


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Daisybelle
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Gene Byrnes (signed)
Inks:Gene Byrnes (signed)
Letters:Gene Byrnes
Genre:humor; children
Reprinted:from Daisybelle Sunday (Gene Byrnes) ?


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Mutt & Jeff
Pages:1
Pencils:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inks:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Letters:Al Smith
Genre:humor
Characters:Mutt; Jeff
Reprinted:from Mutt & Jeff Sunday (Bell Syndicate) 1937-10-31


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Mutt & Jeff
Pages:1
Pencils:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Inks:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Genre:humor
Reprinted:from Mutt & Jeff Sunday (Bell Syndicate) 1937-07-18


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Cicero's Cat
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inks:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Letters:Al Smith
Genre:humor
Characters:Mutt; Cicero's cat
Reprinted:from Cicero's Cat Sunday (Bell Syndicate) ?


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Cicero's Cat
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Inks:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Genre:humor
Reprinted:from Cicero's Cat Sunday (Bell Syndicate) ?


Story Title: William Henry Harrison - text article
Features:All-American Stamp Page
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:non-fiction


Story Title: Sisty and Dinky Are Kidnapped - comic story
Features:Scribbly
Pages:4
Pencils:Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks:Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Letters:Sheldon Mayer
Genre:adventure; humor; teen
Characters:Scribbly Jibbet; Sisty Hunkel; Dinky Jibbet; Ma Hunkel


Story Title: The Booby-Trapped Bridge - comic story
Features:Red, White and Blue
Pages:8
Pencils:William Smith
Inks:William Smith
Genre:adventure
Characters:Red Dugan; Whitey White; Blooey Blue


Story Title: Here It Is -- Better Than Ever! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:All-Star Comics
Pages:1
Synopsis:House ad for All Star Comics #2, with cover reproduction, and cameos of Flash, Green Lantern, Spectre, and Sandman.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Remington Rand
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Daisy Air Rifles
Pages:1
Pencils:Fred Harman (signed)
Inks:Fred Harman (signed)


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