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Publisher: DC

Title: All-American Comics
Issue: 20
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: November 1940
Volume: 2
Contributors: Editor: M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer (assistant editor)

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ALL-AMERICAN COMICS 20 (1st Red Tornado)
Owner: changerchanger

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


Story Title: Be a Cowboy! - advertisement
Features:Daisy Air Rifles
Pages:1
Pencils:Fred Harman (signed)
Inks:Fred Harman (signed)


Story Title: Mystery at Apex Broadcasting - comic story
Features:The Green Lantern
Pages:10
Pencils:Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)
Inks:Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)
Letters:Carrie Nodell
Genre:superhero
Characters:Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (brief origin recap); Irene Miller; Jim Tellum (death); Mrs. Tellum (death); "The Boss" [Mr. Gates] (villain, APEX Assistant Manager, introduction); "Duke" (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:When the station's top announcer is murdered, Alan Scott applies for a job at APEX Broadcasting to investigate, but the assistant manager, Mr. Gates, tells him there are no openings. Working with Irene Miller, who coincidentally works at APEX, Scott discovers that Mr. Gates was using the announcer's program to send coded messages to his henchmen in his smuggling operations. After getting a confession out of Gates as Green Lantern, Alan frees Irene and receives a job offer from the president of APEX Broadcasting.


Story Title: The Coming of the Red Tornado - comic story
Features:Scribbly
Pages:4
Pencils:Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks:Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Letters:Sheldon Mayer
Genre:humor; superhero; teen
Characters:Red Tornado [Ma Hunkel] (introduction); Scribbly Jibbet; Sisty Hunkel; Dinky Jibbet; Tubb Torponi (villain); Torponi's gang (villains)
Synopsis:When Ma learns of the kidnapping of Dinky and Sisty by the Torponi mob, a chance remark by Scribbly about the Green Lantern puts the idea into Ma's head of adopting the persona of a costumed heroine herself to save them.


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) 1938-02-13


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Daisybelle
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Gene Byrnes
Inks:Gene Byrnes
Letters:Gene Byrnes
Genre:humor; children
Reprinted:from Daisybelle Sunday (Gene Byrnes) 1937-02-20


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Mutt & Jeff
Pages:0.6
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) 1936.07.26


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Cicero's Cat
Pages:0.4
Pencils:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Inks:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Letters:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Genre:humor
Reprinted:from Cicero's Cat Sunday (Bell Syndicate) 1936.07.26


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


Story Title: Chased Into the Kangaroo Yard - comic story
Features:Cicero's Cat
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Inks:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Letters:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Genre:humor
Reprinted:from Cicero's Cat daily (Bell Syndicate) ?


Story Title: Safe on a Giraffe - comic story
Features:Cicero's Cat
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Inks:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Letters:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Genre:humor
Reprinted:from Cicero's Cat daily (Bell Syndicate) ?


Story Title: Action at the College Ball - comic story
Features:The Mighty Atom
Pages:6
Pencils:Ben Flinton (signed)
Inks:Leonard Sansone
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Atom [Al Pratt]; Mary James; Joe Morgan
Synopsis:When Mary decides to wear the "Kador Necklace," worth $25,000, to the Calvin College "Diamond Ball," Al decides to attend, and soon has his hands full of action as The Atom when crooks appear to steal it.


Story Title: [ no title ] - 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 [as Jon Elby]
Genre:aviation
Characters:Hop Harrigan


Story Title: Orville and Wilbur Wright - cartoon
Features:Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation
Pages:1
Pencils:Jon L. Blummer
Inks:Jon L. Blummer
Letters:typeset
Genre:non-fiction; aviation
Characters:Orville Wright; Wilbur Wright


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:All-American Flying Club
Pages:2
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Rescue on Mars [Part 1] - comic story
Features:An Adventure in the Unknown
Pages:6
Pencils:Stan Asch
Inks:Stan Asch
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Alan; Ted; Jack


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Popsicle Pete
Pages:2
Pencils:Art Helfant
Inks:Art Helfant
Genre:humor
Characters:Pete


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Ben Webster
Pages:5
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: [ 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
Inks:Gene Byrnes
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) ?


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


Story Title: Crossing a Creek - 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 daily (Bell Syndicate) ?


Story Title: A Yappy Puppy Has a Father - comic story
Features:Cicero's Cat
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Inks:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Letters:Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Genre:humor
Reprinted:from Cicero's Cat daily (Bell Syndicate) ?


Story Title: John Tyler - text article
Features:All-American Stamp Page
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Wings Over Panama [Part 1] - text story
Features:Jimmy Stone
Pages:1.5
Pencils:Sheldon Mayer (illustration)
Inks:Sheldon Mayer (illustration)
Letters:typeset
Genre:adventure
Characters:Jimmy Stone


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Flash Comics
Pages:0.5


Story Title: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - text article
Features:All-American Comics Monthly Book Review
Pages:0.67
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:0.33
Letters:typeset


Story Title: For Fun, Thrills, & Adventure - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:New York World's Fair Comics; Mutt & Jeff
Pages:0.5


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:American Specialty Co.
Pages:0.5
Pencils:Fred Harman (signed)
Inks:Fred Harman (signed)
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - 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: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:All-Star Comics
Pages:0.5


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Superman; Batman; Action Comics; Detective Comics
Pages:0.5


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Wilson Chem. Co.
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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


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