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Publisher: DC

Title: All-Star Comics
Issue: 43
Page Count: 52
Publish Date: October-November 1948
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All Star Comics #43
Owner: johnoj

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Story Title: The Secret of the Golden Universe! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]]; Golden Robot


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Kodak
Pages:1


Story Title: The Secret of the Golden Universe! [Part I] - comic story
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters:Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Black Canary; Hawkman [Carter Hal]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; The Atom [Al Pratt]]; unnamed editor of the Gotham Globe; Benson (reporter); Mr. Ferris (manager of Simpson Timer Company); Thomas (employee at Simpson Timer Company); Bill (Midwest Limited engineer); Ed (Midwest Limited fireman); Raymond (master illusionist); Aurikon (villain); The Gold Men (villains)
Synopsis:Boston Globe reporter Benson sees a connection with amazing thefts of metal and begins an investigation. Elsewhere, the great Raymond tells the JSA that he went to an exhibit at Gotham Island to expose so-called men of gold as frauds, but discovered they WERE made of gold. The Gold Men followed him, knocked him out, put him in a crate and dumped him in the river. Having escaped, he takes the JSA to the exhibit, where they confront the Gold Men, and battle them unsuccessfully. The Gold Men then board the Caterpillar ride, which spins dizzily, and when it stops, the Gold Men are gone!


Story Title: Johnny Mize - advertisement
Features:Wheaties
Pages:1


Story Title: Bit-o-Honey Races to the Rescue! - advertisement
Features:Bit-o-Honey
Pages:1


Story Title: The Secret of the Golden Universe! Part II - comic story
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters:Justice Society of America [Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman; Hawkman [Carter Hall]]; Myrla (Chief Scientist of Xenca); Myrlan (Myrla's ancestor, flashback); Krano (Myrlan's son, flashback); Maxon (gold employee at the National Museum); Copper People (villains, flashback); Aurikon (villain, Myrla's half-brother); The Gold Men [Nikro; others unnamed] (villains); the Golden Robots (villains)
Synopsis:Having jumped on the Caterpillar ride, the JSA suddenly find themselves in a dimension of gold, meeting with a scientist, who informs them that the Men of Gold have stolen iron from Gotham City and brought it to Xenca to power giant robots, which will end 1000 years of peace, thanks to arrogant Aurikon. Hawkman, Dr. Mid-Nite and Atom witness a robot come back to life in a bay, they battle it and its occupants, but are captured. Black Canary and Wonder Women battle the Gold Men at Xenca's National Museum who have brought a robot back to life, but are soon overcome and taken away.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Spalding
Pages:1


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Bazooka the Atom Bubble Boy
Pages:1


Story Title: The Secret of the Golden Universe! Part III - comic story
Pages:10
Genre:superhero
Characters:Justice Society of America [The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]]; Myrla; Raymond; Benson; Aurikon (villain); The Gold Men (villains); Golden Robots (villains, destroyed)
Synopsis:At Myrla's estate, GL and Flash battle another of the Golden Robots and defeats it, but are overcome by the steam from a lake of molten gold. Myrla is captured and taken to the museum where the JSA are on display in a glass case in suspended animation. But Aurikon also has Raymond as prisoner, in an inescapable trap, from which he eventually frees himself, then busts the glass case holding the JSA. The JSA then makes short work of the robots, rounds up Aurikon and the Gold Men, jails them, and then re-creates their travel on the Caterpillar ride back to Civic City.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Kellogg's Variety
Pages:1


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Bendix Coaster Brake
Pages:0.5
Letters:typeset


Story Title: To All Junior Justice Society of America Members - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:The Junior Justice Society of America
Pages:0.5


Story Title: Messengers from Space - text story
Pages:1.5
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction


Story Title: Editorial Advisory Board - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:0.5
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Blue Boxer Crimes - comic story
Features:Johnny Peril's Surprise Story!
Pages:5
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Johnny Peril; The Blue Boxer [Ricky Jones] (villain)


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Thom McAn
Pages:1


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Charles Atlas
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Hero on the Bench - advertisement
Features:Adventures of "R. C." and Quickie; Royal Crown Cola
Pages:1


View this comic at comics.org. Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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