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Publisher: DC

Title: All-Star Comics
Issue: 57
Page Count: 52
Publish Date: February-March 1951
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All Star Comics #57
Owner: johnoj

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Story Title: The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives! - cover
Features:The Justice Society of America
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Justice Society of America [Atom [Al Pratt]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]]; The Great Gordoni


Story Title: New -- And Great! Big Town - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Big Town
Pages:1


Story Title: The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives! [Part I] - comic story
Features:The Justice Society of America
Pages:8
Genre:superhero
Characters:Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]]; Harry Wan (Honolulu Police Chief); Mustapha Hakim (Turkish detective); Jacques Durand (Paris Surete detective); Bill (audience member); The Key [also as Detective Drew Dawes of Scotland Yard] (villain)
Synopsis:Four famous detectives are invited by the JSA to Civic City to attend a meeting at the Civic City Palace Auditorium, wherein the crime detection methods used in their various nations will be used to "solve" a crime committed in their presence. After solving the staged crime, the four detectives disappear mysteriously, with the clue of a silver skeleton key left behind. When the JSA receive urgent telegrams from their home nations to return home to solve a mysterious crime, the All-Stars realize a master criminal is at work and set out to find the detectives as quickly as possible.


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


Story Title: Captain Tootsie Cheers Orphans - comics-form advertising
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Synopsis:Captain Tootsie brings a sled to the orphanage so the children can play in the snow.


Story Title: The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives! Part II - comic story
Features:The Justice Society of America
Pages:10
Genre:superhero
Characters:Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (cameo); The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (cameo); Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]]; Chief Inspector MacReady; unnamed bank watchman; unnamed Frenmch Surete Commissaire; Bert (villain); Harry (villain); Pierre (villain)
Synopsis:Dr. Mid-Nite meets London's Chief Inspector McReady at a bank where Police officials found the vault emptied, and a silver skeleton key left at the scene. Dr. Mid-Nite chases the crooks into a dense fog, and they then board a train, where he captures them with a Blackout Bomb. Meanwhile, the Flash meets the Parisian Commissaire of the Surete, who explains that the famed gargoyles atop the Notre Dame Cathedral have been disappearing. The Flash sets a trap, follows the crooks to a club where the crooks are emptying the treasure-filled gargoyles, and turns all over to the Surete.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Nabisco Shredded Wheat
Pages:1
Characters:Straight Arrow


Story Title: How to Build a Periscope - activity
Features:The Justice Society of America Laboratory Notes
Pages:0.67
Genre:non-fiction
Characters:Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]
Synopsis:Dr. Mid-Nite tells readers how to build a simple periscope out of cardboard.


Story Title: Lucky Block - advertisement
Features:Nestlé's Crunch
Pages:0.33


Story Title: The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives! Part III - comic story
Features:The Justice Society of America
Pages:8
Genre:superhero
Characters:Justice Society of America [Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]]; The Emir of Kashdan; Colonel Masir (Istanbul Police official); F. Fred Wallis; unnamed Captain of the Laronia; Honolulu Police Captain Tom Lim; fake Emir (villain); The Great Gordoni (villain)
Synopsis:Wonder Woman decides to employ Turkish psychology to round up a fake Emir who has made off with 300 pounds of gold, leaving a silver skeleton key behind. Using her invisible plane, she spots a submarine and brings it ashore, rounding up the crooks. In Honolulu, multi-millionaire J. Fred Wallis has had his "short-snorter" $100,000 bill, signed by celebrities, stolen, so Green Lantern hurries aboard, and using Harry Wan's methods of not hunting for the criminal but making the criminal come to him, rounds up his suspect, turns him over to the police, and then hurries back to Civic City.


Story Title: Daniel Majeske, Sylvia Dee - cartoon
Features:In the Groove
Pages:0.67
Genre:non-fiction; biography
Characters:Daniel Majeskee; Sylvia Dee; Wayne Shepard; Dick Hayes


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Columbia
Pages:0.33


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Dubble Bubble Gum
Pages:0.5
Genre:children


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


Story Title: The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives! Part IV - comic story
Features:The Justice Society of America
Pages:6
Genre:superhero
Characters:Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]]; Harry Wan; Drew Dawes; Jacques Durand; Mustapha Hakim; The Turtleneck Gang (villains); The Key [also as Inspector Drew Dawes] (villain)
Synopsis:When the JSA arrive back at the now deserted Civic City Arena, Black Canary tells them that she, Hawkman and Atom discovered a phony cellar below the arena stage, where they were attacked by a gang. After turning them over the the Police, the JSA discovers clues dropped by the missing detectives, follow them, and find the men around a table in a trance in a mansion. An image of Dawes suddenly appears on a screen, who then unmasks, revealing the true face of the Key. The JSA watch him attempt to flee in a cable car, but Wonder Woman stops it and the Key jumps 1000' to his death!


Story Title: The Divided Old Glory - cartoon
Features:Flag Facts
Pages:0.5
Genre:non-fiction


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Smith Brothers Cough Drops
Pages:0.5


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:0.67


Story Title: [ no title ] - statement of ownership
Pages:0.33
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Last Dictator - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Lady of Mars - comic story
Features:Johnny Peril's Surprise Story
Pages:6
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Johnny Peril


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Motor's Auto Repair Manual
Pages:1


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Daisy Air Rifles
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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