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All-American Comics 55

ALL-AMERICAN COMICS #55

Cover Date: January 1944
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Paul Reinman (signed)


Story: "The Riddle of the Runaway Trolley" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Finger
PencilsPaul Reinman
InksSam Burlockoff
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Green Lantern (next in Green Lantern #10)

Supporting Character(s):

Doiby Dickles

Villain(s):

Three crooks (first appearance for all; planning to use the trolley in a bank robbery)

Other Character(s):

Pops (first appearance; a retiring trolley driver who decides to take his vehicle off its route)


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Second Story: "Criminal Clocks" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJoseph Greene
ArtJoe Gallagher
LetteringJoe Gallagher
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Atom (next in All-Star Comics #19)

Supporting Character(s):

Mary James (now a blonde; last in All-Star Comics #15)

Villain(s):

Grimes (first appearance; uses alarm clocks to fence stolen jewelry)

Comment(s):

This story takes place during a warm part of the school year.


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Third Story: "The Riddle of the Blazing Dummy!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJoseph Greene
ArtStan Aschmeier
LetteringStan Aschmeier
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Doctor Mid-Nite (next in All-Star Comics #19)

Supporting Character(s):

Myra Mason
Hooty

Villain(s):

Fingers Donigan (first appearance; replaces a ventriloquist to rob an auction)


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Fourth Story: [No title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StorySheldon Mayer
ArtSheldon Mayer
LetteringSheldon Mayer
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Red Tornado

Supporting Character(s):

Cyclone Kid Sisty
Cyclone Kid Dinky
Scribbly Jibbet

Villain(s):

Professor and his gang

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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Fifth Story: "Crooked Coconuts" (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtJoe Gallagher
LetteringJoe Gallagher
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Red, White and Blue:
Red Dugan
Whitey Smith
Blooey Blue
Doris West (next in Comic Cavalcade #5/6)

Villain(s):

Gupp and Nazi spies (first appearance for all; uses coconuts to send messages)

Comment(s):

This story takes place during the summer.


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Sixth Story: "The Impossible Isle!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

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

Feature Character(s):

Hop Harrigan (next in Green Lantern #9/3)

Supporting Character(s):

Hippity

Villain(s):

Japanese sailors and marines (first appearance for all; all probably die)

Other Character(s):

Quimexo and other orphans and refugees

Location(s):

Dinosaur Island or a small island nearby.

Comment(s):

This story continues from indirectly from last issue.
Hop and Hippity are going with the refugees from somewhere near South America to somewhere in the Pacific, probably through the Panama Canal.
This smaller version of Dinosaur Island, or a much smaller island nearby, is destroyed by a volcanic eruption.


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