Comic Title: All-Star Comics #38
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Dec/Jan 1947
Approx. On Sale Date: October 24, 1947 Copyright Date October 22, 1947
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1946-1947
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Title: "History's Crime Wave"
Pages: 38

Feature(s):
Justice Society of America (of Earth-2)

Writer: Robert Kanigher
Artist: Alexander Toth
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Frank Giacoia
Artist: Robert Oksner

Reprinted In:
All Star Comics Archives Vol. 8 HC (2002)

Feature Character(s)

• Justice Society of America (last appearance in All-Star Comics #37; next appearance in All-Star Comics #39)
• Hawkman (last appearance in Flash Comics #90; next appearance in Flash Comics #91)
• Flash (last appearance in Comic Cavalcade #24; next appearance in All-Flash #32)
• Green Lantern (last appearance in All-American Comics #92; next appearance in Green Lantern #29)
• Atom (last appearance in Flash Comics #90; next appearance in Flash Comics #91)
• Doctor Mid-Nite (last appearance in All-American Comics #92; next appearance in All-American Comics #93)
• Johnny Thunder (last appearance in Flash Comics #90; next appearance in Flash Comics #91)
• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Sensation Comics #72; next appearance in Sensation Comics #73)

Guest Star(s)

• Black Canary (last appearance in Flash Comics #90; next appearance in Flash Comics #91)

Villain(s)

• A museum guard (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Nero, Ghengis Khan, Attila the Hun, Cesare Borgia, Goliath, and Captain Kidd (wax statues; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Paula Von Gunther (last appearance in Comic Cavalcade #24; next appearance in Sensation Comics #73)

Other Character(s)

• Miss Gaye, Big Boy Nelson, Miss Van West, Mr. Benson, an unnamed actor, and Mary (murder suspects; no further appearances)

Comments:
As of this story, the individual JSA members no longer have solo chapters.

Synopsis:
Six different murders are blamed on historical villains by the prime suspects. No one believes their claims, but the members of the JSA investigate. Each meets one of the infamous villains and is killed. Black Canary witnesses Johnny Thunder's death. With his dying breath, he reveals the secret location of the JSA meeting place.

Black Canary arrives at the JSA meeting, where Wonder Woman is waiting. She tells the Amazon her story, and Wonder Woman rounds up the other JSA members, who are indeed dead. She brings them to Paula Von Gunther's laboratory, where the Purple Ray restores their lives.

The JSA members share their individual experiences, then split up. The members reenact the murders to smoke out the villains. Nero, Attila, Goliath, Ghenghis Khan, Cesare Borgia, and Captain Kidd appear during the displays to once again battle the JSA members. This time they turn out to be wax statues that explode in the arms of the heroes.

The JSA members awaken from unconsciousness trapped in wax. A wax museum guard reveals himself as the man behind the murders. Using drugged gas, he befuddled the minds of the JSA to trick them into believing the villains were real. Black Canary has infiltrated the wax museum disguised as Lucrezia Borgia. While she rescues the JSA, the guard falls to his death.

At the next JSA meeting, Black Canary attends as a guest. Wonder Woman considers her for possible membership in the future.