All-Star Comics #8
All-Star Comics #8
Cover Credits
Artist: Everett E. Hibbard

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Title: (Two New Members Win Their Spurs)
Pages: 56

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Everett E. Hibbard
Artist: Stan Aschmeier
Artist: Ben Flinton
Artist: Cliff Young
Artist: Jack Burnley
Artist: Sheldon Moldoff
Artist: Bernard Baily

Reprinted In:
All Star Comics Archives Vol. 2 HC (1993)
Millennium Edition:All-Star Comics 8 (#59) (2001)

Feature Character(s)

Villain(s)

  • Professor Elba (aka Professor Able; a mad scientist and inventor of Solution K; dies in this story; no further appearances)
  • Brain Wave (behind-the-scenes, presence revealed in All-Star Squadron #20; last appearance in All-Star Comics #15; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #20)
  • A lawyer and a political boss (no further appearances)
  • Goopy Gus Gluck and his men (no further appearances)
  • Sam Brent, Hartford Dormley, and members of a jewel syndicate (no further appearances)
  • O’Hoolihy, a photographer, and two thugs (racketeers; no further appearances)
  • Whitey Wolf and a gang of racketeers (no further appearances)
  • Watkins and Hunt (blackmailers; die in this story; no further appearances)
  • Boss Williams and his men (mobsters; Williams dies in this story; no further appearances)
  • Oscar Doodle’s butler and some contractor racketeers (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

Other Character(s)

  • John Graw and a caretaker (no further appearances)
  • Bill and Marge Benson and a bus driver (no further appearances)
  • Mr. Corson (a jewelry store owner; no further appearances)
  • Senator Kenneth Spring (no further appearances)
  • B. Jamieson Baker (a publisher and candidate for governor; no further appearances)
  • Billy (a young boy; no further appearances)
  • Preston Nevel (a banker; no further appearances)
  • Louie Scaloni and a prison warden (no further appearances)
  • Oscar K. Doodle (a contractor; no further appearances)

Comments:
Dr. Mid-Nite joins the JSA in this story, replacing Green Lantern. Dr. Mid-Nite’s owl, Hooty, is elected mascot. Starman is also a new member having joined sometime just before this story begins.

As revealed in All-Star Squadron #20, Dr. Elba has been secretly employed by the Brainwave, though he appears in this story to be independently motivated.

This is the first JSA adventure for Dr. Fate wearing his new helmet.

The JSA makes a guest appearance in the Hop Harrigan text story in All-Star Comics #8 following this story.

Synopsis:
The JSA members arrive for their latest meeting to learn that each has had difficulty on their last case because key witnesses having suddenly gone insane and are afraid of light. Non-member Dr. Mid-Nite arrives and explains he had a similar experience and has developed an antidote to the insanity virus. The virus was created by Professor Elba and distributed to crooks.

The JSA members return to their individual cases, using Dr. Mid-Nite’s antidote to restore the sanity of the afflicted men. After closing each of their own cases the JSA members turn their attention to finding the creator of the virus, Dr. Elba.

Johnny Thunder is captured after his adventure and brought to Elba’s laboratory. Johnny stubbornly does not want to summon his Thunderbolt for help, believing his can solve the case himself. Accidentally, Johnny says the magic words anyway, and the T-Bolt brings the JSA to his rescue. Dr. Mid-Nite is brought to the lab as well and follows Elba into a darkness room. Elba mistakenly injects himself with the virus and insanely leaps to his death. Dr. Mid-Nite is then welcomed into the JSA, joining Starman as a new member.

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