Comic Title: All-American Comics #36
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1942
Approx. On Sale Date: January 16, 1942 Copyright Date January 13, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
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.

Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Contains: Ownership Statement
Editor: Maxwell Charles Gaines

Title: (The Race is On)
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Green Lantern (Alan Scott of Earth-2)

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Irwin Hasen

Reprinted In:
Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Vol. 2 HC (2002)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (last appearance in Green Lantern #2; next appearance in All-American Comics #37)

Supporting Character(s)

• Doiby Dickles (last appearance in Green Lantern #2; next appearance in All-American Comics #37)
• Irene Miller (last appearance in Green Lantern #2; next appearance in All-American Comics #38)

Villain(s)

• A gambler and his hoods (no further appearances)
• Schultz (a foreign agent; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Benson and Shelton (owners of rival auto plants; no further appearances)
• Two race car drivers (both die in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
The driver of a race car is poisoned to death at the wheel during a race. Green Lantern investigates, learning the car has a new motor. When the car is entered in another race, the new driver is again poisoned and killed. Green Lantern then enlists Doiby to drive the car a third time. During the race, he realizes the poison was delivered through the racing gloves. He has Doiby remove the gloves in time to save his life and win the race. GL finds the assassin, Schultz, a foreign agent out to sabotage the new engine and keep the government from buying it.