Comic Title: Young All-Stars #16
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: September 1988
On Sale Date: May 10, 1988 Shipping Date May 10, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #3

Shipping Date May 12, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #139

Copyright Date May 17, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date May 10, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #754, #756, #758

Newsstand Date May 24, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #754, #756, #758

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Roy Thomas

Title: "Leviathan"
Pages: 25

Feature(s):
Young All-Stars

Writer: Roy Thomas
Writer: Danette Thomas
Penciller: Michael Bair
Inker: Malcolm Jones III
Letterer: Jean Simek (Izzo)
Colorist: Eugene D'Angelo

Feature Character(s)

• Young All-Stars (last appearance in Young All-Stars #15; next appearance in Young All-Stars #17)
• Dan the Dyna-Mite (last appearance in Young All-Stars #15; next appearance in Young All-Stars #17)
• Flying Fox (last appearance in Young All-Stars #15; next appearance in Young All-Stars #17)
• Fury (last appearance in Young All-Stars #15; next appearance in Young All-Stars #17)
• Iron Munro (last appearance in Young All-Stars #15; next appearance in Young All-Stars #17)
• Neptune Perkins (last appearance in Young All-Stars #15; next appearance in Young All-Stars #17)
• Tigress (last appearance in Young All-Stars #15; next appearance in Young All-Stars #17)
• Tsunami (last appearance in Young All-Stars #15; next appearance in Young All-Stars #17)

Guest Star(s)

• Wildcat (last appearance in Young All-Stars Annual #1; next appearance in Young All-Stars #17)

Supporting Character(s)

• Gernsback (last appearance in Young All-Stars #15; next appearance in Young All-Stars #25)

Villain(s)

• Colonel Streicher (a Nazi officer; next appearance in Young All-Stars #17)
• Dr. Thule (a German scientist; next appearance in Young All-Stars #17)
• The Black Order (a secret group of Nazi soldiers; next appearance in Young All-Stars #18)

Other Character(s)

• Arthur Gordon Pym (Neptune Perkins's grandfather; next appearance in Young All-Stars #17)
• Kalla (a member of the Dzyan race; next appearance in Young All-Stars #17)
• The Dzyan (next appearance in Young All-Stars #18)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Drik Peters (a sailor; dies in flashback)
• Nu-Nu and the Dark Men (in flashback)
• Ross and Miriam Perkins (Neptune's parents; first names revealed in flashback)

Comments:
The Dzyan Inheritance Part One of Four

This story makes a connection between the origin of Neptune Perkins and two literary works: Edgar Allan Poe's, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.

This story takes place on May 31, 1942.

This story continues in Young All-Stars #17.

Synopsis:
A group of Nazis led by Colonel Streicher emerge from a submarine in the arctic on an artificial island called Leviathan. The Nazis attack a race of albino humanoids living on the island and make their way below ground to the inner sanctum of a human named Arthur Gordon Pym. This man talks to one of the albinos named Kalla who is of the Dzyan race. She transforms into a bird and escapes.

Kalla makes her way to New York and enters the headquarters of the All-Star Squadron. She is looking for and finds Neptune Perkins who is Pym's grandson. She proceeds to tell Neptune and the other Young All-Stars the narrative of A. Gordon Pym.

Pym was a sailor in the 1800s who discovered the race of Dzyan and their power source the Vril. Over the years Pym made several journey's back and forth between the land of the Dzyan and the world of normal men. The power of the Vril kept him young and also was responsible for Neptune's mutation. Over the years his tales were passed on to Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne. The authors used some of Pym's life experiences in their stories.

Prior to World War I, Pym worked with the Germans to build Leviathan. Now the Nazis want it back. Kalla requests the aid of Neptune and his friends to help Pym and stop the Nazis from using Leviathan.