Comic Title: All-Star Comics #17
Publisher: DC (All-American Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Jun/Jul 1943
Approx. On Sale Date: May 21, 1943 Copyright Date May 18, 1943
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1943
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: 56
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Title: "The Brain Wave Goes Berserk"
Pages: 50

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Joe Gallagher
Artist: Sheldon Moldoff
Penciller: Jack Kirby
Inker: Joe Simon
Artist: Bernard Baily
Artist: Howard Sherman
Artist: Stan Aschmeier
Penciller: Paul Reinman
Inker: Sam Burlockoff

Reprinted In:
All Star Comics Archives Vol. 4 HC (1999)

Feature Character(s)

• Justice Society of America (last appearance in All-Star Comics #16; next appearance in All-Star Comics #18)
• Hawkman (last appearance in Flash Comics #43; next appearance in Flash Comics #44)
• Atom (last appearance in All-American Comics #51; next appearance in All-American Comics #52)
• Doctor Fate (last appearance in More Fun Comics #92; next appearance in More Fun Comics #93)
• Doctor Mid-Nite (last appearance in All-American Comics #51; next appearance in All-American Comics #52)
• Johnny Thunder (last appearance in Flash Comics #43; next appearance in Flash Comics #44)
• Sandman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #86; next appearance in Adventure Comics #87)
• Spectre (last appearance in More Fun Comics #92; next appearance in More Fun Comics #93)
• Starman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #86; next appearance in Adventure Comics #87)
• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #5; next appearance in Sensation Comics #20)

Villain(s)

• Brain Wave (last appearance in All-Star Comics #15; next appearance in All-Star Comics #30)
• Silk O’Mara, Spider, Luke, Crafty Connors, Knuckles O’Grady, and "Slippery" Joe Dixon (Brain Wave’s lieutenants; no further appearances)
• Brain Wave's henchmen (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Thunderbolt (last appearance in Flash Comics #43; next appearance in Flash Comics #44)
• Big Red (last appearance in Flash Comics #42; next appearance in Flash Comics #69)

Other Character(s)

• Ted Purvis, Flack, Dr. Charles Grant, and Sebastian J. Graves (a Junior JSAer, a wealthy man, a doctor, and a senator; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Brain Wave returns, having escaped death in his last meeting with the JSA. He steals the JSA case book, then traps them by shrinking them to tiny size and imprisoning them in cages.

Hawkman summons his bird friends to help the JSA escape. They then separate in order to track down and stop Brain Wave lieutenants. Johnny’s Thunderbolt then gathers the group together again, restoring them to full size. The group assaults Brain Wave’s lair. The mastermind tries to destroy them with landmines, but the Thunderbolt has moved the mines under Brain Wave’s tower, destroying him instead.