Comic Title: All Star Comics Archives Vol. 9 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2003
On Sale Date: October 1, 2003 Direct Market Date October 8, 2003
Source: Previews, Vol. 13 #8 (#176)

Direct Market Date October 1, 2003
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 192
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Invasion from Fairyland"
Pages: 38

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

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Irwin Hasen

Reprinted From:
All-Star Comics #39 (1948)

Feature Character(s)

• Justice Society of America (last appearance in All-Star Comics #38; next appearance in All-Star Comics #40)
• Hawkman (last appearance in Flash Comics #92; next appearance in Flash Comics #93)
• Flash (last appearance in Comic Cavalcade #25; next appearance in Flash Comics #93)
• Green Lantern (last appearance in All-American Comics #94; next appearance in All-American Comics #95)
• Atom (last appearance in Flash Comics #92; next appearance in Flash Comics #93)
• Doctor Mid-Nite (last appearance in All-American Comics #94; next appearance in All-American Comics #95)
• Johnny Thunder (final Golden Age appearance; last appearance in Flash Comics #91; next appearance in Superman Family #204)
• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Comic Cavalcade #25; next appearance in Sensation Comics #75)

Guest Star(s)

• Black Canary (last appearance in Comic Cavalcade #25; next appearance in Flash Comics #93)

Villain(s)

• Lorelei, Rumpelstiltskin, Gallifron, and the monsters of Fairyland (no further appearances)
• Slicer (an escaped con; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Sally Barnes and Charles Murgatroyd (a stenographer and her boss; Murgatroyd dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Mrs. Doober and Senator Bentley (no further appearances)
• Rapunzel, the Wise Woman, Hansel, Gretel, the Good Fairy, the Tin Soldier, Cinderella, and King Grizzly Beard (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Stenographer Sally Barnes is accused of witchcraft after her wishes begin coming true. When her powers accidentally kills her boss, she is sentenced to death. The JSA intervenes to prove Sally's innocence. Sally tells them that her trouble began after dreaming about a magic dwarf. The JSA investigates her story and discovers a secret passage to the other-worldly dimension of Fairyland.

The JSA enters Fairyland where they are caught in a battle between the evil Lorelei and the good denizens of the land. Also following the team into the land of magic is an escaped convict named the Slicer. The Slicer teams with Lorelei to battle the JSA. The team storms Lorelei's castle, and despite her magic, forces the evil woman to flee.

Wonder Woman discovers a magic Cap of Knowledge which allows her to learn the background of Fairyland. Rapunzel and the Wise Woman came up with a plan to save Fairyland. They tricked the dwarf Rumpelstiltskin into giving Sally Barnes magic powers during the one day when Fairyland and Earth were connected. The Wise Woman realized the JSA would come to help.

The evil denizens of Fairyland escape through the portal to Earth where they cause large amounts of damage. The JSA follows and battles the villains to a standstill. When Fairyland and Earth separate for the next 1,000 years, the magic keeping Lorelei and her followers young is removed. They crumble to dust. Finally, Hawkman gathers the remaining magic items and disposes of them.