Comic Title: All-Star Comics #18
Publisher: DC (All-American Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Fall 1943
Approx. On Sale Date: August 20, 1943 Copyright Date August 17, 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: Quarterly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 56
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Title: "Insects Turn to Crime"
Pages: 48

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Joe Gallagher
Artist: Sheldon Moldoff
Penciller: Pierce Rice
Inker: Arthur Cazeneuve
Artist: Bernard Baily
Artist: Howard Sherman
Artist: Stan Aschmeier

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

Feature Character(s)

• Justice Society of America (last appearance in All-Star Comics #17; next appearance in All-Star Comics #19)
• Hawkman (last appearance in Flash Comics #46; next appearance in Flash Comics #47)
• Atom (last appearance in All-American Comics #53; next appearance in All-American Comics #54)
• Doctor Fate (last appearance in More Fun Comics #93; next appearance in More Fun Comics #94)
• Doctor Mid-Nite (last appearance in All-American Comics #53; next appearance in All-American Comics #54)
• Johnny Thunder (last appearance in Flash Comics #46; next appearance in Flash Comics #47)
• Sandman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #88; next appearance in Adventure Comics #89)
• Spectre (last appearance in More Fun Comics #93; next appearance in More Fun Comics #94)
• Starman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #88; next appearance in Adventure Comics #89)
• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Sensation Comics #22; next appearance in Wonder Woman #230)

Villain(s)

• King Bee (Elmer Pane; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #3)
• King Bee's gangster henchmen (no further appearances)
• Termite men, borer men, Chick Dempsey and the water beetle men, spider men, ant men, grasshopper men, and fly men (no further appearances)
• Hornet men (next appearance in All-Star Squadron #1)
• The Hasher (a foe of Dr. Fate; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Thunderbolt (last appearance in Flash Comics #46; next appearance in Flash Comics #47)

Other Character(s)

• Abner Mason, Serge Astrakoff, and Fred Norman (a father, a scientist, and a bank worker; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Hawkman receives several letters alerting him to a series of crimes committed by insect men. At the JSA meeting, Hawkman dispatches the members of individual assignment to combat the insect men and locate the man behind the creations. Each JSAer is successful in defeating groups of the insect men and learning the name King Bee, the man behind the crimes. They converge on King Bee’s lab in the Great Forest where he has developed the hormones which transforms men into insects. The crook tries to escape, but the combined might of the JSA prevails.