| Issue | #56 |
| Published | December 1950 - January 1951 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 |
| Pages | 52 |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
| Notes | All story synopses and notes by Craig Delich (Jan. 2006). |
| Characters | Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall] (both as the Justice Society of America) |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Arthur F. Peddy |
| Inks | Bernard Sachs |
| Notes | All story synopses and notes by Craig Delich (Jan. 2006). |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #11 |
| Characters | Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-nite [Charles McNider]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake] & Flash [Jay Garrick] ALL as the Justice Society of America; Professor Canfield Ellery; the Chameleons [villains]; Knelo [chief of the Chameleons].. |
| Synopsis | Looking into the future, we see the world of the 31st Century and the city of New Modernia. A banker named Tobias Snel enters his office, claiming to have been followed by a Chameleon [who are not allowed in the city]. A fellow employee checks and wrestles another Tobias Snel to the ground, not realizing that he is the real Mr. Snel and the other was a Chameleon, who has just robbed Snel's safe. Snel and the employee head for the street and ask a workman [really the Chameleon in disguise] which way the distinguished gentleman went, and they go off on a wild goose chase. Meanwhile, the city Mayor and other officials, locked up in the mayor's office for 24 hours [the length that a Chameleon can hold the personage of someone else] discuss what they will do about the robberies going on in the city, and Professor Ellery recommends that someone go into the past and ask the Justice Society for help. The problem is how to overcome the fact that the memory of the person going is wiped clean and all moder writing will disappear as well, if a note is sent. Professor Ellery volunteers to go and heads for home for a very important job: to take a book from the year 1950 and cut out word fragments that he hopes the JSA can put together into the message the Mayor and council wish to convey. He then boards the Time-Bus into the past and arrives in Civic City in the year 1950 two hours later. A fellow passenger tags along as the professor robs a barrel of gold from a radio station program as a way of alerting the Justice Society to his presence. The JSA finds the professor and friend, and take them both to their HQ for questioning. There the word fragments are discovered, and the keen minds of the JSA soon figure out their true meaning. Suddenly a Policeman appears to take away the professor as some sort of a nut case criminal, and they leave. The JSA wonders what had happened to the professor's companion, who disappeared just as the Policeman appeared, and they deduce that they have just seen a Chameleon. Gathering on a carpet in the room, Green Lantern's power ring flies them after the pair having just left and discover the Time-Bus picking up the passengers from the future for the return trip. Grabbing on to the bus, the members are carried ahead in time to the 31st Century, where the professor's mind returns to normal. He informs them that the Chameleon they saw was indeed Knelo, the head Chameleon, and he gleefully and mysteriously asks the members to go with him to meet the Mayor and the council. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | John Broome |
| Pencils | Frank Giacoia (including splash) |
| Inks | Frank Giacoia (including splash) |
| Notes | Pencil and ink credits from Craig Delich (April 30, 2004). Pencil credits previously given to: "Arthur Peddy?" |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #11 |
| Characters | Dr. Mid-Nite |
| Synopsis | Dr. Mid-Nite discusses the synthesis of light using two different experiments: one with a color disc and the other with a prism. |
| Genre | fact |
| Pencils | Frank Giacoia |
| Inks | Frank Giacoia |
| Notes | This filler is NOT found in the Archives. Art credits by Craig Delich (Jan. 2006). |
| Characters | Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Charles McNider]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake] ALL as the Justice Society of America; Professor Canfield Ellery; the Chameleons [villains]; Knelo [chief of the Chameleons]. |
| Synopsis | The JSA is led into a chamber housing giant robots by a person they believe to be Professor Ellery, but who is actually a Chameleon in disguise. The "professor" tells the members that he will summon the Mayor and the other leaders, and while they are waiting, they can look over this group of rejected robots. Leaving the room, the "professor' chuckles to himself that these robots are homicidal, with a strange hatred of anything human. He heads to the chambers of Knelo and informs him that the JSA is in the robot storage room, and Knelo pushes a button activating the robots. Green Lantern attempts to put up a barricade of sandbags between the robots and the members, but is knocked out. Wonder Woman and the Atom smash several robots before Dr. Mid-Nite's blackout bomb confusess the robots long enough for the Man of Night finds the switches that disable the robots. Then the members head into the basement and find Knelo's throne, now deserted, and pictures of Mayor Hoving, Army General Cadwell and C.F. Tanner, owner of Spaceships, Inc. The members deduce that the Chameleons plan to impersonate these officials for some unknown reason, so they divide up into teams to find and protect the three men. The team of Flash and Wonder Woman head for the city hall and Mayor Hoving's office. Unknown to them, a Chameleon has already assumed the Mayor's identity, and he warns the security staff that if a crisis comes, he will give them a pre-arranged signal. When the All-Star duo enter the office, the "mayor" gives the signal to the guards and slips away with New Modernia's Great Seal while the JSA twosome has to bring the guards under control. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | John Broome |
| Pencils | Arthur F. Peddy |
| Inks | Bernard Sachs |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #11 |
| Characters | Atom [Al Pratt]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Charles McNider]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Hawkman [Carter Hall] ALL as the Justice Society of America; the Chameleons [villains]. |
| Synopsis | In a secret laboratory, two scientists have just finished constructing the Triple-Z Bomb, made so powerful that it can blow up the Earth....and it can't be dismantled. General Cadwell tells the two scientists that all of them will take the bomb to a deserted area and bury it where no one can find it. They jump into the General's private surface jetster, and take off just as the Green Lantern and Atom appear on the scene. The JSA duo grabs the General, suspecting him to be a Chameleon, and when the guards at the facility see this, they attack the JSA members, allowing the General and scientists to get away. After dealing with the guards, they follow from the air and spot the two scientists tied up in the back of the General's jetster, and the General missing. Meanwhile, the rest of the JSA members [Hawkman, Dr. Mid-Nite & Black Canary], arrive at Spaceships, Inc. looking for C. F. Tanner. His Secretary gives them the brush-off, so they begin searching the facility for him themselves, and discover him in a forbidden area of the facility. Tanner is just about to enter a mode of transportation called the Skyblaster, which can travel at twice the speed of light, when Dr, Mid-Nite and Black Canary grab him. However, the plant's guards show up and battling the JSA members, while Tanner jumps into the Skyblaster to take off. Hawkman manages to get aboard, but, because of the acceleration, he cannot reach Tanner untitl the ship comes to a stop. Before that can happen, Tanner jetisons the Feathered Fury from the ship and gets away. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | John Broome |
| Pencils | Frank Giacoia |
| Inks | Frank Giacoia |
| Notes | Pencil and ink credit from Craig Delich (April 30, 2004). Pencil credit originally given to: "Arthur Peddy?" |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #11 |
| Characters | Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Charles McNider]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] ALL as the Justice Society of America; Professor Canfield Ellery; Knelo [chief of the Chameleons]; the Chameleons [villains]. |
| Synopsis | The scene shifts to the Chameleon's underground cavern, where Knelo has had a proclamation officially sealed with the Great Seal, warning all earthlings to surrender to them or be blown to pieces by the Triple-Z Bomb while the Chameleons escape in the Skyblaster. Meanwhile, the three real officials contemplate surrender when Black Canary enters and tells them not to as the other JSA members are preparing to attack the Chameleon caverns. On his throne, Knelo sees three of his Chameleons entering his presence still disguised as the three officials, and he tells them to change to their real appearances. Unfortunately for Knelo, these three are really Green Lantern, Dr. Mid-Nite and the Flash in disguise. While G.L. renders the Triple-Z Bomb harmless, Knelo makes one final move: through an opening in the cavern enters a gigantic robot, which attacks the three JSA'ers. It picks up a giant rock to crush them when the Flash succeeds in finding the person controlling the robot and shuts off the power, causing the robot to crush itself with the rock! Knelo and the other Chameleon's are placed in the Skyblaster, whose controls have been locked for 24 hours, and shot off into space. Without the special fuel to power the ship, they couldn't return to New Modernia in 100 years! Professor Ellery gives a message of thanks to Wonder Woman, then bids farewell to the JSA members, who travel back to 1950 via a time tunnel. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | John Broome |
| Pencils | Frank Giacoia |
| Inks | Frank Giacoia |
| Notes | Pencil and ink credit from Craig Delich (April 30, 2004). Pencil credit originally given to: "Arthur Peddy?" |
| Reprinted | in All Star Comics Archives (DC, 1991 series) #11 |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | fact |
| Pencils | Martin Naydel |
| Inks | Martin Naydel |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Pencils | Gil Kane? |
| Notes | Revised pencil & ink credits by Roy Thomas & Craig Delich (September 20, 2006). Pencil & ink credits previously were Joe Kubert. |