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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: DC
Title: All-Star Comics
Page Count: 68
Genre: Aviation, Humor, Non-fiction, Superhero
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: April 1942
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Country: United States
Hawkman is assigned to the Interceptor Coast Command and attends flying school as Carter Hall. His girlfriend, Shiera, has joined the nurses and is heading out on a convoy to the Philippines. Suddenly, there is an enemy attack at the air base and Hall switches to Hawkman to help battle the enemy. After whipping them, the Feathered Fury learns that there may be an attack on the convoy Shiera left with, so he is sent out to make sure it arrives safely in the Philippines.; Diana is assigned to the ambulance corps and rides one out to the beaches where she begins to treat wounded soldiers. Suddenly there is a Japanese attack, so she switches to Wonder Woman and rounds up the entire invading force!; Having proved to be able to fire artillery accurately, Wes Dodds is immediately dispatched to where the action is. Turned down for guard duty, he decides instead, as the Sandman, to keep watch for enemy movements. Finding a captured two-man sub in the harbor loaded with fuel and torpedoes, he discovers a fleet of Japanese carriers. He telegraphs the Japanese that a U.S. fleet is approaching and all of them scatter. He then boards one and destroys all the airplanes aboard.; Al Pratt is assigned to the tank corps, and he passes all tests brilliantly, then asks for the most dangerous assignment available. He is told that the Japanese have broken through Allied lines at Kota Bharu, and he'll need to take his company forward to that position at the front. Finding his unit out maneuvered, Al changes to the Atom and uses brute strength to deal with the Japanese tanks and capture the enemy.; Kent Nelson has volunteered for the Army Parachute Troops and graduates from its school. Aboard an airplane for their first mission to assist a surrounded Marine division, the parachutists are being shot out of the sky by the Japanese before they can even safely land, so Nelson changes into Dr. Fate on the way down and saves the day.; Just as Charles McNider tries to decide which unit of the armed forces he is going to join up with, and if they will accept a blind man, he gets a call that a Pacific research hospital has been bombed and Dr. Benson, one of McNider's friends, has been fatally wounded and asks McNider to come and take over his work. While on duty one evening, Hooty warns the doctor of approaching enemy planes, and he changes to the Man of Midnight and helps deal with averting the attack.; Ted Knight becomes an Air Force pilot at Randolph Field unaware that the Japanese, a few miles away, are plotting a devastating attack on the base. Changing to Starman, Knight takes on the approaching planes, dispatching many with his gravity rod, and help from a fellow pilot that became ill attempting to fly a plane.; Johnny joins the Navy and is assigned to an aircraft carrier, where he makes one blunder after another. Commander Sewell decides to give brother John an assignment he can handle: handing a picture in his room. In a series of mis-adventures, Johnny unknowingly uncovers a plot to blow up the ship.; Each of the members shows up to the regularly scheduled meeting with the Pearl Harbor attack on their minds, and each of them (except the Spectre, because he is a ghost) has decided to join the military, but can't figure out a way to tell the others. Spectre vows to keep busy on the home front while the others go ahead and enlist.; A group of Army brass is arguing about the feats of the JSA members when the Navy shows up with Johnny, commending him as well. So they decide to bring together all eight members (plus Wonder Woman), and decide who did the best job. In the final anaylsis, they decide the JSA is doing TOO well in their jobs, showing up all of the other regular Army soldiers, Marines and sailors. So, it is decided that the JSA will become the Justice Battalion of America for the duration of the war. Dr. Fate recommends Wonder Woman for JSA membership, but it goes unacted on for this issue.; Hawkman lands on the ship Shiera is assigned to and meets Diana Prince, whom he already knows to be Wonder Woman. Shiera then confides in her that Carter Hall and Hawkman are one and the same person.