The Flash is contacted by Johnny's Thunderbolt that his pal is in desperate need of assistance from drowning at the hands of a counterfeiting gang, headed by Edwards. Flash uses his ultra speed to aid the counterfeiters in designing the currency and getting the plates to the presses, then running off so much money that it pours out of the house the press is in, alerting passersby. Then Flash rounds up Edwards and gets him jailed while the duped McPanzee leaves shore in a rowboat for Europe!; Sandman discovers Johnny in the Playhouse of Horrors and shows Johnny that the skeletons are only actors! However, Sandman discovers that crooks having been trying to extort protection money from the Playhouse, and wades into them, eventually locating and rounding up the entire organization in one fell swoop!; Back at JSA HQ, several members wonder where Johnny is since the other members have been unable to locate him. So the Hour Man heads downtown and notes a movie theatre showing a film on Africa titled "Thrills of Africa", and reasons Johnny may be at the movies. What he finds instead is a group of felons disguised as gorillas, trying to heist the day's receipts! Tracking them to a museum, the Man of the Hour captures the gang and their leader, Wade, former night watchman fired for drunkeness.; The Spectre now heads out to find Johnny and is suddenly attacked by a man with no head! After dispatching him to the outer realms, the Man of Darkness decides to track down the evil genius behind these headless creatures using the fiancee of Bob Randall as bait. However, Bob is taken prisoner by a mad scientist, as is Jean. The Spectre enters the scene again just in time to overcome the zombies and scientist.; Deciding to look for Johnny Thunder himself (and actually spotting him once), the Emerald Crusader sets off to seek out crime and runs into a team of truck hi-jackers! Rounding several groups up and turning them over to the Police, G.L. then continues his search for Johnny.; The Thunderbolt tells Hawkman that Johnny now faces another peril, and the Winged Wonder races off to help. Meanwhile, Shiera learns she has inherited a fortune, and is kidnapped, forcing Hawkman to locate her and save her, while also locating Johnny, allowing him and the T-Bolt to clean up the ship's evil crew.; The Thunderbolt warns Fate of what is happening to Johnny and Inza, and by the time he arrives, Johnny has disappeared and Inza has been left behind. Doctor Fate then takes Inza with him to search for Johnny, and runs into more crooks, who pose as mechanics in order to enter into and successfully rob banks. He enters their den and makes short work of them, then deposits them in the City Jail.; The Thunderbolt tells Al Pratt what happened to Johnny, so Al heads for the gambling den to search for Johnny. Noting that the gamblers are using marked cards, Al leaves the room and returns as the Atom to wreck the joint, then get the Police to come in and clean up!; Former Chairman of the JSA, and now Honorary Member, the Flash is invited to a special dinner in his honor at JSA HQ. Faced with finding a new member for the group, the members decide to put Johnny Thunder to the test to see if he is an appropriate replacement by tracking down one Killer McPanzee. Johnny reluctantly agrees and leaves, not knowing that McPanzee is a harmless old codger who thinks he's tough and even prints horrific crime-ridden newspapers, detailing crimes he supposedly has committed on his own printing press!; After having been shown phony newspapers about a Killer McPanzee, Johnny heads out to capture the phony felon at his residence at 222 Park Lane Drive, unaware that the criminal element has also seen the newspapers and decide to take advantage of the situation. Johnny disguises himself when he arrives at McPanzee's home, but the criminals see through that and try to let him have it....especially when they find out he's being initiated as a new JSA member. T-Bolt gives the crooks good manners, and they politely wrap Johnny up in a blanket and throw him in the river!; The Thunderbolt finally rescues Johnny from the kidnappers and returns him, the ship, and McPanzee to JSA HQ where Johnny is finally approved for JSA membership.; Saved from drowning by the Thunderbolt, Johnny is once again pursued by a criminal element, and wishes that a pretty girl would come to comfort him. Inza appears and now Johnny wishes that Dr. Fate was also there because of the crooks attacking him..; Johnny had hid in the trunk of Inza's car when the crooks stole it and entered a garage where Dr. Fate had tailed the crooks. Johnny accidently falls down a laundry chute into the midst of walking skeletons and asks for the Sandman to help him.; Johnny, meanwhile, is dejectedly walking down the street, not believing himself worthy of JSA membership, when some fellows offer him a chance to gamble and win some big money. Johnny loses and calls the men cheaters, and gets kicked out.; After being thrown out of the gambling den, Johnny wishes for an airplane to whisk him away from the scene, and the Thunderbolt complies. Then Johnny wants down on a ship that he sees below him, and again the T-Bolt complies. Johnny is then faced with a group of thugs and Johnny calls out to Hawkman for help.