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All-American Comics #23

DC · Series began 1939 · February 1941

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Dates

Cover date: February 1941
On sale: December 20, 1940
In stores: December 19, 1940
Pages: 68

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Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Sheldon Moldoff, E. E. Hibbard, Sheldon Mayer, Robert Ripley, Al Smith, Gene Byrnes, Jon Blummer, Art Helfant, Ben Flinton, Stan Asch, Edwin Alger, Bill Smithinks: Sheldon Moldoff, E. E. Hibbard, Sheldon Mayer, Robert Ripley, Al Smith, Gene Byrnes, Jon Blummer, Art Helfant, Leonard Sansone, Stan Asch, Edwin Alger, Bill Smithscript: Bill Finger, Sheldon Mayer, Robert Ripley, Al Smith, Gene Byrnes, Jon Blummer, Art Helfant, Bill O'Connor, Carl Claudy, Evelyn Gaines, Edwin Algerletters: Sheldon Mayer, Robert Ripley, Al Smith, Gene Byrnes, Jon Blummer

Stories

The Sins of the Father · 10 pages
Accompanying Irene on an interview with movie star Delia Day, Alan Scott becomes suspicious, spying her talking to hoodlum "Slug" Kafey. Taking action as Green Lantern, Scott discovers that Day is being blackmailed because her father is actually racketeer Al Maloney. GL interviews Maloney in prison and finds that Frankie Fowler is the only other person who knows the connection between the two and races to find Fowler, but Delia is already there paying the blackmail. Fowler forces GL to surrender to save Delia, but Maloney bursts in, there is an exchange of gunfire, and both men are killed.
The Red Tornado Goes Ape · 4 pages
When the Police learn that the Red Tornado is operating in the neighborhood, they attempt to capture her. Quickly thinking on her feet, Ma dresses up a gorilla in the zoo with her outfit, and when the Police round it up, are they surprised!
Scared of Her Shadow · 0.33 pages
Charter Flight to Disaster · 6 pages
Jailbreak · 2 pages
Joe's Appointment · 6 pages
A mysterious woman in black succeeds in drugging Joe Morgan and getting him to take the blame for the theft of secret Cruiser plans, which ends up landing him and Al in jail.
Rescue on Mars [Part 4] · 6 pages
Crime, Inc., Part II · 1.5 pages
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson · 0.67 pages
Millard Fillmore · 1 pages
Toll Bridge · 0.5 pages
The Worthless Stock · 5 pages
The Mysterious Murder of the Texas Ranger · 8 pages

Reprinted in

The JSA All Stars Archives (2007), A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics (1981), Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (1999)