All Star Comics #49 The Promise Collection Pedigree (DC, 1949) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages....

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All-Star Comics #49 Values

Publisher: DC, 1949

About All-Star Comics #49

Irwin Hasen cover featuring the Justice Society of America.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Invasion of the Fire People!

Characters: Justice Society of America [The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]]

Pencils: Arthur F. Peddy; Irwin Hasen (Wonder Woman figure only)

Inks: Bernard Sachs

Colors: Jack Adler ?

Notes: Pencils credits confirmed by Hasen on viewing the original artwork. We formerly credited Hasen alone (per Jerry Bails) and then Peddy alone (per Craig Delich). Inks credit confirmed by Delich and by Hasen.

STORY DETAILS

(8 Stories)

Title: The Invasion of the Fire People! [Part I]

Characters: Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]]; Dr. Grover Conrad (scientist, narrator); Everett (Conrad's assistant); Agar Akman (ancient scientist, flashback, death); the Fire-People [Xtok; Zbat; Nkasi] (villains)

Synopsis: The JSA has been beaten by the mysterious Fire People, so Dr. Grover Conrad and his assistant jack-hammer a message of warning on the side of the mountain for future generations. Ten days earlier, the arrival of yellow comets spur the JSA to investigate, and their encounter with a meteor sends them to Dr. Conrad, who explains one of the meteor's radiation printed a movie film from the long past revealing the arrival of the Fire People then, and their theft of radium, and the threat they pose for the future. The JSA decides to act and destroy the menace before it's too late.

Pages: 12.000

Script: John Broome

Pencils: Arthur F. Peddy

Inks: Bernard Sachs

Title: The Invasion of the Fire People! Part II

Characters: Justice Society of America [The Atom [Al Pratt]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]]; Professor Manhin (head of the Palomina Physics lab); The Fire-People [Nkasi; Xlki; Zbtor; Zbat; Yrni; Yzox; Kmago] (villains)

Synopsis: Atom and Black Canary discover the Fire-People at a physics lab, stealing enough radium to power their get-away ship. After a short battle, the duo are chased off by the Fire-People's heat rays. Flash and Dr. Mid-Nite follow the footprints from a meteor to Five Lakes Hospital, and find the Fire-People in the surgery room. A battle ensues, resulting in their fiery foes using open ether cans to overcome them. Hawkman and Wonder Woman discover the Fire-People hauling away radium canisters from a mining company. They put up a great battle, but the duo is overcome by steam.

Pages: 12.000

Script: John Broome

Pencils: Arthur F. Peddy

Inks: Bernard Sachs

Title: The Invasion of the Fire People, Part III

Characters: Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]]; Dr. Grover Conrad; Everett (Conrad's assistant); the Fire-People [Xtok; Kurdo; Nkasi; Xlki; Zbtor; Zbat; Yrni; Yzox; Kmago] (villains)

Synopsis: Green Lantern discovers where the Fire People are building their getaway rocket and notifies the Army that the enemy's radium gun is too much for him. The Army planes are also shot down by the radium gun and Dr. Conrad begins to chisel out his warning on the mountain, believing all is lost. As he finishes his message, the JSA shows up and tells him that the Flash has discovered the Comet People's weakness: HEAT! Then the JSA, armed with carbon-arc lamps, attack the Fire People, and defeat them, who retreat to a hill and destroy themselves with the radium gun.

Pages: 8.000

Script: John Broome

Pencils: Arthur F. Peddy

Inks: Bernard Sachs

Title: Aviation, Sound, and Jet Propulsion

Characters: Hawkman [Carter Hall]

Synopsis: Hawkman illustrates 1) how the principle of flight works; 2) how to make a mailing-tube trombone, which explains the principle of sound; and 3) how a medicine dropper and balloon can be used to demonstrate how jet propulsion works.

Pages: 1.000

Pencils: Irwin Hasen

Inks: Bob Oksner

Notes: This filler was NOT reprinted in the Archives. Art credits by Craig Delich.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	1	2	5	5	3	2	3	1	3	5	0	1	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	39
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Total	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	1	1	2	6	5	5	2	3	2	4	5	0	1	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	47

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