All Star Comics #57 Davis Crippen ("D" Copy) pedigree (DC, 1951) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white pages. What a happy moment it was to ...

Auction amount: $4,780.00

Sold: Aug 12, 2006

All-Star Comics #57 Values

Publisher: DC, 1951

About All-Star Comics #57

The last issue of the title (which becomes All-Star Western) and the last Golden Age appearance of the Justice Society of America. Arthur Peddy cover and art. Bernard Sachs and Joe Kubert art. The only issue of the series rated as "scarce" by the Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives!

Characters: Justice Society of America [Atom [Al Pratt]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]]; The Great Gordoni

Pencils: Art Peddy

Inks: Bernard Sachs

Colors: Jack Adler ?

STORY DETAILS

(8 Stories)

Title: The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives! [Part I]

Characters: Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]]; Harry Wan (Honolulu Police Chief); Mustapha Hakim (Turkish detective); Jacques Durand (Paris Surete detective); Bill (audience member); The Key [also as Detective Drew Dawes of Scotland Yard] (villain)

Synopsis: Four famous detectives are invited by the JSA to Civic City to attend a meeting at the Civic City Palace Auditorium, wherein the crime detection methods used in their various nations will be used to "solve" a crime committed in their presence. After solving the staged crime, the four detectives disappear mysteriously, with the clue of a silver skeleton key left behind. When the JSA receive urgent telegrams from their home nations to return home to solve a mysterious crime, the All-Stars realize a master criminal is at work and set out to find the detectives as quickly as possible.

Pages: 8.000

Script: John Broome

Pencils: Frank Giacoia; Art Peddy (splash page only)

Inks: Frank Giacoia; Bernard Sachs (splash page only)

Notes: Art credits from Craig Delich.

Title: The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives! Part II

Characters: Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (cameo); The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (cameo); Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]]; Chief Inspector MacReady; unnamed bank watchman; unnamed Frenmch Surete Commissaire; Bert (villain); Harry (villain); Pierre (villain)

Synopsis: Dr. Mid-Nite meets London's Chief Inspector McReady at a bank where Police officials found the vault emptied, and a silver skeleton key left at the scene. Dr. Mid-Nite chases the crooks into a dense fog, and they then board a train, where he captures them with a Blackout Bomb. Meanwhile, the Flash meets the Parisian Commissaire of the Surete, who explains that the famed gargoyles atop the Notre Dame Cathedral have been disappearing. The Flash sets a trap, follows the crooks to a club where the crooks are emptying the treasure-filled gargoyles, and turns all over to the Surete.

Pages: 10.000

Script: John Broome

Pencils: Art Peddy

Inks: Bernard Sachs

Title: The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives! Part III

Characters: Justice Society of America [Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]]; The Emir of Kashdan; Colonel Masir (Instanbul Police official); F. Fred Wallis; un-named Captain of the Laronia; Honolulu Police Capatin Tom Lim; fake Emir (villain); The Great Gordoni (villain)

Synopsis: Wonder Woman decides to employ Turkish psychology to round up a fake Emir who has made off with 300 pounds of gold, leaving a silver skeleton key behind, Using her invisible plane, she spots a submarine, and brings it ashore, rounding up the crooks. In Honolulu, multi-millionaire J. Fred Wallis has had his "short-snorter" $100,000 bill, signed by celebrities, stolen, so G.L. hurries aboard, and using Harry Wan's methods of not hunting for the criminal, but making the criminal come to him, rounds up his suspect, turns him over to the Police, and then hurries back to Civic City.

Pages: 8.000

Script: John Broome

Pencils: Frank Giacoia

Inks: Frank Giacoia

Notes: Art credits from Craig Delich. Pencil credit originally tentatively given to Art Peddy.

Title: Daniel Majeske, Sylvia Dee

Characters: Daniel Majeskee; Sylvia Dee; Wayne Shepard; Dick Hayes

Pages: 0.670

Script: Stookie Allen

Pencils: Stookie Allen

Inks: Stookie Allen

Letters: Stookie Allen

Notes: This filler was NOT in the Archive. The filler contains facts about music.

Title: The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives! Part IV

Characters: Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider]]; Harry Wan; Drew Dawes; Jacques Durand; Mustapha Hakim; The Turtleneck Gang (villains); The Key [also as Inspector Drew Dawes] (villain)

Synopsis: When the JSA arrive back at the now deserted Civic City Arena, Black Canary tells them that she, Hawkman and Atom discovered a phony cellar below the arena stage, where they were attacked by a gang. After turning them over the the Police, the JSA discovers clues dropped by the missing detectives, follow them, and find the men around a table in a trance in a mansion. An image of Dawes suddenly appears on a screen, who then unmasks, revealing the true face of the Key. The JSA watch him attempt to flee in a cable car, but Wonder Woman stops it and the Key jumps 1000' to his death!

Pages: 6.000

Script: John Broome

Pencils: Art Peddy

Inks: Bernard Sachs

Title: The Divided Old Glory

Pages: 0.500

Script: Martin Naydel

Pencils: Martin Naydel (signed)

Inks: Martin Naydel (signed)

Letters: Martin Naydel

Reprints: The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #10 (February-March 1957)

Notes: This filler was NOT in the Archive. Letterer credit 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	2	0	0	2	1	3	0	2	9	7	9	8	3	5	3	3	2	1	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	65
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
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	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
Total	0	0	0	3	0	1	2	1	4	0	2	10	9	9	9	3	8	4	3	3	1	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	77

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