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ALL-AMERICAN COMICS #16
Cover Date: July 1940
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Art: Sheldon Moldoff
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Credits:
| Story | Bill Finger |
| Art | Martin Nodell |
| Lettering | Martin Nodell |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Green Lantern (Alan Scott; first appearance; a young engineer; finds a mystic lantern and fashions a ring from its metal; also in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #18/2 with new details)
Villain(s):
- Dekker (first appearance; destroys the train trestle overpass built by Scott; dies; also in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #18/2 with new details)
Other Character(s):
- Jimmy (first appearance; Alan's co-worker and friend; dies; also in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #18/2 with new details)
- Chang (first appearance; in flashback to ancient China; forms a lantern from the molten meteor; next in Green Lantern Vol. 2 #108; also in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #18/2 with new details)
- Mr. Billings (first appearance; asylum patient who fashions a modern railroad lantern from the ancient lamp; cured of his insanity; also in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #18/2 with new details)
Comment(s):
- From chronological analysis, this story probably takes place in late 1939 or very early 1940.
- Alan Scott first speaks his oath. The wording will vary over his later appearances.
- Martin Nodell credited as Mart Dellon
Story Reprinted in:
- Golden Age Green Lantern Archives #1 (1999)
Credits:
| Story | Jon L. Blummer |
| Art | Jon L. Blummer |
| Lettering | Jon L. Blummer |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Other Character(s):
- Canvasback Kelly (first appearance)
- Mrs. Lem Brown and her baby (first appearance for both; rescued by Hop and Ikky)
- Lem Brown (gets Ikky to crop dust his fields and teach his neighbors to fly)
Comment(s):
- Jon L. Blummer credited as Jon Elby
Credits:
| Story | Jerry Siegel (?) |
| Art | William Smith |
| Lettering | William Smith |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Red, White and Blue:
- Red Dugan
- Whitey Smith
- Blooey Blue
- Doris West (revealed to be undercover on the ship for two weeks disguised as a man; next in All-Star Comics #1/8)
Villain(s):
- Wasp (first appearance; "cleverest spy of his time", employed by a hostile power)
- Markoff (first appearance; captain of a ship)
Other Character(s):
- Professor Pendennis (first appearance; munitions inventor kidnapped by The Wasp)
Location(s):
- Pacific Ocean
- San Diego, CA
Credits:
| Story | Carl Claudy |
| Art | Stan Aschmeier |
| Lettering | Stan Aschmeier |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- The Dictator (revealed to be Professor Jurghens; directs the invisible Venusians to destroy to instill fear)
- Venusians (invisible aliens; Ollak named)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Comment(s):
- This story continues from last issue and into next issue.
Credits:
| Story | Sheldon Mayer |
| Art | Sheldon Mayer |
| Lettering | Sheldon Mayer |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Mrs. Jibbet
- Dinky Jibbet
- Mr. Mackin (Scribbly's editor)
Other Character(s):
- Widow-Maker (a former bucking bronk tamed by Scribbly)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Comment(s):
- This story continues from last issue.
Credits:
| Story | Jon L. Blummer |
| Art | Jon L. Blummer |
| Lettering | Jon L. Blummer |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Ultra-Man (creates a Uranium X power plant)
Supporting Character(s):
- Alec
Villain(s):
- Garoo (first appearance; a large skeletal evil scientist; dies)
- Ape-Fish (first appearance; mutated apes capable of surviving at great ocean depths; all die)
Other Character(s):
- Senator Jones (first appearance; a senator of the United States of North America)
- Ginger Jones (first appearance; his daughter)
Comment(s):
- Jon L. Blummer credited as Don Shelby