All-Star Comics #21
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis Summer 1944 issue of All-Star Comics brings together the full Justice Society of America — Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Starman, Doctor Fate, and several of their teammates — gathered solemnly around a hospital bed bathed in dramatic yellow light, with the bold numerals "1944" anchoring the foreground. The cover by Joe Gallagher gives the scene a striking gravity, the assembled heroes' concern palpable as they look on at whoever lies in that bed. Inside, Gardner Fox delivers a full-length JSA adventure titled "The Man Who Relived His Life," promising the kind of ambitious, ensemble storytelling that made All-Star Comics one of the most distinctive superhero titles of the era.
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It's 1906 in San Francisco as Joe Fitch begins a banking job. One night, he is enthralled with a performer, Lily D'Arcy, whom he asks out, and which angers Big Mike McCullum. They have a fist fight and McCullum swears revenge. Sandman overhears the threat and tries to prevent Joe from gunning down the crook. An earthquake hits as Joe's fires the gun, and the theatre burns, and Joe thinks he's guilty. Sandman sees someone else fire the shot. Fast forward to 1944: an old lady, named Lily, reads an article in the paper that it was Palmer, not Fitch, who killed McCullum and she is much relived.
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