All-Star Comics #49
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Invasion of the Fire People! [Part I]," the Justice Society of America faces a mysterious threat as the Fire People strike without warning, leaving the heroes defeated. Ten days earlier, yellow comets sparked a crisis that led the JSA to Dr. Grover Conrad, whose discovery of a forgotten film—etched by meteor radiation—reveals a past invasion and a looming danger tied to stolen radium. Written by John Broome and illustrated by Arthur F. Peddy with inks by Bernard Sachs, this 1949 adventure sets the stage for a battle against a long-buried menace, with a warning carved into a mountain to guide future generations. The cover, a striking collaboration by Arthur F. Peddy, Irwin Hasen, and Bernard Sachs, captures the urgency of the moment.
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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.
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