All-American Comics #62 is an issue of the series All-American Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1944.
Synopsis for Green Lantern: "Doiby Dickles, Da Distrik Attoiney!"
On a walking tour vacation, Alan Scott and Doiby decide to stop at a small town named Petunia for a rest. They chat with the village blacksmith, who says the town's overrun with crime, and the mayor's decided what the town needs to deal with the problem is its own district attorney (just as soon as he figures out what one is). Doiby sets out to meet with the mayor and explain the nature of the office, while Alan stays behind, greatly amused at the idea that such a quiet town is suffering from rampant crime... until he sees multiple notorious gangsters walk by in less than a minute. He dons his Green Lantern garb and powers up his ring, but the crooks escape the battle when Lantern's blasted in the eyes with a water pump.
Meanwhile, the people see Doiby sitting at a desk with the "district attorney" sign on it, and figure he must be the man the mayor recruited (although he merely brought a sign there from the blacksmith). Doiby quickly finds out local law states every man in town must be able to identify himself or be charged with vagrancy, which Green Lantern's unable to do without giving away his secret identity. At Lantern's trial, gangsters shows up to silence him, but the Devastating Duo launch into their usual routine and start busting heads until the mayor knocks them both out with his wooden gavel. He's actually in the gangsters' pay, as it turns out there's a convention of crime bosses in town that night, explaining their presence. Green Lantern and Doiby get in by disguising themselves with a cow costume, and following one of the gangsters to the building where it's being held. For rounding up all the criminals, Petunia renames itself "Doibyville" out of gratitude, which Doiby takes pride in.
Appearing in Green Lantern: "Doiby Dickles, Da Distrik Attoiney!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- "King" Karney
- "Slugs" Stumps
- "Booboo" Bannister
- "Cash" Carbon
- "Sap" Stream
- "Frosty" Fuller
- Cobra
- Tiger
- Mayor Mumps of Doibyville
Other Characters:
- A Local Blacksmith
Locations:
- Earth-Two
- Petunia / Doibyville
- A Barn Loft
- Petunia / Doibyville
Items:
- A Gavel
- A District Attorney Sign
Vehicles:
- A Hay Cart
Synopsis for Dr. Mid-Nite: "The Man who Feared Guns!"
“Two-Gun” Tim Brannigan is a violent cop in Assassination Alley and starts beating one of his informants for information about “Shifty” Sam Sutton, who is hiding out at the Horror House Inn. On the way there, Dr. Mid-Nite appears and says he’s also after Shifty. Some of the goons try to pretend to give up while the others run upstairs to tell Shifty that the toughest cop in town and the Man of Midnight himself are after him. They try to take a potshot at Brannigan, but end up missing as Dr. Mid-Nite punches the goon in the head. Brannigan dashes in and fires the door open with his guns and finds he’s out of bullets… but also that Shifty has a bunch of firearms in his hideout and picks them up, only to find that Dr. Mid-Nite has “spiked” their guns, making them blow up in his hands! Dr. Mid-Nite cleans house and arrests the goons, save for Shifty. However, 15 minutes later, Brannigan is horribly injured with severe burns and a stunning amount of blood loss… but has survived all the same…
Dr. McNider soon hears the news from Myra Mason about Dr. Mid-Nite’s wonderful adventures saving a policeman and decides to get into costume to go check on him and takes his .45s to him, hoping bringing some firearms into a hospital will help him improve. He’s aghast to find that Brannigan is now terrified of guns and every time he sees one, he is right back there, seeing them explode in his face. Despite this, he finds shame in being assigned to desk work, especially in the weeks ahead as other policeman gossip about how he’s quiet and sullen now. Worse, without him, Assassination Alley is now plagued with children who pie the cops in the face! Later, Brannigan tells Dr. Mid-Nite he locked his guns in a drawer he doesn’t intend to open again. Dr. Mid-Nite admits he rigged the guns, but Brannigan seems to think that it’s all his own fault for being “soft” or a “coward.”
Some weeks later, Dr. Mid-Nite spots Shifty on the street and decides that he’ll get Brannigan involved to see if it helps his condition, but gets shot in both his hands by Shifty, forcing him to run off, leading them to Tim while injured. Seeing Shifty coming after Dr. Mid-Nite, a nervous Tim Brannigan conquers his PTSD and rips the drawer open with his bare hands and draws his .45s to order the gangsters down. Dr. Mid-Nite commends him… thinking to himself that he just used catsup on his hands to look like blood. Today, “Two-Gun” Brannigan is back on Assassination Alley, violently starts strangling his informant for not calling him “Sir.”
Appearing in Dr. Mid-Nite: "The Man who Feared Guns!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- "Two-Gun" Tim Brannigan
Antagonists:
- "Shifty" Sam Sutton
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-Two
- Keystone City
- Assassination Alley
- Horror House Inn
- Keystone City
Items:
- "Two-Gun" Brannigan's Two Guns
- "Spiked" Guns (Destroyed)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Picture Story From American History: The Stories of John Cabot and Vasco da Gama"
Appearing in "Picture Story From American History: The Stories of John Cabot and Vasco da Gama"
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Locations:
Synopsis for "Red, White, and Blue: Problem: Find Red Dugan, Fighting Marine...!"
Appearing in "Red, White, and Blue: Problem: Find Red Dugan, Fighting Marine...!"
Featured Characters:
- Red, White, and Blue
- Red Dugan, USMC
- Whitey Smith, USA
- Blooey Blue, USN
Locations:
Synopsis for "Hop Harrigan: The Haunted Temple of Kompong-Pagan!"
Appearing in "Hop Harrigan: The Haunted Temple of Kompong-Pagan!"
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Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Naja Hana
- Imperial Japan
Locations:
- Georgia (country)
- The Haunted Temple of Kompong-Pagan, between Bay of Bengal and China Sea
Notes
- Stan Aschmeier signs this issue as "Stan Josephs"
- At no point do Green Lantern and Acting District Attorney Doiby Dickles manage to stop Mayor Mumps, who was illegally taking money to let criminals work in his city.
- Further, Dr. Mid-Nite seems strangely supportive to Tim Brannigan despite how often he seems to violently beat innocent people.
Trivia
- Despite the cover, the Green Lantern does not take a convening job as a Judge in Petunia and instead becomes a victim of its hysterical townspeople suspicions.
- Calicut is currently named Kozhikode.
- Bazari is currently named Zagem.
See Also