Mr. President, we're ready to strike back! If we don't win, Tor will know, at least, that he's been in a fight! 
All-American Comics #13 is an issue of the series All-American Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1940.
Synopsis for Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man: "Tor Attacks America, Part 2 of 3, The Counterattack!"
Warlord Tor and his armies have invaded the United States of North America, and savage fighting rages from the Arctic Circle to the Equator. The High Moderator Gary Concord and his armies have counterattacked. Twenty-third century weaponry and bold tactics are brought to bear, and ultimately the Ultra-Man and his forces prevail. Tor crawls from the wreckage of his shattered flagship, raving and hopelessly insane. He's placed in an asylum.
Appearing in Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man: "Tor Attacks America, Part 2 of 3, The Counterattack!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Guppy, Concord's Aide (Dies)
Antagonists:
- Imperator Tor
- his legions
Other Characters:
- Alec, ex-Tor's Legions
- USNA President
Locations:
- United States of North America, 2239
- Tor's Domain, 4000 miles away
Items:
- Concord's sleep foam
- USNA's metal-disintegrating ray
Vehicles:
- USNA's burrowing Gelid-O-Skids
- USNA's Great Bathostads
- hundreds of tiny Hydro-Skirrs
- USNA's Ratchet-Tanks
- Tor's Floating Forts
- defending Hydro-Stads (most or all destroyed)
- Guppy's small Airostat (Destroyed)
- Tor's Stratostads (most or all destroyed)
Synopsis for Hop Harrigan: "All-American Aviation Company"
Hop Harrigan's recent flood rescue efforts, in China, have made him a national hero in the U.S. as well. Seeing Hop's picture in the newspaper upsets Gerry.
Hop's friend Prop Wash establishes a company and calls it "All-American Aviation." Ikky the mechanic takes young Hop out to celebrate, at a burlesque saloon. Ikky gets lucky and leaves with a girl, but Hop gets a bad feeling about her, and quietly steals their bankroll from Ikky's pocket, then leaves. And in fact, Ikky does get jumped by some thugs, so Hop made the right move after all.
Prop's company is contracted by the Army to build a new plane. Agent 6Q3 and two of his spies attempt to steal the blueprints. Ikky hides the plans until the spies can be caught by the police. But when the police take the spies into custody, they also detain Hop. Why? Because back at Hop's home town, Silas Crass, Hop's legal guardian, is working behind the scenes, trying to regain custody of Hop. He's reported him as a runaway, so the cops take Hop away too.
Appearing in Hop Harrigan: "All-American Aviation Company"
Featured Characters:
- Hop Harrigan, Vice-President A-A.A.Co.
Supporting Characters:
- All-American Aviation Company (First appearance)
- Prop Wash, President
- Ikky Tinker, Treasurer
- Geraldine (Gerry)
Antagonists:
- nightclub floozy
- her thug friends
- Agent 6Q3 (Single appearance)
- his Spies: Canto, other one
- Silas Crass (Behind the scenes)
Other Characters:
- Army Purchasing Officers
- Cops
Locations:
- North Beach Airport
- All-American Aviation
- a nearby penthouse
- five night clubs
Synopsis for Ben Webster's Career: "Where is Sidewinder?" & "The Successful Search!"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Sidewinder Pete turns out to be the long-missing Abner Mattix. And he's discovered some Magic Mud, that heals wounds, and death.
Appearing in Ben Webster's Career: "Where is Sidewinder?" & "The Successful Search!"
Featured Characters:
Animals:
- Briarsie, Ben's Dog
- Agnes "Aggie" Tate, Taffy's Monkey
- three burros
Antagonists:
- two bandits
Other Characters:
- Taffy Tate
- Sidewinder Pete = Abner Mattix
- Hal Malloy (Flashback only) (Dies) (Resurrected)
Locations:
- Badlands of the Southwest
- Lost Canyon, (behind a waterfall)
- Mattix's Well Or Spring O' Magic Mud
- Abner Mattix's Cabin
- Lost Canyon, (behind a waterfall)
Items:
- Magic Mud
Vehicles:
- Tate's "Express Wagon"
Synopsis for Adventures in the Unknown: "The Infra Red Destroyers (Part 1 of 6)"
A year has gone by, since Ted and Alan's prehistoric adventure. Alan has become a full professor, and he still shares a room with Ted near his laboratory. Also the late Professor Ignatius Lazar's Chinese manservant, Oki, lives there.
Elsewhere on the same campus, Dr. Jurghens, a famous scientist, has made contact with a hostile space-faring race, and has made a deal with them, and intends to rule the world. Dr. Perry, Jurghens' colleague, argues against this plan, and Jurghens murders him, then frames a college kid named Hertford for the murder. Hertford is tried and convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
The largest meteor ever to hit Earth strikes Amityville. For hours it is too hot to approach, but then when cooled off it has crumbled into powder. Eleven days later another meteorite strikes, with the same results. That night, at a local radio station, eleven people get murdered. A week goes by. Another meteorite strikes. A probably-drunk man shows up at Prof. Kane's door with a wild tale of being grabbed and attacked by something invisible, with many hands. Alan and Ted send him on his way. That night, a fourth meteorite hits, taking a toll in death and destruction.
The next day a journalist named Humphries brings Dr. Kane an artifact from the newest impact site. It is an ash, shaped like a gear wheel, which changes shape when touched. Kane promises to examine it and report his findings the next day, but the journalist gets murdered before even returning home that evening, slain before witnesses, by an unseen assailant. The fifth meteor strikes Amityville three nights later, and a large number of people start moving out of town. The next day, a huge pair of iron door are apparently stolen, from the front of the same Radio Station where the staff was murdered earlier.
While this has been going on, the local newspaper has published a series of articles by Dr. Jurghens, supposedly explaining away the meteorite strikes, and the accompanying bursts of radio static. According to Dr. Kane, Jurghens' theories are rubbish. Kane has meanwhile developed some Infra-Red technology, including a metal that reflects only infra-red light, and some special spectacles that make this metal visible. While Alan is demonstrating this stuff to Ted, an invisible force flings Ted to the floor and grapples with him!
Appearing in Adventures in the Unknown: "The Infra Red Destroyers (Part 1 of 6)"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Oki (See Notes.)
Antagonists:
- Dr. Jurghens, famous scientist
- Venusmen
Other Characters:
- Dr. Perry, Jurghens' colleague (Murdered)
- Young Hertford
- Judge
- Jury
- Trial Spectators
- Newsreel Photographers
- Geologists
- eleven-person radio station staff (All murdered)
- dog-teasing bullies
- hot-dog vendor
- Mr. Humphries, reporter (Murdered)
Locations:
- Amityville
- university
- Prof. Kane's Laboratory
- Dr. Jurghens' Laboratory
- Radio Station
- university
Items:
- Meteorites
- Kane's Invisible Metal
- Kane's Infra-Red Spectacles
Synopsis for Scribbly: "Sisty and Dinky Are Engaged"
Dinky buys Sisty a ten-cent glass ring and they get engaged.
Appearing in Scribbly: "Sisty and Dinky Are Engaged"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Other Characters:
- Hunk Hunkel
- Gus Hunkel
- Pip Hunkel
Locations:
Synopsis for Red, White, and Blue: "Glib Again"
I.M. Glib and his partner Volte attack the food supplies of some major eastern U.S. cities, with deadly bacteria. Glib holds a personal grudge against Sgt. Dugan because of the painful disfigurement of his face in their earlier encounter. Meanwhile, based on hardly any evidence, Red Dugan forms a suspicion that Glib is behind the massive cases of food spoilage, in New York and elsewhere. Red pitches his theory to his commanding officer, who does not buy it at all, and who orders Sgt. Dugan to not investigate it.
Dugan disobeys orders and goes to New York City to investigate, and brings along Whitey Smith, Blooey Blue, and Henry, Blooey's parrot. Blooey also brings along (by mistake) his "silver wire" uniform, left over from the team's earlier clash with Glib. He accidentally disappears himself, without knowing it, and his friends don't see it happen, so there's a misunderstanding, and the group gets separated while patrolling the markets. But then Blooey spots Red and Whitey walking into an ambush! It's Glib, with a handgun, on a vending stall roof, close enough to pop Red with one easy shot, and Dugan doesn't even see him!
As it turns out, invisible Blooey is able to see invisible Glib, while nobody else can. There's a melee, and at the end of it, Red and White have captured Blooey, and Glib has gotten away. Back at their hotel, the boys compare notes and figure out what's going on. Fortunately Dugan and Smith have brought with them, on purpose, their own Silver Wire uniforms. The hunt resumes. Glib meanwhile is losing his nerve almost completely, but Volte firms up his resolve by promising to kill him if he fails to kill Dugan. Soon both sides are hunting each other.
They meet again at the Fulsome Fish Market. The centrally-located device, in Volte's lab, that activates the clothing's invisibility has been shut down for the evening, so all four men are visible. But the team doesn't recognize Glib, who has disguised himself as a bum, and who now stealthily follows them on their patrol. He creates a disturbance in the fish market and amid the confusion gets behind Dugan, and stabs him in the back with a dagger. Blooey and Whitey chase Glib across the waterfront and onto a boat, then into the river, until Blooey subdues him and Whitey grabs him up for the cops.
Dugan is hospitalized, and the three of them are likely to be court-martialed for going AWOL. But instead, they all get commendations for capturing Glib.
Appearing in Red, White, and Blue: "Glib Again"
Featured Characters:
- Red, White, and Blue
- Red Dugan, USMC
- Whitey Smith, USA
- Blooey Blue, USN
Supporting Characters:
- Doris West, G2
- Chief of G-2
- Henry, Blooey's parrot
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Fiorello La Guardia (Cameo)
Locations:
- Washington, D.C.
- New York City
- Bronx
- other wholesale food markets
- hotel
Items:
- glass vials of deadly bacteria
- "Silver Wire" Uniforms
Vehicles:
- River Speedboat
Notes
- Published monthly by All-American Comics, Inc.
- Adventures in the Unknown:
- Oki was introduced in All-American Comics #8, Nov 1939. He is now Alan and Ted's servant.
- Starting this issue, Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man expands from 6 pages to eight.
- Starting this issue, Hop Harrigan expands from 4 pages to six.
- All-American Aviation Company: "Prop Wash" President, "Hop Harrigan" Vice-President, and "Ikky Tinker" Treasurer.
- The villain Silas Crass has been absent from this feature since All-American Comics #1 April 1939.
- Red, White and Blue:
- The invisible villain Mr. Glib was first and last seen, and apparently perished, in All-American Comics #11. He won't be seen again.
- Back in All-American Comics #11, Red Dugan deduced the electro-chemical secret of Glib's invisibility, which enabled the War Department to use this technology to produce some special clothing for G2's Red White & Blue team.
- Red Dugan gets stabbed in the back with a dagger.
- At story's end, Mr. Volte has been neither arrested nor killed, and the team seems to not know he even exists.
- Also appearing in this issue of All-American Comics were:
- "Mutt & Jeff" and "Cicero's Cat" (newspaper strip reprints) by Bud Fisher
- "Reg'lar Fellers" and "Daisybelle" (newspaper strip reprints) by Gene Byrnes
- "Always Belittlin'" and "Skippy" (newspaper strip reprints) by Percy Crosby
- "Tippie" (newspaper strip reprints) by Frances Edwina Dumm
- "Toonerville Folks" and "Little Stanley" (newspaper strip reprints) by Fontaine Fox
- "Wiley of West Point" (newspaper strip reprints) by Lt. Richard Rick
- Jimmy Stone: "Death's Playground (Conclusion)" (text story) by George Shute
- All-American Comics Monthly Book Review: "No. 1 - Last of the Mohicans by Fenimore Cooper" (text article)
- "Real Magic to Mystify Your Friends" (article) by A.W. Nugent
- "Nugent's Original Puzzles, Games, Tricks & Comics" (article) by A.W. Nugent
- "Popsicle Pete a Typical American Boy" by Art Helfant
- "Six Big Headline Features" (full page ad for the current issues of Action, Adventure, All-American, Detective, Flash, and More Fun Comics)
- "Free! $200.00 in Prizes!" (promotional text, 2 pages, for reader survey and letter-writing contest)
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