All-American Comics #32 is an issue of the series All-American Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1941.
Synopsis for Green Lantern: "This Is the Story of Danny"
A young clean-cut man stands outside a diner, planning to rob it. His story is told in a flashback from a year ago. The young man, Danny Malone, is hanging out with his friends, including a well-known criminal named Gardenia Greene. His father, a police officer, admonishes him for keeping such bad company. With his mother dead and his father severely disappointed in him, Danny resolves to keep away from crime. On his way home that night, however, he walks into a holdup. Greene shoves a pistol into Danny's hand and leaves him for the police. Captured, Danny is confronted by his father. The other thugs refuse to tell the truth on the boy's behalf, and Danny is later sentenced to two years in jail. He is paroled six months later for good behavior and is given five dollars to help make his way in the world. He ignores his father at the entrance to the jail and soon buys a gun, bringing him back to the present.
Danny sees three men sneak into the diner, and the owner staggers out, asking for help. The boy realizes he almost took a step too far and pursues the killers, firing at them as they escape. Hearing gunshots, Green Lantern descends into the shootout, easily capturing the thugs. They are arrested by police, but Green Lantern finds Danny fleeing the scene, afraid of going back to jail for possessing a gun while on parole. GL takes Danny to a safe location to tell his story, and the hero decides to help him find Greene and clear his name. Apparently, Greene now runs a protection racket against gas stations, and Danny agrees to get a job with the racketeer and act as an informant for Green Lantern.
Danny's first act as a member of Greene's gang is to tell of a police officer who recognizes the young man, solidifying Danny's status as a secret informant. Danny gives Green Lantern the information that they are going to shakedown a station owner who refuses to pay his protection money, and GL heads to the location, sidekick Doiby Dickles in tow. Green Lantern and Doiby make short work of the criminals and call Officer Malone to the scene to discuss Danny. A survivor of the attack tells of Malone's arrest, and Danny is given the job of killing his own father, while Gardenia plans to double-cross Danny and kill him after he commits patricide.
Later that night, Danny ambushes his father and is cut down by Gardenia and one of his men. A patrol car pulls up and the criminals are arrested. The bullets are revealed to be blanks, and the Malones are still alive. Gardenia's hand-picked man is revealed to be the Green Lantern in disguise, but Greene makes a quick move and steals the squad car. GL easily stops the crook and captures him. Danny resolves to become a police officer like his father, and, the next day, Doiby Dickles and Alan Scott discuss whether or not the Green Lantern is a fairy tale.
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- Gradenia Greene
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Synopsis for Scribbly: "School Daze"
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Synopsis for Hop Harrigan: "Ikky's Invention"
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Synopsis for Red, White, and Blue: "Interrupted Vacation"
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- Red, White, and Blue
- Red Dugan, USMC
- Whitey Smith, USA
- Blooey Blue, USN
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- Doris West, G2
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Synopsis for Sargon the Sorcerer: "Sargon Fights a Corrupt City Council"
Sargon gets a visit from the district attorney of the city where he's performing, who was an old friend of his father. He complains about the corrupt mayor Hoggson and the judges under his control, leaving an honest DA with almost nothing he can do. Getting an idea, Sargon has the DA arrange for him to have a private performance for the mayor, where he shakes the mayor's hand, and thus gains the ability to use his magic over the corrupt official. He uses the contact to make the mayor stuff fruit into his pockets with the promise of it changing into money, which doesn't happen, humiliating him in the local media. This enrages the mayor into sending an assassin after Sargon.
The magician's shot at his next performance, and after having the bullet extracted at a hospital, he uses his magic to make it fly into the city and shoot the man who fired it. While the would-be killer convalesces, Sargon appears as a ghostly visage and scares a confession out of him. More killers kidnap Sargon and drive him out of town to finish the job with no-one around, but he bewilders them into fleeing by conjuring a gang of clones of himself. After telling them to run back to town and give themselves up, Sargon sees to Mayor Hoggson: the sorcerer uses his magical powers to give the greedy mayor the Midas touch, but after realizing he can't eat or drink anything, Hoggson gives up and writes a full confession of his misdeeds to have the spell rescinded.
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Synopsis for Jimmy Stone: "Kidnap Note (Part I)"
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Synopsis for The Atom: "The Tablet of Kali"
Al Pratt discovers a murder plot against a professor who had recently returned from an expedition with the Tablet of Kali, the center of a plot by Kali's followers to revive her cult.
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- Kali worshippers
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- Mary James
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Synopsis for Doctor Mid-Nite: "The Stolen Brief Case"
The lights on a train go out as it passes through a tunnel, but thanks to his powers, Dr. McNider sees a shifty sort switching a pair of briefcases, who he then trips and surreptitiously collects the briefcase himself. After examining its contents for himself, the doctor sees why someone might try to steal it: it's full of incriminating documents meant for numerous foreign agents, who he then proceeds to track down and arrest as Dr. Mid-Nite.
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Notes
- This Is The Story Of Danny is reprinted in The Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Vol. 2.
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- In Green lantern's story, Doiby Dickles "plays xylophone" wearing his wrench as drumsticks against the heads of three crooks. Obviously it influenced the cover of the next issue.
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