All-Star Squadron #20 is an issue of the series All-Star Squadron (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1983. It was published on January 27, 1983.
Synopsis for "...For the Dark Things Cannot Stand the Light...!"
The All-Star Squadron members enter Brain Wave's illusion and battle the illusory Japanese soldiers, but are "killed" one by one, leaving Green Lantern as their only hope against Brain Wave's plot.
Appearing in "...For the Dark Things Cannot Stand the Light...!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- The Atom (Flashback and main story)
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- Template:Apn (Flashback and main story)
- Doctor Mid-Nite (Flashback and main story)
- Flash
- Template:Apn
- Template:Apn (Flashback and main story)
- Johnny Thunder (Flashback and main story)
- Sandman (Flashback and main story)
- Template:Apn (Flashback and main story)
- Starman (Flashback and main story)
- Template:Apn
- Thunderbolt (Flashback only)
- Template:Apn
Villains:
- Brain Wave (Flashback and main story)
- Template:Apn
- Template:Apn
- Template:Apn
- Ancient Romans
- Professor Elba (Flashback only)
- Japanese Armed Forces (As an illusion only)
Other Characters:
- Clancy O'Hara
- Hooty (Flashback only)
- Sir Lancelot (As an illusion only)(Flashback only)
- Attila (As an illusion only)(Flashback only)
Locations:
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- Ancient Rome
- Japan (As an illusion only)
Items:
- Green Lantern Ring
- Starheart
- Lasso of Truth
- Power Stone
- Neuro-Augmatron
Vehicles:
- Batmobile
- Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane (As an illusion only)
Notes
- Events of this story take place in early February 1942, concurrently with those of several other DC Comics stories, as detailed on pages 12 thru 15. These include:
- The Spectre's second battle with Kulak, High Priest of Brztal, as shown in All-Star Comics #2, (September 1940)
- Luthor's second attempt to defeat Superman by using the Powerstone. In this story, Luthor is retroactively portrayed with red hair rather than bald as shown in Superman #17, (July 1942).
- Batman's twelfth battle with the Joker, as shown in Batman #11, (June 1942)
- The beginning and ending of the Flash's time-travel adventure, as shown in All-Flash #4, (March 1942)
- Green Lantern's brief career as a PFC in the U.S.Army, as shown in Green Lantern Quarterly #4 (June 1942)
Trivia
- At this point of time, Luthor's first name had not yet been revealed.
- Brain Wave paraphrases Agatha Christie's mystery novel And Then There Were None, but he replaces "And then there were none!" by "And then there were fourteen!".
- After traumatized with the illusion of be a mass murderer, Green Lantern quotes J. Robert Oppenheimer (physicist among those who are credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb"): "I am become death, the shatterer of worlds".
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Justice Society Recommended Reading
- Adventure Comics (Volume 1)
- All-Star Comics (Volume 1)
- All-Star Squadron (Volume 1)
- America vs. the Justice Society (Volume 1)
- Infinity Inc. (Volume 1)
- JSA (Volume 1)
- JSA: All Stars (Volume 1)
- JSA Classified (Volume 1)
- JSA: Strange Adventures (Volume 1)
- JSA vs. Kobra (Volume 1)
- Justice Society of America (Volume 1)
- Justice Society of America (Volume 2)
- Justice Society of America (Volume 3)
- Justice Society of America (Volume 4)
- Last Days of the Justice Society Special #1
Links and References
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