Comic Title: Comic Cavalcade #2
Publisher: DC (Gainlee Publishing Co.)
Address: 225 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
Cover Date: Spring 1943
Approx. On Sale Date: March 17, 1943 Copyright Date March 13, 1943
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1943
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Quarterly
Cover Price: $0.15
Page Count: 96
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Title: "Handsome John Riley"
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Green Lantern (Alan Scott of Earth-2)

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Jon Chester Kozlak

Reprinted In:
Comic Cavalcade Archives Vol. 1 HC (2005)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (last appearance in All-American Comics #49; next appearance in Green Lantern Quarterly #7)

Supporting Character(s)

• Doiby Dickles (last appearance in All-American Comics #49; next appearance in Green Lantern Quarterly #7)
• Irene Miller (last appearance in All-American Comics #48; next appearance in Comic Cavalcade #3)

Villain(s)

• Police Commissioner Leaffe (no further appearances)
• Big Mike and his gang (Shifty Spiro and Torpedo Tony named; no further appearances)
• Three unnamed political bosses (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• John Riley (a police detective; no further appearances)
• Brannigan (chief of detectives; no further appearances)
• Pamela Larson and Wilmer (a Hollywood press agent and a photographer; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story in alternatively entitled "A Star is Born" on the the title page of this issue.

Synopsis:
Police detective John Riley has been nicknamed Handsome John. His good looks have given him the opportunity to go to Hollywood and become a star. However, his boss Brannigan doesn't want Riley to leave, so he assigns him an unsolvable murder case.

When Green Lantern learns about Riley's predicament, he offers to help solve the case. GL wants Handsome John out of town because his own girlfriend, Irene Miller, has fallen for the detective. Riley and Green Lantern find the killer and his boss Big Mike. However, Big Mike is murdered before he can talk.

Brannigan forces Riley to continue working the case to find Big Mike's killer. Green Lantern helps again. Together they expose the police commissioner and his partners as part of a secret crime syndicate. Big Mike was a member of the group and was killed to prevent their exposure.

With the case solved, Riley prepares to leave for Hollywood. However, Brannigan and others think Green Lantern was responsible for solving the case, not Riley. Handsome John then agrees to stay in town long enough to crack a big case by himself to prove his skill as a detective.