Comic Title: All Star Comics Archives Vol. 5 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2000
On Sale Date: December 1, 1999 Direct Market Date December 1, 1999
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: December 1

Direct Market Date December 1, 1999
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, December 1, 1999

Direct Market Date December 1, 1999
Source: Usenet, Late Comics Report for the week of December 3, 1999

Direct Market Date November 10, 1999
Source: Previews, Vol. 9 #9 (#129)

Copyright Date November 19, 1999
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1999

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 224
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Movie That Changed a Man's Life"
Pages: 38

Feature(s):
Justice Society of America (of Earth-2)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Joe Gallagher
Artist: Sheldon Moldoff
Artist: Bernard Baily
Artist: Stan Aschmeier

Reprinted From:
All-Star Comics #20 (1944)

Feature Character(s)

• Justice Society of America (last appearance in All-Star Comics #19; next appearance in All-Star Comics #21)
• Hawkman (last appearance in Flash Comics #52; next appearance in Flash Comics #53)
• Atom (last appearance in All-American Comics #57; next appearance in All-American Comics #58)
• Doctor Fate (last appearance in More Fun Comics #96; next appearance in More Fun Comics #97)
• Doctor Mid-Nite (last appearance in All-American Comics #57; next appearance in All-American Comics #58)
• Johnny Thunder (last appearance in Flash Comics #52; next appearance in Flash Comics #53)
• Sandman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #90; next appearance in Adventure Comics #91)
• Spectre (last appearance in More Fun Comics #96; next appearance in More Fun Comics #97)
• Starman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #90; next appearance in Adventure Comics #91)
• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #8; next appearance in Comic Cavalcade #6)

Villain(s)

• Monster (Jason L. Rogers; dies in this story; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #3)
• Marvin Walsh (twin brother of a steel baron; no further appearances)
• The Monster’s henchmen (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Thunderbolt (last appearance in Flash Comics #52; next appearance in Flash Comics #53)

Other Character(s)

• Mrs. Rogers (Jason Rogers’s wife; dies in flashback; no further appearances)
• Harlan Walsh, Walter Noonan, and Roland Cord (a steel baron, a friend of Jason Rogers, and a millionaire; no further appearances)
• Dr. Horatio Hill (a surgeon; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
Beginning with this issue the page count of All-Star Comics was reduced due to the war effort. As a result Sandman and Dr. Fate have no solo chapters and are featured only in the group portion of the book.

The Monster is temporarily displaced in time by Per Degaton immediately prior to his death as chronicled in the flashback in All-Star Squadron #3. Following his defeat by Hawkman, Atom, and Dr. Mid-Nite in the second story of Justice League of America #193, Degaton’s time displacement wears off, returning the Monster to the exact moment he was removed from this story.

Synopsis:
The Justice Society is approached by Jason L. Rogers, an industrial magnate. Rogers has been plagued by a villain called the Monster. His problems began when his wife died while viewing a movie. The same movie has driven Rogers’ friends away, while the Monster has sabotaged his business and associates.

The JSA agrees to help and pursues clues that the Monster has left in Rogers’ house. Each JSAer tangles with the Monster, disrupting his activities, but each fails to capture him.

The team regroups to watch the movie that has plagued Rogers. The film is damaged and when Rogers tries to repair it, the Monster appears. They finally defeat the villain, discovering that he and Rogers share the same body with a Jeckyl-and-Hyde effect. Rogers dies, ending the threat of the Monster.