Comic Title: Sensation Comics #1
Publisher: DC (J.R. Publishing Company)
Address: 225 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1942
On Sale Date: November 7, 1941 Newsstand Date November 7, 1941
Source: House Ad, All-Star Comics #8, Page 71,
Superman #14, Page 64

Copyright Date November 5, 1941
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
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: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Maxwell Charles Gaines

Title: (This is the Story of Wildcat)
Pages: 10

Feature(s):
Wildcat (of Earth-2)

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Irwin Hasen

Reprinted In:
Secret Origins #3 (1973)
Famous First Edition C-30 (1974)
Famous First Edition C-30 [Lyle Stuart Exclusive] (1974)
Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told HC (1990)
Millennium Edition:Sensation Comics 1 (#41) (2000)
JSA All Stars Archives Vol. 1 HC (2007)

Feature Character(s)

• Wildcat (Ted Grant; origin and first appearance; next appearance in Sensation Comics #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Joan Fortune (Socker’s girlfriend; first appearance; next appearance in Sensation Comics #2)

Villain(s)

• Flint and Skinner (boxing managers; no further appearances)
• Fain (a henchman; no further appearances)
• Two unnamed hoodlums (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Joe Morgan (identity revealed in All-Star Squadron Annual #1; next appearance in All-Star Squadron Annual #1)
• Socker Smith (a boxing champ; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Henry Grant (Ted's father; no further appearances)
• An unnamed boy (no further appearances)

Comments:
Wildcat’s origin is told in this story. Additional details were added, including the involvement of Joe Morgan as Ted’s trainer, in the flashback in All-Star Squadron Annual #1.

This story originally was not titled; the title shown here was given on the contents page of JSA All Star Archives Vol. 1 in which this story is reprinted.

Synopsis:
Ted Grant a promising boxer is forced to give up his college career when his parents die. However, he helps boxer Socker Smith fight off two holdup men and gets a job as Smith’s sparing partner.

Grant soon proves to be a good enough boxer to earn his own bouts. Flint and Skinner, Smith’s managers, arrange fights for Grant including a title shot against Smith himself.

During the bout, the managers plant a needle in Grant’s glove which kills Smith. Grant is accused of murder, but he escapes custody when the managers try to silence him. Inspired by Green Lantern, Ted dons a costume and forces confessions from the men responsible for Smith’s death. In doing so, he clears his own name and decides to continue as the costumed Wildcat.