Comic Title: Big All-American Comic Book #1
Publisher: DC (Wm. H. Wise & Company)
Address: New York, NY
Cover Date: 1944
Approx. On Sale Date: November 1, 1944 Copyright Date November 1, 1944
Source: Library of Congress, Pamphlets 1944
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.

Cover Price: $0.25
Page Count: 128
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Title: "Heroes Are Born... Not Made"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Alfred Bester
Artist: Paul Reinman

Reprinted In:
DC Comics Rarities Archives Vol. 1 HC (2005)

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (last appearance in All-American Comics #62; next appearance in All-American Comics #63)

Supporting Character(s)

• Doiby Dickles (last appearance in All-American Comics #62; next appearance in All-American Comics #63)

Villain(s)

• Pop (the bell-ringer of Baxton; disguised as Medusa; no further appearances)
• Pop's gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Adams (a banker; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Leslie Banks (his heir; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Green Lantern and Doiby visit the town of Baxton where a criminal claiming to be Medusa terrorizes the town. Medusa kills a banker apparently by turning him to stone, but GL deduces the body is just a statue. The clues point to the banker's heir Leslie Banks as the killer. She even confesses to the crime when authorities close in, but GL realizes that the real killer was Pop, the bell-ringer of Baxton. He killed the banker, so that Leslie would use her inheritance for the good of others. Pop commits suicide by hanging himself from the bell tower.