Comic Title: All-Star Comics #30
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: Aug/Sep 1946
Approx. On Sale Date: June 26, 1946 Copyright Date June 24, 1946
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1946-1947
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: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Title: "The Dreams of Madness"
Pages: 39

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Joe Gallagher
Artist: Martin Naydel
Artist: Joe Kubert
Artist: Stan Aschmeier

Reprinted In:
All Star Comics Archives Vol. 7 HC (2001)

Feature Character(s)

• Justice Society of America (last appearance in All-Star Comics #29; next appearance in All-Star Comics #31)
• Hawkman (last appearance in Flash Comics #74; next appearance in Flash Comics #75)
• Flash (last appearance in Comic Cavalcade #16; next appearance in All-Flash #24)
• Green Lantern (last appearance in All-American Comics #76; next appearance in Green Lantern #21)
• Atom (last appearance in All-Star Comics #29; next appearance in All-Star Comics #31)
• Doctor Mid-Nite (last appearance in All-American Comics #76; next appearance in All-American Comics #77)
• Johnny Thunder (last appearance in Flash Comics #74; next appearance in Flash Comics #75)
• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Sensation Comics #56; next appearance in Sensation Comics #57)

Villain(s)

• Brain Wave (disguised as Forest Malone; last appearance in All-Star Comics #17; next appearance in All-Star Comics #37)
• A group of mobsters (no further appearances)
• The Ice-Men and Fire People, a race of germs, two groups of gangsters, a pair of bank robbers, and Mordred the Magical Man (dream appearance)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Thunderbolt (last appearance in Flash Comics #74; next appearance in Flash Comics #75)

Other Character(s)

• Two astronomers, the Gemini twins, the Man in the Moon, a race of talking animals, a race of clock men, a race of already equipped people (dream appearance)

Comments:
The Green Lantern and Flash chapters in this story were originally intended for Starman and Spectre, but redrawn prior to publication.

Synopsis:
The Justice Society agrees to participate in a dream recording experiment conducted by Dr. Forest Malone. However, Malone is really their old enemy the Brain Wave, who has tricked them into subjecting themselves to dreams of his making.

Hawkman dreams of a war between fire and ice and emerges thinking he is a thermometer. Dr. Mid-Nite fights in a world of giant germs, where he winds up believing he is a living disease. Green Lantern awakens from his dream believing he is a solar system. Flash encounters a land of talking animals where he becomes a laughing stock. The Atom is convinced that he is a sponge. Only Johnny Thunder seems unaffected, though his dreams appear to have brought him sanity.

Once the entire JSA is awakened from their dreams, they behave as they did in the dreams. Brain Wave and his crooks humiliate them, but Johnny summons his Thunderbolt. The Thunderbolt shocks the group back to normal, where they can battle and defeat the crooks. Johnny is restored to normal too, when he is struck in the head.