Comic Title: Showcase Presents:All-Star Squadron Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2012
On Sale Date: April 18, 2012 Direct Market Date April 18, 2012
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Direct Market Date April 18, 2012
Source: Previews, #280

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 528
Editor: Robin Wildman

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Three Faces of Evil"
Pages: 38

Feature(s):
All-Star Squadron (of Earth-2)

Writer: Roy Thomas
Penciller: Adrian Gonzales
Inker: Jerry Ordway
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted From:
All-Star Squadron Annual #1 (1982)

Feature Character(s)

• All-Star Squadron (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #13; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #14)
• Flash (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #4; next appearance in All Flash Quarterly #4)
• Green Lantern (last appearance in All-American Comics #38; next appearance in Green Lantern #3)
• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Sensation Comics #8; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #16)
• Wildcat (origin retold; last appearance in Sensation Comics #5; next appearance in Sensation Comics #6)
• Atom (origin retold; last appearance in All-Star Squadron #13; next appearance in All-American Comics #39)
• Guardian (origin retold with new details; last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #7; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #7)

Villain(s)

• Joe Morgan (alias Nat Milligan; dies in this story; also appears in flashback to the origins of Atom, Wildcat, and Guardian; last appearance in All-American Comics #37; no further appearances)
• A globe of evil (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Tubby Watts (last appearance in More Fun Comics #79; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #17)
• Mary James (also appears in flashback to the origin of the Atom; last appearance in All-Star Squadron #13; next appearance in All-American Comics #43)
• Guardians of the Universe (in flashback; last appearance in Green Lantern #55; next appearance in Green Lantern #1)

Other Character(s)

• Leo (a boyhood friend of Jim Harper; appears in flashback; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Jim Harper (as a teenager; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #7)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Liberty Belle (in flashback to All-Star Squadron #13)
• Johnny Quick (in flashback to All-Star Squadron #13)
• Robotman (in flashback to All-Star Squadron #13)
• Chuck Grayson (in flashback to All-Star Squadron #13)
• Firebrand (in flashback to All-Star Squadron #13)
• Commander Steel (in flashback to All-Star Squadron #13)
• Shining Knight (in flashback to All-Star Squadron #13)
• Hawkman (in flashback to All-Star Squadron #13)
• Shiera Sanders (in flashback to All-Star Squadron #13)
• Winston Churchill (in flashback to All-Star Squadron #13)
• Henry Grant and Socker Smith (in flashback to the sixth story of Sensation Comics #1)

Comments:
Chap. 2: "Secret Origins"
Chap. 3: "Tragedy in Triplicate"

Atom, Wildcat, and the Guardian have their origins retold in this story with new details revealed.

Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern’s appearance at the circus is a representation of the cover of Comic Cavalcade #2.

This story takes place concurrently with the events in All-Star Squadron #13.

This issue contains a fact file pages which features Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, and the Guardian.

Synopsis:
While performing circus stunts for charity, Flash, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman are attacked by a hypnotized Atom, Wildcat, and Guardian. Green Lantern’s power ring snaps them out of their trance, and the group leaves to learn the secret behind the attack.

Wildcat, Atom, and the Guardian all relate their origins to the group and find a common connection. They were eached trained by the same man, Joe Morgan, known to the Guardian as Nat Milligan.

The group of All-Star’s splits into teams to find Morgan. Each group finds a glowing version of Morgan and defeats him. When the three are brought together, they form a giant Morgan who attacks.

Eventually the heroes defeat Morgan, who has been possessed by a white globe of pure evil. It was intent on attacking Green Lantern, but Morgan resisted it. Morgan dies, and GL sends the globe into space. Unknown to GL, the globe was sent to Earth-2 by the Guardians of the Universe and contains the evil expelled from their very beings.