All-American Comics
All-American Comics | |
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Solomon Grundy's first appearance in All-American Comics #61 (Oct. 1944), art by Paul Reinman. | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | All-American Publications |
Schedule | Monthly: #1–49, #71–102 Eight times a year: #50–66 Bi-monthly: #67–70 |
Format | Ongoing series |
Publication date | April 1939 – October 1948 |
No. of issues | 102 |
Creative team | |
Written by | Alfred Bester, Bill Finger, Sheldon Mayer, Bill O'Connor |
Artist(s) | Ben Flinton, Sheldon Mayer, Martin Nodell, Paul Reinman |
Editor(s) | List
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All-American Comics is a
Publication history
All-American Comics published 102 issues from April 1939 to October 1948.[1] The series was an anthology which included a mixture of new material and reprints of newspaper strips.[2] Sheldon Mayer's Scribbly was introduced in the first issue as was Hop Harrigan.[3][4]
The Golden Age Green Lantern was introduced by artist/creator Martin Nodell in issue #16 (July 1940).[5] He continued in the title until #102 (Oct 1948).[6]
The Golden Age
Doctor Mid-Nite first appeared in #25 (April 1941),[11][12] while Howard Purcell and John Wentworth introduced Sargon the Sorcerer in the following month's issue.[13]
Other features included "Toonerville Folks",[15] "Mutt and Jeff",[16] and "Ripley's Believe It or Not!".
All-American Publications and all its titles were purchased by National Periodicals (DC Comics) in 1946. Responding to the demand for
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Features
- Scribbly the Boy Cartoonist: issues #1-59
- Green Lantern: issues #16-102
- The Atom: #20-46, 48-61, 70-72
- Dr. Mid-Nite: #25-102
- Sargon the Sorcerer: #26-50, 60
References
- ^ All-American Comics at the Grand Comics Database
- ISBN 978-1605490892.
- ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9.)
Edited by Sheldon Mayer, the title contained newspaper reprints and puzzle pages alongside original material such as Mayer's own 'Scribbly'... The features 'Hop Harrigan' and 'Red, White, and Blue' also debuted in this issue.
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has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ Markstein, Don (2005). "Hop Harrigan". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on 2016-02-05.
Hop was introduced in All-American's first release, appropriately titled All-American Comics #1, which was dated April 1939.
- ^ Wallace "1940s" in Dolan, p. 32: "Alan Scott underwent an unexpected career change into the costumed hero Green Lantern in a story by creator Martin Nodell (using the pseudonym 'Mart Dellon') and writer Bill Finger".
- ISBN 0-87833-808-X. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ Wallace "1940s" in Dolan, p. 33: "Writer Bill O'Connor and artist Ben Flinton revealed the Atom in a short, six-page story, though the non-superpowered character soon went on to bigger things".
- ^ Markstein, Don (2008). "The Atom". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on 2017-10-16.
The Atom debuted in DC's All-American Comics #19 (November 1940).
- ^ Wallace "1940s" in Dolan, p. 33: "The Red Tornado was the first outright super hero parody at DC, and she was also one of the company's first prominent female characters".
- ^ Markstein, Don (2009). "The Red Tornado". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on January 9, 2017.
- ^ Wallace "1940s" in Dolan, p. 37: "April's All-American Comics #25 saw the costumed hero Doctor Mid-Nite make his first appearance".
- ^ Markstein, Don (2008). "Dr. Mid-Nite". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 4, 2016.
- ^ Markstein, Don (2008). "Sargon the Sorcerer". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on October 25, 2011.
- ^ Wallace "1940s" in Dolan, p. 47: "Green Lantern faced a monstrous foe in All-American Comics #61. Solomon Grundy was a zombielike strongman...His origin, recounted in a story by writer Alfred Bester and artist Paul Reinman, involved the corpse of a murdered man".
- ^ Markstein, Don (2007). "Toonerville Folks". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on 2017-10-16.
Unlike most strips published through the 1930s and '40s, Toonerville never made it into Big Little Books or comic books (except some reprints in the back pages of early issues of DC's All-American Comics).
- ^ Markstein, Don (2006). "Mutt and Jeff". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on 2009-10-16. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
[Mutt and Jeff] found a lasting berth in DC's All-American Comics, where, starting in the first issue, they were among several newspaper comics scattered among the non-reprinted features
- ^ Wallace "1940s" in Dolan, p. 59: "All-American Comics became All-American Western with this issue [#103], and Johnny Thunder leaped out from a backdrop of comic pages on the cover to announce the radical transition".
- ^ All-American Western at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ All-American Men of War at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ All-American Comics one-shot at the Grand Comics Database
External links
- All-American Comics at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- All-American Comics and All-American Comics one-shot at Mike's Amazing World of Comics