All-Winners Squad
| = All-Winners Squad | |
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Bob Powell Syd Shores (artists) | |
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| Member(s) | Captain America Bucky Human Torch Toro Sub-Mariner Whizzer Miss America Blonde Phantom Angel |
The All-Winners Squad is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The company's first such team, it first appeared in All Winners Comics #19 (fall 1946), published by Marvel predecessor Timely Comics during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books.[1]
While the cover title and in-book references to the team have no hyphen, Marvel's website version of The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Teams 2005 lists the team name as the hyphenated "All-Winners Squad",[2] as do the print version and independent sources.[3][4]
Publication history
1940s Golden Age appearances
The All-Winners Squad was created for Marvel predecessor Timely Comics in 1946, during the Golden Age of Comic Books.[5] It consisted of Captain America and sidekick Bucky; the Human Torch and sidekick Toro; the Sub-Mariner; super-speedster the Whizzer; and Miss America.[6]
While the super-team made only two Golden Age appearances—in All Winners Comics #19 (fall 1946) and #21 (winter 1946; there was no issue #20)[4]—it reacquired fan interest upon their being reprinted by Marvel during the 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books.
The
The second outing, "Menace from the Future World", was written by
Timely and Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee recalled in 1999:
I suspect that [Timely's publisher] Martin Goodman was the guy behind the All-Winners Squad. It's not the type of title I'd have made up. I think he simply must have said to me one day, 'I wanna do a book featuring the Torch, Toro, C.A., etc.—and let's call it the All-Winners Squad.' In which case I woulda just gotten the stuff together and sent it out. But honestly, although I can remember the title, I can remember nothing else about it.[8]
Latter-day fans during the
Retroactive continuity and later appearances
The All-Winners Squad has been
The team was reintroduced in What If? #4 (Aug. 1977), an
After Naslund's death, Jeff Mace, the Golden Age
The Liberty Legion, created in 1976 but whose adventures are set in World War II, included two future members of the All-Winners Squad: the Whizzer and Miss America.
The All-Winners Squad made flashback appearances in The Sensational She-Hulk #22 (Dec. 1990), working alongside the Blonde Phantom,[4] in All Winners Comics 70th Anniversary Special (2009) and Captain America: Patriot (2010).
More recently, the All-Winners Squad made a flashback cameo appearance in The Marvels #1 (June 2021), flying over French Indochina in 1947. The team shown included only Sub-Mariner, Human Torch, Toro and Miss America and was featured only in a single panel.
References
- ISBN 978-1465455505.
- ^ All-Winners Squad at MarvelDirectory.com, reprinted from The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Teams 2005
- ^ All-Winners Squad Archived 2010-05-16 at the Wayback Machine at Nevins, Jess, A Guide to Golden Age Marvel Characters. Archived 2010-02-20 at the Wayback Machine of latter.
- ^ a b c d e All-Winners Squad at the Grand Comics Database
- ISBN 978-1-4654-7890-0.
- ^ Markstein, Don. "All-Winners Squad". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-61318-023-5.
- ^ "They Were Winners, Every One!" by Roy Thomas: Timely Presents: All-Winners (hyphen sic; title per reprint indicia), also known as Timely Comics Presents All Winners Comics (title per reprint cover), Marvel Comics, Dec. 1999: pp. 46–47 (unnumbered)
- ^ Captain America #285 (Sept. 1983)
External links
- All Winners (I) 1941–1946 at The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
- All-Winners Squad at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on November 24, 2009.
