All Winners Comics

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All Winners Comics
Black Rider, Western Tales of Black Rider and Gunsmoke Western)
Creative team
Created byJoe Simon
Written byJoe Simon
Stan Lee
Otto Binder
Artist(s)Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Bill Everett
Alex Schomburg
Al Avison
Al Gabriele
Syd Shores

All Winners Comics was the name of two

Sub-Mariner.[1] All Winners Comics was also the venue for two full-length stories of Marvel's first superhero team, the (hyphenated) All-Winners Squad
.

Publication history

Volume One

Published quarterly, the first volume of All Winners Comics ran 20 issues, numbered #1-19 and #21 (Summer 1941 - Winter 1946/47). While the cover title was All Winners Comics or occasionally simply All Winners, the indicia of all issues in the series (except #21) list the title as All-Winners Comics. The working title was All Aces, as seen in pre-publication house ads in other Timely Comics advising readers to "Watch out for this winner".

All Winners Comics #1 (Summer 1941) contained a 12- to 13-page story each of the Human Torch, by writer-artist creator

penciler Al Avison and inker Al Gabriele; Captain America, by co-creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (writers), Joe Simon, Kirby, and Avision (pencils), and Joe Simon, Al Gabriele and Syd Shores (inkers); the Sub-Mariner, by writer-artist creator Bill Everett; and the Angel, generally credited, unconfirmably, to writer-artist creator Paul Gustavson. All the characters were preexisting.[2] Additionally, there was a two-page text story by Lee, with spot art by Ed Winiarski
.

The following issue, the preexisting superheroes the

Destroyer and the Whizzer replaced the Black Marvel and the Angel. This lineup continued through #12, with a one-shot appearance of the Thunderer with the new code name Black Avenger in #6. With World War II
wartime paper shortages, the page-count was reduced from 68 to 60 pages with issue #9 (Summer 1943), trimming the Destroyer feature slightly and shrinking that of super-speedster the Whizzer to six pages. With #12 (Spring 1944) it was further reduced to 52 pages, reducing the Destroyer feature to seven pages and eliminating the Whizzer's entirely. Two issues later, the book shrank to 36 pages, before finally returning to 52 pages after the war, with #17 (Winter 1945).

All-Winners Squad

Timely/Marvel's first superhero team, the

Miss America, starred in #19 (Fall 1946), in a 43-page story in seven chapters. A second, same-length All-Winners Squad story appeared in #21 (Winter 1946/47).[3]

Due to the vagaries and often-poor record-keeping of the early days of comic books, the interrupted numbering of the first volume, which has no issue #20, has never been definitively explained. Most comics historians follow a generally accepted theory

Young Allies Comics, which had ended with #20 (Oct. 1946), resulting in All Winners Comics #21.[5][6]
Most sources say All Winners Comics afterward became the humor title Hedy De Vine Comics, starting with #22 (Aug. 1947).

Volume Two

A second volume ran one issue (Aug. 1948) before being retitled and reformatted as the

Black Rider (#8-27, March 1950 - March 1955) and Western Tales of Black Rider (#28-31, May-Nov. 1955), and, finally, the anthology Gunsmoke Western (#32-77, Dec. 1955 - July 1963), that last primarily starring Kid Colt.[7]

Collections

In December 1999, Marvel reprinted #19 as Timely Presents: All-Winners, cover titled Timely Comics Presents All Winners Comics. From 2004 to 2011, Marvel reprinted all of All-Winners Comics under the Marvel Masterworks imprint in four volumes:

  • Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Vol. 1 (reprints All-Winners Comics #1-4) (2004)
  • Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Vol. 2 (reprints All-Winners Comics #5-8) (2006)
  • Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Vol. 3 (reprints All-Winners Comics #9-14) (2008)
  • Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners Vol. 4 (reprints All-Winners Comics #15-19, 21 & Vol. 2 #1) (2011)

Individual digital issues were released on Marvel Unlimited and ComiXology beginning in a period from 2017 to 2018.

References

  1. ISBN 9781302516284
    .
  2. ISBN 978-1465455505
    .
  3. ISBN 978-1-61318-023-5
    .
  4. ^ All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) at the Grand Comics Database. Despite the cover logo, this database spells the title with hyphen as per the indicia.
  5. ^ a b "All-Winners Squad". An International Catalogue of Superheroes. Archived from the original on August 5, 2011.
  6. ^ All Teen Comics and Young Allies Comics at AtlasTales.com.
  7. ^ All Winners [''All-Winners Comics''] (Marvel, 1948 series) at the Grand Comics Database

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