All-American Comics

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All-American Comics was a comic book published in the United States from 1939 and 1966 . It was initially published by All-American Publications , and then by DC Comics after it was bought out . The title changed to All-American Western in 1948 , from 1952 the series was called All-American Men of War .

Release history

The first 102 issues of the series, which appeared between April 1939 and October 1948, were entitled All-American Comics . With issue 103 of 1948, the title of the series was changed to All-American Western , this title was retained until 1952. That year, the series' title was eventually changed to All-American Men of War - which was retained until it was discontinued fourteen years later - and numbering started again at # 1.

The series was originally published by All-American Publications. Sheldon Mayer was the editor from the start . After this was bought by National Periodicals (DC Comics) in 1946, DC took over the patronage of the series.

Content

The booklets started with reprints of comic strips published in American daily newspapers such as Hop Harrigan , Scribbly , Mutt and Jeff , Toonerville Folks and Ripley's Believe It or Not! . From 1940 onwards, superhero series were gradually added, such as Green Lantern (from issue # 16), The Atom (from issue # 19), Red Tornado (from issue # 20), Doctor Mid-Nite (from issue # 25) and Sargon the Sorcerer . In 1944 he created the monster Solomon Grundy for All-American Comics .

After DC transformed the series into a western series in 1948, she told, among other things, the adventures of gunslinger Johnny Thunder . After the thematic shift to war stories, series such as Johnny Cloud or Gunner and Sarge came into focus.

Participating artists

The authors who were involved in All American Comics include the authors Robert Kanigher and Hank Chapman , as well as the draftsmen Ross Andru, Gene Colan, Mort Drucker , Mike Esposito , Jerry Grandenetti, Sheldon Moldoff , Russ Heath , Bernard Krigstein, Joe Kubert and Irv Novick .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Daniel Wallace, Hannah Dolan (Ed.): 1930s. DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle . Dorling Kindersley, 2010. pp. 24, 32f., 37, 47, 59. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9 .

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