Star-Spangled Comics
Star-Spangled Comics (German star-speckled comics ) was the title of a comic series that the US publisher DC-Comics published between 1941 and 1952.
The Star-Spangled Comics mainly contained "patriotic" adventure and superhero stories, which - especially during the war years - were often propagandistically colored. The sometimes very suggestive and one-sided stories - such as the series Seven Soldiers of Victory - which were published in Star-Spangled Comics , brought the series on the part of American intellectuals repeatedly the accusation of being a kind of "perseverance literature for children". Regardless of this, the series reached a total of 130 issues before it was converted into a war comic series in 1952 and under the title Star-Spangled War Stories lasted until 1977.
The stories started as a superhero series with the adventures of Sylvester Pemberton (also known as the Star-Spangled Kid or Skyman ) and Pat Dugan ( STRIPE ). Joe Simon and Jack Kirby later designed the Newsboy Legion , after all, they also designed Robin, the Boy Wonder here for the first time . Robin appeared in episode 65 and continued his solo appearances until # 130, which were accompanied by occasional guest appearances by Batman . In 1947, Tomahawk , a patriotic western comic, was the title leader until it finally became its own magazine. At the beginning of the 1950s, the trend towards horror comics increased before it turned more and more into a war comic series, as indicated above.
Other series that appeared in Star-Spangled Comics include the adventures of the superhero Guardian designed by Jack Kirby and the adventures of the ghost hunter Doctor Thirteen .