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All-American Comics is a comics anthology and the flagship title of comic book publisher All-American Publications, one of the forerunners of DC Comics. It ran for 102 issues from 1939 to 1948. It ran for 102 issues from 1939 to 1948.
At the end of 1944, but shortly before the merger, Gaines first rebranded All-American with its own logo, beginning with books cover-dated February 1945: All-Flash #17, Sensation Comics #38, Flash Comics #62, Green Lantern #14, Funny Stuff #3, and Mutt & Jeff [note 2] #16, and the following month's All-American Comics #64 and the hyphenless All ...
[7] [8] The comic strip expanded to 30 college newspaper from 1974 through 1979, continuing after Downs' graduation. [ 7 ] [ 5 ] [ 1 ] The editor of the Daily Illini at the University of Illinois said, "I think Downstown is the most consistently funny and insightful strip I had ever read. Ever." [ 1 ]
Ultra-Man (Gary Concord) is the name of two fictional comic-book superheroes, father and son, that first appeared during the 1940s, the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books. Both were characters of All-American Publications , which merged, in 1946, with DC Comics -predecessor National Periodical Publications .
Martin Goodman (also Morris Goodman; [1] born Moe Goodman; [2] January 18, 1908 – June 6, 1992 [2] [3]) was an American publisher of pulp magazines, digest sized magazines, paperback books, men's adventure magazines, and comic books, who founded the comics magazine company Timely Comics in 1939.
Our Own Oddities is an illustrated panel that ran in the Sunday comics section of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from September 1, 1940 to February 24, 1991. [1] The feature displayed curiosities submitted by local readers and is often remembered for its drawings of freakish produce, such as a potato that resembled Richard Nixon.
The comics involved in this multi-title crossover were the retro-revival issues Adventure Comics #1, All-American Comics #1, All-Star Comics #1–2, National Comics #1, Sensation Comics #1, Smash Comics #1, Star-Spangled Comics #1, and Thrilling Comics #1.
Max Ginzberg was born in New York City to a Jewish family. [5] Maxwell Charles Gaines was described as a "hard-nosed, pain-wracked, loud aggressive man". [6] At age four, Gaines had leaned out too far from a second story window and fell to the ground, catching his leg on a picket fence.