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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.
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.
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 ...
All-American Publications: US [50] 1939 [50] 1946 [51] Bought out by National Periodicals in 1946 [51] All Star DC Comics: US 2005 [52] 2008 [52] Defunct imprint of DC Comics. Titles: All-Star Superman; All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder: Alternative Comics: US [53] 1993 [54] Shut down in 2008, resumed publishing in 2012. [55]
George McManus (January 23, 1884 – October 22, 1954) was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Irish immigrant Jiggs and his wife Maggie, the main characters of his syndicated comic strip, Bringing Up Father.
Growing up in St. Louis, Steenz was a fan of comics and cartoons that later influenced their work, including Calvin and Hobbes, Cathy, Curtis, Recess, Hey Arnold!, and Doug. [1] [2] They attended Maryville University and studied studio art with a focus on illustration. They left as a junior and worked as a librarian and a comic book shop ...
[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 ]
Bails further liked "the idea of a fandom organization that would not only perpetuate the concept of comics as an art form, but would also act as a sort of umbrella for all his ideas and projects, and those of others". [3] In short order — 1961 [4] or 1962 [1] — the Academy of Comic-Book Arts and Sciences was established. Bails served as ...