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Other features included "Toonerville Folks", [15] "Mutt and Jeff", [16] and "Ripley's Believe It or Not!". All-American Publications and all its titles were purchased by National Periodicals (DC Comics) in 1946. Responding to the demand for Western comics, All-American Comics changed title and format with #103 (November 1948) to All-American ...
The first adventure, drawn by Nodell (as Mart Dellon) and written by Bill Finger, appeared in All-American Comics #16 (July 1940). Nodell continued to use the pseudonym through at least All Star Comics #2 (Fall 1940). [10] He said in 2000 he had used the pen name since, "Comics were a forbidden literature, culturally unacceptable.
All-American Comics lasted 102 issues through October 1948. Also debuting that month was Movie Comics ("A full movie show for 10 cents"), featuring simple adaptations of movies using painted movie stills, as well as cartoonist Ed Wheelan's popular Minute Movies comics.
The character of Alan Scott made his debut in All-American Comics #16 (July 1940), fighting crime under the masked identity of "Green Lantern". He also appeared as part of the superhero team Justice Society of America in All Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940). He served as the team's second chairman in #7, but departed following that issue and ...
1940 (June) Ace Comics Sure-Fire Comics #1 Raven: 1940 (June) Ace Comics Sure-Fire Comics #1 Captain Future: 1940 (June) Nedor Comics: Kin Platt: Startling Comics #1 Uncle Sam: 1940 (July) Quality Comics/DC Will Eisner: National Comics #1 Green Lantern (Alan Scott, original) 1940 (July) DC Martin Nodell, Bill Finger: All-American Comics #16 The ...
The Green Lantern comic book was cancelled with issue #38 (May–June 1949), and All Star Comics #57 (1951) was the character's last Golden Age appearance. When superheroes came back in fashion in later decades, the character Alan Scott was revived, but he was forever marginalized by the new Hal Jordan character who had been created to supplant ...
Adventure Comics (1938 series) #52 – DC Comics; All-American Comics (1939 series) #16 – DC Comics, first appearance of Green Lantern (Alan Scott) All-Star Comics (1940 series) #1 – DC Comics; Amazing Mystery Funnies (1938 series) #22 – Centaur Publications; Batman (1940 series) #2 – DC Comics; Blue Beetle (1939 series) #3 – Fox ...
Green Lantern is an ongoing American comic-book series featuring the DC Comics heroes of the same name. The character's first incarnation, Alan Scott, appeared in All-American Comics #16 (July 1940), and was later spun off into the first volume of Green Lantern in 1941. After 38 issues, that series was cancelled in 1949.