All-American Comics
All-American Comics was the flagship title of comic book publisher All-American Publications. It ran for 102 issues from April 1939 to October 1948, at which time it was renamed All-American Western. In 1952, the title was changed again to All-American Men of War, which lasted until the series was cancelled in 1966.
The publisher All-American Comics was purchased by National Periodicals (DC Comics) in 1946. Characters created for All-American include Green Lantern, the Atom, Red Tornado, Doctor Mid-Nite, and Sargon the Sorcerer. The book also included the newspaper comic strip reprints and similar original features "Hop Harrigan", "Toonerville Folks", "Scribbly", "Mutt and Jeff", and "Ripley's Believe It or Not!".
All-American Western would add the character Johnny Thunder to the DC Universe, and All-American Men of War, Johnny Cloud and the team of Gunner and Sarge.
Contributors included writers Robert Kanigher and Hank Chapman, and artists Ross Andru, Alex Toth, Gene Colan, Mort Drucker, Mike Esposito, Jerry Grandenetti, Sheldon Moldoff, Russ Heath, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Kubert, and Irv Novick.
A 1999 one-shot issue was a part of the storyline "Justice Society Returns".
Key issues of All-American include
- All-American Comics #16 (debut of Golden Age Green Lantern)
- All-American Comics #19 (debut of the Golden Age Atom, and last appearance of Gary Concord - The Ultra Man).
These books are very scarce; there are only 80 known copies of #19 in the CGC Census.[citation needed]
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