All Star Comics

All Star Comics (English ) was published, the U.S. comic book publisher All-American Publications 1940-1951 the title of a comic book series.

The series, which was in the 1940s, the most successful and best-selling titles in the American comic book market had mostly science fiction and adventure stories for content, especially those which focused on so-called superhero characters.

Publication history

The concept for the All Star Comics / was developed beginning in 1940 by the publishing house editors and writers Gardner Fox and Sheldon Mayer in late 1939. The first issue of the new series was finally put on the market in the summer of 1940. By February / March 1951 was followed by fifty-six more editions, so that the total of fifty-seven series reached booklets. Which resulted from declining sales in the early 1950s - - During the first three issues of the series were published in a quarterly basis, all later editions until the cessation of All Star Comics were published in zweimonatlichem distance.

After the All Star Comics were set as 1951 DC with the release of All Star Western series which continued the numbering of All Star Comics, so that the first issue of All Star Western # 58 as renamed. The All Star Western reached another 61 issues until the series was discontinued in 1961 with issue # 119.

1976 DC began publishing the All Star Comics resume where you anknüpfte to the numbering of the old series and the first issue of the new All Star Comics - began with # 58 excluding the Nummierung the All Star Western. The series ran almost two years before it was set in 1978 with issue 74. Later she produced two " offshoot series ", namely All Star Squadron and Infinity Inc..

Content

All Star Comics was originally brought as a stocked changing content so-called " anthology series " on the market. Accordingly, the series in their early editions included a variety of features like the superhero characters The Flash, Hawkman, Hourman, Sandman, Doctor Fate, Atom and The Spectre, the humorous series Red, White and Blue and the adventure series Biff Branson. A comic historically particular importance was the issue # 8 of the series, in which the first story of the valiant Amazon Wonder Woman was released. The devised by William Moulton Marston heroine was in the sequel to one of the most successful and popular figures in American mainstream comics. Begun shortly after the debut of the " wonder woman " stand-alone Wonder Woman series - sort of a spin-off of All Star Comics - is in addition to the series to the superhero Batman and Superman is the only American comic book series based on an unbroken publication history since the early 1940s can look back years.

In the later editions of the All Star Comics, the series focused on collaborative adventure of that in the above superhero figures as a " superhero group " under the name " Justice Society of America" ​​to talk about.

The All Star Comics in the 1970s linked up with this concept and told further adventures of the Justice Society, which was, however, supplemented by some new " youthful" members as superheroines Huntress and Power Girl.

Reprints

The original fifty-seven issues of All Star Comics since the mid- 1990s in the series DC Comics Archives edition under the title All Star Comics Archives been reprinted in eleven volumes. The articles published in the 1970s, issues # 58-74 of the All Star Comics were in 2006/2007 as the Justice Society Vol 1 (# 58-67 ) and Vol 2 (# 68-74 ) reprinted as trade paperbacks.

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