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All-American Publications is one of three American Comic Book companies that combined to form the modern-day DC Comics , one of the world's two largest comics publishers. Superheroes created for All-American include the original Atom , Flash , Green Lantern , Hawkman , and Wonder Woman from the 1940s' Golden Age Of Comic Books . PUBLISHING HISTORY Max Gaines , future founder of EC Comics , formed All-American Publications in 1938 after successfully seeking funding from Harry Donenfeld , CEO of both National Allied Publications (publisher of ''Action Comics'' and other titles) and sister company '''Detective Comics''' (publisher of that namesake comic book). As Gerard Jones wrote of Donenfeld's investment: .]]
All-American shared office space and even used the informal "DC" logo on some covers. (The DC logo at the time was also used for National's unofficial branding, capitalizing on the success of Batman in ''Detective Comics''.) In 1944, according to Jones, Gaines let Liebowitz buy him out, keeping only '' Picture Stories From The Bible '' as the foundation of his own new company, EC. "Liebowitz promptly orchestrated the merger of All-American and Detective Comics into National Comics.... Next he took charge of organizing National Comics, Independent News, and their affiliated firms into a single corporate entity, National Periodical Publications." Before that merger, Liewbowitz had first rebranded All-American with its own logo, beginning with books cover-dated February 1945: ''All-Flash'' #17, '' Sensation Comics '' #38, '' Comic Cavalcade '' #9, ''Flash Comics'' #62, ''Green Lantern'' #14, ''Funny Stuff'' #3, and '' Mutt & Jeff '' #16, and the following month's ''All-American Comics'' #64 and the hyphenless '' All Star Comics '' #24. When Liebowitz later merged his and Donenfeld's companies, the All-American titles first bore the DC logo once again (starting with December 1945's ''Sensation'' #48 and ''Flash Comics'' #68, continuing with ''All-American'' #70, ''All-Flash'' #21, ''Comic Cavalcade'' #13, ''Green Lantern'' #18, ''Funny Stuff'' #7, and ''Mutt & Jeff'' #20) before finally being fully absorbed by what was now National Periodical. CREATIVE LEGACY During All-American's existence, much cross-promotion took place between the two editorially independent companies, so much so that the first iteration of the Justice Society Of America , in '' All Star Comics '' #3 (Winter 1940/41), included in its roster the National characters Doctor Fate , Hour-Man (as it was then spelled), the Spectre , and the Sandman — creating comics' first Intercompany Crossover with characters interacting, although National's Sandman, Spectre and Hour-Man had previously appeared in solo adventures in ''All Star Comics'' #1 (Summer 1940). With Gaines as editor, assisted by '', by Al Smith ghosting for strip creator Bud Fisher ; '' Skippy '', by Percy Crosby ; and '' Toonerville Folks '' by Fontaine Fox . New content included ''Scribbly'', a semiautobiographical Mayer feature about a boy cartoonist. ''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 adpatations of movies using painted movie stills, as well as '', '' Gunga Din '', ''The Great Man Votes'', '' Fisherman's Wharf '', and ''Scouts to the Rescue''. The next two comics were '' Mutt & Jeff '', which ran 103 issues from Summer 1939 - June 1958; and the company's superhero debut, ''Flash Comics'' #1 (Jan. 1940), which introduced the super-speedster title character, created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert , as well as the Golden Age Hawkman and future Hawkgirl, by Fox and artist Dennis Neville , and Johnny Thunder , by scripter John Wentworth and artist Stan Aschmeier , among other features. The Golden Age Green Lantern, from ''Batman'' writer Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell , debuted in ''All-American Comics'' #16 (July 1940), followed by the original Atom, created by Bill O'Connor and penciler Ben Flinton , in ''All-American'' #19 (Nov. 1940). Wonder Woman was introudced in a nine-page story in ''All Star Comics'' #8 (Jan. 1942), the product of psychologist William Moulton Marston (under the Pseudonym Charles Moulton ) and artist Harry G. Peter . BIBLIOGRAPHY is on the Statue Of Liberty 's torch; Mutt And Jeff are pictured above her crown. Scribbly is at right above the text box, and two of the Toonerville Folks above him to the right. Cover art by Sheldon Mayer .]] ''Titles begun under All-American Publications. Issues after the 1946 merger are National Periodical Publications / DC Comics.''
::''All-American Western'' #103-126 (Nov. 1948 - June 1952) continues as ::''All-American Men of War'' #127-128, 2-117 (Sept-Nov. 1952, Jan. 1953 - Oct. 1966)
::''All-Flash'' #6-31 (Oct. 1942 - Jan. 1948)
::''All Star Western'' #58-119 (May 1951 - July 1961; hyphen added #108) revived as ::''All-Star Western'' #1-11 (Sept., 1970 - May 1972) and ::''All Star Comics'' #58-74 (Feb. 1976 - Oct. 1978; hyphen added #66)
::''The Flash'' #105-350 (March 1959 - Oct. 1985)
::Title and numbering continue under Dell Comics , followed by Harvey Comics
::Title continues under EC Comics
::''Sensation Mystery'' #110-116 (July 1952 - Aug. 1953)
ALL-AMERICAN CHARACTERS '' (Summer 1940), the anthology that would introduce the Justice Society Of America two issues later. Note the National / DC characters the Sandman , the Spectre and Hour-Man .]] Superhero/masked crimefighter
Adventurer/war
Funny-animal/other humor
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