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All-American Publications

Index All-American Publications

All-American PublicationsThe name is spelled with a hyphen per its logo (pictured) and sources including at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. [1]

72 relations: Action Comics, Adventure fiction, Al Smith (cartoonist), Alan Scott, All Star Comics, All Star Comics 8, All-American Comics, All-Flash, American comic book, Atom (Al Pratt), Bill Finger, Bud Fisher, Cartoonist, Comic book, Comic strip, DC Comics, Dennis Neville, Detective Comics, Doctor Fate, Doctor Mid-Nite, Don Markstein's Toonopedia, EC Comics, Ed Wheelan, Flash (Jay Garrick), Fontaine Fox, Funny animal, Gardner Fox, Gay Ghost, Golden Age of Comic Books, Grand Comics Database, Gunga Din, H. G. Peter, Harry Donenfeld, Harry Lampert, Hawkgirl, Hop Harrigan, Hourman, Independent News, Intercompany crossover, Jack Liebowitz, Johnny Thunder, Justice Society of America, King Standish, Lafayette Street, Little, Brown and Company, Martin Nodell, Max Gaines, Mister Terrific (comics), Mutt and Jeff, National Comics Publications, ..., New York City, Newspaper, Percy Crosby, Pseudonym, Red Tornado (Ma Hunkel), Sandman (Wesley Dodds), Sargon the Sorcerer, Sensation Comics, Sheldon Mayer, Sheldon Moldoff, Skippy (comic strip), Son of Frankenstein, Spectre (DC Comics character), Statue of Liberty, Superhero, Toonerville Folks, Ultra-Man, United States, Whip (comics), Wildcat (comics), William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman. Expand index (22 more) »

Action Comics

Action Comics is an American comic book series that introduced Superman, one of the first major superhero characters.

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Adventure fiction

Adventure fiction is fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement.

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Al Smith (cartoonist)

Al Smith (March 21, 1902 – November 24, 1986) was an American cartoonist whose work included a long run on the comic strip Mutt and Jeff.

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Alan Scott

Alan Scott is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, and the first character to bear the name Green Lantern.

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All Star Comics

All Star Comics is an American comic book series from All-American Publications, one of three companies that merged with National Periodical Publications to form the modern-day DC Comics.

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All Star Comics 8

All Star Comics #8 is the 8th issue of the comic series All Star Comics (published by All-American Publications), released in October of 1941 (cover dated Dec/Jan 1941/1942).

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All-American Comics

All-American Comics was a comics anthology and the flagship title of comic book publisher All-American Publications, one of the forerunners of DC Comics.

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All-Flash

All-Flash, originally published as All-Flash Quarterly, was a comic book magazine series published by All-American Publications and later National Periodicals (DC Comics).

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American comic book

An American comic book is a thin periodical, typically 32-pages, containing comics content.

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Atom (Al Pratt)

Al Pratt is a character in the DC Comics Universe, the original hero to fight crime as the Atom.

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Bill Finger

Milton Finger, known professionally as Bill Finger (February 8, 1914 – January 18, 1974), was an American comic strip and comic book writer best known as the co-creator, with Bob Kane, of the DC Comics character Batman, and the co-architect of the series' development.

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Bud Fisher

Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher (April 3, 1885 – September 7, 1954) was an American cartoonist who created Mutt and Jeff, the first successful daily comic strip in the United States.

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Cartoonist

A cartoonist (also comic strip creator) is a visual artist who specializes in drawing cartoons.

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Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher.

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Dennis Neville

Dennis Neville was an American comic book artist during the Golden Age of Comic Books, who co-created the DC Comics characters Hawkman, his lover Hawkgirl, and nemesis Hath-Set.

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Detective Comics

Detective Comics is an American comic book series published by DC Comics.

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Doctor Fate

Doctor Fate (also known as Fate) is a fictional deity-superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character has appeared in various incarnations, with Doctor Fate being the name of several different individuals in the DC Universe who are a succession of sorcerers. The original version of the character was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Howard Sherman, and first appeared in More Fun Comics #55 (May 1940).

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Doctor Mid-Nite

Doctor Mid-Nite (also Doctor Midnight) is a fictional superhero physician in DC Comics.

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Don Markstein's Toonopedia

Don Markstein's Toonopedia (subtitled A Vast Repository of Toonological Knowledge) is a web encyclopedia of print cartoons, comic strips and animation, initiated February 13, 2001.

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EC Comics

Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books, which specialized in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction, and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the Tales from the Crypt series.

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Ed Wheelan

Edgar S. Wheelan (1888 - 1966), who signed his work Ed Wheelan, was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip Minute Movies, satirizing silent films, and his comic book Fat and Slat, published by DC Comics.

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Flash (Jay Garrick)

Jay Garrick is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Fontaine Fox

Fontaine Talbot Fox, Jr. (June 4, 1884 – August 9, 1964) was an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for writing and illustrating his Toonerville Folks comic panel, which ran from 1913 to 1955 in 250 to 300 newspapers across North America.

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Funny animal

A funny animal is an anthropomorphic animal character who lives like a human.

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Gardner Fox

Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (May 20, 1911 – December 24, 1986) was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics.

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Gay Ghost

The Gay Ghost (later renamed the Grim Ghost, not to be confused with Grim Ghost) is a fictional superhero in the DC Comics universe whose first appearance was in Sensation Comics #1 (Jan. 1942), published by one DC's predecessor companies, All-American Publications.

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Golden Age of Comic Books

The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era of American comic books from the late 1930s to circa 1950.

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Grand Comics Database

The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is an Internet-based project to build a database of comic book information through user contributions.

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Gunga Din

"Gunga Din" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, set in British India.

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H. G. Peter

Harry George Peter (March 8, 1880 – 1958), usually cited as H. G. Peter, was a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist known for his work on the Wonder Woman comic book and for Bud Fisher of the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Harry Donenfeld

Harry Donenfeld (October 17, 1893 – February 1, 1965) was an American publisher who is known primarily for being the owner of National Allied Publications, which distributed Detective Comics and Action Comics, the originator publications for the superhero characters Superman and Batman.

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Harry Lampert

Harry Lampert (November 3, 1916 – November 13, 2004) was an American cartoonist and bridge teacher and writer.

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Hawkgirl

Hawkgirl is the name of several fictional superheroines appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Hop Harrigan

Hop Harrigan (also known as The Guardian Angel and Black Lamp) first appeared in All American Comics #1 created by Jon Blummer (Fighting Yank, Little Boy Blue) as one of the first successful aviation heroes in comic history (Hop appeared after Tailspin Tommy, Barney Baxter, Connie Kurridge and others).

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Hourman

Hourman (spelled Hour-Man in his earliest appearances, also referred to as the Hour-Man, and the Hourman) is the name of three different fictional superheroes appearing in comics published by DC Comics.

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Independent News

Independent News Co. was a magazine and comic book distribution business owned by National Periodical Publications, the parent company of DC Comics.

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Intercompany crossover

In comic books, an intercompany crossover (also called cross-company or company crossover) is a comic or series of comics where characters that at the time of publication are the property of one company meet those owned by another company (for example, DC Comics' Superman meeting Marvel's Spider-Man, or DC's Batman meeting Marvel's Wolverine).

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Jack Liebowitz

Jacob S. "Jack" Liebowitz (born Yacov Lebovitz October 10, 1900 – December 11, 2000), Social Security Number 091-03-2495, last residence New York City, New York 10019.

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Johnny Thunder

Johnny Thunder is the name of three fictional characters in comics published by DC Comics.

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Justice Society of America

The Justice Society of America (JSA) is a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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King Standish

King Standish is a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe.

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Lafayette Street

Lafayette Street is a major north-south street in New York City's Lower Manhattan.

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Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company is an American publisher founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown, and for close to two centuries has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors.

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Martin Nodell

Martin Nodell (November 15, 1915 – December 9, 2006) was an American cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern.

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Max Gaines

Maxwell Charles Gaines (September 21, 1894 – August 20, 1947) was a pioneering figure in the creation of the modern comic book.

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Mister Terrific (comics)

Mister Terrific is the name of two different superheroes in the DC Comics universe.

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Mutt and Jeff

Mutt and Jeff is a long-running and widely popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about "two mismatched tinhorns".

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National Comics Publications

National Comics Publications, Inc. was the comic book company that would become DC Comics.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newspaper

A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events.

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Percy Crosby

Percy Lee Crosby at FamilySearch.org.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).

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Red Tornado (Ma Hunkel)

The Red Tornado is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Comics Universe, debuting during the Golden Age of Comic Books.

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Sandman (Wesley Dodds)

Sandman (Wesley Dodds) is a fictional character, a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Sargon the Sorcerer

Sargon the Sorcerer is a fictional character, a second-string mystic, superhero and sorcerer appearing in DC Comics publications during the Golden Age.

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Sensation Comics

Sensation Comics is the title of an American comic book series published by DC Comics that ran for 109 issues between 1942 and 1952.

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Sheldon Mayer

Sheldon Mayer (April 1, 1917 – December 21, 1991) was an American comics artist, writer, and editor.

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Sheldon Moldoff

Sheldon "Shelly" Moldoff (April 14, 1920 – February 29, 2012) was an American comics artist best known for his early work on the DC Comics characters Hawkman and Hawkgirl, and as one of Bob Kane's primary "ghost artists" (uncredited collaborators) on the superhero Batman.

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Skippy (comic strip)

Skippy was an American comic strip written and drawn by Percy Crosby that was published from 1923 to 1945.

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Son of Frankenstein

Son of Frankenstein is a 1939 horror film directed by Rowland V. Lee, and is the third entry in Universal Studios' Frankenstein series and the last to feature Boris Karloff as the Monster.

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Spectre (DC Comics character)

The Spectre is the name given to several fictional antihero characters who have appeared in numerous comic books published by DC Comics.

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Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States.

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Superhero

A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero or Super) is a type of heroic stock character, usually possessing supernatural or superhuman powers, who is dedicated to fighting the evil of his/her universe, protecting the public, and usually battling supervillains.

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Toonerville Folks

Toonerville Folks (The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains) was a popular newspaper cartoon feature by Fontaine Fox, which ran from 1908 to 1955.

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Ultra-Man

Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man is the name of two fictional comic-book superheroes, father and son, that first appeared during the 1940s, the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books. Both were characters of All-American Publications, which merged, in 1946, with DC Comics-predecessor National Periodical Publications. They are separate from the DC Universe character Ultraman, a supervillain and evil counterpart of Superman, who was introduced in Justice League of America #29 (cover-dated Aug. 1964) and from the Japanese superhero Ultraman.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Whip (comics)

The Whip is the alias used by different characters in DC Comics with four of them being superheroes.

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Wildcat (comics)

Wildcat is the name of several fictional characters, all DC Comics superheroes, the first and most famous being Theodore "Ted" Grant, a long-time member of the Justice Society of America (JSA).

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William Moulton Marston

William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist, inventor of an early prototype of the lie detector, self-help author, and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman.

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Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-American_Publications

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