#ALL-AMERICAN COMICS

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All-American Comics (1939) #18

This one was a lot of fun! Although I do find it amusing that Green Lantern's ring seems to be able to do anything (he uses it to read a guy's mind, which I don't remember in the modern era) the story we followed was entertaining. Alan Scott has a voice that's very mischievous panels like the one below:

They sure don't make 'em like this anymore! But that's for the better as well as the worse.

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"All-American Comics" #49 (DC, 1943). Couverture d'Irwin Hasen. - Source Heritage Auctions.

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Alan Scott in All-American Comics (1939) #74 cover by Paul Reinman // Private commission by Darryl Banks.

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All-American Comics #22 (1941) by Bill Finger & Martin Nodell

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House ad from All-American Comics #14

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House-ad for the ‘big six’ National Comics/All-American Comics titles from April 1941.

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Comics (June1944)

[lil-doodles]

The original Red Tomato….I mean Tornado. Ma Hunkel first appeared as the Red Tornado on Sheldon Mayer’s Scribbly comic that appeared in DC Comics All-American Comics (issue #20 was her debut as the Red Tornado). Due to her strength it was assumed by the general public that she was a man. Interestingly she was not comics first cross dresser. That honor belongs to Madam Fatal who appeared in Quality Comics’ Crack Comics! Richard Stanton was her alter ego who fought crime dressed as an old woman. Ma Hunkel, thanks to the genius of Sheldon Mayer, was the more popular and longer lasting of the two. In later issues she was joined by sidekicks called the Cyclone Kids who were actually her young daughter Sisty and her daughters friend Dinky who lived next door with his older brother Scribbly. These kids were maybe five years old. It was a humor comic so I guess that made it okay. Mayer also created the great Sugar and Spike kid comics later on. He was the editor of All-American Comics and worked as an editor and writer for DC for many years.

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Hop Harrigan title page

(All-American Comics #48)

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All-American Comics #30

The short lengths of these backup stories are really starting to restrict what stories can be told. This one, about a bailout racket, has a number of twists and turns that don't have time to breathe before they're revealed and built on. The exposition is layered into the preceding scene rather than any where earlier where it would feel more natural. It feels like a jumbled mess to read, and this lessens the overall enjoyability of a story with overall good bones.

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Hello everyone, here is a comic. I drew this the way I draw all of my comics: with one person (me) and with a punchline planned from the start. Any other way to draw a comic would be very silly and would require me to tag people like @buggachat and @ladybeug if they were somehow in any way involved in the comic making process. Which they weren't. I drew this solo and by myself.

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Ha ha! You should've watched me!

Alan Scott in All-American Comics (1939) #39

(Bill Finger, Mart Nodell & Irwin Hasen)

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All-American Comics #22 (1941) by Sheldon Moldoff, Bill Finger & Martin Nodell

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All-American Comics #16

Writer: Bill Finger

Artist: Martin Nodell

Inker: Martin Nodell

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An April 1941 house-ad announcing the then-upcoming Dr. Mid-Nite and Sargon the Sorcerer features in All-American Comics (1939).

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