All-American Comics
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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, as well as the newspaper comic strip reprints and similar original featurers "Hop Harrigan", "Toonerville Folks", "Scribbly", "Mutt and Jeff", and "Ripley's Believe It or Not!".
All-American Western would add the charactes 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, Gene Colan, Mort Drucker, Mike Esposito, Jerry Grandinetti, Sheldon Meldoff, Russ Heath, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Kubert, and Irv Novick.
All-American Men of War comic-book panels are the source for pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's "Explosion/War" series. See the book Deconstructing Roy Liechtenstein for side-by-side comparative views.
A 1999 one-shot issue was a part of the storyline "Justice Society Returns".