All-American Publications

It is associated with United States. The record gives 1938 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Activity is recorded as ending in 1945. Its recorded founders are Max Gaines. Its recorded seat is Manhattan. Recorded products are American comic book.

• Name — All-American Publications • Fate — Merged into National Comics Publications in 1946 • Successor — National Comics Publications • Founder — Max Gaines • Key People — Harry Donenfeld Jack Liebowitz • Hq Location — 225 Lafayette Street New York City, U.S. • Products — Comic books • Genre — Superhero, adventure, funny animal, humor

Max Gaines, future founder of EC Comics, formed All-American Publications in 1939 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, Inc. (publisher of the namesake comic book). As Gerard Jones writes of Donenfeld's investment: • Illustration — All-American Comics #16 (July 1940), cover art by Sheldon Moldoff. While All-American, at 225 Lafayette Street in Manhattan, was physically separated from DC's office space uptown at 480 Lexington Avenue, it used the informal "DC" logo on most of its covers for distribution and marketing reasons. In 1944, Gaines sold his share of the company to Liebowitz by June 1945, keeping only Picture Stories from the Bible as the foundation of his own new company, EC. As Jones describes: At the end of 1944, but shortly before the merger, Gaines first rebranded All-American with its own logo, beginning with books cover-dated February 1945: All-Flash #17, Sensation Comics #38, 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. Liebowitz later merged his and Donenfeld's companies into National Comics Publications by September 30, 1946.

• All-American Comics (began April 1939) • All-Flash (began Summer 1941) • All Star Comics (began Summer 1940; co-publication with Detective Comics, Inc.) • Comic Cavalcade (began Winter 1942–1943) • Flash Comics (began January 1940) • Funny Stuff (began Summer 1944) • Green Lantern (began Fall 1941) • Movie Comics (1939) • Mutt and Jeff (began September 1939) • Picture Stories from the Bible - New Testament (1944–1945) • Picture Stories from the Bible - Old Testament (1942 - Fall 1943) • Sensation Comics (began January 1942) • The Big All-American Comic Book (1944, one-shot) • Wonder Woman (began Summer 1942)

• Illustration — Premiere issue of All Star Comics (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.

• The Atom • Doctor Mid-Nite • The Flash • The Gay Ghost • Green Lantern • Hawkman and Hawkgirl • Hop Harrigan • The King • Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys • Mr. Terrific • Sargon the Sorcerer • Johnny Thunder • Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man • The Whip • Wildcat • Wonder Woman

• The Black Pirate • Cliff Cornwall • Gunner Godbee • Red, White and Blue (Red Dugan, Whitey Smith, Blooey Blue)

• Bulldog Drumhead • The Red Tornado • Scribbly the Boy Cartoonist

All-American Publications is recorded as founded by Max Gaines. Associated with United States. Recorded from 1938.