All-Star Comics was a comic book series published during the 1940s by All-American Comics (AAC), a forerunner of DC Comics. The series was especially famous for its stories of the Justice Society of America, the first team of superheroes. This article is about the 2005 DC Comics imprint. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... The current DC Comics logo, adopted in May 2005. ... The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a team of fictional superheroes whose adventures have been published by DC Comics. ... Superheroes is a danish pop/rock band. ...

All-Star Comics #1 appeared in Summer 1940 and was relatively successful. However, the winter issue (#3) of that year is of the greatest historical significance. In that issue the heroes were shown gathered at a meeting of a group called the Justice Society of America, at which they swapped stories about their exploits. From Flash Comics came Flash and the Hawkman, from More Fun Comics came the immortal Doctor Fate and the Spectre, from Adventure Comics came Hourman and the Sandman, and finally from All-American Comics came Green Lantern and the Atom. This new format proved to be so successful that the pretense of individual adventures was dropped and the heroes started teaming up to fight crime as a single group. The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a team of fictional superheroes whose adventures have been published by DC Comics. ... The Flash is a DC Comics superhero possessing super-speed, nicknamed the Scarlet Speedster. ... Hawkman is a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe. ... More Fun Comics was a DC Comics title which began as New Fun Comics in February 1935 and changed to More Fun with its seventh issue. ... Doctor Fate is a comic book superhero and wizard in the DC Comics universe, and a member of the Justice Society of America. ... The Spectre is a fictional cosmic entity and superhero who has appeared in numerous comic books published by DC Comics. ... Adventure Comics was a comic book published by DC Comics from 1935 to 1983. ... Hourman is a fictional character, a superhero who was created for DC Comics during the Golden Age of Comic Books. ... The sandman, in folklore, is a figure who brings good sleep and dreams by sprinkling magic sand onto sleeping children. ... All-American Comics was the flagship title for its publisher, also called All-American Comics. ... Cover to Green Lantern: Rebirth #6, art by Ethan Van Sciver. ... Properties An atom (Greek άτομον from ά: non and τομον: divisible) is a submicroscopic structure found in all ordinary matter. ...

All-Star Comics changed over the years as wartime paper shortages shrank its page count and it switched from a quarterly to two-monthly publication schedule. However it never really lost its heritage as an anthology and different chapters of the JSA's stories would often be handled by completely different artists. The JSA lasted in All-Star Comics until issue #57 (ironically a story titled "The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives") (February - March 1951). Superhero comics slumped in the early 1950s and All-Star Comics was transformed into All-Star Western #58. It ran as a western until issue #119 (in 1961). All-Star Western is a comic published by DC Comics. ...

In the 1970s the name All-Star Comics was resurrected for a series portraying the modern day adventures of the JSA. This new series ignored the numbering from All-Star Western and continued the original numbering by starting with All-Star Comics #58. That series ran for seventeen issues before it was cancelled and the JSA's adventures were folded into another title. Since then the name ALL-STAR has been used by DC Comics on a series of projects to denote a connection with the characters from the original comics. Complete reprints of the original series have been published as hardback volumes in the DC Archives series. DC Archive Editions, edited by Dale Crain for DC Comics, collect early, sometimes rare, comic books published by DC and other publishers into a permanent hardcover series. ...

A new series of All-Star Comics which lasted only two issues was put out in 1999 as a part of the Justice Society Returns storyline. Justice Society Returns is the story title which ran through a number of new series of comics published by DC Comics in 1999. ...

Awards

The 1999 two issue series was a part of the storyline Justice Society Returns which was a top votegetter for the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Story for 2000. Justice Society Returns is the story title which ran through a number of new series of comics published by DC Comics in 1999. ... Comics Buyers Guide (CBG) is the longest-running periodical reporting on the comic book industry. ...

External links

Grand Comics Database Project: All-Star Comics Bibliographic index

• Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards