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Tuesday Trending Topics: The Repeating History Of The All-Winners Squad

Published Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:13:27 -0500

Last updated Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:31:08 -0500

Sometimes, cool comics get cut short by changing circumstances and timing. Take the case of the original All-Winners Comics, which Marvel launched as a quarterly in 1941 to feature separate adventures of its most popular characters and their sidekicks. Definitely a good idea, and by issue 19 Marvel had the even better idea of teaming them all up together in the same comic book story.

Unfortunately, by this time (1946) the industry was in the beginning stages of its shift away from superheroes to other genres. All-Winners Comics was actually cancelled (more precisely, re-purposed to humor title All-Teen Comics) after that All-Winners Squad debut, brought back for one issue to finish out the numbering of another title with #21 (Yes, All-Winners Comics runs 1-19, 21. There is no #20), and then rebooted back to #1 to cover-feature The Blonde Phantom — after which the title was promptly changed to a western.

Jump forward 65 years, and the new All Winners has been cut short just as the title's editor Alejandro Arbona has been let go from the company — and with one of the title's characters noting, "I waited sixty-five years to tell this story" precisely 65 years after their last Golden Age appearance would have been on the stands.

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