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    What titles did DC publish during the golden age? These I'm aware of:

    Detective Comics
    Action Comics
    Adventure Comics
    Superman
    Batman

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    Wonder Woman
    All star comics

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    Flash Comics
    Sensation Comics
    All-Flash Comics
    All-American Comics
    Green Lantern
    Superboy
    The Fox and the Crow
    Comic Cavalcade
    Star-Spangled Comics
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    More Fun Comics. Featured 1st Superboy appearance I think. Was home to the Spectre & Dr Fate earlier.

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    Leading Comics featured the Seven Soldiers of Victory


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    Also, WORLD'S FINEST

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    NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR, for as long as it lasted.

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    Boy commandos

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    The following titles had issues that were published between 1937 and October 1956 (the publication of Showcase #4, generally accepted as the beginning of the Silver Age). Some series might have started in the GA and continued into the Silver Age.

    New Adventure Comics
    New Book of Comics
    Action Comics
    Adventure Comics
    All-American Comics
    Movie Comics
    Mutt & Jeff
    New York World's Fair Comics
    Superman
    All-Star Comics
    Batman
    Double Action Comics
    Flash Comics
    Green Lantern
    All-Flash
    Leading Comics
    Star-Spangled Comics
    World's Best Comics
    World's Finest Comics
    Boy Commandos
    Comic Cavalcade
    Picture Stories from the Bible
    Sensation Comics
    Wonder Woman
    All Funny Comics
    Big All-American Comic Book
    Buzzy
    Funny Stuff
    Real Screen Comics
    Real Screen Funnies
    Animal Antics
    Real Fact Comics
    A Date With Judy
    Gang Busters
    More Fun Comics
    All-American Western
    Dale Evans Comics
    Funny Folks
    Leave it to Binky
    Mr. District Attorney
    Scribbly
    Western Comics
    Adventures of Alan Ladd
    Adventures of Bob Hope
    Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
    Animal Antics
    Girls' Love Stories
    Jimmy Wakely
    Miss Beverly Hills of Hollywood
    Peter Porkchops
    Romance Trail
    Secret Hearts
    Superboy
    Danger Trail
    Girls' Romances
    Hollywood Funny Folks
    Leading Screen Comics
    Miss Melody Lane of Broadway
    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
    Strange Adventures
    Tomahawk
    All-Star Western
    Big Town
    Flippity and Flop
    Fox and the Crow
    House of Mystery
    Mystery in Space
    Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
    Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog
    All-American Men of War
    Here's Howie
    Our Army at War
    Phantom Stranger
    Sensation Mystery
    Star Spangled War Stories
    3-D Batman
    Peter Panda
    Congo Bill
    Dodo and the Frog
    Hopalong Cassidy
    Nutsy Squirrel
    Our Fighting Forces
    Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen
    Brave and the Bold
    Falling in Love
    Frontier Fighters
    It's Game Time
    Legends of Daniel Boone
    My Greatest Adventure
    Jackie Gleason and the Honeymooners
    Showcase (#1-3)
    Sugar and Spike
    Tales of the Unexpected
    Three Mousketeers

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon-El View Post
    More Fun Comics. Featured 1st Superboy appearance I think. Was home to the Spectre & Dr Fate earlier.
    Also had the first appearance of Green Arrow with issue 73 after that More Fun comics was the home of Green Arrow.

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    National Allied published NEW FUN which became MORE FUN and then MORE FUN COMICS. The second title was NEW COMICS which became NEW ADVENTURE COMICS and then ADVENTURE COMICS.

    Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's National Allied then wanted to publish a third ongoing, DETECTIVE COMICS, but they didn't have the money so a deal was made with Harry Donenfeld and DETECTIVE COMICS came out. So that's where DC comes from. The fourth ongoing was ACTION COMICS.

    Next Max Gaines made a deal with Donenfeld and his partner Jack Liebowitz to get his own comic publishing business off the ground--known as All-American. This involved a distribution and advertising deal with National/DC--similar to what happened with Wildstorm. Gaines came out with ALL-AMERICAN COMICS and the short-lived MOVIE COMICS.

    DC also had one-shot specials like NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR. Then they gave SUPERMAN his own try-out title. Gaines secured the rights to publish MUTT & JEFF.

    The next big title from All-American was FLASH COMICS--which featured the Flash and Hawkman, among other super-stars. With the success of SUPERMAN, DC next launched BATMAN. Meanwhile All-American launched the anthology ALL STAR COMICS--featuring its most popular heroes and some of DC's favourites (but not Superman and Batman)--a significant amalgamation of both pubishers' interests.

    The success of a second big NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR COMICS (not to mention ALL STAR) spurred DC to launch WORLD'S BEST COMICS--renamed WORLD'S FINEST COMICS with the second issue.
    While All-American gave the Flash his own quarterly magazine--ALL-FLASH QUARTERLY.

    DC finally launched a new monthly ongoing (as opposed to the quarterlies it had launched), STAR SPANGLED COMICS. And All-American launched its own new monthly ongoing, SENSATION COMICS and another quarterly--GREEN LANTERN. And then DC tried to do its own kind of ALL STAR COMICS with LEADING COMICS.

    After that All-American launched PICTURE STORIES FROM THE BIBLE, COMIC CAVALCADE and WONDER WOMAN. And DC gave the BOY COMMANDOS their own book and they went the humour route with ALL FUNNY COMICS. And not to be outdone, All-American launched FUNNY STUFF. There was also a big one-shot comic called THE BIG ALL-AMERICAN COMIC BOOK. On top of that All-American got the rights to publish ED WHELAN'S JOKE BOOK (featuring Fat & Slatt) and they came out with their own teen humour hero (a la Archie), BUZZY.

    DC secured the rights to the Fox & the Crow and published them in REAL SCREEN FUNNIES.

    And that takes us to the end of World War II.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tupiaz View Post
    Also had the first appearance of Green Arrow with issue 73 after that More Fun comics was the home of Green Arrow.
    Ditto Aquaman.

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    I highly recommend Mike's Amazing World of Comics for more info.
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    Boy, all of this makes me wish that 1.) DC would resume its collection of Golden Age material in their Archive format and 2.) that DC would bring back the World War Two era Justice Society of America (with Roy Thomas writing!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stingo View Post
    Boy, all of this makes me wish that 1.) DC would resume its collection of Golden Age material in their Archive format and 2.) that DC would bring back the World War Two era Justice Society of America (with Roy Thomas writing!)
    I just wish they would use those archive editions to make digital versions for Comixology.
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