House-ads for Green Lantern (1941) #8 and Comic Cavalcade (1942) #3 appearing in All-American Comics titles running throughout September 1943.
29 notes
·
View notes
Winter 1942–1943. DC's other "Trinity": At the same time Superman, Batman, and Robin were appearing together on the covers of WORLD'S FINEST COMICS, Wonder Woman, the Golden Age Green Lantern, and the Golden Age Flash shared the covers of DC's other big anthology book, COMIC CAVALCADE. As with WORLD'S FINEST, the characters didn't costar in any of the stories inside (although Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and the Flash did appear together in the contemporary Justice Society of America stories in ALL-STAR COMICS), but the covers suggested they were great friends, showing them playing sports, fishing, or delivering presents on Christmas.
Superman and Batman had teamed up in the ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN radio show between 1945 and 1948 and in a 1947 issue of ALL-STAR COMICS. However, having them actually costar in the lead story of WORLD'S FINEST COMICS beginning in 1954 was largely the result of a reduction in that book's page count from 52 to 36 pages, which didn't leave space for separate normal-length Superman and Batman features. Wonder Woman and her two former costars didn't follow suit: Green Lantern and the Flash had disappeared by mid-1951, and even Wonder Woman was no longer appearing in COMIC CAVALCADE, which had become a funny animal anthology in 1948.
In the early 1980s, Roy Thomas's ALL-STAR SQUADRON, set in 1941–1942, paid homage to these charming COMIC CAVALCADE covers, showing Diana, Alan, and Jay putting on exhibitions together at war bond rallies and the like.
31 notes
·
View notes
Zara toys with Wonder Woman, from COMIC CAVALCADE #5 (1943).
10 notes
·
View notes
Comic Cavalcade #9 (1944) by E. E. Hibbard, H. G. Peter, and Martin Naydel.
0 notes
From the Cotton-Top Katie story “Practice Makes Perfect” by Harry Lampert in Comic Cavalcade #24 by National Comics / A Superman DC Publication, 1947.
0 notes
Only comic shop in Somerset, and a pretty cool one out of all the other ones in the general vicinity. Would hate to see them go; even if you can't help I'd appreciate it if you could share!
3 notes
·
View notes
Alan (Green Lantern) Scott isn’t always a man of action. Sometimes he stays home with a book... and Doiby Dickles!
Alan & Doiby in Comic Cavalcade (1942) #16
(Alfred Bester, Paul Reinman)
18 notes
·
View notes