All Star Comics - Archives, Volume 0 [Hardcover]

Gardner Fox (Author), Sheldon Moldoff (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: All Star Comics Archives | Publication Date: March 15, 2006

The All Star Archives are now complete with this volume collecting the first two issues from the Golden Age of comics. Virtually every founding member of the original JSA lineup — minus Superman and Batman — is represented in individual adventures and most stories are also written and drawn by their original creators.

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Comics' first superhero team, the Justice Society of America, appeared in 55 issues of All Star Comics between 1940 and 1951, all of which have been previously reprinted in the Archives series. Those collections skipped the magazine's first two issues, however, which contained stories starring characters from various other DC titles. Hence, this "Volume 0" gathering 16 tales featuring some of the era's best-remembered superheroes, including the Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Atom, and the Spectre, all of whom were revived in the 1960s in versions that persist, largely unchanged, to this day. Stories of various third-rate characters who remain deservedly obscure--Ultra-Man, champion of the year 2240; Red, White, and Blue, three U.S. soldiers who fought fifth columnists and other home-front menaces; and Biff Bronson, apparently just a regular guy predisposed to getting into scraps--fill out the book. The artwork may be crude, and the stories ludicrous, but this stuff retains definite charm. Gordon Flagg
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (March 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140120791X
• ISBN-13: 978-1401207915
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 0.6 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Hipster Spies With His Little Eye Something That Begins With--The Dawn Of The Superheroes, March 7, 2006

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The Mystic Eye Of The Hipster (Murfreesboro, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Star Comics - Archives, Volume 0 (Hardcover)

This book charts the early adventures of the Spectre, the Sandman, Hourman, The Golden Age Green Lantern, & the Golden Age Flash, as well as other, minor Golden Age characters. Pre-Justice Society, they establish the basics of these characters.

If you love Golden Age material, you will find this a very nice collection indeed.

I've been in fandom since the 60's. And these comics, they're still Golden, after all these years.

The Hipster gives it a Big Thumbs UP!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars well remastered classic comic edition., February 14, 2010

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Michael P. Dobey (colorado springs) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Star Comics - Archives, Volume 0 (Hardcover)

I was worried about this one because I had read several reviews of later D.C. archive editions like 'starman vol 2" in which they just scanned old comics. All the other archive editions featured clean art and remastering or recoloring etc. This one is well done and features superclean reproductions of the first two issues of All Star Comics. They are pre war and filled with short tales about the golden age great like The Flash, Green Lantern, The spectre, Hourman and the Sandman. Superman and Batman are absent from these issues as they would be for most of the series run.
Other lesser heroes like Ultraman and Red white and blue also appear in this issue. The book is shorter than the rest of the all star reprint book series because it only features the first 2 issues. Even so if you tried to buy these two comics you'd spend many thousands and wouldn't even then get a cleaned up effort like this book. This is what needs to be done with old comics , when they are not scanned from a old comic and instead remastered you can really grasp what a great artform the genre really is. The third issue changed history with it's J.S.A supergroup and Wonder Woman debut but these two issues were pure golden age goodness from one of the better companies that still makes great comics to this day.