| Comic Cavalcade | |
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 Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and the Flash do their bit for the war:Comic Cavalcade #6 (Spring 1944), cover art byPaul Reinman. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Schedule | Quarterly: #1–13 Bi-monthly: #14–63 |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Publication date | Winter 1942 – Jun/Jul 1954 |
| No. of issues | 109 |
| Main character(s) | Flash Green Lantern Wonder Woman |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Bill Finger Gardner Fox Sheldon Mayer William Moulton Marston |
| Artist(s) | Sheldon Mayer Irwin Hasen H.G. Peter Martin Nodell |
Comic Cavalcade was ananthology comic book published byAll-American Publications thenDC Comics from 1942 to 1954.
Most American comic book publishers in the 1930s and 1940sGolden Age of comic books published anthology titles that showcased a variety of characters, usually with one star—such asGreen Lantern inAll-American Comics orWonder Woman inSensation Comics.Comic Cavalcade, however, featured both those star characters as well as theFlash, a star in his own namesake title as well as the spin-offAll-Flash.
At 96 pages initially,Comic Cavalcade was about one-and-one-half-times the length of the average comic book of the time. It was priced at 15 cents, when the average comic cost a dime.
Many stories inComic Cavalcade were scripted by other than the characters' regular writers, for deadline reasons.Batman writerBill Finger, for example, would occasionally write Flash stories forComic Cavalcade when regular Flash writerGardner Fox was preoccupied with other projects.
One non-superhero ongoing character introduced inComic Cavalcade was newspaperman Johnny Peril. His roots, prior to his first appearance, came in the one-off story "Just a Story" in issue #15 (July 1946), by writer-artistHoward Purcell. With issue #22 (Sept. 1947), the anthological "Just a Story" series gained Peril as, generally, a witness or narrator rather than as an integral part of the narrative. With this issue, the series title became "Johnny Peril Tells Just a Story", eventually changed to "Johnny Peril's Surprise Story" as Johnny became the series' two-fisted hero until the series ended with issue #29 (Nov. 1948). The character went on to appear in his own feature inAll-Star Comics,Danger Trail andSensation Comics through 1953. He returned in theSilver Age of Comic Books in 1968, inThe Unexpected.[1]
Initially published quarterly, the title went bi-monthly beginning with #14 (April–May1946). It was revamped completely with #30 (December–January1948), becoming atalking animalhumor book whensuperheroes faded from popularity in the post-war era.[2] Featured wereanimatorFrank Tashlin'smovie-cartoon duoThe Fox and the Crow, along with cartoonistWoody Gelman's creations,The Dodo and the Frog andNutsy Squirrel.[3] The book's length by this time had been reduced to 76 pages.
The title would later be referenced with DC's 1970sCancelled Comic Cavalcade series.
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