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All-Winners Comics #9-14
Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age All-Winners, Vol. 3
Collects All-Winners Comics (1941) #9-14.
It's the titanic trio of the Timely Big Three - Captain America, the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner - combined with Golden Age luminaries the Destroyer and the Whizzer in one all-out amazing series! Defending wartime America from Nazi airships, ape-men and anything and everything else the Axis can throw at them, the Human Torch and Toro burn up the comic page like it's still 1943. Captain America and Bucky parachute into adventures from mad scientists to buzz-bombing Nazis. Meanwhile, the Destroyer stops at nothing - including a battalion of Hitler impersonators - to stop the Nazi threat. And the Pacific Theatre won't be left waiting, not with the Sub-Mariner around! He takes it straight to the Emperor himself and comes back to clean up the docks while he's at it! But before you speed away, don't miss the Whizzer as he races through maddening mazes and thwarts the plans of kidnapping crooks!
It's the titanic trio of the Timely Big Three - Captain America, the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner - combined with Golden Age luminaries the Destroyer and the Whizzer in one all-out amazing series! Defending wartime America from Nazi airships, ape-men and anything and everything else the Axis can throw at them, the Human Torch and Toro burn up the comic page like it's still 1943. Captain America and Bucky parachute into adventures from mad scientists to buzz-bombing Nazis. Meanwhile, the Destroyer stops at nothing - including a battalion of Hitler impersonators - to stop the Nazi threat. And the Pacific Theatre won't be left waiting, not with the Sub-Mariner around! He takes it straight to the Emperor himself and comes back to clean up the docks while he's at it! But before you speed away, don't miss the Whizzer as he races through maddening mazes and thwarts the plans of kidnapping crooks!
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296 pages, Hardcover
First published November 26, 2008
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April 28, 2025
To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material.
June 4, 2016
This book collects Issues 9-14 of Timely's Quarterly comic All Winners, featuring stories with the Human Torch, Sub-Mariner, and Captain America from Summer 1943-Winter 1944/1945. The book has some more stories, but if you're looking for the best Golden Age comic books this is a collection to skip. The draft had taken a toll on Timely's writers and also the magazine had a far less engaged editor than the drafted Stan Lee.
1) The Human Torch only appeared in five of the six issues, but I think his stories were probably the best. He kept mostly to battling typical war time foes, but this was done with the gusto. The best story in the book was Sky Demons over America which has the Torch battling the Hawk, who's a superb looking villain. There's a beautiful spread of a aircraft carrier early in the story.
2) The Submariner probably has the biggest artistic problems in the book. His head just seemed to grow more and more out of proportion as the war went on. Still, his stories aren't half bad. A very nice tale has Sub-mariner trying to convince the Germans he's got tired of fighting for the allies (You could almost believe it with him.) In Issue #11, the Sub-mariner began to use alliterative interjections at an alarming rate (all related to the sea.) These interjections included Sleeping Salamanders, Shriveling Shrimp, and Galloping Guppies. (All that on one page.) Overall, these aren't great Sub-mariner stories but again solid.
3) Captain America really has an uneven quality about him. The first three stories are ho hum. Whoever was writing Cap during the war had lost track of what made the character so appealing so when we were only getting a plain adventure strip. Things picked up a little bit with Issue #12's "Four Trials of Justice" in which the Red Skull returns to fight the Four Freedoms. Issue #13 comes closest to capturing the Simon/Kirby style with a real horror story. Issue 14 is a dumb story that's war propaganda that depends on people throwing away puzzles when it's found out they're made in Japan.
4) The Whizzer: These six-seven page stories were mostly filler. The best one of them was in Issue 13 where a mad scientist sets elaborate traps for Timely's speedster.
5) The Destroyer: Without Stan Lee, this character went downhill. The stories are dull and fairly hoe hum affairs, with a good moment or two thrown in. He was only in four issues and that was a mercy.
The book includes some fine cover art, a few public service announcements featuring Captain America, and some bland text stories. The book has as much politically incorrect material as any other book in the era.
Overall, this isn't bad but there are much better collections out there.
1) The Human Torch only appeared in five of the six issues, but I think his stories were probably the best. He kept mostly to battling typical war time foes, but this was done with the gusto. The best story in the book was Sky Demons over America which has the Torch battling the Hawk, who's a superb looking villain. There's a beautiful spread of a aircraft carrier early in the story.
2) The Submariner probably has the biggest artistic problems in the book. His head just seemed to grow more and more out of proportion as the war went on. Still, his stories aren't half bad. A very nice tale has Sub-mariner trying to convince the Germans he's got tired of fighting for the allies (You could almost believe it with him.) In Issue #11, the Sub-mariner began to use alliterative interjections at an alarming rate (all related to the sea.) These interjections included Sleeping Salamanders, Shriveling Shrimp, and Galloping Guppies. (All that on one page.) Overall, these aren't great Sub-mariner stories but again solid.
3) Captain America really has an uneven quality about him. The first three stories are ho hum. Whoever was writing Cap during the war had lost track of what made the character so appealing so when we were only getting a plain adventure strip. Things picked up a little bit with Issue #12's "Four Trials of Justice" in which the Red Skull returns to fight the Four Freedoms. Issue #13 comes closest to capturing the Simon/Kirby style with a real horror story. Issue 14 is a dumb story that's war propaganda that depends on people throwing away puzzles when it's found out they're made in Japan.
4) The Whizzer: These six-seven page stories were mostly filler. The best one of them was in Issue 13 where a mad scientist sets elaborate traps for Timely's speedster.
5) The Destroyer: Without Stan Lee, this character went downhill. The stories are dull and fairly hoe hum affairs, with a good moment or two thrown in. He was only in four issues and that was a mercy.
The book includes some fine cover art, a few public service announcements featuring Captain America, and some bland text stories. The book has as much politically incorrect material as any other book in the era.
Overall, this isn't bad but there are much better collections out there.
July 24, 2024
Carl Burgos and Bill Everett were all busy serving Uncle Sam when these issues were originally published, but the machine rolled on. The page counts gradually decreased, as paper became more scarce and expensive during World War II. These days, they would simply jack up the price, but back then they wanted to maintain the 10 cent cover price. This continued into the early '60s. These stories are par for the course for the Golden Age, with the exception of the excellent Whizzer story from All-Winners No. 13: The Maze of Madness, which for some reason creeped me out. All in all, these Golden Age Masterworks offer comic book fans a chance to read these long lost treasures at an affordable price.
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