‘All Star Comics’ is a comic book series published by ‘All American Publications’ in the year 1940.As the title suggests, this comic included the adventure stories of almost all American super stars and thus making a kind of anthology of all comic stories.The primary focus of ‘All Star Comics’ was the ‘Justice Society of America’- the first superhero group.

This group as well as ‘Diana- the Wonder Woman’ was first introduced by All Star Comics.The first issue of All Star Comics comprises of the stories of Flash, Ultra-man, Hawkman, Hour-Man, Sandman, Spectre, Biff Bronson’s adventure strip and ‘Red, White and Blue’- the comedy adventures. The cover date of the first issue was ‘summer 1940’.The third issue of All Star Comics published with the cover date of ‘winter 1940-41’ holds a historical significance because it presents the first meeting of Justice Society.In this meeting, the members i.e. the superheroes talk about their adventures, thus their individual adventures are depicted in this issue. Apart from the superheroes mentioned above, ‘Doctor Fate’, a character from ‘More Fun Comics’ and the ‘Atoms’ and ‘Green Lantern’ from ‘All American Comics’ also participated in this Justice Society meeting. Later, All Star Comics started following a new format for Justice Society stories. Instead of solo adventure stories, the heroes started to fight against crime as a team. This pattern proved to be quite successful and became very famous.

The eighth issue published in December 1941 is a landmark in the history of American superhero comics as it introduced ‘Wonder Woman’. There was an eight page story written by William Moulton Marston. He adopted a pen name ‘Charles Moulton’ for this insert story and Harry G. Peter was the one who handled the art section. The Wonder Woman concept was very much liked by audience and a big fan group was created. As a result it was decided that from the 11th issue of All Star Comics, Wonder Woman would join the Justice Society. ‘Sensation Comics’ also decided to include the Wonder Woman story from their first issue itself.

Earlier All Star Comics was a bimonthly comic but as the Justice Society was getting more and more famous, they made it a quarterly comic. Justice Society stories lasted till the 57th issue in March 1951 and came to an end with the story; ‘The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives’. After that Justice Society was replaced by western superheroes and even the name of the comic was changed from ‘All Star Comics’ to ‘All Star Western’.

In 1976 the name ‘All Star Comics’ was revived and modern day Justice Society adventure stories started getting published. The numbering of All Star Western was ignored and All Star Comics resumed with the issue number 58. From 66th issue a hyphen was added to the title ‘All-Star Comics’ and it was allotted a small space on the cover while ‘Justice Society’ covering big portion of it.

After more 17 issues suddenly DC Implosion stopped this successful journey of Justice Society in All Star Comics. Some new characters were introduced like Helena Wayne and Power Girl and new series started like All-Star Squadron, Earth-two and Infinity Inc. Roy Thomas; the writer joined DC Comics. But since then many comics used the name All Star Comics when they were publishing Justice Society stories. In 1999 two issues of All Star Comics published Justice Society Story.