<i>All-Star Comics</i> No. 28
date: label: date made
content: 1945
name: label: maker
content: D. C. Comics, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <i>All Star Comics</i> No. 28 was published by DC Comics in the spring of 1946. The cover features the costumed members of the "Justice Society of America" holding the lids of a row of chained purple barrels marked "Danger Do Not Open!" A man holding paintbrushes is featured in the foreground.
label: Description
content: "The Paintings that Walked the Earth" issue saw The Justice Society of America confronting creatures that sprang from artwork created with magic paints. Each member battled with the creatures from different paintings before banding together to return the creatures to their canvases and the magic paint to its jar.
label: Description
content: Introduced in <i>All-Star Comics</i> No. 3, The Justice Society of America was the first team of superheroes to be featured in comic books. The group was popular in the 1940s, and after their prominence faded a decade later several group members were reinvented and brought together again as the Justice League of America. Several Justice Society of America members went on to have their own titles, such as the Flash, the Green Lantern and Wonder Woman.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Comic Books
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Olivia V. Crisson and Phillip M.S. Crisson in honor of Peter Bozzer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0086.003
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0086.003
label: accession number
content: 2013.0086
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 10 in; 19.05 cm x 25.4 cm