{"id":2066,"date":"2020-02-13T08:16:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2020-01-19T10:28:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T18:28:25","slug":"323-all-winners-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/323-all-winners-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"323 &#8211; All-Winners Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"946\" height=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/all-winners-squad.png\" alt=\"A panel from All-Winners Comics #19, July 1946\" class=\"wp-image-2067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/all-winners-squad.png 946w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/all-winners-squad-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/all-winners-squad-768x581.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from All-Winners Comics #19, July 1946<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe the reason that Batman had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2060\">sloppy writing<\/a> is that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Finger\">Bill Finger<\/a> was moonlighting for Timely (Marvel) Comics in 1946?  Timely introduces their first real superhero team, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All-Winners_Squad\">All-Winners Squad<\/a>, in All-Winners Comics #19 (July 1946). The team includes <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captain_America\">Captain America<\/a>, Bucky, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miss_America_(Madeline_Joyce)\">Miss America<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_Torch_(android)\">Human Torch<\/a>, Toro, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Namor\">Namor<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whizzer_(Robert_Frank)\">The Whizzer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting mix because every character except for Bucky Barnes is super-powered.  It&#8217;s also interesting to see that not all heroes willingly work as a team and there is some classic Marvel hero in-fighting because Namor is suspected of working with the big bad of the issue.  Namor keeps his characterization as a hot-head and storms out, only to have Toro follow him.  Like the Justice Society stories of the time, each hero mostly works independently in a mini-story, but it&#8217;s nice to see this proto-Avengers team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the reason that Batman had sloppy writing is that Bill Finger was moonlighting for Timely (Marvel) Comics in 1946? Timely introduces their first real superhero team, the All-Winners Squad, in All-Winners Comics #19 (July 1946). The team includes Captain America, Bucky, Miss America, Human Torch, Toro, Namor, and The Whizzer. It&#8217;s an interesting mix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,353,196,78,118,91,90,345,92,354],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-341","tag-all-winners-squad","tag-avengers","tag-bill-finger","tag-captain-america","tag-human-torch","tag-marvel","tag-miss-america","tag-namor","tag-whizzer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}