All-American Comics
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Gaines set up All-American Comics, which developed characters such as the Flash, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman. In 1939, DC Comics owner Harry Donenfield contracted with Max Gaines to publish additional comics under the DC label. Do not copy without permission. Nearly all super-heroes faded from view during the early 1950s, only the big threeSuperman, Batman, and Wonder Womansurviving intact. Interest in comic books dropped off by the end of the decade. The Whizzer, meanwhile, took a circuitous route back to the source, as Marvel reused the name when creating their JLA stand-ins, the Squadron Supreme. When Mark Waid re-introduced the original in 1993, he renamed the character Max Mercury. The trademark on Quicksilver lapsed, though, and Marvel introduced their own super-speed mutant with the name in 1964. After Quality Comics went out of business in 1956, DC bought their line-up. DC and All-American ended when DC bought out the entire line.
Interestingly, DC now owns all the Golden-Age speedsters but the Whizzer. And with all the good names taken, the future Marvel Comics created the Whizzer.