Retro Comic Review - All-American Comics #61

Name: All-American Comics #61

Published by: DC comics

Writter & Artist : Alfred Bester, Paul Reinman, Joseph Greene, Joe Gallaghar, Stan Aschmeier, Jon L. Blummer

This issue is mainly famous for the first story featuring the first appearance of 'Solomon Grundy' fighting the golden age Green Lantern Alan Scott. It has 4 other stories and a few extras. 

'Fighters never quit' is the first one, which is the aforementioned Green Lantern issue. Ignoring its historical value for the first appearance of Grundy it does have a message of heroes never quitting despite odds and despite a bit of repetitiveness was fairly enjoyable. (3 out of 5)

'Van Dorra's Box' was a story featuring golden age Atom. This one seemed a bit confusing to me due to the opening page, and the author seemed a bit interested in wanting to tell a humorous story but didn't quite nail it for me. (2.5 out of 5)

'The men with two lives' featured Doctor Mid-nite. This was the best of the bunch for me its wacky and unbelievable yet fantastic plot, some interesting characters and a twist ending. Golden age storytelling at its best. (4 out of 5)

'Captured', a Red, Blue and White story. Typical war story with a bit of humour, cheesy dialogue and some familiar racism of the 1940s. (3 out of 5)

'A Letter from home', another war story, this time featuring Hop Harrigan. This one was a bit too unbelievable at times with the hero overcoming too many obstacles rather easily and had so many one dimensional characters. (2 out of 5)

There were a few extras including a two page text story by 'Evelyn Gaines' also in the issue. 

Overall rating - 3 out of 5 stars.