Comic Cavalcade was a comic book

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 series published by All-American Publications

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  and later DC Comics

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. It ran 63 issues, cover-dated Winter 1942/43 to Summer 1954.

Most American comic book publishers in the 1930s and '40s Golden Age of comic books

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 published anthology titles that showcased a variety of characters, usually with one star—such as Green Lantern

Alan Scott

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 in All-American Comics

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or Wonder Woman

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 in Sensation Comics

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. Comic Cavalcade, however, featured both those star characters as well as the Flash

Jay Garrick

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, a star in his own namesake title as well as the spin-off All-Flash.

At 96 pages initially, Comic Cavalcade was about one-and-one-half-times the length of the average comic book of the time. It was priced at 15 cents, when the average comic cost a dime.

Many stories in Comic Cavalcade were scripted by other than the characters regular writers, for deadline reasons. Batman

Batman

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 writer Bill Finger, for example, would occasionally write Flash stories for Comic Cavalcade when regular Flash writer Gardner Fox

Gardner Fox

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 was preoccupied with other projects.

Initially published quarterly, the title went bi-monthly beginning with #14 (May 1946). It was revamped completely with #30 (Jan. 1949), becoming a funny-animal humor book when superhero

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es faded from popularity in the post-war era. Featured were animator

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 Frank Tashlin

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's movie-cartoon

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 duo The Fox and the Crow

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, along with cartoonist Woody Gelman

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's creations, The Dodo and the Frog and Nutsy Squirrel. The book's length by this time had been reduced to 76 pages.

The title would later be referenced with DC's 1970s Cancelled Comic Cavalcade series.