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Publisher: DC

Title: Flash Comics
Issue: 1
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: January 1940
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: M. C. Gaines (managing); Sheldon Mayer (assistant)

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Flash Comics #1
Owner: walclark

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Story Title: Introducing The Flash... Fastest Man Alive! - cover
Features:The Flash
Pages:1
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff
Inks:Sheldon Moldoff
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Hawkman [Carter Hall] (inset); Johnny Thunder (inset); The Whip [Rodney Gaynor] (inset); Cliff Cornwall (inset)


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:All-American Comics
Pages:1


Story Title: Origin of the Flash - comic story
Features:The Flash
Pages:15
Pencils:Harry Lampert (signed)
Inks:Harry Lampert (signed)
Letters:Harry Lampert (masthead by-line)
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Flash [Jay Garrick] (introduction, origin); Joan Williams (introduction); Professor Hughes (introduction); Major Williams (introduction, Joan's father); Bull Tryon (introduction); The Faultless Four [Sieur Satan (villain, introduction, death); Serge Orloff (villain, introduction, surgeon, death); Duriel (villain, introduction, death); Smythe (villain, introduction, death)]
Synopsis:The Scarlet Speedster must face the threat of the Faultless Four, a group of brilliant but deadly scientists who kidnap Joan William's father in order to get his invention: the atomic bombarder!


Story Title: The Disappearing Plane - comic story
Features:"Cliff" Cornwall
Pages:6
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff (signed)
Inks:Sheldon Moldoff (signed)
Genre:adventure
Characters:Cliff Cornwall; un-named Army General; Lys Valliere
Synopsis:Cliff is on vacation from the FBI, but the Army nabs him for a special assignment in Alaska to put an end to phantom plane attacks on military aircraft.


Story Title: The Origin of Hawkman - comic story
Features:The Hawkman
Pages:12
Pencils:Dennis Neville
Inks:Dennis Neville
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Hawkman [Prince Khufu aka Carter Hall] (introduction, origin, Khufu dies but is reincarnated); Shiera Sanders (introduction, later Hawkgirl] (Shiera dies but is reincarnated); Hath-Set (villain, introduction); Kolar (villain, introduction); Doctor Hastor (villain, introduction, death, reincarnation of Hath-Set)
Synopsis:Young Carter Hall, wealthy collector of weapons and research scientist, discovers that he is the re-incarnation of an anicient Egyptian, Prince Khu-fu. He is further amazed that his lady love, Shiera Sanders, and his murderer, Hath-Set, have been re-incarnated too!


Story Title: The Kidnapping of Johnny Thunder - comic story
Features:Johnny Thunderbolt
Pages:10
Pencils:Stan Asch
Inks:Stan Asch
Genre:superhero
Characters:Johnny Thunder (introduction, origin); Thunderbolt (introduction); Simon B. Thunder; Mildred Thunder; Priest of Aissor
Synopsis:Young Johnny Thunder is kidnapped from his home, given Badhnisian sacred rites and would become the most powerful person in the world at age 7. By a weird chance, Johnny is reunited with his parents, but is sought out once again by the Badhnesians, who are on the receiving end of a new, strange power Johnny has by saying the words "Say You."


Story Title: Warfare in Space, Part One - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:Sheldon Mayer (spot illustrations)
Inks:Sheldon Mayer (spot illustrations)
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Billy Morton; Keith Morton; Port Commander Worth; Ralph "The Ruthless" Farnham (villain)
Synopsis:Billy's Dad has created a weapon that can be effectively used in interstellar space....and he wants to volunteer to use it against the space pirate, Ralph Farnham!


Story Title: [ no title ] - text article
Features:Flash Stamps
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:non-fiction
Synopsis:Includes a history of Polish postage stamps, as well as classified ads from 6 stamp dealers.


Story Title: The Demon Dummy, Part 1 - comic story
Features:"Flash" Picture Novel
Pages:8
Pencils:Ed Wheelan (signed)
Inks:Ed Wheelan (signed)
Letters:Ed Wheelan
Genre:crime
Characters:The Great [Harry] Dunstan; Madge Devere; Sam; Red (a dummy); Jim Devlin (villain); Tim (villain); Slim Grimes (villain)
Synopsis:Private detective Devlin, in love with Madge Devere, who in turn is loved by ventriloquist Dunstan, tries to pin a murder on Dunstan in order to get the woman he loves.


Story Title: Origin of the Whip - comic story
Features:The Whip
Pages:10
Pencils:George Storm (signed)
Inks:George Storm (signed)
Genre:western-frontier
Characters:El Castigo [aka The Whip] [Don Fernando Suarez] (introduction, in flashback); group of wealthy rancheros (villains, introduction for all, in flashback); The Whip [Rodney Elwood Gaynor] (introduction); Mr. Dillon (newspaper publisher, father of Marissa, introduction); Marissa Dillon (introduction); unnamed Padre (introduction); Sheriff Todd (villain, introduction); Carlos (villain, introduction); group of vigilantes (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:Learning of a famed adventurer for justice in the past, El Castigo: The Whip, Rod Gaynor decides to assume that disguise to help the poor, who are being denied jobs and food, as well as being hit by high rents by unscrupulous vigilantes.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Johnson Smith & Co.
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Home Recording Co.
Pages:1


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