Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1939-12-20
Editing: M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer (assistant editor)
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Hawkman / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:superhero
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Reprints (4)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 440417. Promoted as on-sale "about Dec. 15th" in house ad in More Fun Comics #51.

Rush 3¢ for 604 page Catalog of Amazing Novelties
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Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog / advertisement / 1 page

[The Opera House Shootings]
(Table of Contents: 2)

The Flash / comic story / 13 pages

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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
the unnamed doctor from origin story (cameo); Theo Parker (introduction); Greta Garson (introduction); Stella Rollins (introduction); Della Roberts (introduction); Mr. Rogers (introduction); Lord Donelin (villain, introduction); Goll (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
The Flash investigates the mysterious shootings of female singers in a local opera house, the trail leading directly to one man each of the women knew.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

The Flash uses a metal lightning bolt as his calling card in this story. The lightning bolt on Flash's shirt is missing in panels 2 and 3 on page 7. The lightning bolts on Flash's pants come and go throughout the story.

[The Panama Canal Scheme]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Cliff Cornwall / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Sheldon Moldoff (credited)
Inks:
Sheldon Moldoff (credited)
Colors:
?
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  • Genre:adventure
Characters:
Lolita Devere; Lys

Indexer Notes

Writer credit by Craig Delich.

[The Globe Conquerors]
(Table of Contents: 4)

Hawkman / comic story / 12 pages

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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Alexander the Great (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:
A great physicist named Alexander the Great invents a machine that increases an object's weight 1000 times, and Hawkman must stop him before he succeeds in destroying all the seaboard cities of the United States.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

The title given here is used in the table of contents in the Archive.

[Johnny Becomes a Boxer]
(Table of Contents: 5)

Johnny Thunder / comic story / 8 pages

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  • Genre:humor; superhero
Characters:
Mike Trainer; Suicide Kid (boxer); unnamed thug (villain)
Synopsis:
Through the use of his powers (that he knows nothing about), Johnny signs a fight contract to battle the Suicide Kid, and that same unknown power helps Johnny win the contest.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

There is a brief origin recap. The story title given here is used in the table of contents in the Archive.

[The Captured Moon Transport]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Rod Rian of the Sky Police / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:science fiction; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:2500AD. A telespaceship transport returns form the Moon...
Characters:
Rod Rian; Pilotar Andres of the Moon Patrol; His Satanic Majesty Mephis; Karin
Reprints (0)
  • from Rod Rian of the Sky Police Sunday (George Matthew Adams Service) 193x-xx-xx - 193x-xx-xx

Warfare in Space (Part 2)
(Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 2 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Sheldon Mayer (spot illustrations)
Inks:
Sheldon Mayer (spot illustrations)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:science fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Billy Morton, eighteen-year old boy...
Characters:
Billy Morton; Port Commander Worth; Ralph "The Ruthless" Farnham (villain)
Synopsis:
In the orbit of Jupiter, Billy's spaceship, armed with a new weapon, confronts the spaceships of the murderer of his father.

Indexer Notes

Story continued from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #1.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 8)

Flash Stamps / text article / 0.75 page

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typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:"What," asked young collector, "is meant by 'local stamps'?"

Indexer Notes

Includes a discussion about local postage stamps, as well as classified ads from six stamp dealers.

[no title indexed]
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Abell Stamps; Eureka Stamps; Metal Arts Rings & Pins; Roberts Stamps; Tatham Stamps and Coins; Wright Stamps / advertisement / 0.25 page

The Demon Dummy, Part Two
(Table of Contents: 10)

Flash Picture Novel / Novelette / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Ed Wheelan (signed)
Pencils:
Ed Wheelan (signed)
Inks:
Ed Wheelan (signed)
Colors:
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Letters:
Ed Wheelan (signed)
  • Genre:crime
Characters:
Harry Dunstan; Red the Dummy (villain); Billy Devlin; Hope Fulton

Indexer Notes

Story continued from previous issue.

[Vigilantes of Seguro]
(Table of Contents: 11)

The Whip / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Pencils:
George Storm (credited)
Inks:
George Storm (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Seguro is in an uproar...
  • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Padre Demo; Sheriff Todd (villain); Broaker (villain); Cokey (villain); Spike (villain); Association of Ranchers (villains)

Rush Coupon for Mammoth Catalog
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Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog / advertisement / 1 page

[no title indexed]
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All-American Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Hawkman
  2. Rush 3¢ for 604 page Catalog of Amazing Novelties
    Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog
  3. [The Opera House Shootings]
    The Flash
  4. [The Panama Canal Scheme]
    Cliff Cornwall
  5. [The Globe Conquerors]
    Hawkman
  6. [Johnny Becomes a Boxer]
    Johnny Thunder
  7. [The Captured Moon Transport]
    Rod Rian of the Sky Police
  8. Warfare in Space (Part 2)
  9. [""What," asked young collector, "is meant by 'local stamps'?""]
    Flash Stamps
  10. [no title indexed]
    Abell Stamps; Eureka Stamps; Metal Arts Rings & Pins; Roberts Stamps; Tatham Stamps and Coins; Wright Stamps
  11. The Demon Dummy, Part Two
    Flash Picture Novel / Novelette
  12. [Vigilantes of Seguro]
    The Whip
  13. Rush Coupon for Mammoth Catalog
    Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog
  14. ["Boys & Girls: Follow the adventures of Gary Concord - Ultra-Man..."]
    All-American Comics
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