Flash Comics, #39

Published: March 1943

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Story Featuring Hawkman

Story Notes

Hawkgirl is not wearing a mask on the cover, which reveals her evident glee at kicking one goon into another.

Play of the Year

Story Featuring The Flash

"You won't need a ticket for this drama..."

Storyline

A theatre promoter devises a plan to revive a play with its original cast of stars as the drawing card. Although the Flash thinks the man is crazy, crookdom decides it's too good to pass up!

Credits
Story Notes

Credits from Craig Delich.

"In the dark days of devastating warfare..."

Credits

Story Featuring Johnny Thunder

"This is a Nazi spy by the name of Count Orf..."

Credits
Crime Plays Ball!!

Story Featuring The King

"When crime tries a new angle..."

Credits
Story Notes

Writer credit by Craig Delich.

Story Featuring The Whip

"It's always funny when a playboy with too much money gets rebuffed..."

Credits
The Matinee Murder Mystery

Story Featuring Minute Movies

"It looked as if vaudeville was finally coming back..."

Credits
The Timetable of Crime

Story Featuring Hawkman

Storyline

A former railroad man devises a foolproof timetable for crimes to be committed, each guaranteed to outwit the law and the Hawkman.

Story Notes

Writer credit by Craig Delich. Moldoff signs, as 'Shelly', in the sixth panel of the last page.

Slapstick "Corn"

Story Featuring Fat and Slat

"Gee, Slat, I see where some big army doctor..."

Credits
Story Notes

Sequence added by Craig Delich.

Free! An Autographed Picture of Wonder Woman to All Those Who Help the March of Dimes!

Story Featuring Wonder Woman

Storyline

Wonder Woman explains infantile paralysis to her mother, and how it can be treated with an iron lung. She agrees to offer an autographed picture of herself to each child who contributes to the March of Dimes.

Credits
Story Notes

Appears in several DC comics circa March 1943. Writer unlikely to be Jack Schiff, who did DC's PSAs from 1949-1967 but is not known to have worked on any All American titles prior to their merge with DC, so probably written by an AA staffer. Ted Udall was on the AA staff in 1942-3, wrote a lot of the AA fillers, and would have been familiar with Wonder Woman, so he's a likely suspect. Another is (the future) Dorothy Woolfolk, who was also staff around this time, and is said to have written Wonder Woman, prior to her working on EC's Moon Girl in 47. Sheldon Mayer has also been identified as a potential writer of this PSA, but the source of that credit is not known.

Story Notes

Back cover.

"Here are three other leaders..."

Another Meeting of the Justice Society!
Energy for Victory!
Philhellenes
Credits
Story Notes

Page includes many small ads from stamps dealers.

"Here are the two magazines you've been waiting for!"

Story Featuring Wonder Woman

"Thanks, boys and girls for the wonderful reception you're giving Wonder Woman!"

Thousand-Face, Part 2

"Diablo, the criminal, is sentenced to death..."

Credits
Story Notes

Concluded from the previous issue.

Brand New!
The Biggest Thing in Bi-Monthlies!!
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Hide-Rack Kidnapped
Credits
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Editorial Advisory Board
Story Notes

Inside front cover.