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Flash Comics, #1

Published: January 1940

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Flash Comics #1

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Issue Contents:
Introducing The Flash... Fastest Man Alive!

Story Featuring The Flash

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Story Notes

The cover artist was mis-credited as Harry Lampert in the Millennium Edition, but corrected in the corrections page in Millennium Edition: Superboy #1 (2001 series), and also correctly credited in the two Archives. Flash has lightning bolts on his trousers and on his belt buckle.

Origin of the Flash

Story Featuring The Flash

"Faster than the streak of lightning in the sky... swifter than the speed of light itself... fleeter than the rapidity of thought... is the Flash, reincarnation of the winged Mercury..."

Storyline

The Scarlet Speedster must face the threat of the Faultless Four, a group of brilliant but deadly scientists who kidnap Joan Williams' father in order to get his invention: the atomic bombarder!

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First line is "But before he became known and feared as 'the fastest thing on Earth,' Jay Garrick was an unknown student at Midwestern University..." The Flash has lightning bolts on his belt buckle and trousers.

The Disappearing Plane

Story Featuring Cliff Cornwall

"A fleet of U.S. bombers wing their way toward Alaska..."

Storyline

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.

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Writer credit by Craig Delich. The Millennium Edition incorrectly credits Sheldon Moldoff for the writer.

The Origin of Hawkman

Story Featuring Hawkman

"In the weapon-lined library of Carter Hall, wealthy collector of weapons and research scientist..."

Storyline

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!

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The title here was given in Golden Age Hawkman Archives Vol. 1 where this story was reprinted.

The Kidnapping of Johnny Thunder

"One night in August, 1918, Simon came home from the bank and found a crowd around his house..."

Storyline

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."

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Thunderbolt appears as a yellow streak of lightning and as a pink cloud in this story.

The Demon Dummy, Part 1
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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.

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Story Notes

Story continued in Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #2.

Origin of the Whip

Story Featuring The Whip

"He was known as Don Fernando Suarez, a patrician descended from the Grandees of Spain..."

Storyline

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.

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The Whip is Eastern playboy Rod Ellwood Gaynor. The strip is set in the contemporary Southwest.

Warfare in Space, Part One
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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!

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Story Notes

Story continued in Flash Comics (1940 series) #2. There are three small ads for fireworks at the end of page 2 for Baltimore Fireworks Co., Spencer Fireworks Co., and The Brazel Novelty Manufacturing Co.

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Includes a history of Polish postage stamps, as well as classified ads from 6 stamp dealers.

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Inside back cover.

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Back cover.

"Boys & girls: If you like Flash Comics..."

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Inside front cover.