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Flash Comics, #2

Published: February 1940

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Flash Comics #2

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Issue Contents:

Story Featuring Hawkman

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Other
Credits
The Opera House Shootings

Story Featuring The Flash

"Into a world of humdrum reality..."

Storyline

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.

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Other
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Story 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

Story Featuring Cliff Cornwall

Credits
Story Notes

Writer credit by Craig Delich.

The Globe Conquerors

Story Featuring Hawkman

"Foe to crime is The Hawk-Man..."

Storyline

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.

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Story Notes

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

Johnny Becomes a Boxer

"When Johnny Thunder was an infant..."

Storyline

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.

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Story 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

"2500AD. A telespaceship transport returns form the Moon..."

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The Demon Dummy, Part Two
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Story Notes

Story continued from previous issue.

Vigilantes of Seguro

Story Featuring The Whip

"Seguro is in an uproar..."

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Rush Coupon for Mammoth Catalog
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story Notes

House ad for All-American Comics #11 featuring Gary Concord, on sale "about Dec. 20th." Appears on the back cover of this issue.

Story Notes

Includes a discussion about local postage stamps, as well as classified ads from six stamp dealers. The logo is similar to the logo for the Flash feature, including speed lines.

Warfare in Space (Part 2)

"Billy Morton, eighteen-year old boy..."

Storyline

In the orbit of Jupiter, Billy's spaceship, armed with a new weapon, confronts the spaceships of the murderer of his father.

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Story Notes

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

Rush 3¢ for 604 page Catalog of Amazing Novelties
Story Notes

Inside front cover.