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FLASH COMICS #1
Cover Date: January 1940
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Art: Sheldon Moldoff
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Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Harry Lampert |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Flash (Jay Garrick; first appearance; a college student who acquires super-speed powers)
Supporting Character(s):
- Joan Williams (first appearance; Jay's girlfriend; learns his identity)
- Major Williams (first appearance; Joan's father)
Villain(s):
- Dr. Edward Clariss (behind the scenes; first appearance in issue #104)
- Faultless Four: (first appearance for all)
- Sieur Satan (next in flashback in All-Star Squadron Annual #3)
- Dr. Serge Orloff (dies)
- Duriel (dies)
Other Character(s):
- Bull Tyron (first appearance; captain of the football team)
- Elliot Sherman (behind the scenes; first appearance in Flash Special #1/2)
Location(s):
- Midwestern University
- New York City, NY
- Coleman University
Comment(s):
- This story takes place from November, 1938 to early May, 1939.
- This story is retold with new details in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #9/2.
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Lettering | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Cliff Cornwall (first appearance; a special F.B.I. agent)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lys Valliere (first appearance)
Villain(s):
- Black Planes (first appearance; spies)
Location(s):
- Washington, DC
- near Scagway, Alaska Territories
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Dennis Neville |
| Lettering | Dennis Neville |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Hawkman (Carter Hall; first appearance; a chemist who creates anti-gravity wings inspired by those worn in his previous lifetime in ancient Egypt)
Supporting Character(s):
- Shiera Sanders (first appearance; a reporter and the reincarnation of Carter's love from ancient Egypt)
Villain(s):
- Anton Hastor (first appearance; scientist bent on conquering America; between flashbacks in All-Star Squadron #12)
- Hath-Set (first appearance; Priest in ancient Egypt whose soul moves along his bloodline to attack the reincarnations of Khufu Kha-Tar; dies)
Other Character(s):
- Prince Khufu Kha-Tarr (first appearance; in flashback only; Prince of an ancient Egyptian empire; dies)
- Chay-Ara (first appearance; in flashback only; consort of Khufu Kha-Tarr; dies; reincarnated as Shiera Sanders)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
- 88 Rimble Road (Carter Hall's home)
- Ancient Egypt (in flashback)
Comment(s):
- This story takes place on the evening of October 11, 1939.
- This story is retold with new details in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #11/2.
Credits:
| Story | John B. Wentworth |
| Art | Stan Aschmeier |
| Lettering | Stan Aschmeier |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Johnny Thunder (youth shown; reveals he controls a Badhnisian Thunderbolt; gets and loses a job as a window washer)
Supporting Character(s):
- Simon B. and Mildred Thunder (first appearance for both; Johnny's parents)
- Thunderbolt (first appearance; seen only as a flash of lightining)
Villain(s):
- Badhnesia spies (try to kidnap Johnny)
Location(s):
- Bronx, NY
- Badhnesia
Comment(s):
- This story takes place after July 7th, 1939.
- This story is retold with new information in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #13/3.
Credits:
| Story | John B. Wentworth |
| Art | George Storm |
| Lettering | George Storm |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Whip (Rodrigio "Rod" Gaynor; first appearance; playboy who comes to the aid of the downtrodden in Seguro)
Supporting Character(s):
- Wing Tai (first appearance; Gaynor's manservant)
- Carlos Fuentez (first appearance; a peasant worker saved by The Whip)
- Marisa Dillon (first appearance; reporter and co-editor of the Seguro Sentinel)
- Sam Dillon (first appearance; Marissa's father and publisher of the Sentinel)
Villain(s):
- Association of Ranchers (first appearance; cruel land barons)
- Sheriff Todd (first appearance; a crooked sheriff)
Other Character(s):
- El Castigo (Don Fernando Suarez; first appearance; a champion of the downtrodden in 1840s southwestern United States; in brief flashback only)
Location(s):
- Long Island, NY
- Seguro (first appearance; a small town in the southwestern United States)
Comment(s):
- This story takes place in late 1939.
- This story is retold with new information in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #13/2.