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FLASH COMICS #17
Cover Date: May 1941
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Art: Sheldon Moldoff (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Hal Sharp |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Mr. Clark (first appearance; owner of a minor league Baseball team; fixes games to make money)
Other Character(s):
- Sam Brady (first appearance; a pitcher for the Redskins, a minor league Baseball team)
- The Redskins and The Beavers (first appearance for all; two minor league Baseball teams)
Comment(s):
- Hal Sharp credited as E.E. Hibbard
Story Reprinted in:
- Golden Age Flash Archives #1 (1999)
Credits:
| Story | John B. Wentworth |
| Art | Stan Aschmeier |
| Lettering | Stan Aschmeier |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Johnny Thunder (last in World's Best Comics #1/4; becomes a small time baseball player; next in All-Star Comics #5/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Thunderbolt (as a red/pink humanoid thunderbolt; last in World's Best Comics #1/4; next in All-Star Comics #5/2)
- Herman Darling (owner of the Real Estate Wrens, a small time baseball team)
Villain(s):
- Harry Betts (first appearance; a gambler and steals the Wrens' signals)
Other Character(s):
- Jackels and Wrens (first appearance; two small time baseball teams)
Credits:
| Story | Don Cameron |
| Art | Don Cameron |
| Lettering | Don Cameron |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Joe Magee
- Roy
Villain(s):
- spies (first appearance for both; both die)
Other Character(s):
- Sing Lee (first appearance; a young Chinese radio enthusiast)
- Judge Brooks (first appearance; a elderly inventor; dies )
Credits:
| Story | John B. Wentworth |
| Art | Homer Fleming |
| Lettering | Homer Fleming |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- King
- Wing Tai
- Carlos Fuentes
- [[Maris
a Dillon|Maris a Dillon]]
Villain(s):
- Poor House commissioners (first appearance for all; swindling money from the poor)
Location(s):
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Harry Lampert |
| Lettering | Harry Lampert |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- The King (last in World's Best Comics #1/7; disguises himself as an elderly shopkeeper)
Villain(s):
- Bobo Jones and Boss Queed (first appearance; competing racketeers)
Credits:
| Pencils | Ben Flinton |
| Inks | Leonard Sansone |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Cliff Cornwall (no further appearances to date)
Villain(s):
- Narda Vantorp (first appearance; a spy and a sabeteur)
Location(s):
- Washington, DC
- Caribbean Islands (none specifically named)
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Lettering | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- The Golden Mummy (Dr. Selkirk; first appearance; runs a sect dedicated to reviving Egyptian ideas; dies)
- The Golden Mummy Sect (first appearance for all)
Other Character(s):
- Camilla Cordova (first appearance; an opera singer; dies)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Comment(s):
- This issue's Weapons of the Past is Scale Mail.