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FLASH COMICS #23
Cover Date: November 1941
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Art: Sheldon Moldoff (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Everett E. Hibbard |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Flash (last in All-Flash Quarterly #2/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Joan Williams (last in All-Flash Quarterly #2)
Villain(s):
- Leffingwell Funk (first appearance; a successful businessman who turns to crime)
Other Character(s):
- Jim Sewell (first appearance; given $500,000 by Funk to ruin him)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Story Reprinted in:
- Golden Age Flash Archives #2 (2006)
Credits:
| Story | John B. Wentworth |
| Art | Stan Aschmeier |
| Lettering | Stan Aschmeier |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Johnny Thunder (last in World's Finest Comics #3/4)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Two department store robbers (first appearance of both)
Credits:
| Story | Don Cameron |
| Art | Don Cameron |
| Lettering | Don Cameron |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Joe Magee
- Sing Lee
Villain(s):
- spies (first appearance for both)
Other Character(s):
- Frank Lesico (first appearance; an FCC investigator)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Harry Lampert |
| Lettering | Harry Lampert |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- The King (last in World's Finest Comics #3/8)
Supporting Character(s):
- Witch (last in World's Finest Comics #3/8); works with King to stop spies)
Villain(s):
- Spies (first appearance; trying to ruin blood supply for soldiers; Grace, a nurse, named)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Credits:
| Story | John B. Wentworth |
| Art | Homer Fleming |
| Lettering | Homer Fleming |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- The White Dragons (first appearance; group of businessmen lead by Mr. Morgan; kidnap and enslave Asian-Americans to work in his factory)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Lettering | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Dr. Lucas Darnell (first appearance; uses smoke to cover robberies)
Other Character(s):
- One-Eye (first appearance; a large intelligent hawk; leader of the birds of Hawk Valley; makes Hawkman his heir; teaches Hawkman the "language of the birds"; dies)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
- Hawk Valley (first appearance; a secluded valley that is home to a race of intelligent hawks)
Comment(s):
- This issue's Bird Stamp is the foot of a Goshawk.