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Flash Comics 16

FLASH COMICS #16

Cover Date: April 1941
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Hal Sharp


Story: [No Title] (11 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtHal Sharp
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Flash

Supporting Character(s):

Joan Williams

Villain(s):

Jose Salvez (first appearance; a Mexican bandit and rebel; reforms and becomes a marshall)

Location(s):

New York City, NY
Mexico

Comment(s):

Hal Sharp credited as E.E. Hibbard

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Flash Archives #1 (1999)


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Second Story: [No title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn B. Wentworth
ArtStan Aschmeier
LetteringStan Aschmeier
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Johnny Thunder (goes from Night Watchman to Chief Assistant Secretary; gets fired; next in World's Finest Comics #1/4)

Supporting Character(s):

Thunderbolt (as a red/pink thunderbolt; next in World's Finest Comics #1/4)

Villain(s):

Oscar Ovaseer (first appearance; Bucks' former Executive Secretary)

Other Character(s):

Manny Bucks (first appearance; Johnny's boss)


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Third Story: "The Adventure of The Marshland Counterfeiters" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDon Cameron
ArtDon Cameron
LetteringDon Cameron
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Les Sparks

Supporting Character(s):

Joe Magee

Villain(s):

counterfeiters (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Punch Brannigan (first appearance; a Secret Service Agent)
Cuthbert J. Dimwitty, Jr. (first appearance; a Secret Service agent)


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Fourth Story: [No title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn B. Wentworth
ArtHomer Fleming
LetteringHomer Fleming
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Whip

Supporting Character(s):

King
Wing Tai
Carlos Fuentes
Marisa Dillon (in between issues #14 and #18)

Villain(s):

Mr. Krantz (first appearance; a crooked contractor)

Location(s):

Seguro


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Fifth Story: [No title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtHarry Lampert
LetteringHarry Lampert
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

The King (next in World's Best Comics #1/7 ; disguises himself as a reporter)

Villain(s):

Corrigan (first appearance; a crooked cop)


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Sixth Story: [No title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtJohn A. Eyman
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Cliff Cornwall (reactivated to US Army Air Corps)

Villain(s):

Basil Devolta (first appearance; a spy)

Location(s):

Panama Canal Zone


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Seventh Story: [No title] (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtSheldon Moldoff
LetteringSheldon Moldoff
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Hawkman (mistaken for Icaro, the God of the Dravidians)

Supporting Character(s):

Shiera Sanders

Villain(s):

Daki (first appearance; rules the hidden city behind the scenes; dies)

Other Character(s):

A hidden city (first appearance; ruled by the descendants of Eden, which sank under the sea thousands of years ago; ruled by King Targo)

Location(s):

New York City, NY
Northern Mongolia

Comment(s):

This issue's Weapons of the Past is a Grecian Helmet.
Hawkman reveals that he has been reincarnated many times over the millennia.


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