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Flash Comics 18

FLASH COMICS #18

Cover Date: June 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 (next in All-Star Comics #5)

Supporting Character(s):

Joan Williams

Villain(s):

Fred Devere (first appearance; head of a protection association as "Morgan")

Other Character(s):

Brenda Forest (first appearance; a former debutante and now restaurant owner)

Comment(s):

Hal Sharp credited as E.E. Hibbard

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Flash Archives #2 (2006)


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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 (next in issue #16/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Thunderbolt (as a red/pink humanoid lightning bolt with a head and arms; (next in issue #16/2)
Mildred Thunder (in between issues #15 and #22)

Villain(s):

Jake "The Pirate" Crane (first appearance; owner of the Evil Star Stables and his crooked jockey Mouse)

Other Character(s):

Manny Bucks (first appearance; hires Johnny and makes him a jockey)

Comment(s):

This story is told out of sequence.


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Third Story: "The Adventure of The Attempted Invasion" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDon Cameron
ArtDon Cameron
LetteringDon Cameron
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Les Sparks

Supporting Character(s):

Joe Magee

Villain(s):

Invading forces (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Angus McAllister (first appearance; chief engineer of a ship that wrecked in the Caribbean)
Captain Macy (first appearance)
Doctor Blair (first appearance; head of the Geographic Society)

Location(s):

Caribbean Sea


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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
Carlos Fuentes (last in issue #16)
Marisa Dillon

Villain(s):

Ozzie Cooper (first appearance; a crooked claim clerk)
Slick Munro (first appearance; Cooper's partner)

Location(s):

Gunner's Gulch


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Fifth Story: [No title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtHarry Lampert
LetteringHarry Lampert
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

The King (disguises himself as a bulter and Percy Millionstars)

Villain(s):

kidnappers (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Percy and Evaline Millionstars (first appearance)
Gloria and Joan Millionstars (first appearance for both)


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Sixth Story: [No title] (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtSheldon Moldoff
LetteringSheldon Moldoff
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Hawkman (next in All-Star Comics #5)

Supporting Character(s):

Shiera Sanders (next in All-Star Comics #5)

Villain(s):

Joe Harrel (first appearance; a crooked food company owner)
Nostcha (first appearance; an Eskimo thug working for Harrel)

Other Character(s):

Hank Sanders (first appearance; Shiera's cousin and a miner)
Jim Baker (first appearance; Hank's partner)

Location(s):

New York City, NY
Alaska Territory

Comment(s):

This issue's Weapons of the Past is the Cross-Bow.
This story reveals that the Ninth Metal radiates heat.


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