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Flash Comics 21

FLASH COMICS #21

Cover Date: September 1941
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Sheldon Moldoff (signed)


Story: [No Title] (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtHal Sharp
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Flash (last in All-Star Comics #6)

Supporting Character(s):

Joan Williams

Villain(s):

Tuffy Hecke (first appearance; runs several scams around town)

Other Character(s):

Location(s):

New York City, NY

Comment(s):

Hal Sharp credited as E. E. Hibbard
Joan's address in New York is 222 Lafayette Park Rd. 225 Lafayette Ave. is the address of All-American Publications and National Comics in 1941.

Story Reprinted in:

Golden Age Flash Archives #2 (2006)


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Second Story: [No title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn B. Wentworth
ArtStan Aschmeier
LetteringStan Aschmeier
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Johnny Thunder (last in All-Star Comics #6; becomes a rodeo star)

Supporting Character(s):

Thunderbolt (last in All-Star Comics #6)
Daisy Darling
Peachy Pet (first appearance; an orphan with a lot of spunk; adopted by Johnny Thunder soon after this story)

Other Character(s):

Hondo (first appearance; a disgruntled cowboy)

Comment(s):

This rodeo was also probably seen in All-Flash Quarterly #1/4.


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Third Story: "The Adventure of The Phantom Churchyard" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDon Cameron
ArtDon Cameron
LetteringDon Cameron
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Les Sparks

Supporting Character(s):

Joe Magee
Sing Lee

Villain(s):

bank robbers (first appearance for all; create ghost-like illusions)

Location(s):

Willow-Point


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtHarry Lampert
LetteringHarry Lampert
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

The King (reveals that he lives in Park Avenue apartment)

Villain(s):

Witch (and her gang of apartment house robbers, first appearance for her gang members)

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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Fifth Story: "In New York [Part Two]" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn B. Wentworth
ArtHomer Fleming
LetteringHomer Fleming
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Whip

Supporting Character(s):

Marisa Dillon
Wing Tai
Carlos Fuentes

Villain(s):

Frank Sparks (first appearance; a blackmailer)

Other Character(s):

Walter Roland (first appearance; blackmailed owner of a radio station)

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtSheldon Moldoff
LetteringSheldon Moldoff
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Hawkman (last in All-Star Comics #6)

Supporting Character(s):

Shiera Sanders (last in All-Star Comics #6)

Villain(s):

Noel Ratchford (first appearance; has a crush on Shiera; raises alien baby and causes it to destroy to discredit Carter)

Other Character(s):

Egon (first appearance; a baby "Neptunian"; an albino giant hatched from an egg; electrobeams from his eyes; dies)

Location(s):

New York City, NY

Comment(s):

This issue's Weapons of the Past is the Boomerang.


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