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Flash Comics 41

FLASH COMICS #41

Cover Date: May 1943
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Sheldon Moldoff


Story: "The Fear Fighter" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtLou Ferstadt
Assistant editingTed Udall, Dorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Flash (last in Comic Cavalcade #2/8; next in All-Flash #10)

Supporting Character(s):

Joan Williams (last in Comic Cavalcade #2/8; next in All-Flash #10)

Villain(s):

Black Jack and his gang (first appearance for all; attempt to steal gasoline)

Other Character(s):

Montmorency Eck (first appearance; afraid of everything; gets courage with the help of Joan and The Flash)

Comment(s):

Lou Ferstadt credited as E.E. Hibbard.


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Second Story: "The Immortal Ike" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtJoe Gallagher
LetteringJoe Gallagher
Assistant editingTed Udall, Dorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

King (next in Comic Cavalcade #3/2)

Villain(s):

Sam The Shiv, Meatloaf Matt (first appearance; criminals who give Meeker funds to continue his research)
Witch (last in issue #37/4; next in Comic Cavalcade #3/2)

Other Character(s):

Dr. Meeker (first appearance; creates an immortality formula)
Ivory Ike (first appearance; given the formula and made immortal, but also given an antidote)


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Third Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn B. Wentworth
ArtStan Aschmeier
LetteringStan Aschmeier
Assistant editingTed Udall, Dorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Johnny Thunder (last in All-Star Comics #16; next in Wonder Woman #231)

Supporting Character(s):

Thunderbolt (last in All-Star Comics #16; next in Wonder Woman #232)
Peachy Pet Thunder (next in issue #43/3)

Villain(s):

German Saboteurs (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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Fourth Story: "The Man Who Talked Too Much!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtHomer Fleming
LetteringHomer Fleming
Assistant editingTed Udall, Dorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Whip

Supporting Character(s):

Marisa Dillon

Villain(s):

Saboteurs (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

George Lippe (first appearance; his loose lips almost sink ships)

Location(s):

New York City, NY

Comment(s):

Whip rides a horse in this story, but it is not King.


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryTed Udall
ArtFrank Harry
LetteringFrank Harry
Assistant editingTed Udall, Dorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Ghost Patrol:
Fred
Pedro
Slim

Villain(s):

Adolf Hitler
I. B. Leeve (first appearance; a "ghostologist" who summons ghosts to battle the Ghost Patrol)
The Ghosts of Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Julius Caeser and Attila the Hun (first appearance; see Comments; rebel against Hitler and try and take control of Nazi armies for their own use)
Nazis

Location(s):

Germany
Russia

Comment(s):

These may not be the actual ghosts of those men; they may be demons or other spirits impersonating them.


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Sixth Story: "Birds" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtSheldon Moldoff
LetteringSheldon Moldoff
Assistant editingTed Udall, Dorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Hawkman (last in Action Comics #663; invents an automatic firing anti-aircraft gun)

Supporting Character(s):

Hawkgirl
Big Red


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