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FLASH COMICS #42
Cover Date: June 1943
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Art: Lou Ferstadt
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Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Lou Ferstadt |
| Assistant editing | Ted Udall, Dorothy Roubicek |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Flash (last in All-Flash #10; next in Wonder Woman #239)
Supporting Character(s):
- Joan Williams (last in All-Flash #10)
Villain(s):
- Tough Tony and his gang (first appearance for all; a gangster who kidnaps a child to raise as his own; also in flashback; goes straight)
Other Character(s):
- Ted (first appearance; Tony's son)
Location(s):
- Keystone City (first appearance?)
Comment(s):
- Lou Ferstadt credited as E.E. Hibbard.
Credits:
| Story | John B. Wentworth |
| Art | Stan Aschmeier |
| Lettering | Stan Aschmeier |
| Assistant editing | Ted Udall, Dorothy Roubicek |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Johnny Thunder (last in Wonder Woman #232; next in All-Star Comics #17)
Supporting Character(s):
- Thunderbolt (last in Wonder Woman #232; next in All-Star Comics #17)
Villain(s):
- Japanese Army (first appearance for all; develop machinery to siphon off magical energies from the other djinn on Bahdnesia)
Other Character(s):
- Yz's mother and father (first appearance for both)
Location(s):
- A Pacific Island
- Bahdnesia
Comment(s):
- Johnny has a month's leave in this story, so he probably appears in Wonder Woman #231-232 during that month, where the Thunderbolt does not appear.
- This story takes place during the winter.
Credits:
| Story | Ted Udall |
| Art | Frank Harry |
| Lettering | Frank Harry |
| Assistant editing | Ted Udall, Dorothy Roubicek |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Bazin (first appearance; a miller killed by the Gestapo, becomes a ghost)
Villain(s):
- Gauleiter Vogel (first appearance; a Gestapo officer)
- Nazis
Location(s):
- Holland
Credits:
| Art | Homer Fleming |
| Lettering | Homer Fleming |
| Assistant editing | Ted Udall, Dorothy Roubicek |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Von Gretz and his fellow spies (first appearance for all)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Comment(s):
- This story takes place on the day before and on the day of Marisa's birthday.
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Lettering | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Assistant editing | Ted Udall, Dorothy Roubicek |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Hawkman (next in All-Star Comics #17)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Master of Memory (Nickolas Hollow; first appearance; invents a machine that causes memory loss of short-term memories)