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Flash Comics 43

FLASH COMICS #43

Cover Date: July 1943
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Sheldon Moldoff (signed)


Story: "The Mammoth Man" (13 Pages)

Credits:

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

Feature Character(s):

Flash (last in Wonder Woman #240; next in All-Flash #11)

Supporting Character(s):

Joan Williams (next in All-Flash #11)

Villain(s):

Three escapees from prison (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Samson (first appearance; believed to be an artificial creation, but in reality an amnesiac circus strong man)

Location(s):

Keystone City

Comment(s):

Lou Ferstadt credited as E.E. Hibbard.
Jay Garrick now has an apartment in "the City".


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Second 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 #17)

Supporting Character(s):

Thunderbolt (last in All-Star Comics #17)
Peachy Pet Thunder (between issues #41/3 and #45/2)

Villain(s):

German saboteurs and Fifth Columnists (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Yz's mother and father (first appearance for both)

Location(s):

New York City, NY

Comment(s):

This story probably takes place during Johnny's month's leave.


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Third 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
Nazis (uses an undersea vessel shaped like an octopus; destroyed)

Location(s):

France
Germany


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Fourth Story: "The Robbing Riders" (6 Pages)

Credits:

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

Feature Character(s):

Whip

Supporting Character(s):

Marisa Dillon
Whip's other horse

Villain(s):

Four Mounted Robbers (first appearance for all; four cowboys who use horses in their robberies)

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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Fifth Story: "Crime's First Reader" (9 Pages)

Credits:

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

Feature Character(s):

Hawkman (last in All-Star Comics #17)

Villain(s):

Charles "Eyebrows" Evans (first appearance; uses a child's primer to plan crimes involving arson; also in flashback to his childhood)


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