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FLASH COMICS #8
Cover Date: August 1940
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Art: Sheldon Moldoff
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Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Everett E. Hibbard |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Flash (last in flashback in All-Star Comics #3; next in flashbacks in Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends)
Villain(s):
- crooked contractors (first appearance for all)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Story Reprinted in:
- Golden Age Flash Archives #1 (1999)
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Lettering | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- spies (first appearance for all)
Location(s):
- Washington, DC
Credits:
| Story | John B. Wentworth |
| Art | Homer Fleming |
| Lettering | Homer Fleming |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- El Castigo (Don Fernando Suarez; in flashback only)
- Whip (last in issue #6)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Casper Fleece (first appearance; a Hondo banker and kidnapper)
Other Character(s):
- Sairy and Jim Shiner (both die)
- Jimmy Shiner (first appearance; the Shiner's infant son, rescued by El Castigo)
- Elby Shiner and his wife, and his son, Pat (first appearance; Jim Shiner's great grandson; discover the map and treasure)
Location(s):
- near Hondo
Comment(s):
- This story continues the portion in the 1840's and concludes in the modern day.
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Harry Lampert |
| Lettering | Harry Lampert |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- The King (disguises himself as a Pacific Islander and Trader Torne)
Villain(s):
- The Witch
- Trader Torne (first appearance; dies)
Location(s):
- Windy Isles (in the South Pacific)
Credits:
| Story | John B. Wentworth |
| Art | Stan Aschmeier |
| Lettering | Stan Aschmeier |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Johnny Thunder (next in flashback in All-Star Comics #3/7)
Supporting Character(s):
- Daisy Darling (next in flashback in All-Star Comics #3/7)
- Thunderbolt (as a yellow thunderbolt, speaks to Johnny; next in flashback in All-Star Comics #3/7)
- Mildred Thunder
- Herman Darling
Villain(s):
- Hoco (first appearance; a stage magician who is a counterfeiter)
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Lettering | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Hawkman (last in flashback in All-Star Comics #3)
Villain(s):
- Professor Kitzoff (first appearance; a deranged scientist; plans on using sunspot activity to create madness; dies)