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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published Summer 1942
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing M C Gaines, (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer (assistant editor); [Ted Udall?, (assistant editor)]
Notes This issue contains an ad for Hop Harrigan's All-American Flying Club.

Cover Details - "The Flash and Short Shanks"

Characters The Flash; Short Shanks.
Genre superhero
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes This issue contains an ad for Hop Harrigan's All-American Flying Club.

13 page The Flash story [The Flash and Short Shanks]: Chapter 1: Case of the "Patsy Colt"!

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Winky, Blinky Toylan and Noddy (1st appearance); Trudy; Short Shanks.
Synopsis Flash meets Winky, Blinky and Noddy while visiting the Cumberly Horse Farm with Joan. Joan's friend Trudy owns a horse named "Short Shanks", a very fast horse that shows little promise of racing fame....until a mysterious fire and sale of the horse at public auction.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.

13 page The Flash story "[The Flash and Short Shanks]: Chapter 2: A Horse on Mr. King!"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Winky; Blinky Toylan; Noddy; Trudy; Short Shanks; Walter King (villain).
Synopsis A blacksmith buys the horse and discovers that the horse has one leg shorter than the others, so he constructs special shoes that allow the horse a chance to become a champion. Meanwhile, the Flash discovers that the Three Dimwits have a photo in their possession showing the guilty party who set the fire at the horse farm: Trudy!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.

1 page We Were All Kids Once! filler

Genre humor
Script Art Helfant
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant
Letters Art Helfant

2 page Butch McLobster, The Super Mobster filler

Characters Butch McLobster
Genre detective
Script Ed Wheelan
Pencils Ed Wheelan
Inks Ed Wheelan
Letters Ed Wheelan

13 page The Flash story "[The Flash and Short Shanks]: Chapter 3: Melodrama in a Sawmill!"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Trudy; Winky; Blinky Toylan; Noddy; Short Shanks; Walter King (villain).
Synopsis Walter King persuades the Three Dimwits to set traps to kill the Flash in hopes of taking full possession of the horse, now a proven contender in racing, and they nearly succeed in sawing the Flash in two!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.

2 page Hop Harrigan text story "Runaway Plane"

Characters Hop Harrigan
Genre aviation
Script Evelyn Gaines (signed)
Letters typeset

13 page The Flash story "[The Flash and Short Shanks]: Chapter 4: The Big Race!"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Trudy; Winky; Blinky Toylan; Noddy; Short Shanks; Walter King (villain).
Synopsis The blacksmith and Trudy kidnap "Short Shanks" and paint him to look like a zebra in order to outwit King. While the Police round up and jail King, Joan Williams decides to ride the horse in a local race.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.