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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published November-December 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Sheldon Mayer; Ted Udall (assistant editor)
Notes There is an ad for Hop Harrigan's All-American Flying Club in this issue.

Cover Details - "The House of Horror"

Characters The Flash
Genre superhero
Pencils Harry Tschida
Inks Harry Tschida
Notes Credits by Craig Delich 3/03.

13 page The Flash story "The House of Horror: Chapter 1: Adventures of a Writer's Fantasy"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams
Synopsis The Flash comes face to face with a mystery writer who not only writes stories, but acts them out in order to make his stories more realistic. Inviting several of his actor friends to help out and scare Jay and Joan, the writer doesn't realize that real crooks have made their way onto the scene.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Harry Tschida
Inks Harry Tschida
Notes Credits by Craig Delich 3/03. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.

13 page The Flash story "The House of Horror: Chapter 2: Death Came to Dinner"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams
Synopsis A frustrated actor, kept from the Broadway stage by the writer, appears at dinner and shoots one of the actors. Everyone believes it to be real...then the Flash discovers the man is actually dead!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Harry Tschida
Inks Harry Tschida
Notes Credits by Craig Delich 3/03. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.

2 page Sweet Adeline filler

Characters Sweet Adeline
Genre humor
Script Art Helfant
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant
Letters Art Helfant

1 page Flying Colors filler

Genre fact
Script John M. Jenks
Pencils John M. Jenks
Inks John M. Jenks
Letters John M. Jenks

1 page How to Spot the Planes in the Skies filler "Grumman-F4F-3"

Genre fact
Script Falcon Mathieu
Pencils Falcon Mathieu
Inks Falcon Mathieu
Letters Falcon Mathieu

10 page The Flash story "The House of Horror: Chapter 3: Seance with the Dead"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams
Synopsis After the murder, the Flash tracks down the killer and recovers the murder weapon. At this point, the writer re-writes his story to bring his ancestors [supposedly all warriors] into the picture, ancestors who have placed a curse on him for becoming a writer. So a seance is held to recall his ancestors....a seance that has a surprising result.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Harry Tschida
Inks Harry Tschida
Notes Credits by Craig Delich 3/03. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.

2 page Hop Harrigan text story "The Cloud Monster"

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

16 page The Flash story "The House of Horror: Chapter 4: [Tendrils of the Will-O'-the-Wisps]"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams
Synopsis Surprisingly, all sorts of ancestors show up, one of which is destined to kill his writer-relative, and the Fastest Man Alive must battle him and the others, not realizing they are real crooks in disguise!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Harry Tschida
Inks Harry Tschida
Notes Credits by Craig Delich 3/03. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.