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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published October 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Sheldon Mayer

Cover Details

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; The Hawkman [Carter Hall] (inset)
Genre superhero
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Reprinted in Golden Age Flash Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

11 page Flash story "The Education of Killer Kelly"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; John Higgins (first appearance); Killer Kelly (first appearance; villain); Butch (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis A political organization backed by Killer Kelly takes over the local Board of Education, and tries to divert school funds into phony corporations......that is, until the Flash decides to "teach" the criminals the error of their ways.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox (signed)
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-2-07.
Reprinted in Golden Age Flash Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

6 page King Standish story "The Green Cap"

Characters The King [King Standish]
Genre adventure
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Harry Lampert
Inks Harry Lampert
Letters Harry Lampert
Notes Writer & letterer credits by Craig Delich 9/04, up-dated 9-2-07.

7 page The Whip story "The Orphanage Benefit Part 2"

Characters The Whip [Rod Gaynor]
Genre superhero; western
Script John B. Wentworth
Pencils Homer Fleming
Inks Homer Fleming

6 page Cliff Cornwall story "White Renegade"

Characters Cliff Cornwall
Genre adventure
Pencils John E. Ayman
Inks John E. Ayman
Notes Credits by Craig Delich 9/04.

6 page Radio Squad story "The Warehouse Flames"

Genre detective
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Chad Grothkopf
Inks Chad Grothkopf
Notes Strip usually runs in Adventure Comics.

5 page Johnny Thunderbolt story "The Picnic"

Characters Johnny Thunder
Genre superhero
Script John B. Wentworth
Pencils Stan Aschmeier
Inks Stan Aschmeier
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 9/04.

8 page Rod Rian of the Sky Police story "War"

Characters Rod Rian
Genre science fiction
Script Paul H. Jepson (signed)
Pencils Paul H. Jepson (signed)
Inks Paul H. Jepson (signed)
Notes Corrected 9/04.

9 page Flash Picture Novelette story "Two A.M."

Genre adventure
Script Ed Wheelan (signed)
Pencils Ed Wheelan (signed)
Inks Ed Wheelan (signed)
Letters Ed Wheelan

6 page Hawkman story "The Secret of the Spanish Blunderbuss"

Characters The Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Goldie; John Denver (Villain; Death)
Synopsis A treasure map secreted in the barrel of an old gun leads the Feathered Fury to a fortune in gold and some very determined killers!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed)
Inks Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed)
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 9/04; synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-2-07.
Reprinted in Golden Age Hawkman Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1