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Issue Details

Issue #48
Published December 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer, editor; Dorothy Roubicek (assistant eds)

Cover Details

Characters The Flash
Genre superhero
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard (signed)
Inks Everett E. Hibbard (signed)

13 page Flash story "The Man Whom Nobody Saw"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Bill Botts
Synopsis Bill Botss was so ordinary, so much of a wall-flower, that people refused to even notice that he was there. Yet, when he met the Flash, the Scarlet Speedster worked out a cure....a cure that netted the Flash a few criminals and a lot of headaches!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 10/04; synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-28-07.

7 page Johnny Thunder story "The Artist"

Characters Johnny Thunder
Genre superhero; humor
Script John B. Wentworth
Pencils Stan Aschmeier
Inks Stan Aschmeier

8 page Ghost Patrol story "Mystery of the Von Tirpitz"

Characters The Ghost Patrol; V: von Tirpitz
Genre war
Script Ted Udall
Pencils Frank Harry
Inks Frank Harry
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 10/04.

6 page Minute Movies story "The Final Game"

Characters The Ghost Patrol
Genre adventure; humor
Script Ed Wheelan
Pencils Ed Wheelan
Inks Ed Wheelan
Letters Ed Wheelan

6 page The Whip story "Crime Rides a Hansom Cab"

Characters The Whip [Rodney Gaynor]
Genre western
Pencils Homer Fleming
Inks Homer Fleming

9 page Hawkman story "Grab Bag of Crime"

Characters The Hawkman [Carter Hall]; V: Black Mike Morris [I]
Synopsis Angry that Hawkman put him behind bars, Black Mike Morris vows to get revenge on the Winged Wonder in a most novel way: give the Feathered Fury gifts upon his parole, then let it be known that Hawkman has taken bribes!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 10/04; synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-28-07.