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Issue Details

Issue #54
Published June 1944
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer (editor) , Julius Schwartz, Ted Udall (story editors)
Notes This issue contains an ad for the Junior Justice Society.

Cover Details - "The Mysterious Bottle From the Sea"

Characters The Flash; Winky, Blinky and Noddy.
Genre superhero
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes This issue contains an ad for the Junior Justice Society.

13 page Flash story "The Bottle from the Sea"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Winky, Blinky and Noddy.
Synopsis A mysterious bottle containing a love potion washes up on the beach and into the hands of the Three Dimwits. The Flash becomes involved when a multi-millionaire drinks of the potion and a gang of crooks learns about it.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 10/04; synopsis added by Craig Delich 11-18-07.

7 page Johnny Thunder story "The Inventor"

Characters Johnny Thunder
Genre superhero; humor
Script John B. Wentworth
Pencils Stan Aschmeier
Inks Stan Aschmeier
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 10/04.

8 page Ghost Patrol story "Let's Mind Our Own Business"

Characters Ghost Patrol
Genre war
Pencils Frank Harry
Inks Frank Harry

6 page Minute Movies story "Romance of Old Russia"

Genre adventure; humor
Script Ed Wheelan
Pencils Ed Wheelan
Inks Ed Wheelan
Letters Ed Wheelan

6 page The Whip story "Congo Wiles 'neath Texas Skies"

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

9 page Hawkman story "The Great Radium Mystery"

Characters The Hawkman [Carter Hall]
Synopsis The Hawkman must deal with an emergency situation when the city's entire supply of radium mysteriously disappears, creating an urgent situation at the local hospitals.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 11-18-07.