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Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	Summer 1940
Cover Price	0.10
Pages	68
Editing	Victor Fox

Cover Details

Characters	The Flame
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Lou Fine
Letters	typeset

14 page The Flame story "The Origin of the Flame, Retold"

Characters	The Flame (origin retold); Ivan and his gang (villains; I, D for all); Mr. King [I]; Ida King [I].
Genre	superhero
Script	Will Eisner?

9 page The Flame story "Invasion of the Kikoos"

Characters	The Flame; un-named girl agent; The Kikoos [villains, some D]; Monk [villain].
Synopsis	The Flame has to deal with the wanton killing and robberies staged by a group of weird, spectral creatures called the Kikoo, which came from an island where the government leaders hid them out because of their inferior minds. Unfortunately, led by an evil influence, they are capable of extreme violence, as the Flame discovers.
Genre	superhero
Script	Will Eisner (signed as Basil Berold)
Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Lou Fine
Notes	Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-30-09.
Reprinted	From Wonderworld Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #7; in Golden Age Men of Mystery Comics (AC Comics, 1995 series) #79 (2009).

9 page The Flame story "The Arson Ring of Mr. Crass"

Characters	The Flame; J. B. Crass (villain; I; D); Bonnie Lane (I).
Genre	superhero
Script	Will Eisner
Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Lou Fine
Reprinted	From Wonderworld Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #6.

2 page The Flame text story "The Flame"

Characters	The Flame
Genre	superhero
Script	Nathaniel Nitkin [signed as N. N. Nathaniel]
Letters	typeset

9 page The Flame story "The Construction Racketeers"

Characters	The Flame; Radler (villain, D); Stone (villain, D).
Synopsis	Stymied by corrupt politicians and lax building materials, the authorities seem helpless to stop the collapse of people's homes and wanton death, but the Flame goes directly after the crooked contractors themselves.
Genre	superhero
Script	Will Eisner
Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Lou Fine
Reprinted	From Wonderworld Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #7.

9 page The Flame story "The Atomic Generator"

Characters	The Flame; Von Kraupt [villain]; Jarud Kane [villain] (I for both).
Genre	superhero
Script	Will Eisner
Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Lou Fine
Reprinted	From Wonderworld Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #8.

9 page The Flame story "Raiders of the Deep"

Characters	The Flame; Gen. Doyoff (first appearance; villain); the Nazis (villains).
Genre	superhero
Script	Will Eisner [signed as Basil Berold]
Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Lou Fine
Reprinted	From Wonderworld Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #9.