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Flash Comics 104

FLASH COMICS #104

Cover Date: February 1949
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Joe Kubert
Colors: Jack Adler


Story: "The Flaming Darkness!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtJoe Kubert
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Hawkman (next in All-Star Comics #45)

Villain(s):

Rangles and his gang (first appearance for all; attempt to steal scientific secrets using a projection)

Other Character(s):

Mr. Rangles (first appearance; elderly caretaker of the Science Club)

Comment(s):

This is the last solo Hawkman story published during the Golden Age.


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Second Story: "The Rival Flash!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn Broome
PencilsCarmine Infantino
InksBernard Sachs
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Flash (next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #113, then in flashback in Flash Vol. 2 #161; also in a brief flashback to his origin)

Supporting Character(s):

Joan Williams (also in flashback to between panels of Flash Comics #1; next in flashback in Flash Vol. 2 #161)

Villain(s):

Rival Flash (first appearance; a former instructor at Midwestern University; recreates the Hard Water experiment that created Jay's speed; next in JSA #16)

Other Character(s):

Jon Burnes (first appearance; also in flashback; a classmate of Joan's)

Location(s):

Keystone City

Comment(s):

This is the last solo Flash story published during the Golden Age, but two other stories (with two pages of a third) that were created will be printed years later.

Story Reprinted in:

Flash Vol. 1 #211 (December 1971)
The Flash Archives #1 (1996)
Showcase Presents: The Flash #1 (2007)


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Third Story: "The Case of the Painted Horse!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

PencilsArthur Peddy
InksBernard Sachs
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Ghost Patrol:
Fred
Pedro
Slim

Villain(s):

Crooked gamblers (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Speedstar (first appearance; a ghost horse)

Comment(s):

This is the final Ghost Patrol story published during the Golden Age.


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Fourth Story: "The Vanishing Lighthouse!" (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryArthur Adler
ArtPaul Reinman
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Atom (next in flashback in Flash Vol. 2 #161)

Supporting Character(s):

Mary James (last in issue #100/4; next in Sensation Comics #86/3)

Villain(s):

Oil thieves (first appearance for all)


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Fifth Story: "Crime on Her Hands!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Kanigher
PencilsCarmine Infantino
InksBernard Sachs
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Black Canary (next in All-Star Comics #45)

Supporting Character(s):

Larry Lance

Villain(s):

Ernst Nynth (first appearance; a Professor of Criminology who is discovered to have killed a rival years ago)

Comment(s):

This is the final solo Black Canary story published during the Golden Age, but two other stories prepared will be publishes years later.


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