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Flash Comics 52

FLASH COMICS #52

Cover Date: April 1944
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Martin Naydel


Story: "The Machine That Thinks Like A Man!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtMartin Naydel
Assistant editingDorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Flash (next in All-Flash #14)

Supporting Character(s):

Joan Williams (next in All-Flash #14)
Three Dimwits:
Winky Moylan (last in Comic Cavalcade #5/7; next in All-Flash #14)
Blinky Boylan (last in Comic Cavalcade #5/7; next in All-Flash #14)
Noddy Toylan (last in Comic Cavalcade #5/7; next in All-Flash #14)

Villain(s):

Slats and his gang (first appearance for all; tries to steal the mechanical brain)

Other Character(s):

Evart Keenan (last in All-Flash #12; creates a "mechanical brain" and gives it Jay)

Location(s):

Keystone City
Garrick Laboratories

Comment(s):

Martin Naydel credited as E.E. Hibbard.


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Second Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn B. Wentworth
ArtStan Aschmeier
LetteringStan Aschmeier
Assistant editingDorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Johnny Thunder

Supporting Character(s):

Thunderbolt
Peachy Pet Thunder

Villain(s):

Nazis

Location(s):

Berlin, Germany

Comment(s):

Continued from last issue and into next issue.
This story takes place in winter.


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Third Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtFrank Harry
LetteringFrank Harry
Assistant editingDorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Ghost Patrol:
Fred
Pedro
Slim

Villain(s):

Erich the Great (first appearance; a would-be dictator; dies)

Other Character(s):

A small undersea colony of air breathers (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

South America


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Fourth Story: "Appetite for Crime!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtHomer Fleming
LetteringHomer Fleming
Assistant editingDorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Whip

Supporting Character(s):

King

Villain(s):

Nazi saboteurs (first appearance for all; poisoning cans of salmon)

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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Fifth Story: "Crime On The Wing..." (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtSheldon Moldoff
LetteringSheldon Moldoff
Assistant editingDorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Hawkman (next in All-Star Comics #20)

Supporting Character(s):

Hawkgirl

Villain(s):

Hummingbird (Hester Morgan; first appearance; an eminent ornithologist; creates weapons and a pair of glider wings for robbery; goes straight)

Comment(s):

Carter Hall has a collection of rare valuable emeralds that his grandfather collected.


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