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FLASH COMICS #20
Cover Date: August 1941
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Art: Everett E. Hibbard
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Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Everett E. Hibbard |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Flash (last in All-Flash Quarterly #1/6; next in All-Star Comics #6)
Supporting Character(s):
- Joan Williams (last in All-Flash Quarterly #1/6)
Villain(s):
- Thistlewit Coleman (first appearance; a cruel guardian; reforms)
Other Character(s):
- Jim Coleman (first appearance; swindled by his uncle)
Story Reprinted in:
- Golden Age Flash Archives #2 (2006)
Credits:
| Story | John B. Wentworth |
| Art | Stan Aschmeier |
| Lettering | Stan Aschmeier |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Johnny Thunder (last in World's Finest Comics #2/4; next in All-Star Comics #6; figures out that "Say You" are the magic words that controls the Thunderbolt)
Supporting Character(s):
- Thunderbolt (as a pink humanoid lightning bolt; last in World's Finest Comics #2/4; takes on familiar form; next in All-Star Comics #6)
- Daisy Darling
Villain(s):
- Carvem and his gang (first appearance; a gang of con men)
Comment(s):
- Johnny rides the Thunderbolt for the first time in this story.
Credits:
| Story | Don Cameron |
| Art | Don Cameron |
| Lettering | Don Cameron |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Joe Magee
- Doc Burns
- Sing Lee
- Punch Brannigan
- Cuthie
Villain(s):
- spies (first appearance for all; connected with the spies from last issue)
Location(s):
- Willow-Point (revealed as the name of Les' town)
- San Francisco, CA
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Harry Lampert |
| Lettering | Harry Lampert |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- The King (last in World's Finest Comics #2/7)
Villain(s):
- Witch (last in World's Finest Comics #2/7; real name may be Monica)
Other Character(s):
- Stella Larkin and Johnny Carmer (her fiancée; first appearance for both)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
- Mason, OH
Credits:
| Story | John B. Wentworth |
| Art | Homer Fleming |
| Lettering | Homer Fleming |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- counterfeiters (first appearance for all; several die)
Other Character(s):
- June Spain and Harry Spain (first appearance; siblings forced to pass counterfeit bills)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Lettering | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Hawkman (next in All-Star Comics #6)
Supporting Character(s):
- Shiera Sanders (next in All-Star Comics #6)
Villain(s):
- Bomb-Baby Sathan (first appearance; creator of small drone-bombs)
Other Character(s):
- Big Frenchy (first appearance; a gang boss who becomes a policeman)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Comment(s):
- This issue's Weapons of the Past is Signalling by Shield.