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FLASH COMICS #22
Cover Date: October 1941
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Art: Everett E. Hibbard
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Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Hal Sharp |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Flash (next in All-Star Comics #7)
Supporting Character(s):
- Joan Williams (next in flashback in All-Star Squadron Annual #3)
Villain(s):
- Kong (Jan Vordyce; first appearance; a surgeon who transforms whites into orientals)
- Kong's Hatchet Men Tong (first appearance for all; whites transformed into orientals to remove suspicion)
Other Character(s):
- Kai Fu (first appearance; adoptive father of Vordyce; dies)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Comment(s):
- Hal Sharp credited as E. E. Hibbard
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 (next in All-Star Comics #7)
Supporting Character(s):
- Thunderbolt (next in All-Star Comics #7)
- Peachy Pet Thunder
Other Character(s):
- Peachy Pet's unruly classmates (first appearance for all)
Comment(s):
- This story takes place at the beginning of the school year, probably September.
- Peachy Pet is placed in the 6th grade, making her 11-13 years old, but she is usually depicted as being much younger.
Credits:
| Story | Don Cameron |
| Art | Don Cameron |
| Lettering | Don Cameron |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Joe Magee
- Sing Lee
Villain(s):
- Gus and Wolf (first appearance for both; claim jumpers)
Other Character(s):
- Frank Hinds (first appearance; a prospector)
- Sue Hinds (first appearance; his daughter)
Location(s):
- Alaska Territory
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Harry Lampert |
| Lettering | Harry Lampert |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- The King (next in World's Finest Comics #3/8; reveals that he lives in Park Avenue apartment)
Villain(s):
- Seabury and Carter Young (first appearance; twins who fake being conjoined; Carter dies)
- Witch (next in World's Finest Comics #3/8; fences a stolen diamond)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Credits:
| Story | John B. Wentworth |
| Art | Homer Fleming |
| Lettering | Homer Fleming |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Other Character(s):
- Dino and Enrico Grastoffa (first appearance for both; Italians with a feud)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Comment(s):
- Gaynor hides King in a moving van.
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Lettering | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Joe Givvens (first appearance; the Police Commissioner's son and head of the Killer-Gang)
Other Character(s):
- Commissioner Givvens (first appearance)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Comment(s):
- This issue's Weapons of the Past is the War-Axe (which Hawkman uses in this story).