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Flash Comics 37

FLASH COMICS #37

Cover Date: January 1943
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Sheldon Moldoff (signed)


Story: "Crime Goes Crazy!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtHal Sharp
Assistant editingTed Udall, Dorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Flash (next in Comic Cavalcade #1/9; now has an apartment in Gotham City)

Supporting Character(s):

Joan Williams (next in Comic Cavalcade #1/9)

Villain(s):

Professor Thorne (first appearance; uses an asylum to cover for his robberies)

Location(s):

Gotham City
Thorne Asylum (first appearance)

Comment(s):

Hal Sharp credited as E.E. Hibbard.


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Second Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryTed Udall
ArtFrank Harry
LetteringFrank Harry
Assistant editingTed Udall, Dorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Ghost Patrol:
Fred
Pedro
Slim

Villain(s):

Japanese Army (first appearance for all; Dr. Yaki named)

Location(s):

Occupied China


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Third Story: [No title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn B. Wentworth
ArtStan Aschmeier
LetteringStan Aschmeier
Assistant editingTed Udall, Dorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Johnny Thunder

Supporting Character(s):

Thunderbolt
Peachy Pet Thunder

Villain(s):

German U-Boat (captured)

Location(s):

Atlantic Ocean

Comment(s):

This story continues directly from the last one.


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Fourth Story: "The Last of the Old Whalers!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
PencilsPaul Reinman
InksSam Burlockoff
Assistant editingTed Udall, Dorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

King (next in World's Finest Comics #8/6)

Supporting Character(s):

Witch (next in #41/2)

Villain(s):

Murder Master (Reggie Norman; first appearance; commits murder for hire)


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryTed Udall
ArtHomer Fleming
LetteringHomer Fleming
Assistant editingTed Udall, Dorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Whip

Supporting Character(s):

Marisa Dillon
King
Wing Tai
Carlos Fuentez

Villain(s):

Scraggy McGee (first appearance; a crook who tries to lure The Whip into a trap)

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtSheldon Moldoff
LetteringSheldon Moldoff
Assistant editingTed Udall, Dorothy Roubicek
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Hawkman (last in Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #133)

Supporting Character(s):

Hawkgirl (last in Young All-Stars #25)

Villain(s):

Chance (first appearance; a ghoulish looking nightclub owner who kills his delinquent clients)

Other Character(s):

Crystal Chalmers (first appearance; a young female reporter assigned to the Nightclub scene; revealed to be Chance's stepdaughter)
Kitty Hawk (first appearance; a female Duck Hawk and friend of Shiera's)

Location(s):

Gotham City


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