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FLASH COMICS #53
Cover Date: May 1944
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Art: Sheldon Moldoff
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Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Joe Gallagher |
| Assistant editing | Dorothy Roubicek |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Flash (last in Comic Cavalcade #6/6)
Supporting Character(s):
- Joan Williams (last in Comic Cavalcade #6/6)
Villain(s):
- Alchemist and his gang (Art; first appearance for all; creates a "Diathermy" box that generates internal heat to melt metal locks and doors)
Other Character(s):
- "Wishy Wally" Hacker (first appearance; an elderly junk peddler)
- Billy (first appearance; Joan's nephew; mistakenly calls Joan "cousin")
- Joan's unnamed sister (first appearance)
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- Gallagher credited as E.E. Hibbard.
Credits:
| Story | John B. Wentworth |
| Art | Stan Aschmeier |
| Lettering | Stan Aschmeier |
| Assistant editing | Dorothy Roubicek |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Johnny Thunder (given an Honorable Discharge from the Navy; next in All-Star Comics #19)
Supporting Character(s):
- Thunderbolt (next in All-Star Comics #19)
- Peachy Pet Thunder
- Ma Thunder
Villain(s):
- Nazis
Location(s):
- Berlin, Germany
- New York City, NY
Comment(s):
- Continued from last issue.
- This story takes place in April.
- Johnny has been AWOL for over three months.
Credits:
| Art | Frank Harry |
| Lettering | Frank Harry |
| Assistant editing | Dorothy Roubicek |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Spike (first appearance; disguises his gang like ghosts to rob an old lady)
Credits:
| Art | Homer Fleming |
| Lettering | Homer Fleming |
| Assistant editing | Dorothy Roubicek |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Bobo and Snifty (first appearance for both; two bums)
Location(s):
- New York City, NY
Comment(s):
- This story takes place in the spring.
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Lettering | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Assistant editing | Dorothy Roubicek |
| Editing | Sheldon Mayer |
Feature Character(s):
- Hawkman (last in All-Star Comics 80-Page Giant #1/6)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Simple Simon (Simon Atwell; first appearance; decides that using the simplest approach is the easiest way to plan crimes; next in issue #65/4)