- Script
- Robert Greenberger (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
An overview of the context of this issue and the characters, stories, and credits. Appears on inside of front and inside of back covers.
- Script
- Gardner Fox (credited)
- Pencils
- Harry Lampert (credited)
- Inks
- Harry Lampert (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Harry Lampert (masthead)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Faster than the streak of the lightning in the sky...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Flash [Jay Garrick] (introduction, origin); Joan Williams (introduction); Professor Hughes (introduction); Major Williams (introduction, Joan's father); Bull Tryon (introduction); The Faultless Four [Sieur Satan (villain, introduction, death); Serge Orloff (villain, introduction, surgeon, death); Duriel (villain, introduction, death); Smythe (villain, introduction, death)]
- Synopsis
- The Scarlet Speedster must face the threat of the Faultless Four, a group of brilliant but deadly scientists who kidnap Joan William's father in order to get his invention: the atomic bombarder!
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Midwestern University
Story was originally untitled. The Flash has lightning bolts on his belt buckle and trousers.
- Script
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils
- Sheldon Moldoff (credited)
- Inks
- Sheldon Moldoff (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In Washington, D.C. are special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
- Genre
- adventure
- Reprints
Story was originally untitled. Script credit from Craig Delich. The credits in this reprint incorrectly credit Sheldon Moldoff.
- Script
- Gardner Fox (credited)
- Pencils
- Dennis Neville (credited)
- Inks
- Dennis Neville (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Beginning the tale of a phantom of the night...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hawkman [Carter Hall] (intro, origin); Shiera Sanders (intro, later Hawkgirl); Hath-Set (intro); Kolar; Doctor Hastor
- Reprints
This story was not originally titled. The title here was given in Golden Age Hawkman Archives #1 where this story was reprinted.
- Script
- John Wentworth (credited as John B. Wentworth)
- Pencils
- Stan Asch (credited)
- Inks
- Stan Asch (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Simon B. Thunder was a back clerk in the Case National Bank...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Johnny Thunder (intro, origin); Thunderbolt (intro); Simon B. Thunder; Mildred Thunder
- Reprints
Story was originally untitled.
- Script
- Gardner Fox (credited)
- Pencils
- Sheldon Mayer (illustrations)
- Inks
- Sheldon Mayer (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Billy Morton; Keith Morton; Port Commander Worth; Ralph "The Ruthless" Farnham
- Reprints
Story continued in Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #2. Reprint omits three small ads at the end that are replaced with a Flash helmet and lightning bolt.
- Script
- Ed Wheelan (credited)
- Pencils
- Ed Wheelan (credited)
- Inks
- Ed Wheelan (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ed Wheelan
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
Story continued in Flash Comics (1940 Series) #2
- Script
- John Wentworth (credited as John B. Wentworth)
- Pencils
- George Storm (credited)
- Inks
- George Storm (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- From the time of Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- The Whip [Don Fernando Suarez]; The Whip [Rod Gaynor]; Marisa Dillon; Carlos; King (The Whip's horse)
- Synopsis
- The Whip, affecting a Spanish accent, is aided by girl friend Marisa Dillon, and Carlos, not to mention his horse King.
- Reprints
Story was originally untitled.
The Whip is Eastern playboy Rod Gaynor. The strip is set in the southwest.