Flash Comics
#90
(December 1947)
DC,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1947-10-08
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Comics Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Superman DC Publication
- Editing
- Sheldon Mayer (editor, credited); Julius Schwartz (story editor, uncredited)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Nine Empty Uniforms
The Flash / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Ginger Stanton; The Hawkman [Carter Hall] (inset)
Indexer Notes
The cover image is the same as the splash panel of The Flash story, but reversed and with the face of The Flash redrawn.
Nine Empty Uniforms!
The Flash / comic story / 12 pages
- Job Number
- AF 34 A
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It is the decisive game in a pennant race!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Ginger Stanton; Larry Stanton' Jim Stanton; Casey the Umpire
- Synopsis
- The Flash tries to help a poor baseball team to a pennant in order to save the life of its hospitalized and depressed manager. But when the entire team is kidnapped, the Scarlet Speedster decides to take the places of the missing team members!
- Reprints
-
in 80 Page Giant Magazine (DC, 1964 series) #4 (October 1964)
-
Indexer Notes
Writer credit by Craig Delich. "AF" as part of the job number indicates this story was originally intended for All-Flash Comics.]
The splash panel is identical to the cover image, but reversed and with the face of The Flash redrawn.
Ghosts Don't Exist!
The Ghost Patrol / comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- FL 99
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was the craziest assignment the Ghost Patrol had ever tackled!
- Genre
- adventure; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- The Ghost Patrol [Fred; Pedro; Slim]; Norah Blane; Heff; Lawrence Clay
Indexer Notes
Credits by Craig Delich.
The Case of the Web-Footed Burglar
Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream-Oil / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure
Triple Exposure!
Johnny Thunder and the Black Canary / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- FL96
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pictures sometimes lie...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Johnny Thunder; Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Thunderbolt; Banko Jim (villain); Joe (villain)
- Synopsis
- A group of criminals committing a robbery notice that a photographer has taken a picture of them in the act. However, because Johnny and the Black Canary are also at the scene of the crime, the crooks successfully blank out their own images in the picture and thus blame our two heroes for the dastardly act.
- Reprints
-
in Superman (1ª Série) (Editora Brasil-América [EBAL], 1947 series) #10 (agosto de 1948) - in Black Canary Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1 ([March] 2001)
- in The Black Canary: Bird of Prey (DC, 2021 series) ([May] 2021)
-
Indexer Notes
Black Canary now shares the strip's title.
[no title indexed]
All-Star Comics; The Junior Justice Society of America / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boys and girls! --- The Junior Justice Society of America is back in operation!!
[no title indexed]
Ton o' Fun / cartoon / 0.5 page
- Script
- Harry Lampert (signed)
- Pencils
- Harry Lampert (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Lampert (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Harry Lampert (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How do you like me in an upsweep?
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Sequence added by Craig Delich.
Three unrelated gag panels.
Murder on a Star!
The Atom / comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- OH23
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The giant Broadway signs...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Atom [Al Pratt]; Mary
- Reprints
- in 100-Page Super Spectacular (DC, 1973 series) #DC-18 (July 1973)
-
Indexer Notes
Writer credit by Craig Delich.
Lucky Gunman
text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Joe Hunter walked leaisurely...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Joe Hunter
The Crimes That Couldn't Have Happened!
Hawkman / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Robert Kanigher
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert (signed as J. Kubert)
- Inks
- Joe Kubert (signed as J. Kubert)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was The Ghost again...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders]; The Ghost [Jim Craddock] (villain)
- Synopsis
- Hawkman and Hawkgirl decide to disguise themselves as archaeologists and announce a trip to Africa in order to confront their mortal enemy, The Ghost!
- Reprints
- in Wanted. The World's Most Dangerous Villains (DC, 1972 series) #7 (March-April 1973)
- in DC's Wanted: The World's Most Dangerous Super-Villains (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
[no title indexed]
Ton o' Fun / cartoon / 0.5 page
- Script
- Harry Lampert (signed)
- Pencils
- Harry Lampert (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Lampert (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Harry Lampert (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I read all his letters!
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Three unrelated gag panels.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Nine Empty Uniforms
The Flash -
1.
[no title indexed]
Kodak -
2.
Nine Empty Uniforms!
The Flash -
3.
Bert La Brucherie
Wheaties -
4.
Ghosts Don't Exist!
The Ghost Patrol -
5.
The Case of the Web-Footed Burglar
Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream-Oil -
6.
Editorial Advisory Board
-
7.
Boys and Girls! Here's an Important Message for You!
-
8.
Triple Exposure!
Johnny Thunder and the Black Canary -
9.
[no title indexed]
Columbia -
10.
["Boys and girls! --- The Junior Justice Society of America is back in operation!!"]
All-Star Comics; The Junior Justice Society of America -
11.
["How do you like me in an upsweep?"]
Ton o' Fun -
12.
[no title indexed]
Lucky to Be a Yankee -
13.
Murder on a Star!
The Atom -
14.
Lucky Gunman
-
15.
[no title indexed]
Gang Busters -
16.
The Crimes That Couldn't Have Happened!
Hawkman -
17.
[no title indexed]
Lifebuoy -
18.
["I read all his letters!"]
Ton o' Fun -
19.
Junior Jim
Smith Brothers Cough Drops -
20.
How Just Two Words Turned Mac Into a He-Man!
Charles Atlas -
21.
[no title indexed]
Thom McAn
This issue was modified by, among others
- Keith Chandler
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Matthew Head
- Bob Hughes
- Arthur Lortie
- Adam Spector
- Jim Van Dore
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