Flash Comics #98

(August 1948)

Editorial Advisory Board (Table of Contents: 1)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

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Inside front cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Sensation Comics; Star Spangled Comics; All-American Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page (report information)

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For thrills and action read...

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Crime in Costume! (Table of Contents: 3)

Hawkman / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

John Broome

Pencils

Joe Kubert (signed as Kubert)

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Joe Kubert (signed as Kubert)

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FL104

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Good gosh! This letter is addressed to Hawkman! Has someone discovered my secret identity?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]

Synopsis

Carter and Shiera get invitations to a masquerade party and are asked to come in costume: the costumes of the Winged Wonders!

Reprints

• in The Golden Age Art of Joe Kubert (Al Dellinges, 1979 ? series) #2 (1979)

Indexer Notes

Writer credit by Craig Delich, verified by Martin O'Hearn.

Hawkman wears a new mask beginning with this issue, a cowl without feathers.

Bob Elliott (Table of Contents: 4)

Wheaties / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

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We gotta win today, gang

Genre

sports

Characters

Bob Elliott [Mr. Team]

The Nick of Time at the Midget Auto Races (Table of Contents: 5)

Old Nick / comics-form advertising / 0.8 page (report information)

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Wow! Looks as if there's going to be an accident.

Genre

adventure

Indexer Notes

Ad for a candy bar.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Bit-o-Honey / advertisement / 0.2 page (report information)

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Try Bit-o-Honey--it's a honey, honey, honey of a candy bar...

Indexer Notes

Ad for a candy bar. Located at the bottom of the Old Nick candy bar advertisement.

Mystery of the Million Dollars! (Table of Contents: 7)

The Flash / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

John Broome

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Lee Elias

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Moe Worthman

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FL103

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Jay Garrick whistled scornfully at the idea of pennies raining from the skies.

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams

Synopsis

While walking home from the theatre one evening, Jay and Joan are stopped on the street, given a roll of one thousand $1000 bills, and told to spend it in twelve hours!

Indexer Notes

Writer credit by Craig Delich, verified by Martin O'Hearn.

The Man with the Purple Hand (Table of Contents: 8)

Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream-Oil / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

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Hey, Mr. Spade! You forgot Wildroot Cream-Oil for your hair!

Genre

adventure

Characters

Sam Spade; Tony (barber); Effie; Chief of Police

Marked for Danger! (Table of Contents: 9)

Ghost Patrol / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Carmine Infantino

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Bob Oksner

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FL 105

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The young lady was very beautiful - but there was an air of mystery about here that eluded the Ghost Patrol.

Genre

adventure; fantasy-supernatural; war

Characters

The Ghost Patrol: Fred; Pedro; Slim

Indexer Notes

Inker credit by Craig Delich.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Kellogg's Pep / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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See heroes in action! Get Freedom Train picture book!

Terror Rides the Rails! (Table of Contents: 11)

The Atom / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Robert Kanigher

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Carmine Infantino

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Frank Giacoia

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Another wreck on the G&L line! This railroad is either having a streak of bad luck or else--

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Atom [Al Pratt]; Jane Wilson

Synopsis

The Atom fights a gang of saboteurs who are trying to take over a small railroad.

Reprints

• in Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #99 (June 1972)
• in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #78 ([December 1972] ?)
• in Batman (Editorial Novaro, 1954 series) #691 (19 de julio de 1973)

Indexer Notes

First appearance of the Atom's new costume, designed by Carmine Infantino.

Credits by Craig Delich.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

Tootsie Roll; Tootsie [all other candies] / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Girls!-Boys! Get this new beanie 'copter only 25¢ with any wrapper from Tootsie Rolls, Tootsie Fudge, or Tootsie Pops

Spelunkers - Modern Troglodytes (Table of Contents: 13)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

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Ted Udall (credited)

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If you were in a cave, hundreds of feet below the ground, and someone dressed in a bathing suit and wearing a miner's lamp came crawling towards you, it wouldn't mean that your eyes were playing tricks on you.

Genre

non-fiction

The Byzantine Black! (Table of Contents: 14)

Black Canary / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Robert Kanigher

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Carmine Infantino

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Frank Giacoia

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FL 106

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What does a valuable stamp, hundreds of years old have to do with a grocery store?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Larry Lance; Roger Steele (a millionaire); Miss Elaine (villain, niece of Roger Steele)

Synopsis

Black Canary discovers that a valuable stamp, hundreds of years old, is connected with her florist shop suddenly becoming a front for a grocery store. When she and Larry investigate the matter, they find that they must prevent a second attempt to kill the owner of the stamp.

Reprints

• in Black Canary Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1 ([March] 2001)
• in The Black Canary: Bird of Prey (DC, 2021 series) ([May] 2021)

Indexer Notes

Credits per Craig Delich. We previously credited the pencils to Bob Oksner and the inks to Joe Giella.

Win Rollfast Skates! (Table of Contents: 15)

Bazooka Bubble Gum / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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1,000 pair for the best 1,000 names sent in!

Indexer Notes

Contest to name the boy in the Rollfast Skates advertisement sponsored by Bazooka bubble gum.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16)

Margaret O'Brien Candy Kitchen / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

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Children, let's make our own lollipops and jelly apples.

Strange As It Seems (Table of Contents: 17)

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The number of persons killed by fireworks since 1900 in celebrating America's independence is greater than the number of American soldiers killed in the war for independence!

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

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Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Daisy announces an entirely new 128 page, pocket size handbook

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Back cover.