Flash Comics #1 Values

Publisher: DC, 1940

About Flash Comics #1

Origin and first appearance of the Flash, Hawkman, Johnny Thunder, Whip, and Shiera Sanders. Sheldon Moldoff cover and art. Currently #12 on Overstreet's Top 100 Golden Age Comics.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Introducing The Flash... Fastest Man Alive!

Characters: The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Hawkman [Carter Hall] (inset); Johnny Thunder (inset); The Whip [Rodney Gaynor] (inset); Cliff Cornwall (inset)

Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff

Inks: Sheldon Moldoff

Notes: The cover artist was mis-credited as Harry Lampert in the Millennium Edition, but corrected in the corrections page in Millennium Edition: Superboy #1 (2001 series), and also correctly credited in the two Archives. Flash has lightning bolts on his trousers and on his belt buckle.

Reprints: Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-8 (August-September 1975), | All Star Comics [ashcan] (DC, 1940 series) #1 (Spring 1940), | Flash Annual (DC, 1963 series) #1 (Summer 1963)

STORY DETAILS

(8 Stories)

Title: Origin of the Flash

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); Duriel (villain, introduction)]

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!

Pages: 15.000

Script: Gardner Fox (signed)

Pencils: Harry Lampert (signed)

Inks: Harry Lampert (signed)

Letters: Harry Lampert (masthead by-line)

Reprints: Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-8 (August-September 1975)

Notes: First line is "But before he became known and feared as 'the fastest thing on Earth,' Jay Garrick was an unknown student at Midwestern University..." The Flash has lightning bolts on his belt buckle and trousers.

Title: The Disappearing Plane

Characters: Cliff Cornwall; un-named Army General; Lys Valliere

Synopsis: Cliff is on vacation from the FBI, but the Army nabs him for a special assignment in Alaska to put an end to phantom plane attacks on military aircraft.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Gardner Fox

Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff (signed)

Inks: Sheldon Moldoff (signed)

Reprints: Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-8 (August-September 1975)

Notes: First line is "A fleet of U.S. bombers wing their way toward Alaska..." Writer credit by Craig Delich. The Millennium Edition incorrectly credits Sheldon Moldoff for the writer.

Title: The Origin of Hawkman

Characters: The Hawkman [Prince Khufu aka Carter Hall] (introduction, origin, Khufu dies but is reincarnated); Shiera Sanders (introduction, later Hawkgirl] (Shiera dies but is reincarnated); Hath-Set (villain, introduction); Kolar (villain, introduction); Doctor Hastor (villain, introduction, death, reincarnation of Hath-Set)

Synopsis: Young Carter Hall, wealthy collector of weapons and research scientist, discovers that he is the re-incarnation of an anicient Egyptian, Prince Khu-fu. He is further amazed that his lady love, Shiera Sanders, and his murderer, Hath-Set, have been re-incarnated too!

Pages: 12.000

Script: Gardner Fox

Pencils: Dennis Neville

Inks: Dennis Neville

Reprints: Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-8 (August-September 1975)

Notes: The title here was given in Golden Age Hawkman Archives Vol. 1 where this story was reprinted. First line is "In the weapon-lined library of Carter Hall, wealthy collector of weapons and research scientist..."

Title: The Kidnapping of Johnny Thunder

Characters: Johnny Thunder (introduction, origin); Thunderbolt (introduction); Simon B. Thunder; Mildred Thunder; Priest of Aissor

Synopsis: Young Johnny Thunder is kidnapped from his home, given Badhnisian sacred rites and would become the most powerful person in the world at age 7. By a weird chance, Johnny is reunited with his parents, but is sought out once again by the Badhnesians, who are on the receiving end of a new, strange power Johnny has by saying the words "Say You."

Pages: 10.000

Script: John B. Wentworth

Pencils: Stan Asch

Inks: Stan Asch

Reprints: Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-8 (August-September 1975)

Notes: First line is "One night in August, 1918, Simon came home from the bank and found a crowd around his house..." Thunderbolt appears as a yellow streak of lightning and as a pink cloud in this story.

Title: Warfare in Space, Part One

Characters: Billy Morton; Keith Morton; Port Commander Worth; Ralph "The Ruthless" Farnham (villain)

Synopsis: Billy's Dad has created a weapon that can be effectively used in interstellar space....and he wants to volunteer to use it against the space pirate, Ralph Farnham!

Pages: 2.000

Script: Gardner Fox [as Gardner F. Fox] (credited)

Pencils: Sheldon Mayer (spot illustrations)

Inks: Sheldon Mayer (spot illustrations)

Letters: typeset

Reprints: Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-8 (August-September 1975)

Notes: Story continued in Flash Comics (1940 series) #2. There are three small ads for fireworks at the end of page 2 for Baltimore Fireworks Co., Spencer Fireworks Co., and The Brazel Novelty Manufacturing Co.

Title: The Demon Dummy, Part 1

Characters: The Great [Harry] Dunstan; Madge Devere; Sam; Red (a dummy); Jim Devlin (villain); Tim (villain); Slim Grimes (villain)

Synopsis: Private detective Devlin, in love with Madge Devere, who in turn is loved by ventriloquist Dunstan, tries to pin a murder on Dunstan in order to get the woman he loves.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Ed Wheelan (signed)

Pencils: Ed Wheelan (signed)

Inks: Ed Wheelan (signed)

Letters: Ed Wheelan

Reprints: Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-8 (August-September 1975)

Notes: Story continued in Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #2.

Title: Origin of the Whip

Characters: El Castigo [aka The Whip] [Don Fernando Suarez] (introduction, in flashback); group of wealthy rancheros (villains, introduction for all, in flashback); The Whip [Rodney Elwood Gaynor] (introduction); Mr. Dillon (newspaper publisher, father of Marissa, introduction); Marissa Dillon (introduction); unnamed Padre (introduction); Sheriff Todd (villain, introduction); Carlos (villain, introduction); group of vigilantes (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis: Learning of a famed adventurer for justice in the past, El Castigo: The Whip, Rod Gaynor decides to assume that disguise to help the poor, who are being denied jobs and food, as well as being hit by high rents by unscrupulous vigilantes.

Pages: 10.000

Script: John B. Wentworth (signed)

Pencils: George Storm (signed)

Inks: George Storm (signed)

Reprints: Famous First Edition (DC, 1974 series) #F-8 (August-September 1975)

Notes: The Whip is Eastern playboy Rod Ellwood Gaynor. The strip is set in the southwest. First line is "He was known as Don Fernando Suarez, a patrician descended from the Grandees of Spain..."

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	1	7	1	4	4	5	2	3	1	2	2	9	0	2	6	2	0	0	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	56
Qualified	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	7	2	0	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	5	2	4	2	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	41
Total	0	0	1	15	4	4	5	7	3	4	2	3	3	11	3	7	8	6	2	3	4	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	99

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