Best Place to Sell Flash Comics #2

Publisher: DC, 1940

About Flash Comics #2

Includes the second appearances of Flash and Hawkman. Features the first Hawkman cover. Rod Rian begins. Dennis Neville cover and art. Sheldon Moldoff, Stan Aschmeier, and Harry Lampert art.

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COVER DETAILS

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

Pencils: Dennis Neville

Inks: Dennis Neville

STORY DETAILS

(9 Stories)

Title: The Opera House Shootings

Characters: The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; the un-named doctor from origin story (cameo); Theo Parker (introduction); Greta Garson (introduction); Stella Rollins (introduction); Della Roberts (introduction); Mr. Rogers (introduction); Lord Donelin (villain, introduction); Goll (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: The Flash investigates the mysterious shootings of female singers in a local opera house, the trail leading directly to one man each of the women knew.

Pages: 13.000

Script: Gardner Fox

Pencils: Harry Lampert

Inks: Harry Lampert

Notes: The Flash uses a metal lightning bolt as his calling card in this story. The lightning bolt on Flash's shirt is missing in panels 2 and 3 on page 7. The lightning bolts on Flash's pants come and go throughout the story.

Title: The Globe Conquerors

Characters: The Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Shiera Sanders; Alexander the Great (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis: A great physicist named Alexander the Great invents a machine that increases an object's weight 1000 times, and Hawkman must stop him before he succeeds in destroying all the seaboard cities of the United States.

Pages: 12.000

Script: Gardner Fox

Pencils: Dennis Neville

Inks: Dennis Neville

Notes: The title given here is used in the table of contents in the Archive.

Title: Johnny Becomes a Boxer

Characters: Johnny Thunder; Daisy Darling (introduction); Mike Trainer; Suicide Kid (boxer); unnamed thug (villain)

Synopsis: Through the use of his powers (that he knows nothing about), Johnny signs a fight contract to battle the Suicide Kid, and that same unknown power helps Johnny win the contest.

Pages: 8.000

Script: John B. Wentworth

Pencils: Stan Asch

Inks: Stan Asch

Notes: There is a brief origin recap. The story title given here is used in the table of contents in the Archive.

Title: Warfare in Space (Part 2)

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

Synopsis: In the orbit of Jupiter, Billy's spaceship, armed with a new weapon, confronts the spaceships of the murderer of his father.

Pages: 2.000

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

Pencils: Sheldon Mayer (spot illustrations)

Inks: Sheldon Mayer (spot illustrations)

Letters: typeset

Notes: Story continued from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #1.

Title: The Demon Dummy, Part Two

Characters: Harry Dunstan; Red the Dummy (villain); Billy Devlin; Hope Fulton

Pages: 8.000

Script: Ed Wheelan (signed)

Pencils: Ed Wheelan (signed)

Inks: Ed Wheelan (signed)

Letters: Ed Wheelan

Notes: Story continued from previous issue.

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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	4	6	0	3	0	2	2	3	3	2	4	3	3	1	1	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	34
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13
Total	4	6	0	4	0	2	2	3	3	5	5	5	4	1	1	2	1	3	2	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	48

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