Flash Comics

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title=Flash Comics


caption=Cover to "Flash Comics" #1 (Jan. 1940)
Art by Sheldon Moldoff
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publisher=DC Comics
date=January 1940 -
February 1949
issues=104
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subcat=All-American Publications
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"Flash Comics" was an anthology comic book published by All-American Publications and later National Periodicals (DC Comics). The title ran for 104 issues between January 1940 to February 1949. Although the name of the comic book was "Flash Comics", the Flash was only one of many different series featured in the magazine. Many DC Comics characters make their first appearances in "Flash Comics", including the Flash, Hawkman, Hawkgirl (as Shiera Sanders), Black Canary, and Johnny Thunder. The Flash was later given a solo comic book series, "All Flash Quarterly" (later "All Flash") which ran for 31 issues between Summer 1941 to January 1948.

Towards the end of the 1940s, superhero comics fell out of favor and the All-American line of comics were all cancelled. "Flash Comics" was cancelled in 1949 with issue #104. When DC Comics gave the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen, his own comic book series, "The Flash", the series received the old numbering of "Flash Comics" starting at issue #105.

Series published in "Flash Comics" include:
*"The Flash" - issues #1-104
*"Hawkman" - issues #1-104
*"Johnny Thunder" - issues #1-91
*"The Whip"
*"Cliff Cornwall"
*"Ghost Patrol"
*"Black Canary" - issues #92-104

Reprints

Several stories from "Flash Comics" have been reprinted in DC Archive Editions.
*"Golden Age Flash Archives, Volume 1" - reprints the "Flash" stories from "Flash Comics" #1-17
*"Golden Age Flash Archives, Volume 2" - reprints the "Flash" stories from "Flash Comics" #18-24
*"Flash Archives, Volume 1" - reprints the "Flash" story from "Flash Comics" #104
*"Golden Age Hawkman Archives, Volume 1" - reprints the "Hawkman" stories from "Flash Comics" #1-22
*"Black Canary Archives, Volume 1" - reprints the "Johnny Thunder" stories from "Flash Comics" #86-91 and the "Black Canary" stories from "Flash Comics" #92-104
*"JSA All-Stars Archives, Volume 1" - reprints the "Johnny Thunder" stories from "Flash Comics" #1-4

External links

* [http://www.toonopedia.com/whip.htm Toonopedia entry for the Whip]
* [http://www.toonopedia.com/ghostpat.htm Toonopedia entry for Ghost Patrol]