Dates
- Cover date
- Spring 1942
- On sale
- February 24, 1942
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Tale of the Time Capsule! Chapter 1: [Miracle of Sleepian] · 13 pages
Professor McQuatness invents a formula pill that re-arranges the electrons of the human body, allowing a person to travel in time. When the Professor persuades a skeptical Flash to travel back to 50 B.C., Joan Williams and several crooks make the journey as well.
- Nothing Like Being Formal · 1 pages
Yvonne sends a dinner invitation for the company of Capt. Crood, but ends up with more than she bargained for.
- [The Tale of the Time Capsule!] Chapter 2: Tommy-Guns Versus Spears! · 13 pages
The Flash loses his super speed and becomes a galley slave for Julius Caesar, while the crooks, armed with machine guns, join with the Egyptians to battle the Roman legions.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Charles comes sliding down the stairs and ruins the freshly laundered clothes.
- Butch McLobster, The Super Mobster · 2 pages
Butch and his gang target a victim, but come away with only a lollipop.
- [The Tale of the Time Capsule!] Chapter 3: Breakneck Speed -- 50 B.C. · 13 pages
Having regained his speed and saving Caesar's soldiers from certain death, the Flash is besieged by Roman citizens to help them regain their freedom from Caesar's tyranny. At the same time, Brutus (sworn enemy of Caesar) conspires with the future criminals to dispose of Caesar once and for all, including the Flash!
- Dummy Dynamite · 2 pages
- [The Tale of the Time Capsule!] Chapter 4: Traipsing through Time! · 13 pages
Having rediscovered his time pill formula, the Professor and all the principals make their way back to 1942. However, the crooks find out that the Professor has left some very valuable items in a time capsule back in the Rome of 50 B.C., so they kidnap the Professor and Joan, traveling to the present day Rome to see of they can find that time capsule.