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Flash Comics #2

DC · Series began 1940 · February 1940

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Dates

Cover date: February 1940
On sale: December 20, 1939
Pages: 68

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Dennis Neville, Harry Lampert, Sheldon Moldoff, Stan Asch, Paul Jepsen, Sheldon Mayer, Ed Wheelan, George Storminks: Dennis Neville, Harry Lampert, Sheldon Moldoff, Stan Asch, Paul Jepsen, Sheldon Mayer, Ed Wheelan, George Stormscript: Gardner Fox, John Wentworth, Paul Jepsen, Ed Wheelanletters: Ed Wheelan

Stories

The Opera House Shootings · 13 pages
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.
The Panama Canal Scheme · 6 pages
The Globe Conquerors · 12 pages
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.
Johnny Becomes a Boxer · 8 pages
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.
The Captured Moon Transport · 6 pages
Warfare in Space (Part 2) · 2 pages
In the orbit of Jupiter, Billy's spaceship, armed with a new weapon, confronts the spaceships of the murderer of his father.
The Demon Dummy, Part Two · 8 pages
Vigilantes of Seguro · 8 pages

Characters

Jay GarrickThe FlashCarter HallHawkmanJohnny ThunderShiera SandersThunderboltJoan GarrickRod GaynorThe WhipCliff CornwallDaisy DarlingMarisa DillonCarlosKingWing TaiSam Dillon

Reprinted in

Golden Age Flash Archives (1999), Golden Age Hawkman Archives (2005), The JSA All Stars Archives (2007)