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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published Spring 1942
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing M C Gaines, (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer (assistant editor); [Ted Udall?, (assistant editor)]
Notes Udall dates approximate. This issue contains an ad for Hop Harrigan's All-American Flying Club.

Cover Details

Characters The Flash
Genre superhero
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Udall dates approximate. This issue contains an ad for Hop Harrigan's All-American Flying Club.

13 page The Flash story "The Tale of the Time Capsule!: Chapter 1: [Miracle of Sleepian]"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Professor Archibald McQuatness.
Synopsis 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.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-23-09.

1 page Comedy Short filler "Nothing Like Being Formal"

Genre gag
Script Ed Wheelan
Pencils Ed Wheelan
Inks Ed Wheelan
Letters Ed Wheelan
Notes Feature added by Craig Delich 8-23-09.

13 page The Flash story "The Tale of the Time Capsule: Chapter 2: Tommy Guns Versus Spears!"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Professor Archibald McQuatness; Julius Caesar.
Synopsis 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.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-23-09.

1 page We Were All Kids Once! filler

Genre humor
Script Art Helfant
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant
Letters Art Helfant

2 page Butch McLobster, The Super Mobster filler

Characters Butch McLobster
Genre detective
Script Ed Wheelan
Pencils Ed Wheelan
Inks Ed Wheelan
Letters Ed Wheelan

13 page The Flash story "The Tale of the Time Capsule: Chapter 3: Breakneck Speed--50 B.C."

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Professor Archibald McQuatness; Julius Caesar; Brutus.
Synopsis 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!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-23-09.

2 page Hop Harrigan text story "Dummy Dynamite"

Characters Hop Harrigan
Genre aviation
Script Evelyn Gaines (signed)
Letters typeset

13 page The Flash story "The Tale of the Time Capsule: Chapter 4: Traipsing through Time"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Professor Archibald McQuatness; Julius Caesar; Brutus.
Synopsis 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.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-23-09.