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Issue Details

Issue #30
Published August-September 1947
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Sheldon Mayer, [Julius Schwartz, assistant]
Notes Cover is a copy of the first story splash page.

Cover Details - "Anything Can Happen"

Characters The Flash
Genre superhero
Pencils Lee Elias
Inks Lee Elias
Notes Cover is a copy of the first story splash page.

12 page The Flash story "Anything Can Happen"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]
Synopsis Jay Garrick witnesses the murder of a man who has been dumped into a river off a bridge. He is arrested, but soon after the scene is repeated again, and another Jay Garrick is arrested. The question is: what is going on?
Genre superhero
Script John Broome
Pencils Lee Elias
Inks Lee Elias
Notes Story code: FL91. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-18-09.
Reprinted In The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #216 (June 1972).

12 page The Flash story "The Vanishing Snowman"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams.
Synopsis Joan Williams is arrested for the murder of one of her girlfriends, and the Flash promises to find the true killer. His problem: how do you find the whereabouts of a killer snowman?
Genre superhero
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Story code: FL92. Writer credit by Craig Delich 3/03. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-18-09.

2 page Ton o' Fun filler

Genre humor
Script Harry Lampert
Pencils Harry Lampert
Inks Harry Lampert
Letters Harry Lampert

2 page text story "Two Words"

Genre adventure
Script Ted Udall [signed as Charles King]
Letters typeset

12 page The Flash story "The Land beyond the Picture"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; the Liars Club.
Synopsis When Jay Garrick arrives at the monthly meeting of the Liars Club, he is fascinated by a surrealist painting just purchased by the club. However, Jay tells the story of a weirder painting: one in which the Flash stepped into in order to discover the whereabouts of a man who had disappeared into it.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Story code: FL89. Writer credit by Craig Delich 3/03. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-18-09.