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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published September-October 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Sheldon Mayer; Ted Udall (assistant editor)
Notes A contest offering 1000 copies of the next issue of All-Flash [#7] was announced in this issue. Readers were asked: 1) if they wanted book-length novels to continue in All-Flash or instead have separate stories; and 2) if they liked the Three Dimwits and wanted more stories featuring them. EVERY reader responding to this survey received a free Flash button in five brilliant colors. Info added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.

Cover Details

Characters The Flash; Winky; Blinky Toylan; Noddy
Genre superhero
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard

1 page The Flash foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Ray That Changed Men's Souls!: Prologue"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Winky; Blinky Toylan; Noddy
Synopsis [See synopsis in Chapter 1]
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox (signed)
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard (signed)
Inks Everett E. Hibbard (signed)
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.

13 page The Flash story "The Ray That Changed Men's Souls!: Chapter 1: The Adventure of the Riotous Ray!"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Winky; Blinky Toylan; Noddy; Trigger Tom (villain), Ada White; Sarah Norheart; Joan Williams; Red Grant
Synopsis The Three Dimwits, trying to charge an old car battery, pour in a variety of chemicals, then attach a sunlamp to it as a power source. The resulting "purple ray", they find, has a strange effect upon people: it affects the secretions of the bodie's gands, resulting in changes in poise, conduct, and even in the brain itself!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Some info and modified synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.

12 page The Flash story "The Ray That Changed Men's Souls!: Chapter 2: The Curse of Fame!"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Winky; Blinky Toylan; Noddy; Trigger Tom (villain); Joan Williams; Ada White; Jim Baker; Sarah Norheart; Red Grant; Big Louie (villain)
Synopsis People stream into the Three Dimwits, wanting to bathe in the purple ray, wanting to become someone else. The nitwit's fame reaches far and wide, including to the criminal element, who endeavor to get in on the action. The Flash must deal with that problem as well as the complaints from people whose personalities have been altered.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Everett E Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.

4 page public service announcement "The Minute Man Answers the Call"

Genre public service
Script M. C. Gaines (signed)
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff (signed)
Inks Sheldon Moldoff (signed)
Notes This feature appears in many DC comics with this date. It was a War Bond promotion.

13 page The Flash story "The Ray That Changed Men's Souls!: Chapter 3: Adventure of the Topsy-Turvy Town!"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Winky; Blinky Toylan; Noddy; Joan Williams; Red Grant; Trigger Tom (villain); Big Louie (villain); District Attorney Belmont
Synopsis "Trigger" Tom and his gang succeed in stealing the purple ray. Flash successfully gets it back, but the ray plays on him and the Three Dimwits, giving them the Flash's personality and giving the Scarlet Speedster theirs!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.

2 page Hop Harrigan text story "Volts from the Blue"

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

2 page Butch McLobster, The Super Mobster filler

Characters Butch McLobster
Genre detective
Script Ed Wheelan (signed)
Pencils Ed Wheelan (signed)
Inks Ed Wheelan (signed)
Letters Ed Wheelan

13 page The Flash story "The Ray That Changed Men's Souls!: Chapter 4: The Case of the Chameleon Characters!"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Winky; Blinky Toylan; Noddy; Joan Williams; Trigger Tom (villain); Big Louie (villain); Red Grant
Synopsis After regaining his personality, the Flash tracks down "Trigger" Tom and his hoods, all of whom have been taking advantage of a "Flash-less" city, and destroys the purple personality ray for good measure.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-22-09.