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Issue Details

Issue #52
Published April 1944
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer, editor; Dorothy Roubicek (assistant eds)

Cover Details - "The Machine That Thinks Like a Man"

Characters The Flash; Winky, Blinky and Noddy
Genre superhero
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel

13 page Flash story "The Machine That Thinks Like a Man"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Winky, Blinky & Noddy; GS: Evart Keenan
Synopsis Evart Keenan returns from the planet Karma to visit Jay Garrick once again and bestow the gift of a mechanical brain to him, unaware that it can also answer the burning question of the underworld: how to destroy the Flash!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 10/04; synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-28-07.

7 page Johnny Thunder story "Peachy Pet in Berlin"

Characters Johnny Thunder; Peachy Pet
Genre superhero; humor
Script John B. Wentworth
Pencils Stan Aschmeier
Inks Stan Aschmeier

8 page Ghost Patrol story "An Open Letter to Dictators"

Characters The Ghost Patrol
Genre war
Pencils Frank Harry
Inks Frank Harry

6 page Minute Movies story "A Fiend for Fame"

Genre adventure; humor
Script Ed Wheelan
Pencils Ed Wheelan
Inks Ed Wheelan
Letters Ed Wheelan

6 page The Whip story "Recipe for Righteousness"

Characters The Whip [Rodney Gaynor]
Genre western
Pencils Homer Fleming
Inks Homer Fleming

1 page Flash public service announcement "The Flash Urges You to Help in the Scrap Paper Salvage Drive"

Characters The Flash
Genre superhero
Script M. C. Gaines
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Everett E. Hibbard

9 page Hawkman story "The Feathers Fly"

Characters The Hawkman [Carter Hall]; V: The Hummingbird [Hestor Morgan]
Synopsis The world's foremost ornithologist, Hester Morgan, is rapidly tiring of her job at the local museum, and decides to get the money and luxuries she desires NOW! To do so, she becomes Hawkman's newest foe: the Hummingbird!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 10/04; synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-28-07.