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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published Summer 1940
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Victor Fox

Cover Details

Characters The Flame
Genre superhero
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Letters typeset

14 page The Flame story "The Origin of the Flame, Retold"

Characters The Flame (origin retold); Ivan and his gang (villains; I, D for all); Mr. King [I]; Ida King [I].
Genre superhero
Script Will Eisner?

9 page The Flame story "Invasion of the Kikoos"

Characters The Flame; un-named girl agent; The Kikoos [villains, some D]; Monk [villain].
Synopsis The Flame has to deal with the wanton killing and robberies staged by a group of weird, spectral creatures called the Kikoo, which came from an island where the government leaders hid them out because of their inferior minds. Unfortunately, led by an evil influence, they are capable of extreme violence, as the Flame discovers.
Genre superhero
Script Will Eisner (signed as Basil Berold)
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-30-09.
Reprinted From Wonderworld Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #7; in Golden Age Men of Mystery Comics (AC Comics, 1995 series) #79 (2009).

9 page The Flame story "The Arson Ring of Mr. Crass"

Characters The Flame; J. B. Crass (villain; I; D); Bonnie Lane (I).
Genre superhero
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Reprinted From Wonderworld Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #6.

2 page The Flame text story "The Flame"

Characters The Flame
Genre superhero
Script Nathaniel Nitkin [signed as N. N. Nathaniel]
Letters typeset

9 page The Flame story "The Construction Racketeers"

Characters The Flame; Radler (villain, D); Stone (villain, D).
Synopsis Stymied by corrupt politicians and lax building materials, the authorities seem helpless to stop the collapse of people's homes and wanton death, but the Flame goes directly after the crooked contractors themselves.
Genre superhero
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Reprinted From Wonderworld Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #7.

9 page The Flame story "The Atomic Generator"

Characters The Flame; Von Kraupt [villain]; Jarud Kane [villain] (I for both).
Genre superhero
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Reprinted From Wonderworld Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #8.

9 page The Flame story "Raiders of the Deep"

Characters The Flame; Gen. Doyoff (first appearance; villain); the Nazis (villains).
Genre superhero
Script Will Eisner [signed as Basil Berold]
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Reprinted From Wonderworld Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #9.