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Issue Details

Issue #44
Published August 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer (editor); Ted Udall (assistant); Dorothy Roubicek (assistant)
Notes Credits by Craig Delich 10/04.

Cover Details - "The Liars Club"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]
Genre superhero
Pencils Lou Ferstadt
Inks Lou Ferstadt
Notes Credits by Craig Delich 10/04.

13 page Flash story "The Liars' Club"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Liar's Club (first appearance)
Synopsis Jay Garrick and two other members of the Liar's Club are instructed to relate 'whoppers' about the Fastest Man Alive. Jay wins the contest with a truthful story of his alter ego!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Lou Ferstadt
Inks Lou Ferstadt
Notes Credits by Craig Delich 10/04; synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-16-07.

7 page Johnny Thunder story "The Subway Chase"

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

8 page Ghost Patrol story "The Demented Dictator"

Characters Ghost Patrol
Genre war
Script Ted Udall
Pencils Frank Harry
Inks Frank Harry
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 10/04.

6 page Minute Movies story "Puritan Perils"

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

7 page The Whip story "The Curse of the Alverados"

Characters The Whip [Rod Gaynor]
Genre superhero; western
Pencils Homer Fleming
Inks Homer Fleming

9 page Hawkman story "The Haunted Man"

Characters The Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders]
Synopsis The Feathered Furies must battle a man's superstition of seeing a dagger prior to a major tragedy occuring.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Notes Sundopsis added by Craig Delich 9-16-07.

1 page Fat and Slat filler "Fat and Slat"

Characters Fat and Slat
Genre humor
Script Ed Wheelan
Pencils Ed Wheelan
Inks Ed Wheelan
Letters Ed Wheelan
Notes This filler MAY be out of sequence, and was added by Craig Delich 9-16-07.