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Issue Details

Issue #58
Published October 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer (editor) , Julius Schwartz, Ted Udall (story editors)

Cover Details - "Merman Meets the Flash"

Characters The Flash
Genre superhero
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel

12 page Flash story "Merman Meets the Flash"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; V: Merman (Jon Rogers) [I].
Synopsis Unable to get work because of a lack of job skills (other than being a great swimmer), Jon Rogers turns to crime, each one involving some form of water in each.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Jon Chester Kozlak
Inks Jon Chester Kozlak
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 10/04; synopsis added by Craig Delich 11-24-07.

8 page Ghost Patrol story "What Cooks?"

Characters Ghost Patrol
Genre war
Pencils Frank Harry
Inks Frank Harry

7 page Minute Movies story "The Demon Dozen"

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

7 page Johnny Thunder story "Peachy Pet's Job"

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

9 page Hawkman story "The Voice from the Lake"

Characters The Hawkman [Carter Hall]
Synopsis A clever criminal discovers that a lake can pick up radio messages and transmit them, so he decides to use it to plot crimes.
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 11-24-07.

1 page Hop Harrigan's text story

Characters Hop Harrigan; Tink Tanker
Genre aviation
Pencils ? [spot illo]
Inks ? [spot illo]
Letters typeset
Notes This sequence, added by Craig Delich on 11-24-07, is most likely out of sequence.