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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published Spring 1944
Cover Price 0.15
Pages 84
Editing M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer, editor
Notes Art on the Flash has many earmarks of being by Martin Naydel. This issue contains an ad for Hop Harrigan's All-American Flying Club. Notes added by Craig Delich 9-1-09.

Cover Details

Characters The Flash; Green Lantern; Wonder Woman.
Genre superhero
Pencils Paul Reinman (signed)
Inks Paul Reinman (signed)
Notes Art on the Flash has many earmarks of being by Martin Naydel. This issue contains an ad for Hop Harrigan's All-American Flying Club. Notes added by Craig Delich 9-1-09.

13 page Wonder Woman story "The Mystery of Countess Mazuma"

Characters Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor; the Holliday girls; General Darnell; Elva East; Miss Tompkins; Countess Mazuma (villain); Franco Mendez (villain).
Synopsis The disappearance of several girls, including an intelligence agent, leads Wonder Woman to a secret diamond mine where the girls work as slaves.
Genre superhero
Script William Moulton Marston (signed as Charles Moulton)
Pencils Harry G. Peter (signed as H. G. Peter)
Inks Harry G. Peter (signed as H. G. Peter)
Notes Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-1-09.

4 page Mutt and Jeff filler "Mutt & Jeff Gags"

Characters Mutt; Jeff.
Genre sitcom
Script Al Smith (signed as Bud Fisher)
Pencils Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]
Inks Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]
Letters Al Smith
Notes Newspaper reprints. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 9-1-09.

5 page Real Life Story story "In Humble Tribute to Tech Sgt. James G. Kehoe"

Characters Tech Sgt. James G. Kehoe
Genre bio
Script Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Pencils Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Inks Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Letters Jon L. Blummer
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 9-1-09.

6 page Hop Harrigan story "Sometimes a Fella's Got to Fight His Evil Self"

Characters Hop Harrigan
Genre aviation
Script Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Pencils Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Inks Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Letters Jon L. Blummer
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 9-1-09.

13 page Green Lantern story "They Are Invincible"

Characters The Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles; Al Bester; Sheldon Mayer.
Synopsis Writer Al Bester devises a hypothetical story to prove to his wife that Green Lantern and Doiby defeat their opposition by using their brains, not just by luck.
Genre superhero
Script Alfred Bester
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-1-09.

6 page Sargon the Sorcerer story "Auction of Happiness"

Characters Sargon the Sorcerer [John Sargent]
Genre occult
Pencils Howard Purcell
Inks Howard Purcell
Notes Writer credit revised by Craig Delich from Howard Purcell to ?, updated 8/04. The Who's Who states that Purcell was the artist for this strip only.

6 page Red, White and Blue story "Local Boy Missing in Action"

Characters Red Dugan; Whitey White; Blooey Blue.
Genre adventure
Pencils Joe Gallagher
Inks Joe Gallagher

13 page The Flash story "Topsy Turvy Town"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Grumpy Wallace; Ted Young; Marlene Wallace; Timothy O'Houlihan; Molly; John Higgins; Abner; Old Man Noonan; Bunco (villain); Dinky (villain).
Synopsis A couple of petty crooks steal a tank of gas known as the "impulse liberator" from a scientific lab and decide to try it out on the inhabitants of a nearby town. The result: it changes the nature of people to do crazy, unpredictable things, and that includes the Fastest Man Alive!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Stan Aschmeier
Inks Jon Chester Kozlak
Notes Inker credit by Craig Delich, updated 8/04. Pencil credit revision from E. E. Hibbard to Stan Aschmeier, much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-1-09.

1 page Wonder Woman public service announcement "Wonder Woman for Paper Salvage"

Characters Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
Genre superhero
Pencils Harry G. Peter (signed as H. G. Peter)
Inks Harry G. Peter (signed as H. G. Peter)
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 9-1-09. This PSA is out of proper sequence.