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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published December 1986
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 1.25 USD; 1.75 CAD; 0.60 GBP
Pages 52
Editing Roy Thomas; Robert Greenberger

Cover Details

Characters Skyman [Star-Spangled Kid; Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Flash [Jay Garrick]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Tom Grindberg (signed)
Inks Pablo Marcos (signed)

16 page Star-Spangled Kid; Stripesy story "The Secret Origin of the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy"

Characters Skyman [Sylvester Pemberton; Star-Spangled Kid]; Infinity, Inc. (cameo) [Brainwave, Jr.; Nuklon; Jade; Obsidian; Northwind; Hourman [Rick Tyler]; Wildcat [Yolanda Montez]; Dr. Midnight [Beth Chapel]; Fury [Lyta Hall]]; Seven Soldiers of Victory (flashback, cameo) [Green Arrow; Speedy; Shining Knight; Vigilante; Crimson Avenger]; Nebula Man (flashback, cameo); Justice Society of America (flashback, cameo) [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Power Girl]
Synopsis Skyman tells his teammates, Infinty, Inc., about how he and Stripesy met and thwarted some Nazi sympathizers' plans to include dynamite in a fireworks display.
Genre Superhero
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Tom Grindberg
Inks Mike Gustovich
Colors Carl Gafford
Letters David Cody Weiss
Notes Takes place just after Infinity Inc. #31. Based on the origin story in Star-Spangled Comics #1. Recaps some of the SSK's history with the Seven Soldiers of Victory, the JSA and II.

22 page The Flash [Jay Garrick] story "The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Flash"

Characters Flash [Jay Garrick] (flashback); Joan Williams (flashback); Major Williams (flashback); Sieur Satan (flashback); Justice Society of America (flashback, cameo) [Atom [Al Pratt]; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hourman [Rex Tyler]]; Flash [Wally West] (flashback, cameo); Flash [Barry Allen] (flashback, cameo)
Synopsis In 1940, Jay Garrick gains the power of speed after inhaling "hard water fumes" in a college lab accident. As the Flash, he rescues the kidnapped father of Joan Williams.
Genre Superhero
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils George Tuska
Inks Jerry Acerno
Colors Carl Gafford
Letters David Cody Weiss
Notes Based on the story in Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #1.