tabcom Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 GREAT THREAD!...keep it going, I enjoy seeing all of these books. I didn't start buying FLASH CIMICS off the newsstand until 1946 with issue #70. mm Thanks, mm I really enjoy reading your thread too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) Issue #47Rating: 5November 1943 Another exemplary issue.My single stapled cover is too fragile to scan additional photos. Edited February 22, 2014 by tabcom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) German newsreel from 09/15/43 showing the axis alliance with Japan. Edited February 22, 2014 by tabcom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 (edited) Issue #48December 1943Rating: 5Another Golden Age WWII gem.Now we know what Jay Garrick did during the war . . . The Ghost Patrol sink the Von Tirpitz, 1 full year before the actual event! With a newsstand date of October 8, 1943, this story has real world events as a backdrop. It wasn’t until November 1944 until the ship was sunk. "In September 1943, Tirpitz, along with the battleship Scharnhorst, bombarded Allied positions on the island of Spitzbergen, the only time the ship used her main battery in combat. Shortly thereafter, the ship was damaged in an attack by British mini-submarines and subsequently subjected to a series of large-scale air raids. On 12 November 1944, British Lancaster bombers equipped with 12,000 pounds (5,400 kg) "Tallboy" bombs destroyed the ship; two direct hits and a near miss caused the ship to capsize rapidly. A deck fire spread to the ammunition magazine for one of the main battery turrets, which caused a large explosion. Figures for the number of men killed in the attack range from 950 to 1,204. Between 1948 and 1957 the wreck was broken up by a joint Norwegian and German salvage operation." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Tirpitz The Minute Movie tale has to be the most bizarre sports story ever conceived. Edited March 4, 2014 by tabcom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 Issue #49January 1944Rating: 5 This is the first time the Flash’s character is continuously late for a date with Joan. A plot devise that got over used in the SA version of the Flash. The Golden Age of Superhero comics can best be described as living in a world of genteel normalcy, shaken up by an anti-social catalyst, resolution is achieved. Life returns to normal. Some of the anti-social catalyst in this issue is very creepy from a historical perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Mann Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 GREAT COVER...GREAT THREAD! mm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted March 14, 2014 Author Share Posted March 14, 2014 GREAT COVER...GREAT THREAD! mm THANKS! 3 issues to go before we reach the halftime show. :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Mann Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 GREAT COVER...GREAT THREAD! mm THANKS! 3 issues to go before we reach the halftime show. :: And, only 21 until you reach the first one in my collection...looking forward to seeing them! mm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 (edited) Issue #50 February 1944 Rating: 5 , This issue brings back memories of childhood television watching from the 60’s and early 70’s. Twilight Zone (Flash story) I Dream Of Jeanie (Johnny Thunders) Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (Ghost Patrol) Fractured Fables (Minute Movie). The Hawkman story brings its usual high quality punch! Edited March 19, 2014 by tabcom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted March 28, 2014 Author Share Posted March 28, 2014 Issue #51March 1944Rating: 5 The Flash does battle with the Mighty Thor. It wasn’t until the newsstand date of the first week of January 1944 before the Hawkman makes reference to the war in any of his stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted April 3, 2014 Author Share Posted April 3, 2014 Issue #52April 1944Rating: 5 With a cover date stamp of February 16, 1944, I found this music entry: Eddie Miller 'Yesterdays' Equipped with no more than a magnesium flash pot, glider wings, and her stunning good looks, the Humming Bird makes her debut and the Hawkman and Hawkgirl must stop her. Puzzling still, is the Hawkman’s unilateral decision to turn the Humming Bird free. Another precursor, in addition to the Witch of the King strip, to the Black Canary motif. The charm of these backup stories can be found in the ingenious way they get started. In this issue we find a postcard from Berlin (Johnny and Peachy Pet Thunder), Undersea cave where the inhabitants are given tainted water to worship a dictator (Ghost Patrol), an SOS message in a can of green beans uncovers Nazi Saboteurs of the Allies food supply (the Whip). That leaves the least imaginative story of the issue, the Flash! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderedH2O Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I always enjoy reading your updates. I bought the Famous First Edition of Flash Comics #1 when I was a kid and read it over and over. Once upon a time I owned a 2.0-ish copy of $45. I really liked Flash, Hawkman, and the other series as well. I wish I could afford to collect them. At least I can afford to read your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innocuous Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Congrats on getting to the halfway point. For a tough to find issue, I did see a 104 at ECCC this past weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted April 4, 2014 Author Share Posted April 4, 2014 Thanks for the kind words and support. These past few weeks have been difficult to keep up. My Mac Mini is showing its age. I need to migrate my files to a new computer for the other half of the issues. As for tough issues to track down. I only need one more issue to review, and it is not #104. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Mann Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Hooray for HALFWAY! mm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I need to save the content and read it with attention. I’ve continued to collect material for my own research – only tough thing is to find time and appropriate setting to read history books and study the comics. Interesting that the Hawkman stories had no reference to the war events up to 1944. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted April 11, 2014 Author Share Posted April 11, 2014 HALFTIME SHOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted August 9, 2014 Author Share Posted August 9, 2014 Issue #53May 1944Rating: 5The Flash has to determine how the prototype microwave oven can be used to break into banks. Johnny gets discharged from the navy. I would hate to be on the receiving end of a Hawkman hay maker How many kids tossed our their Flash Comics #1 after reading this Ghost Patrol story? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted August 16, 2014 Author Share Posted August 16, 2014 (edited) Issue #54June 1944Rating: 4 The storytelling in these strips are all formulas recycledmany times over now that the title is in its fifth year. Rating the strips in this issue are as follows 1. The Whip2. Minute Movies3, Ghost Patrol4. Johnny Thunder 5. Hawkman – no Hawkgirl6. FlashThe Whip story is the typical formula superhero concealinghis identity by playing the out of touch fool, but done with just enoughvariance to stand out from the rest in this issue. Homer Fleming really had aknack for rendering Dr. Jekyll\Mr. Hyde expressions from his villains. Ed Wheelan’s Minute Movies story playsthe romantic strings again for the countless time with the same (successful)emotional effect. Ghost Patrol and Johnny Thunder (Peachy Pet story withoutJohnny nor Thunderbolt) are standard fair. Shelly Moldoff’s trademark actionscenes are very effective in an otherwise recycled crime yarn. Of the many fineartists to draw the Flash, Martin Naydel work is undistinguished amongst thegroup. He commits the unforgivable crime of rendering Joan Williams from theirrespirable blonde beauty with a great intuition into a homely grade schoolteacher spinster that looks more like Jay’s second cousin then his girl friend. [/color] Edited August 16, 2014 by tabcom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted August 23, 2014 Author Share Posted August 23, 2014 (edited) Issue #55July 1944Rating: 5 This is a transitionally issue. The Flash story is futuristic with its televisiontheme. The art, along with the Ghost Patrol story looks progressive as well.This new look makes The Minute Movie, The Whip, and The Hawkman stories lookdated. Once again, Peachy Pet Thunder gets her own story with out appearancesfrom Johnny or the Thunderbolt. Edited August 23, 2014 by tabcom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
