Flash Comics

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Flash Comics

Cover to Flash Comics #1 (Jan. 1940)
Art by Sheldon Moldoff

Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing
Publication dates	January 1940 - February 1949
Number of issues	104

Creative team
Writer(s)	various
Artist(s)	various

Flash Comics was an anthology comic book published by All-American Publications and later National Periodicals (DC Comics). The title ran for 104 issues between January 1940 to February 1949. Although the name of the comic book was Flash Comics, the Flash was only one of many different series featured in the magazine. Many DC Comics characters first appear in Flash Comics, including the Flash, Hawkman, Hawkgirl (as Shiera Sanders), Black Canary, and Johnny Thunder.

Series published in Flash Comics include:

The Flash - issues #1-104
Hawkman - issues #1-104
Johnny Thunder - issues #1-91
The Whip
Cliff Cornwall
Ghost Patrol
Black Canary - issues #92-104

Towards the end of the 1940s, superhero comics fell out of favor and the All-American line of comics were all cancelled. Flash Comics was cancelled in 1949 with issue #104. When the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen, was awarded his own comic book series, The Flash, the series received the old numbering of Flash Comics starting at issue #105.

[edit] Reprints

Several stories from Flash Comics have been reprinted in DC Archive Editions.

Golden Age Flash Archives, Volume 1 - reprints the Flash stories from Flash Comics #1-17
Flash Archives, Volume 1 - reprints the Flash story from Flash Comics #104
Golden Age Hawkman Archives, Volume 1 - reprints the Hawkman stories from Flash Comics #1-22
Black Canary Archives, Volume 1 - reprints the Johnny Thunder stories from Flash Comics #86-91 and the Black Canary stories from Flash Comics #92-104