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Issue: All-Flash #6
Publication Date: September 1942
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Issues: #6 of 32 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Jolaine Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/25/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Sheldon Mayer (editor); Ted Udall (assistant editor, uncredited)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration. On-sale date of July 29 in ad in All-American Comics #42.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): E. E. Hibbard
Inker(s): E. E. Hibbard
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flash
Character(s): The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Winky Moylan; Blinky Boylan; Noddy Toylan
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Boy's Book of Magnetism by Raymond F. Yates

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Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Ray That Changed Men's Souls! [Prologue]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox (signed)
Penciller(s): E. E. Hibbard (signed)
Inker(s): E. E. Hibbard (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flash
Character(s): The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Winky Moylan; Blinky Boylan; Noddy Toylan
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[The Ray That Changed Men's Souls!] Chapter 1: The Adventure of the Riotous Ray!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): E. E. Hibbard
Inker(s): E. E. Hibbard
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flash
Character(s): The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Winky Moylan; Blinky Boylan; Noddy Toylan; Ada White; Sarah Norheart; Red Grant; Trigger Tom (villain)
Synopsis: The Three Dimwits, trying to charge an old car battery, pour in a variety of chemicals, then attach a sunlamp to it as a power source. The resulting "purple ray", they find, has a strange effect upon people: it affects the secretions of the body's glands, resulting in changes in poise, conduct, and even in the brain itself!
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Pages: 13
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Another Big Issue of All-Star

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Feature(s): All-Star Comics
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Two Headliners You Won't Want to Miss!

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Feature(s): Mutt & Jeff; Green Lantern
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[The Ray That Changed Men's Souls!] Chapter 2: The Curse of Fame!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): E. E Hibbard
Inker(s): E. E. Hibbard
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flash
Character(s): The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Winky Moylan; Blinky Boylan; Noddy Toylan; Ada White; Jim Baker; Sarah Norheart; Red Grant; Trigger Tom (villain); Big Louie (villain)
Synopsis: People stream into the Three Dimwits, wanting to bathe in the purple ray, wanting to become someone else. The nitwit's fame reaches far and wide, including to the criminal element, who endeavor to get in on the action. The Flash must deal with that problem as well as the complaints from people whose personalities have been altered.
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The Minute Man Answers the Call

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): M. C. Gaines (signed)
Penciller(s): Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed)
Inker(s): Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Character(s): Uncle Sam; General George Washington; General Charles Cornwallis
Synopsis: Throughout history, American men have been ready and willing at a moment's notice to stand and fight for this nation's freedom...a call now being accepted by a new generation of "minute men"! The story of how the Minuteman--the citizen-soldier--helped win the American Revolution, their spirit has watched over America's other battles against tyranny, and how that spirit lives on in 1943.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: War bond promo; appears as a pamphlet for the Junior JSA membership kit and in several DC comics in late '42/early '43:
Sensation Comics (DC, 1942 series) #11 (November 1942)
All-Flash (DC, 1941 series) #6 (September-October 1942)
Mutt & Jeff (DC, 1939 series) #6 (Fall 1942)
Comic Cavalcade (DC, 1942 series) #3 (Summer 1943)
World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #8 (Winter 1942-1943)
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[The Ray That Changed Men's Souls!] Chapter 3: The Adventure of the Topsy-Turvy Town!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): E. E. Hibbard
Inker(s): E. E. Hibbard
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flash
Character(s): The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Winky Moylan; Blinky Boylan; Noddy Toylan; Red Grant; District Attorney Belmont; Trigger Tom (villain); Big Louie (villain)
Synopsis: "Trigger" Tom and his gang succeed in stealing the purple ray. Flash successfully gets it back, but the ray plays on him and the Three Dimwits, giving them the Flash's personality and giving the Scarlet Speedster theirs!
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Pages: 13
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): All-Flash
First Line: Boys and girls, here's a personal message...
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Disclose Notes: A contest offering 1000 copies of the next issue of All-Flash (#7). Readers were asked: 1) if they wanted book-length novels to continue in All-Flash or instead have separate stories; and 2) if they liked the Three Dimwits and wanted more stories featuring them. EVERY reader responding to this survey received a free Flash button in five brilliant colors.
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Volts from the Blue

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Evelyn Gaines
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Hop Harrigan
Character(s): Hop Harrigan
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Ed Wheelan (signed)
Penciller(s): Ed Wheelan (signed)
Inker(s): Ed Wheelan (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ed Wheelan
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Butch McLobster, The Super Mobster
Character(s): Butch McLobster
First Line: Hey, Muggs, lissen to dis letter...
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Feature(s): Wonder Woman
First Line: Here it is, boys and girls...
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[The Ray That Changed Men's Souls!] Chapter 4: The Case of the Chameleon Characters!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): E. E. Hibbard
Inker(s): E. E. Hibbard
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flash
Character(s): The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Winky Moylan; Blinky Boylan; Noddy Toylan; Red Grant; Trigger Tom (villain); Big Louie (villain)
Synopsis: After regaining his personality, the Flash tracks down "Trigger" Tom and his hoods, all of whom have been taking advantage of a "Flash-less" city, and destroys the purple personality ray for good measure.
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The Big Eight!

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Feature(s): Metro Publications
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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