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Issue: Flashback #7
Publication Date: January 1973
 
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Indicia Publisher: Special Edition Reprints
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Pages: 68
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Price: $3.00 USD
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Content Items: 19 (14 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 7.35" x 10.4"
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was on-going series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
superhero
Introducing The Shield!
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[untitled]

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Credits
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Page contains Flashback title and number plus indicia.
G-Man Extraordinary

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Klotz (villain, introduction); J. Edgar Hoover
The Shield is sent to stop a Stokian spy ring.
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The Coming of the Comet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
Dr. Archer (villain, introduction, death)
John Dickering, a young scientist, discovers a gas...
After injecting himself with a gas fifty times lighter than hydrogen, John Dickering discovers he can now take leaps that are more like flying. Beams now shoot from his eyes and when the rays cross what ever he's looking at disintegrates. Glass is the only thing that can stop the beams. He vows to use his new powers for good. He starts by going after a typhoid racketeer. Killing three associates The Comet comes upon Dr. Archer and takes him up into the sky to convince him to stop his typhoid racket. After Dr. Archer pleads to be let down The Comet lets him go, letting him fall to his death.
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anthropomorphic, jungle
Jocko
Jocko (Introduction; only appearance ?)
Look - Jock is back.
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war
Henry 'Hank' Boyle, an American student in London, starts out for home when war breaks out, but his ship is torpedoed by a German u-boat.
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Only the first page is correctly reprinted, followed by pages 3-7 of a Spectre story.
For America and Democracy! [Chapter 3]

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superhero
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Pages 3-7 of Spectre story mistakenly printed in place of the pages 2-6 of the Sergeant Boyle story.
For America and Democracy! [Chapter 4]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
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Pages 1-3 of Hourman story incorrectly included here.
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science fiction
Rado Von Kelter (villain, introduction)
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Pages 4-6 only reprinted due to mistaken inclusion of Sandman pages preceding.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
mystery
Tay Ming (girlfriend); The Dragon (villain, introduction)
Fu Chang, American university-educated Chinaman, makes his home in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Fu Chang possesses a set of magic chessmen with all the magic powers of Aladdin’s lamp which are responsible for Fu Chang’s spectacular solutions of great international mysteries. He saves Tay Ming from the Dragon by praying to his god, who brings the chessmen to life to defeat the Dragon and save his girlfriend (later fiancee).
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Only pages 1-5 included.

Art credits from Archie & Friends (Archie, 1992 series) #150 (February 2011) but lists Lin Streeter as Jim Streeter.

Signed by Lin Streeter on the last page.

Script credit from Bob Hughes by textual analysis. Excessive use of passive voice, run-on sentences held together by ellipses.
For America and Democracy! [Chapter 5]

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Subject Matter
superhero
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Miscellaneous
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8 pages of Justice Society story mistakenly printed.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
mystery
The Mayfair Monster [Sir Rupert Napier] (villain, introduction)
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Only the last page of the story is reprinted.

Script credit from Bob Hughes by textual analysis. Excessive use of passive voice, run on sentences held together by ellipses.

Artist signed on last page.
Jack Dempsey

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
sports
Jack Dempsey (boxer)
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Klondike Cafe Robbed

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adventure, superhero
Flash Calvert (newspaper reporter, introduction); Jim Boyd (newspaper editor, introduction); Slug Wickum and his gang
The Falcon saves newspaper reporter Flash Calvert from Slug Wickum and his gang.
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The Press Guardian, a.k.a. The Falcon, wore a colorful winged costume in this issue only. Beginning in issue #2, his outfit consisted of a business suit, fedora, and face mask.
[untitled]

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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Animal Antics
And if he cries just take him in your arms and walk the floor with him
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The Rivalry

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure, war
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Miscellaneous
5
Name changed to "Sampson" in issue #3.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
sports
Lew Black (introduction); Connie (introduction); One Round Hogan (villain, introduction)
Fists fly inside and outside the ring, as a crooked manager and his fighter try to make a sap out of 'Kayo' Ward!
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Miscellaneous
6
The art is identical to the signed Bob Wood story in next issue.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Flashback $3.00 each or any 4 for $10
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
About this issue...
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Brief text block about Pep #1.

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