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Issue: Flash Comics [ashcan] #1
Publication Date: January 1940
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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
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On Sale Date: (not set)
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Pages: ?
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 2 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Black and White
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover ?
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: One-Shot
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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): C. C. Beck
Inker(s): C. C. Beck
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Thunder [Billy Batson]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #1 [First Printing] published November 1992
as Cover - Flash Comics #1 - Ashcan Edition [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #1 [First Printing] published November 1992
as Backcover [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]cover
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Fawcett was unable to use the title Flash Comics because of All-American Comics (DC Comics) issuing their own Flash Comics #1 that very same month.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Parker
Penciller(s): C. C. Beck
Inker(s): C. C. Beck
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Capt. Thunder
Character(s): Captain Thunder [Billy Batson] (introduction, origin); un-named phantom companion of Billy (introduction); Shazam (wizard, introduction, death); Sterling Morris (President of Amalgamated Broadcasting Company, introduction); Hammond (Amalgamated Broadcasting's receptionist, introduction); Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (villain, introduction, scientist); Ebenezer Batson (villain, introduction, Billy's Uncle, flashback)
Synopsis: After being taken by a mysterious stranger to meet the ancient wizard, Shazam, and gaining the powers of Captain Marvel, Billy Batson learns of a mysterious boss, and decides to report it to the head of Amalgamated Broadcasting Company.
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Pages: 8

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