| Flash Comics | |
 Cover to Flash Comics #1 (Jan. 1940) Art by Sheldon Moldoff |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
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| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing |
| Publication date | 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). DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company All-American Publications is one of three American comic book companies that combined to form the modern-day DC Comics, one of the world's two largest comics publishers DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company 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 make their first appearances in Flash Comics, including the Flash, Hawkman, Hawkgirl (as Shiera Sanders), Black Canary, and Johnny Thunder. Carter Hall is a DC Comics Superhero, the original Hawkman. Created by Gardner Fox and Dennis Neville, he first appeared Hawkgirl is the name of several fictional Superheroines all owned by DC Comics and existing in that company's DC Universe. Black Canary is a Fictional character, a DC Comics superheroine. Johnny Thunder is the name of three Fictional characters in comics published by DC Comics. The Flash was later given a solo comic book series, All Flash Quarterly (later All Flash) which ran for 31 issues between Summer 1941 to January 1948.
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 DC Comics gave the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen, his own comic book series, The Flash, the series received the old numbering of Flash Comics starting at issue #105. Bartholomew "Barry" Allen is a Fictional character, a Superhero in the DC Comics universe and the second Flash
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
Reprints
Several stories from Flash Comics have been reprinted in DC Archive Editions. For other meanings of the term see Hawkman (disambiguation Hawkman is a Superhero in the DC Comics universe. Johnny Thunder is the name of three Fictional characters in comics published by DC Comics. The Whip is the alias used by at least four superheroes in DC Comics. Black Canary is a Fictional character, a DC Comics superheroine. DC Archive Editions, edited by Dale Crain for DC Comics, collect early sometimes rare comic books published by DC and other publishers into a permanent hardcover series
- Golden Age Flash Archives, Volume 1 - reprints the Flash stories from Flash Comics #1-17
- Golden Age Flash Archives, Volume 2 - reprints the Flash stories from Flash Comics #18-24
- 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
- JSA All-Stars Archives, Volume 1 - reprints the Johnny Thunder stories from Flash Comics #1-4