Flash Comics #47

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CGC records 32 graded copies for Flash Comics #47 (1943). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.

Flash: "Seeing is Believing"

Gang leader "Pipe" Rickett, realizing that most people are very unobservant, unleashes his gang upon society, banking on the fact that bewildered people will fail to identify his thugs in the Police line-up. As it turns out, Jay Garrick is very observant, and Rickett ends up jailed. | Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** *Flash) **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * "Pipe" Rickett ** his gang **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * Keystone City **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer2_1 = John B. Wentworth | Penciler2_1 = Stan Aschmeier | Inker2_1 = Stan Aschmeier | StoryTitle2 = Johnny Thunder: "Pranks on a Ship" | Synopsis2 = | Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Johnny Thunder) * Thunderbolt) **Supporting Characters:** * Navy **Antagonists:** * Nazi saboteurs **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * Atlantic Ocean **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer3_1 = Ted Udall | Penciler3_1 = Frank Harry | Inker3_1 = Frank Harry | StoryTitle3 = Ghost Patrol: "The Metal Man" | Synopsis3 = | Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Ghost Patrol) **Fred) **Pedro) **Slim) **Supporting Characters:** * English commandos * A scientist (Armand's creator) **Antagonists:** * Nazi Party **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * World War II ** France **Items:** * Armand **Vehicles:** *

| Writer4_1 = Ed Wheelan | Penciler4_1 = Ed Wheelan | Inker4_1 = Ed Wheelan | StoryTitle4 = Minute Movies: "Murder in the Art Department" | Synopsis4 = | Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Fuller Phun as Joe Hope * Lotta Talent as Ann Starr **Supporting Characters:** * Archibald Clubb as Hank the janitor **Antagonists:** * Ralph McDweer as Frank Wolf **Other Characters:** * Andrew Handy as Harrison Reed **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer5_1 = | Penciler5_1 = Homer Fleming | Inker5_1 = Homer Fleming | StoryTitle5 = Whip: "The Penthouse Murder" | Synopsis5 = | Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * The Whip) **Supporting Characters:** * Marissa Dillon) **Antagonists:** * "Foxy" Ford ** his men *** Tony Ragone **Other Characters:** * Pam Parker * John Prentiss **Locations:** * Cobra Club * Pam's apartment * Police station **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Writer6_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler6_1 = Sheldon Moldoff | Inker6_1 = Sheldon Moldoff | StoryTitle6 = Hawkman: "The Case of the Impolite Salesmen" | Synopsis6 = Shiera drags Carter along on a shopping trip to the supermarket. Inside the store staff is rudely bullying and physically assaulting the customers. Carter and Shiera leave, as do many customers, not to return. In the days that follow, business at that store dwindles out to zero, which is just the way the staff and their boss like it. The boss has a plan for cashing in on this situation, but he's not telling.

That night, Hawkman slides through the skies, thinking about the supermarket but searching for a gang of burglars, led by Big Fist Benny. He spots them, lets them finish looting an office safe, then ambushes them on the roof. Hawkman nabs both henchmen, but Benny makes a daring aerial move with his wall-climbing equipment, and escapes. Big Fist packs and leaves his dumpy rooms, and moves into a new underworld hiding place, under the supermarket with no customers. And in the following days, several more of Keystone City's gang leaders do likewise. Hawkman is greatly puzzled, for a while.

Hawkman and Hawkgirl fly out to Hawk Valley, and recruit a number of those extraordinary raptors to shadow and spy on several denizens of Keystone's underworld. This goes on for days, and makes some local gangsters very nervous, and some of them go into hiding at the huge supermarket. One night a hawk observes this, and reports it to Hawkman. Hawkman picks up a morningstar mace and Hawkgirl straps on some Roman *cestus* gloves, then they and a mighty flock of hawks invade the hideout. A large number of missing criminals are subdued and subsequently arrested. | Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Hawkman) **Supporting Characters:** * Hawkgirl) * Hawks from Hawk Valley **Antagonists:** * Supermarket Owner ** his gang * Big Fist Benny ** two hench * Biffo Benson * Sorehead Nolan * Quick Death Quirk * Dum Dum Edwards **Locations:** * Earth-Two ** Keystone City ** Hawk Valley **Items:** * Nth Metal wings, belts, harnesses, and helmets

| Notes = * Published by J.R. Publishing Company. * Also appearing in this issue of *Flash Comics* were: ** "The Crimeless Era (A Jack Raymond Story), Part Two" starring Jack Raymond) by Evelyn Gaines (text story) | Trivia = | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: Gardner Fox, John B. Wentworth, Ted Udall, Ed Wheelan, Gardner Fox

Interior art: Lou Ferstadt, Stan Aschmeier, Frank Harry, Ed Wheelan, Homer Fleming, Sheldon Moldoff

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GCD: 3232

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