Entry #45

Issue #35
Rating: 5

Part 1
This is a full out War Issue!
The Flash and Joan dedicate a two-page dream to the Axis.
This is the only reference in Flash Comics of the war by the Flash!
The Ghost Patrol wonder into a concentration camp and faces the original soup nazi.

WWII Aug\Sept 1942

In the six months between August 1942 and February 1943, the United States and its Pacific Allies fought a brutally hard air-sea-land campaign against the Japanese for possession of the previously-obscure island of Guadalcanal.

The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943.

Entry #44

Issue #34
Rating: 5

This issue is fun to read. Good quality stories. DC has yet to fully engage the Nazis and Nips yet -- but it is heating up. The Whip intercepts a Japanese transport headed for Los Angles with a cargo of mice infected with typhus. How many accents are used in the Ghost Patrol page?

Entry #43

Issue #33
Rating: 5

In many ways, the early stages of WWII (1942) provided rich content and imagination for comics. If you feel like I think all the issues in the series are worthy of a 5 rating, I do not. As we will see, quality of material will decline for a couple years – the Atom strip typifies the drop off in quality.
Returning to this issue, the Flash story is an early proto-SA set-up of an evil villain using his advance technology to cast Keystone City into darkness. The Shade, by manipulating the light, terrorizes the city.
The importance of this issue is that Mr. Fox utilizes the first of many devises over the coming decades of a villian that commands the very element to aid him in his crime spree. The GA Shade has the ability to eliminate dust from the atmosphere. By doing so, darkness falls. Because Jay's training is in Chemistry, he figures out that by kicking some dirt up into the air will restore the light. The story is typical for this era. Plenty of laughs mixed in with the action.
The Ghost Patrol land in Africa to fight a dirty rotten nazi rat.
The Hawkman story revels a rare fact that he can carry a vial of liquid Nth Metal in his utility belt. This story reads similar to the early Batman stories in Detective Comics written by Gardner Fox.
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