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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