Issue #89
November 1947
Rating: 4
Joe Kubert's cover and Flash story introducing the Thorn\Rose is the highlight of an otherwise ordinary issue.
Everett Raymond Kinstler returns for his second Hawkman story with a straightforward cops and robbers yarn (scripted by Broome).
Infantino’s rendering of Johnny Thunder has a passing resemblance to the future Barry Allen.
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Post #100
Issue #88
Oct. 1947
Oct. 1947
Rating: 5
Joe Kubert is credited with the cover, Flash, and Hawkman
strips. Carmine Infantino handles the Ghost Patrol and Johnny Thunder (Black
Canary) strips. Harry Lampert (the original artist of the Flash) has two
children’s humor strips. Robert Kanigher scripts are excellent on for the
Flash, Hawkman, and Johnny Thunder.
Line up is back to the traditional Flash at the beginning
and Hawkman at the end.
The Flash story "The Case
of the Vanished Year" is one of my all time favorites from the GA. It
makes for an excellent bedtime story. Imagine waking up one year in the past and
you know you are in the past and you are trying to get back to the present.
Johnny isn’t bright enough to
see what’s coming, but his Thunderbolt does . . . the Black Canary!
The Ghost makes his debut vs.
Hawkman and Hawkgirl. Joe Kubert does an excellent job getting the foggy feel
with London after mid-nite.
As a side note, All-Star Comics
37 on the newsstands at the same time features a Kanigher script with art on
the Flash by Infantino, Hawkman by Kubert (his last for the title), and gag
pages from Lampert.
Friday, May 8, 2015
Post #98
Issue #86
August 1947
August 1947
Rating: 5
Robert Kanigher scripts start to take flight with the Flash,
Hawkman, and the introduction of the Black Canary in the Johnny Thunder strip.
The Flash cover and story "Stone Age Menace!" is drawn by Lee Elias
and inked by Kubert.
The Black Canary’s dangerous beauty also brings to mind Lauren Becall
from the Big Sleep, which was released several months earlier.
Try as hard as he could, the Thunderbolt knows that his
bolts are soon to vanish forever.
Carmine Infantino makes his Flash Comics debut with the pen
and pencils of The Ghost Patrol. His style of fluent action will become the
industry standard for a whole new generation of artist to come.
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Another excellent proto-SA villain in costume yarn.
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