Post #100

Issue #88
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.

I love this splash from Infantino in this issue.

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.