Post #86

Issue #74
August 1946

Rating: 3

With several issues under their wings, Fox and Kubert continue to refine the Hawkman golden age mythos.

Post #85

Issue #73
July 1946

Rating: 3

This and the next issue are examples of dull scripts and not inspiring art. Joe Kubert uses the Hawkman to reimage the mythos from what has been done before -- with satisfactory results.

Post #84

Issue #72
June 1946

Rating: 3

The Flash returns with the customary rotating cover feature after several issues absent. If by popular appeal for the Hawkman or the editors just missed the alternating monthly order, who knows.

Post #83

Issue #71
May 1946

Rating: 3

The Flash comedy yarns are starting to stray into redundancy. The Ghost Patrol offer the most amusing story of the issue.

The Hawkman story foreshadows Flash Comics #106 (May 1959), “Menace of the Super-Gorilla!”. Hawkman’s visit to mystical Feithera is similar in description to the Flash traveling to the lost Gorilla City in Africa. The good vs. evil of both worlds match-up of between the birdmen of Worla\Trata and the gorillas of Solovar\Grodd.

Post #82

Issue #70
April 1946

Rating: 4

By the start of 1946, DC’s titles where still in post war transition. The editors have recognized that the youthful readers were tiring of the gangster genre. The cover of Superman #39 shows Superman hiding behind a radio announcing the ‘Advertures of Superman’ to attentive youngsters. Action Comics features the Prankster. More Fun Comics becomes all humor by this issue. Superboy has moved from More Fun Comics in the previous issue to have his first cover appearance on Adventure Comics #103 (concurrent with Flash Comics #70). All American Comics was still superhero heavy. Hop Harrington humorist adventures has moved to it. Jack Kirby’s Boy Commandos had a balance mix of humor between the war\adventure strips. The Flash co-creator, Harry Lampert’s Ton O’Fun appears in Sensation Comics.

In this issue of Flash Comics, Mutt & Jeff gets four pages. There is also gags page from Ed Wheelan. The Flash, Johnny Thunder, and Ghost Patrol stories are humor based.
Joe Kubert draws the Hawkgirl for the first time in this issue. 

Post #81

Issue #69
Feb.-Mar. 1946
Rating: 5

These post war issues are consistent with the DC line of titles in padding a lot of humor in the stories. Harry Lampert and Ed Wheelan have a couple gag pages printed. Ghost Patrol is back after a three issue absences; Hop Harrington is gone.

Joe Kubert’s Hawkman story keeps faithful to the detective crime genre. The Hawkman’s identity is revealed, by Sherlock Holmes! Before he agrees to come out of retirement to help Hawkman on an arson case

Post #80

Issue #68
Dec. - Jan. 1945

Rating: 5

Unlike the previous two issues, this one gets a 5 rating. My rating system is weighted, 2 for Flash, 2 for the Hawkman, 1 for the backup stories.


According to http://dc.wikia.com, Jon L. Blummer was the cover artist for Sensation Comics #1(excluding wonder woman image) and All Star Comics #1. The third story of the Hop Harrington strip to be printed in Flash Comics is the best.
 



Like Jay Garrick, we learn what Carter Hall was doing during the war. He was working in a ballistics lab.

I also like the ‘Picture Story from American History, The Story of the Constitution’

This issue is the first with the DC logo. Inside cover has an in house ad for all the DC titles due out from October 17^th – November 2^nd 1945.