Issue: #1
Published: Summer 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 2.
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| Comic Story (9 pages) |
Invasion of the Kikoos |
| Featuring: |
The Flame |
| Synopsis: |
The Flame has to deal with the wanton killing and robberies staged by a group of weird, spectral creatures called the Kikoo, which came from an island where the government leaders hid them out because of their inferior minds. Unfortunately, led by an evil influence, they are capable of extreme violence, as the Flame discovers. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Flame [Gary Preston] Un-named Girl Agent The Kikoos (villains, Some Die) Monk (villain) |
| Comic Story (9 pages) |
The Construction Racketeers |
| Featuring: |
The Flame |
| Synopsis: |
Stymied by corrupt politicians and lax building materials, the authorities seem helpless to stop the collapse of people's homes and wanton death, but the Flame goes directly after the crooked contractors themselves. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Flame [Gary Preston] Radler (villain, Death) Stone (villain, Death) |
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