Flash Comics #102 for Sale - First Appearance of The Turtle - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series)
Issue: #102
Publication date: December 1948
Key date: 1948-12-00
On-sale date: 1948-10-06
Indicia publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 52

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of The Turtle - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Flying Bubbles!	cover	1	pencils: Joe Kubert; inks: Joe Kubert; colors: Jack Adler	The Flash, Jay Garrick, Hawkman, Carter Hall
2	The Flying Bubbles!	comic story	8	script: John Broome; pencils: Joe Kubert; inks: Joe Kubert	Hawkgirl, Hawkman, Carter Hall, Shiera Sanders
5	Barrels of Crime!	comic story	10	script: John Broome; pencils: Alex Toth; inks: Joe Giella	The Flash, Jay Garrick, The Turtle First
7	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	letters: typeset
9	Crime for Sale!	comic story	6	pencils: Art Peddy; inks: Bernard Sachs	Fred, Pedro, Slim
11	The Sneezing Statues!	comic story	5	script: Arthur Adler; pencils: Paul Reinman; inks: Bob Oksner	The Atom, Al Pratt
13	-	cartoon	0.5	script: Martin Naydel; pencils: Martin Naydel; inks: Martin Naydel; letters: Martin Naydel
15	Bull's Eye	text story	2	script: Lee Goldsmith
17	Chip	comic story	0.5	script: Harry Lampert; pencils: Harry Lampert; inks: Harry Lampert	Chip
19	The Riddle of the Roses!	comic story	7	script: Robert Kanigher; pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: Bernard Sachs	Black Canary, Dinah Drake, Larry Lance
20	-	cartoon	1	script: Martin Naydel; pencils: Martin Naydel; inks: Martin Naydel; letters: Martin Naydel

Plus 10.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Black Canary Archives #1 ISBN 1-56389-734-2	2001	On eBay ›
The Art of Joe Kubert #[nn] ISBN 978-1-60699-487-0	2011	On eBay ›
The Black Canary: Bird of Prey #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77950-908-6	2021	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Golden-age paper is brittle. Ask about page suppleness and check edges for chips in the photos.
Check for trimmed edges, married covers, and clipped coupons - all common on books this old.
Confirm the indicia matches this plate; many golden-age titles changed names mid-run.

Series context

‹ #101102 of 104#103 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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