Flash Comics #13 for Sale - First Appearance of Kent Nelson - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series)
Issue: #13
Publication date: January 1941
Key date: 1941-01-00
On-sale date: 1940-11-15
Indicia publisher: All-American Comics Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Kent Nelson - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Doctor Fate - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

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

First appearance of Al Pratt - 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	-	cover	1	pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff	The Flash, Jay Garrick, Carter Hall, Hawkman
2	The Silver Mine Mystery	comic story	11	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Everett E. Hibbard; inks: Everett E. Hibbard	The Flash, Jay Garrick
3	The Creeps	comic story	6	script: John Wentworth; pencils: Stan Asch; inks: Stan Asch	Daisy Darling, Johnny Thunder
4	The Adventure of the Monster of the Tombs	comic story	6	pencils: Don Cameron; inks: Don Cameron	Les Watts; Joe Magee; The Great Arturo (villain); Judy
5	The Distilatomic Dynamo	comic story	6	script: John B. Wentworth; pencils: Homer Fleming; inks: Homer Fleming	Marisa Dillon, Rod Gaynor, Wing Tai, The Whip
7	Warning from the Witch	comic story	6	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Harry Lampert; inks: Harry Lampert; letters: Harry Lampert	The King, King Standish, The Witch
8	The Capture of Snowland	comic story	6	pencils: John E. Ayman; inks: John E. Ayman	Cliff Cornwall
10	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens	text article	0.5	script: Walter Kest (credited); letters: typeset
12	The Moon King's Trophy [Part II]	text story	1.5	script: Evelyn Gaines; pencils: Sheldon Mayer; inks: Sheldon Mayer	The Moon King; Sally Raymond; Prince Dor; Jack
14	-	text article	0.22	letters: typeset
16	All-American Comics	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.1
18	Shadows of the Past	comic story	8	script: Ed Wheelan; pencils: Ed Wheelan; inks: Ed Wheelan; letters: Ed Wheelan	John Gray; Joan Gray; Ted Walton; Jarvis; Joanna Gray; Jimmy Sheldon
19	Satana, the Tiger Girl	comic story	9	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff	Carter Hall, Hawkman, Shiera Sanders
20	Here It Is -- All-Star No. 3...	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: E. E. Hibbard; inks: E. E. Hibbard	The Atom First, Jim Corrigan, Doctor Fate First, The Flash, Jay Garrick, Green Lantern, Carter Hall, Hawkman, Hourman, Kent Nelson First, Al Pratt First, Alan Scott, The Spectre, Rex Tyler

Plus 5.68 pages of advertisements and other matter across 9 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
With Canadian Price	price 0.10 USD; 0.15 CAD

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Golden Age Flash Archives #1 ISBN 1-56389-506-4	1999	On eBay ›
Golden Age Hawkman Archives #1 ISBN 1-4012-0418-X	2006	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

‹ #1213 of 104#14 ›

Sources

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

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