Flash Lightning Archives

When Ace Periodicals entered comics in 1940 with the title Sure Fire Comics, the field was already booming.  The publisher wasted no time in catching up with the field and developing a superhero comic book line with a wide range of characters.  For example, less than six months after the debut of Wonder Woman in[...]

Ace Periodicals entered the comics field in early 1940 with the title Sure Fire Comics, which featured the character Flash Lightning by Robert Turner and Harry Lucey.  A superhero with a broad range of lightning-powered abilities, Flash Lightning's origin takes some fairly obvious inspiration from Fawcett's Captain Marvel.  But it is arguably even more similar[...]