Poor stuff in this store .. can't stand up under a little punishment! 
- — Hawkman
Flash Comics #47 is an issue of the series Flash Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1943.
Synopsis for Flash: "Seeing is Believing"
Gang leader "Pipe" Rickett, realizing that most people are very unobservant, unleashes his gang upon society, banking on the fact that bewildered people will fail to identify his thugs in the Police line-up. As it turns out, Jay Garrick is very observant, and Rickett ends up jailed.
Appearing in Flash: "Seeing is Believing"
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- "Pipe" Rickett (Single appearance)
- his gang
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Synopsis for Johnny Thunder: "Pranks on a Ship"
Appearing in Johnny Thunder: "Pranks on a Ship"
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Synopsis for Ghost Patrol: "The Metal Man"
Appearing in Ghost Patrol: "The Metal Man"
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- English commandos
- A scientist (Armand's creator)
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Synopsis for Minute Movies: "Murder in the Art Department"
Appearing in Minute Movies: "Murder in the Art Department"
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- Fuller Phun as Joe Hope
- Lotta Talent as Ann Starr
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- Archibald Clubb as Hank the janitor
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- Ralph McDweer as Frank Wolf
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- Andrew Handy as Harrison Reed
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Synopsis for Whip: "The Penthouse Murder"
Appearing in Whip: "The Penthouse Murder"
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- "Foxy" Ford
- his men
- Tony Ragone (Dies)
- his men
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- Pam Parker
- John Prentiss
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- Cobra Club
- Pam's apartment
- Police station
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Synopsis for Hawkman: "The Case of the Impolite Salesmen"
Shiera drags Carter along on a shopping trip to the supermarket. Inside the store staff is rudely bullying and physically assaulting the customers. Carter and Shiera leave, as do many customers, not to return. In the days that follow, business at that store dwindles out to zero, which is just the way the staff and their boss like it. The boss has a plan for cashing in on this situation, but he's not telling.
That night, Hawkman slides through the skies, thinking about the supermarket but searching for a gang of burglars, led by Big Fist Benny. He spots them, lets them finish looting an office safe, then ambushes them on the roof. Hawkman nabs both henchmen, but Benny makes a daring aerial move with his wall-climbing equipment, and escapes. Big Fist packs and leaves his dumpy rooms, and moves into a new underworld hiding place, under the supermarket with no customers. And in the following days, several more of Keystone City's gang leaders do likewise. Hawkman is greatly puzzled, for a while.
Hawkman and Hawkgirl fly out to Hawk Valley, and recruit a number of those extraordinary raptors to shadow and spy on several denizens of Keystone's underworld. This goes on for days, and makes some local gangsters very nervous, and some of them go into hiding at the huge supermarket. One night a hawk observes this, and reports it to Hawkman. Hawkman picks up a morningstar mace and Hawkgirl straps on some Roman cestus gloves, then they and a mighty flock of hawks invade the hideout. A large number of missing criminals are subdued and subsequently arrested.
Appearing in Hawkman: "The Case of the Impolite Salesmen"
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- Hawkgirl
- Hawks from Hawk Valley
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- Supermarket Owner
- his gang
- Big Fist Benny
- two hench
- Biffo Benson
- Sorehead Nolan
- Quick Death Quirk
- Dum Dum Edwards
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- Nth Metal wings, belts, harnesses, and helmets
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- Published by J.R. Publishing Company.
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