All-Flash #19
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAll-Flash #19 (Summer 1945) is a representative mid-run entry in Jay Garrick's only solo Golden Age title, one of the earliest sustained single-hero anthology books in DC's catalog, and it carries a one-page Captain Tootsie advertisement strip by C.C. Beck — a fascinating artifact of cross-publisher commercial art in which the co-creator of Captain Marvel produced a superhero pitchman whose kid crew, the Secret Legion (including Rollo and Fatso), mirrored the Marvel Family dynamic in miniature. The presence of such a strip in a DC-imprint book underscores how the Captain Tootsie ad campaign was genuinely publisher-agnostic, landing in comics from Fawcett, DC, and others simultaneously. As a mid-war, late-Golden Age Flash issue scripted entirely by Gardner Fox and drawn by Martin Naydel, it also documents the creative team that shepherded Jay Garrick through the pivotal 1944–1945 stretch before the series' tone shifted in its final third.
In "No Rest at the Rest Home!", a seemingly minor theft at the Garrick residence sets off a high-stakes chase across continents, as a stolen book reveals a hidden map leading to a mysterious tapestry in the Andes. Written by Gardner F. Fox and illustrated by Martin Naydel, this 1945 adventure blends classic pulp intrigue with the Flash’s signature speed and determination. The cover by Martin Naydel captures the tension of the moment with sharp, dynamic lines.
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All-Flash was launched in Summer 1941 as the first solo Flash title, originally published quarterly by All-American Publications before shifting to a bi-monthly schedule with issue #6. Gardner Fox, co-creator of the Flash, scripted every main-feature story through issue #24, with Martin Naydel handling art duties on a significant run of mid-series issues including #19; editors Sheldon Mayer and Ted Udall oversaw production. Captain Tootsie himself was created in 1943 by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza as a comic-strip-format advertisement for Tootsie Roll products, appearing in one-page installments across titles from multiple publishers throughout the mid-1940s and into the 1950s.
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- Published June 18, 1945 (Summer 1945 cover date) by DC/All-American Publications; 52 pages at a ten-cent cover price.
- Written by Gardner F. Fox — who scripted all main Flash features in the series through issue #24 — with art and cover by Martin Naydel.
- Edited by Sheldon Mayer and Ted Udall, the editorial team who oversaw All-Flash through its mid-run.
- Contains multiple Jay Garrick (Golden Age Flash) adventure stories plus a Mutt and Jeff backup strip by Al Smith.
- Carries a one-page Captain Tootsie advertisement strip: Captain Tootsie was a Tootsie Roll promotional superhero created in 1943 by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza — the same studio responsible for Fawcett's Captain Marvel.
- Captain Tootsie's companions Rollo (his main boy sidekick) and Fatso were members of the 'Secret Legion,' a kid-gang that appeared regularly in the ongoing ad strips across many publishers' titles.
- The Captain Tootsie strips appeared in comic books published by both Fawcett and its competitors, as well as in Sunday newspaper comic sections, making All-Flash #19 one of many hosts for the campaign.
- All-Flash ran for 32 issues from Summer 1941 to January 1948 and was the first solo comic series devoted entirely to the Flash character.
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A petty sneak thief robs the Garrick home of a seemingly worthless book, not realizing that it contains a map that will lead him and the Flash to the Andes Mountains in Chile to unravel the secret of a mysterious tapestry.
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