Comic Title: Flash Comics #7
Publisher: DC (All-American Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: July 1940
Approx. On Sale Date: May 16, 1940 Copyright Date May 15, 1940
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Maxwell Charles Gaines

Title: (The Metal Disintegrator)
Pages: 11

Feature(s):
Flash (Jay Garrick of Earth-2)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Everett E. Hibbard

Reprinted In:
Golden Age Flash Archives Vol. 1 HC (1999)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Flash Comics #6; next appearance in All-Star Comics #1)

Villain(s)

• Black Mike and his men (racketeers; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Henry Smith, Belle, and Jimmy Dolan (an inventor, his daughter, and a race car driver; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
While driving near Duluth, Jay Garrick’s car is disintegrated. He investigates and learns of an invention created by Henry Smith which causes metal to disintegrate. Flash sabotages the machine until he can learn more about it.

Flash soon learns that Smith is being forced to use the machine for criminal purposes by a racketeer, Black Mike. Flash stops the gangster from carrying out his plan of sabotaging a car race, then has Black Mike arrested. Smith sells his invention to the government and retires.