Comic Title: Flash Comics #53
Publisher: DC (J.R. Publishing Company)
Address: 225 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
Cover Date: May 1944
Approx. On Sale Date: March 10, 1944 Copyright Date March 7, 1944
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1944
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: 56
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Title: (Salvaging Waste Paper)
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Ghost Patrol (of Earth-2)

Artist: Frank Harry

Feature Character(s)

• Ghost Patrol (Fred, Pedro, and Slim; last appearance in Flash Comics #52; next appearance in Flash Comics #54)

Villain(s)

• The Whistler (Orville Hammer; no further appearances)
• Murgatroyd Spike McConnell and his men (Turk named; no further appearances)
• Gentle Jack and Emmy (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
A small-time crook known as the Whistler is arrested after breaking into the home of an elderly couple. After serving two years in jail he is released. He then contacts Spike McConnell and tells him that the house he tried to rob has a secret room with valuables.

Spike and Whistler plan to rob the house. They move into the house next door in order to spy on the couple. Fearing their new neighbors, the elderly couple, Jack and Emmy, take in a trio of borders, the Ghost Patrol.

When Spike and his crew break into the house disguised as ghosts, the noise alerts Jack and Emmy. They also dress up as spirits to scare the crooks. They two groups meet in the treasure room, where Jack and Emmy are revealed to be crooks also. The real ghosts, Fred, Pedro, and Slim then apprehend all the crooks.