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Character(s): Lightning
Publication: Sure-Fire Comics No. 3
Publication Date: September 1940
Publisher: Ace Magazines
 Trained in all the ancient and modern
sciences, young American Robert Morgan was given great powers by the Old Man of the Pyramids. He
used these powers to fight crime as "Flash" Lightning. This was the background for the character
when he first appeared in Sure-Fire Comics no. 1.
Later, in Lightning Comics vol. 2 no. 2,
the character was renamed "Lash" Lightning, and the Robert Morgan identity abandoned. In vol. 3 no. 1 of the same
title, Lightning Girl made her debut. She was Isobel Blake, who shared similar powers and wore an
almost identical costume, but with a skirt. Lightning and Lightning Girl were described as a "famous crime busting team."
There was no longer any mention of the Old Man of the Pyramids.
"Flash"/"Lash" Lightning and Lightning Girl
were endowed with typical electricity-based powers, such as the ability to generate lighting bolts from their hands,
as well as flight and increased strength.
The strip ran in all 14 issues of Sure-Fire/Lightning Comics,
as well as issues 1-22 of Four Favorites.
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here to read the story!
Information for this column was found in Howard Keltner's Index to Golden Age
Comic Books. There is a new edition of this great book now available. Email Bob Klein for details on how to purchase a copy!
Information for this column was also found in Crawford's Encyclopedia of Comic Books by Hubert H. Crawford. Additional
information was found in The Magnificent Superheroes of Comics Golden Age, a 128-page collection of black and white reprints
published in 1977. The above entry originally appeared in The Gallery of Golden Age Heroes.
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