Comic Title: Flash Comics #15
Publisher: DC (J.R. Publishing Company)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: March 1941
Approx. On Sale Date: January 16, 1941 Copyright Date January 17, 1941
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 Crooked Tax Collector)
Pages: 6

Feature(s):
Whip (of Earth-2)

Writer: John B. Wentworth
Artist: Homer Fleming

Reprinted In:
Flashback #36 (1976)

Feature Character(s)

• Whip (last appearance in Flash Comics #18; next appearance in Flash Comics #16)

Supporting Character(s)

• Padre Demo (last appearance in Flash Comics #3; no further appearances)
• King (last appearance in Flash Comics #18; next appearance in Flash Comics #16)

Villain(s)

• Mr. Chambers (a tax collector; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Mamie O’Daniels, Sean, and Jimmy (a cleaning woman, her son-in-law, and her grandson; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Cleaning woman Mamie O’Daniels witnesses Mr. Chambers, the tax collector, robbing a safe. She reports him to the police, but Chambers blackmails her by kidnapping her grandson Jimmy.

Padre Demo enlists the aid of the Whip to find Jimmy and rescue him. The Whip finds Chambers’ hide-out and frees Jimmy from a well. Then he confronts Chambers, who is kicked over a cliff to his death by a horse.