Comic Title: Flash Comics #8
Publisher: DC (All-American Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: August 1940
Approx. On Sale Date: June 13, 1940 Copyright Date June 14, 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 Building Swindle)
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 All-Star Comics #3; next appearance in Flash Comics #9)

Villain(s)

• The head of a construction company, Jenkins, and their men (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Several constuction workers, the District Attorney, and Bruiser Jones (a wrestler; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Flash stumbles across a scheme by a construction company in which they use cheap materials in their buildings to cut costs. Flash tracks down the men behind the scheme and forces confessions from them. He also makes sure that the construction workers use good materials in the buildings to prevent further accidents.