December 1946. A JSA stalwart, Johnny Thunder had a long-running feature in FLASH COMICS, which for its first 85 issues was written by John B. Wentworth (who eventually wrangled a byline, unusual for the era) and drawn by Stan Aschmeier (whose byline, typically "Stan Josephs," seemed to come and go). As explained above, Johnny was a handsome young man of good heart and thick head, stumbling through an endless array of comedic misadventures with the aid of his long-suffering Thunderbolt, a powerful magical being Johnny could summon for an hour at a time by saying the magic words "CEI-U," pronounced "SAY YOU!" (The Thunderbolt, whose actual name was either Archibald or Oswald — Wentworth apparently couldn't decide which was funnier — was not a djinn, and where Grant Morrison later got that idea is beyond me.)
In his own strip, Johnny generally did not fight crime, at least not on purpose, being more preoccupied with trying to find a steady job so his long-suffering girlfriend Daisy Darling would marry him, while managing the chaos wrought by his foster daughter Peachy Pet, a hilariously pugnacious sixth grader who would sooner slug you than look at you. (Peachy Pet for a while was able to summon her own magical assistant, Thunderbolt's son Shocko, by saying the magic words "SEZ ME!") It was zany nonsense in the vein of the contemporary Looney Tunes cartoons, and sometimes very funny. However, with FLASH COMICS #86, Wentworth and Aschmeier departed in favor of Robert Kanigher and Alex Toth. They downplayed the silliness and the magical Thunderbolt in favor of a new supporting character called Black Canary, who wasn't as funny, but looked better in fishnets. By FLASH COMICS #92, she'd booted poor Johnny out of his own strip.