Flash Comics #1

DC ⋅ 1940

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Key Facts

1st appearance and origin of The Flash, Jay Garrick

First mention of Keystone City, protected by The Flash

1st appearance and origin of Hawkman, Carter Hall

1st appearance Shiera Sanders, later becomes Hawkgirl

1st appearance of Hath-Set, the first villain of Hawkman

1st appearance of Johnny Thunder

1st appearance of Yz, Johnny Thunder's thunderbolt

Issue Details

Publisher

DC

Artist

Sheldon Moldoff

Cover Artist

Sheldon Moldoff

Artist

Dennis Neville

Writer

Ed Wheelan

Artist

Ed Wheelan

Writer

Sheldon Moldoff

Writer

Gardner Fox

Artist

Harry Lampert

Artist

George Storm

Writer

John Wentworth

Published

January 1940

Synopsis

Jay Garrick, a student at Midwestern University, is involved in a lab accident and accidentally inhales the fumes of hard water gas. The fumes cause Jay to develop tremendous speed, enabling him to move and think at super-human rates. Jay graduates from college and moves to New York to become an assistant professor at Coleman University. There, he begins a career as the Flash, a super-hero who battles gangsters. Jay’s college sweetheart, Joan Williams, visits Jay and enlists his help in locating her missing father, Major Williams. Joan’s father has been kidnapped by the Faultless Four, a group of scientists working for a foreign power. Jay rescues Williams from the villains who want the secret of the Atomic Bombarder. In the process, the Four are all killed, leaving Williams safe.

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