Comic Title: Great Comic Book Super-Heroes HC
Publisher: Dial Press
Cover Date: 1965
On Sale Date: November 15, 1965 Copyright Date November 15, 1965
Source: Library of Congress, Pamphlets 1965

Cover Price: $9.95
Page Count: 192

Notes:
A second edition was published by Bonanza Books/Crown Publishing

Title: (The Origin of the Flash)
Pages: 15

Feature(s):
Flash (Jay Garrick of Earth-2)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Harry Lampert

Reprinted From:
Flash Comics #1 (1940)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (Jay Garrick; origin revealed; first appearance; next appearance in Flash Comics #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Joan Williams (Jay’s girlfriend; first appearance; next appearance in Flash Comics #2)
• Major Williams (Joan's father; first appearance; next appearance in Flash Comics #3)

Villain(s)

• The Faultless Four (Serge Orloff, Duriel, and Smythe; a group of evil scientists; all die in this story; no further appearances)
• Sieur Satan (appears to die in this story, but apparently he survived; next appearance in All-Star Squadron Annual #3)

Other Character(s)

• Professor Hughes (Jay’s college professor; no further appearances)
• An unnamed doctor (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story relates the origin of the Flash, Jay Garrick.

This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Jay Garrick, student at Midwestern University, is involved in a lab accident and 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. Joan’s father, Major Williams, 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.