Comic Title: Flash Special #1
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: 1990
On Sale Date: May 29, 1990 Shipping Date May 29, 1990
Source: Previews, #15

Shipping Date May 29, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #179

Shipping Date May 31, 1990
Source: Advance Comics, #17

Copyright Date May 29, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Direct Market Date May 31, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #142, #149

Frequency: Annually
Cover Price: $2.95
Page Count: 80
Editor: Brian Michael Augustyn

Title: "Sow the Wind"
Pages: 17

Writer: Len Strazewski
Penciller: Irving H. Novick
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Glenn Whitmore

Reprinted In:
Flash by Mark Waid Vol. 1 TPB (2017)
Flash by Mark Waid Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2023)
Flash by Mark Waid Omnibus Vol. 1 HC [Variant] (2023)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (Jay Garrick; last appearance in Young All-Stars #31; next appearance in Secret Origins #50)

Villain(s)

• Manfred Mota (aka Atom Smasher; first appearance; next appearance in Flash Special #1)
• Sam (a janitor; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• John Fox (last appearance in Flash Special #1; next appearance in Flash Special #1)
• J. Edgar Hoover (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Elliot Shapiro (a scientist; no further appearances)
• Armstrong (an FBI agent; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story takes place in late 1947 as evidenced by a movie in theaters Ronald Colman's "A Double Life" which opened Christmas Day in 1947.

Synopsis:
Flash (Jay Garrick) is recruited by J. Edgar Hoover to spy on scientists in Keystone City in hopes of uncovering a communist spy. Jay has misgivings about spying on his colleagues. When he returns to Keystone, he discovers that the janitor at his lab is stealing equipment and has sold it to Manfred Mota. Mota has built an atomic powered suit and is now robbing banks as the Atom Smasher. Jay stops him with the help of disgraced scientist Elliot Shapiro.

Meanwhile, John Fox arrives from the future to recruit Jay. He stumbles into the fight between Flash and Atom Smasher resulting in damage to his chronometer. He disappears without succeeding in his mission to contact the Flash.