Comic Title: Flash Comics #58
Publisher: DC (J.R. Publishing Company)
Address: 225 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1944
Approx. On Sale Date: August 9, 1944 Copyright Date August 5, 1944
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1944
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: 48
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Title: "Merman Meets the Flash"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Jon Chester Kozlak

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Flash Comics #57; next appearance in Comic Cavalcade #8)

Supporting Character(s)

• Joan Williams (last appearance in Flash Comics #57; next appearance in Comic Cavalcade #8)

Villain(s)

• Merman (aka Jon Rogers; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Tricky Nick and his gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Jonathan and Sarah Rogers (Merman's adoptive parents; no further appearances)
• Junior (Joan's nephew; no further appearances)
• An unnamed sheriff (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Jonathan Rogers finds a baby abandoned in the river. He and his wife Sarah take in the child and raise him as their own. The baby has a fish face and gills. He can breathe underwater and swim faster than anyone. As the young Jon Rogers grows to adulthood, his strange appearance causes him to be ostracized from society. As an adult he turns to crime as the Merman.

The Flash first encounters the Merman at an aquarium. The Flash doesn't know that Merman is a criminal and lets him go after rescuing him and Joan's nephew from an octopus. Jay eventually learns the truth. When Merman blows up the local dam to loot the flooded and abandoned stores, he is confronted by the Flash.

Merman escapes, but when he returns again to raid a yacht, the Flash is there to stop him. Merman dives into the water and strangles himself on the ship's line. The Flash never finds his foe, who die by drowning.