Comic Title: Golden Age Flash Archives Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1999
On Sale Date: September 22, 1999 Direct Market Date August 25, 1999
Source: Previews, Vol. 9 #6 (#126)

Direct Market Date September 22, 1999
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, September 22, 1999

Direct Market Date September 22, 1999
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: September 22

Direct Market Date September 22, 1999
Source: Usenet, Late Comics Report for the week of September 24, 1999

Copyright Date September 3, 1999
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1999

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 224
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: (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.