Comic Title: Golden Age Flash Archives Vol. 2 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2006
On Sale Date: January 25, 2006 Direct Market Date January 25, 2006
Source: Previews, Vol. 15 #11 (#203)

Direct Market Date January 25, 2006
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Direct Market Date January 25, 2006
Source: Comic Shop News, #965

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

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Threat"
Pages: 52

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Everett E. Hibbard

Reprinted From:
All Flash Quarterly #2 (1941)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in All-Star Squadron Annual #3; next appearance in All Flash Quarterly #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Joan Williams (last appearance in All-Star Squadron Annual #3; next appearance in Flash Comics #23)

Villain(s)

• Joe Connor (aka the Threat; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Roy Revenge (the son of Jim Kelley; no further appearances)
• The Threat's gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Jim Kelley and his wife (no further appearances)
• Annie Crowley (Connor's wife; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Ann Connor (Connor's son; no further appearances)

Comments:
Part 1: "The Adventure of Roy Revenge"
Part 2: "The Adventure of the Blood-Red Ray"
Part 3: (The Wrecker Racket)
Part 4: (The End of the Threat)

This story was not originally titled; the title shown here was given on the contents page of Golden Age Flash Archives Vol. 2 in which this story is reprinted.

Synopsis:
Small-time crook Joe Connor is sent to prison by district attorney Jim Kelley. He vows revenge and while in prison studies many disciplines including law and medicine. Several years later, Connor is released. Publicly he appears to be reformed, but in reality he still intends to carry out his revenge against Kelley. Connor arranges the kidnapping of Kelley's son, whom he raises as his own.

Years later, Kelley's son Roy has grown into a young man who has no knowledge of his true father. Connor has lied to Roy and convinced him that Kelley murdered his mother. Roy takes the name Roy Revenge and begins a criminal life.

Using the criminal alias, the Threat, Connor tries to carry out his plan by having Roy kill his real father. The plans are thwarted by the Flash. Connor is caught and sent back to prison, while Roy hides on a farm with his sister.

Connor escapes prison in a barrel of lye, but he is seriously burned. The burns allow him to alter his appearance. Connor continues his criminal plans under the name Dr. Cravath. Once again he enlists the aid of Roy.

With the help of Connor's own daughter, Flash is able to save Kelley again. Roy then learns the truth about his past and his real father. Roy helps set Connor up for capture, but the criminal commits suicide rather than be sent to prison again. Roy agrees to make amends for his own crimes and promises to reform.