Comic Title: Adventure Comics #144
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1949
Approx. On Sale Date: July 15, 1949 Copyright Date July 13, 1949
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1949
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: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Day That Was Five Years Long"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Johnny Quick (of Earth-2)

Writer: Otto Binder
Artist: Dan Barry

Reprinted In:
Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told HC (1990)

Feature Character(s)

• Johnny Quick (last appearance in Adventure Comics #143; next appearance in Adventure Comics #145)

Other Character(s)

• Joe Everett (a falsely convicted man; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Joe Everett is released from prison after five years when a dying crook confesses to the crimes Joe was convicted of. Joe is upset that five years of his life were wasted because he was framed, so Johnny Quick offers to help him live out five years in a day.

Johnny gives Joe his speed formula and lets him try out careers as a writer, painter, composer, sculptor, and architect. Joe fails at each career, but he successfully invented a new clock while in prison and begins a career as an inventor.