Comic Title: Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1990
On Sale Date: December 12, 1989 Shipping Date December 12, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #174

Shipping Date December 12, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #119

Shipping Date December 12, 1989
Source: Previews, #10

Shipping Date December 14, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #12

Direct Market Date December 14, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #126, #128, #129

Direct Market Date January 18, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #132, #133
Listed as delayed from December

Cover Price: $24.95
Page Count: 288
Editor: Mike Gold

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

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

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

Writer: Otto Binder
Artist: Dan Barry

Reprinted From:
Adventure Comics #144 (1949)

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.