Comic Title: Flash Archives Vol. 2 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2000
On Sale Date: March 22, 2000 Direct Market Date March 22, 2000
Source: Previews, Vol. 10 #1 (#133)

Direct Market Date March 22, 2000
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, March 22, 2000

Direct Market Date March 22, 2000
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: March 22

Copyright Date March 10, 2000
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 2000

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

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Mystery of the Elongated Man"
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Flash (Barry Allen of Earth-1)

Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Flash #112 (1960)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #28; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #29)

Guest Star(s)

• Elongated Man (Ralph Dibny; origin revealed; next appearance in Flash #115)

Supporting Character(s)

• Iris West (last appearance in Flash #111; next appearance in Flash #113)

Villain(s)

• The Veto Gang (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
A new hero, the Elongated Man, is upstaging the Flash in Central City. Elongated Man is really Ralph Dibny. When Dibny was a child he was fascinated by an India rubber man. When Dibny reached adulthood, he set out to learn the secret behind the rubber men abilities. Dibny isolated an ingredient from Gingold, a soft drink, that he believed would give him stretching abilities. He also designed a costume that stretched with him.

Flash grows suspicious of the new hero when a series of robberies occur that point to the Elongated Man as the suspect. Flash arranges to guard a collection of Ming vases that he believes will be stolen. The vases are indeed stolen. Flash catches Dibny nearby, but Dibny explains that he was framed by the Veto gang. Together, Flash and Elongated Man defeat and capture the real crooks who committed the crimes with a helicopter. Flash and Dibny share honors as winners of the Man of the Year award.