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 Adventure of the Auctioned Utility Company"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Harold Wilson Sharp

Reprinted From:
Flash Comics #20 (1941)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in All-Flash Quarterly #1; next appearance in All-Star Comics #6)

Supporting Character(s)

• Joan Williams (last appearance in All-Flash Quarterly #1; next appearance in Flash Comics #21)

Villain(s)

• Thistlewit (a swindler; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Jim Coleman (former owner of a utility company; no further appearances)
• A repair crew (no further appearances)
• Cheekers (Thistlewit's butler; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Joan Williams buys a utility company at auction. She then learns that the company was bankrupted by the former owner's uncle. Flash helps Joan keep the company running, then he works on Uncle Thistlewit. Flash convinces the Thistlewit to return the money he swindled from his nephew. He reinvests in the company which Joan then returns to the former owner.