Comic Title: Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1992
On Sale Date: April 21, 1992 Shipping Date April 21, 1992
Source: Previews, Vol. 2 #2 (#38)

Direct Market Date April 24, 1992
Source: Usenet, Capital City : MISC: New Books-4/24/92

Shipping Date April 21, 1992
Source: Direct Currents, #51

Shipping Date April 23, 1992
Source: Amazing Heroes, #200

Cover Price: $14.95
Page Count: 288
Editor: Mike Gold

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Fastest Man Alive"
Pages: 15

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Harry Lampert

Reprinted From:
Flash Comics #1 (1940)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (Jay Garrick; origin revealed; first appearance; next appearance in Flash Comics #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Joan Williams (Jay’s girlfriend; first appearance; next appearance in Flash Comics #2)
• Major Williams (Joan's father; first appearance; next appearance in Flash Comics #3)

Villain(s)

• The Faultless Four (Serge Orloff, Duriel, and Smythe; a group of evil scientists; all die in this story; no further appearances)
• Sieur Satan (appears to die in this story, but apparently he survived; next appearance in All-Star Squadron Annual #3)

Other Character(s)

• Professor Hughes (Jay’s college professor; no further appearances)
• An unnamed doctor (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story relates the origin of the Flash, Jay Garrick.

This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Jay Garrick, student at Midwestern University, is involved in a lab accident and inhales the fumes of hard water gas. The fumes cause Jay to develop tremendous speed, enabling him to move and think at super-human rates.

Jay graduates from college and moves to New York to become an assistant professor at Coleman University. There, he begins a career as the Flash, a super-hero who battles gangsters.

Jay’s college sweetheart, Joan Williams, visits Jay and enlists his help in locating her missing father. Joan’s father, Major Williams, has been kidnapped by the Faultless Four, a group of scientists working for a foreign power. Jay rescues Williams from the villains who want the secret of the Atomic Bombarder. In the process, the Four are all killed, leaving Williams safe.