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 Flash and the Black Widow"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Robert Bloch
Artist: Everett E. Hibbard

Reprinted From:
Flash Comics #66 (1945)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Comic Cavalcade #11; next appearance in All-Flash #19)

Supporting Character(s)

• Winky, Blinky, and Noddy (last appearance in All-Flash #18; next appearance in All-Flash #19)
• Joan Williams (last appearance in All-Flash #18; next appearance in All-Flash #19)

Villain(s)

• Princess Helene (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Five unnamed thugs (two die in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Joe the cabby (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
The Three Dimwits visit the zoo and find that their friend Joe the cabby has been transformed into a monkey. They ask the Flash to investigate, who finds the monkey abducted by crooks. The crooks and the monkey perish in the ensuing chase, but not before the monkey somehow reverts to human form.

Flash traces the monkey back to Princess Helene from Crete. He gets the Dimwits jobs at her hotel, where they find her secret laboratory. Each of them accidentally drinks her wine which transforms them into animals.

Noddy gets a message to the Flash who uncovers Helene’s scheme of robbing victims and transforming them into animals. To escape the Flash, Helene drinks the wine and is transformed into a black widow. The spider is then squashed by a lioness. Flash destroys the lab, and the potion eventually wears off the Dimwits.