Comic Title: Flash Annual #2
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: June 28, 1988 Shipping Date June 28, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #5

Shipping Date June 30, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #142

Newsstand Date July 23, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #142

Copyright Date June 28, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date June 28, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

Newsstand Date July 12, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: Barbara J. Kesel (Randall)

Title: "The Old Detective Dodge"
Pages: 30

Feature(s):
Flash (Wally West Post-Crisis)

Writer: William Messner-Loebs
Penciller: Michael T. Collins
Inker: Tom Poston
Letterer: Steve Haynie
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Secret Origins #30; next appearance in Flash #19)

Supporting Character(s)

• Mary West (last appearance in Justice League International #19; next appearance in Flash Annual #2)
• Rudolph West (uses the alias Frank in this story; last appearance in Flash #8; next appearance in Flash #21)

Villain(s)

• George Boyt (a crooked businessman; no further appearances)
• Three brick thieves (no further appearances)
• Two gunmen (hired by Boyt; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An old woman (Wally's neighbor; no further appearances)
• Lonnie and her two kids (no further appearances)
• Chuck (Lonnie's boyfriend; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Wally's dad returns to town. Despite the fact that he was working for the Manhunters, Wally gives him a chance to explain himself. Mr. West takes Wally on a detective job guarding a building from which bricks are being stolen. While on guard, they talk, then fall asleep. The vandals raid the building while the guards are asleep, and it collapses. Flash rescues them.

Later, the man who hired Mr. West to guard the building asks them to find his missing daughter Lonnie. Wally and his father track her down only to learn that she is not his daughter. Lonnie was his girlfriend who left with a briefcase of items stolen by Boyt. Mr. West gets credit for solving the case, then takes a job in Gotham City.