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While most Flash comics from the Silver Age can still be found, and the hardest to find are available in Archive editions, Golden Age Flash stories are harder to track down, and often expensive. Fortunately, DC would occasionally reprint older stories during the 1960s and 1970s, and those are easier to find. For the collector on a budget who would like to read classic stories, here is a list of reprints of Golden-Age Flash stories.

See Also: Silver-Age Reprints

Story Original Year Reprinted In Year

The Flash (Jay Garrick)

Flash Comics #1–17 1940–1941 The Golden Age Flash Archives #1 1999
Flash Comics #18–24 1941 The Golden Age Flash Archives #2 2006
(The Fastest Man Alive) Flash Comics #1 1940 Famous First Edition: Flash Comics #1 1975
Flash Comics #1 Millennium Edition 2000
The Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told 1991
(Circus Caper) Flash Comics #15 1941 Flashback #36 1976
The Flash and the Black Widow Flash Comics #66 1945 The Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told 1991
Stone Age Menace Flash Comics #86 1947 The Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told 1991
Flash: The Greatest Stories Ever Told 2007
Nine Empty Uniforms Flash Comics #90 1947 80-Page Giant #4 (Flash) 1964
The Images of Doom! Flash Comics #94 1948 Flash #232 1975
The Rival Flash! Flash Comics #104 1949 Flash #211 1971
The Flash Archives #1 1996
Showcase Presents: The Flash vol. #1 2007
Flash: The Greatest Stories Ever Told 2007
All-Flash #1–2 1941 The Golden Age Flash Archives #2 2006
Campaign Against the Flash All-Flash #13 1943 100-Page Super Spectacular #22 (Flash) 1973
The Rise and Fall of Norman Empire All-Flash #14 1944 The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told 1990
The City of Shifting Sand* All-Flash #22 1946 Four Star Spectacular #1 1976
Deal Me from the Bottom* All-Flash #22 1946 DC Super-Stars #5 (Flash) 1976
Anything Can Happen! All-Flash #30 1947 Flash #216 1972
The Secret City All-Flash #31 1947 Flash #229 1974
Duet of Danger All-Flash #32 1948 Flash #160 1966
The Amazing Star Sapphire All-Flash #32 1948 Flash Annual #1 1963
Flash Annual 1963 Replica 2001
Crime’s Birthday Party Comic Cavalcade #1 1942 Comic Cavalcade Archives #1 2005
The City on Wheels Comic Cavalcade #2 1943 Comic Cavalcade Archives #1 2005
The Laws of Pumpkin Center Comic Cavalcade #3 1943 Comic Cavalcade Archives #1 2005
The Slow Motion Crimes Comic Cavalcade #24 1947 The Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told 1991
Journey Into Danger (unpublished) Flash #205 1971
The Tale of the Three Tokens! (unpublished) Flash #214 a.k.a. 100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-11 1972
Strange Confession (unpublished) Lois Lane #113 (partial) 1971

Johnny Quick

Story Original Year Reprinted In Year
The Man Who Wore Ten Hats Adventure #117 1947 Flash #229 1974
The 9th Wonder of the World! Adventure Comics #121 1947 Flash #232 1975
Adventure of the Antelope Boy Adventure Comics #123 1947 Flash #160 1996
The Slowpoke Crimes Adventure Comics #129 1948 100-Page Super Spectacular #22 (Flash) 1973
The Day That Was Five Years Long Adventure Comics #144 1949 The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told 1990
Tubby Watts—Efficiency Expert Adventure Comics #174 1952 World’s Finest #224 1974
The Modern Paul Bunyan Adventure #179 1952 Flash #214 a.k.a. 100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-11 1972
Joanie Swift, Queen of Speed Adventure Comics #181 1952 World’s Finest #198 1970
Too Many Speed Kings Adventure Comics #189 1953 Flash #205 1971
Stand-In for 100 Convicts Adventure Comics #190 1953 100-Page Super Spectacular #6 1971
The Human Hot Rodders Adventure Comics #202 1954 World’s Finest #186 1969
The Black Knight More Fun Comics #73 1941 More Fun Comics #73: Millennium Edition 2001
The Adventure of the Human Streak More Fun Comics #76 1942 Wanted: The World’s Most Dangerous Villains #7 1973
An Investment in Happiness More Fun Comics #101 1945 More Fun Comics #101: Millennium Edition 2000

Quicksilver (Max Mercury)

Story Original Year Reprinted In Year
Quicksilver vs. the Wasp National Comics #67 1948 Flash #214 a.k.a. 100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-11 1972

Top of Page Notes

*The City of Shifting Sand” and “Deal Me from the Bottom” were not exactly reprinted—they featured entirely new art using the original script and dialogue! The reason given was that “the art of the original version was too far below modern standards to reprint the tale as it was.”

Strange Confession,” the unused third appearance of the Golden-Age Thorn, has never been printed in its entirety as far as I can tell. Each “reprint” has used a different excerpt, though. Lois Lane #113 (1971) prints the last two pages. Pages 2–3 appear in the fanzine Alter Ego #4 (2000, TwoMorrows). According to the GA Reprint list [archive.org], pages 6–7 appear in the fanzine History of the Comics #7 (1991). The GA Villain Checklist, however, suggests that the story appeared in Robin Snyder’s The Comics v.6 #10 (the same fanzine after a title change). I’m trying to verify this, and if anyone has a copy they want to sell, please let me know.

Additional information from The Comics Archives and GCD. Thanks also to Doug Nasluchacz for verifying some of these, and to Jim for telling me about More Fun Comics #73 Millennium Edition. For more Golden Age appearances, see:

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