Flash Comics Vol 1 97

Flash Comics #97 is a comic book published by DC Comics in July 1948. It is made of five different storylines, each one of them with different lead characters.

Four out of those stories feature damsels in distress.

This marks the 13th straight time this series offered at least one damsel in distress in its pages.

It also makes a record for the series being the only time it got five different damsels.

Black Canary Story
Black Canary gets tied up again after two adventures avoiding the ropes.

The superheroine starts her adventure investigating the murder of a man who was killed to have a mysterious cloth stolen. But she ends up knocked out by criminals who also kidnapped her boyfriend Larry.

When she wakes up she finds herself bound to a bobbin, which is made to spin to force them to reveal information.

Once left alone, Black Canary uses her ususal trick to escaping her bondage and uses her chin to activate a convenient escape with the help of her locket.

Hawkman Story
Hawkman and Hawkgirl are investigating a mysterious case of death African animals coming back to life.

Hawkgirl gets knocked out and as she is taken hostage she is used to force Hawkman to surrender.

Both winged heroes find themselves bound to poles, and Hawkman is taken to a cannon to force him to talk, while Hawkgirl is left behind tied up.

Hawkman is fired to a crocodile pit, but unties himself in the air and comes back.

In the fight he breaks the pole where Hawkgirl is tied up, and the winged heroine ends tied up in the floor while the fight continues in front of her. Once Hawkman stops the criminals, he unties the damsel.

Atom Story
Al Pratt and Mary James are participating in a yatch race, when they discover some thugs have replaced their friends in another boat. The thugs attempt to eliminate them and Al Pratt fakes an injury to become The Atom, but despite his efforts he is defeated and Mary is taken hostage.

While Atom is left in a mortal trap, Mary is taken with the villians to their boat, where she is bound with rope to the mast. She ramains there the rest of the adventure until the Atom defeats the bad guys, but she is only rarely drawn in her bondage so we see little of her.

Flash Story
Flash finds a distressed Joan Williams claiming she commited a murder. She tells the hero of a dream and how she thinks it all was right.

Following the leads Flash and Joan find the same places and people of her dream in reality, and eventually they reach a lighthouse where the man Joan was supposed to have killed is alive. Flash is knocked out and both him and Joan are tied up in the lighthouse.

Despite the presence of a bomb, Flash and Joan escape off panel, and Flash follows the smuglers to a boat where Joan's best friends, Rita Stevens is held hostage.

Rita is tied up to the mast and gagged with a white cloth tied OTM style.

Flash defeats the villians and unties and ungags Rita, who then reveals she telegraphed her toughts to Joan after being kidnapped hoping to be found and rescued.