Flash Comics Vol 1 104

Flash Comics #104 is a comic book published by DC Comics in Feabruary of 1949. It is made of five unrelated storylines with different lead characters.

The comic book puts an end to the 104 issue run this series had, and it is the 20th straight issue with a tied up damsel in distress.

Atom story
While fishing outside Calvin City, Al Pratt and Mary James see a lighthouse dissapear, they go to investigate in a boat and shortly they are on a dock, they separate and Al hears Mary yelling for help before she vanishes too.

Changing into the Atom, Al Pratt discovers a trap that leads to an underground lair where Mary is trying to escape some criminals, he is knocked out.

Waking up, he sees Mary James tied from her ankles to a centrigugal drill used to take oil and steal it from the goverment, the villians leave for the couple to be killed by the spinning and the oil.

Unexplainebly, the villians tied the ankles but not the wrists of the Atom who is able to escape, saving an unconcious Mary who, in an artist mistake, appears with bound wrists in one panel and with free hands in others.

Black Canary Story
Black Canary who had her first appearance in this series, became the last damsel in distress in Flash Comics, that was cancelled after this issue.

The heroine, once again in the company of dude in distress Larry Lance, discover a professor who is actually behind a series of murders. Once they confront him, he activates a trap and captures them with metal shackles in chairs before putting them to sleep with gas.

When they wake up Black Canary finds herself tied up behind some target practice dummies at a criminology school, once the students go to practice they will kill them both. Black Canary is OTM gagged so she can't cry for help.

Once the students start shotting, the heroine discovers the dummies are removable, so she can move them, she tries hard enough that they are discovered before being killed,

The students free them both and the professor is arrested.

While she took part in he release with some heavy struggling, it as a nice change to see Black Canary having to wait to be untied contrary to most of her adventures where she escaped herself.