Flash Comics Vol 1 86

Flash Comics #86 is a comic book published by DC Comics in 1947. It is the second straight issue of this series with damsel in distress action, this time in the Hawkman story, one of several unrelated storylines in the issue.

Story
A criminal finds a colony isolated from the rest of the country for centuries, and with them he hears the story of The Purple Pilgrim, a man killed by justice that sweared revenge on every descendant of the Judge Sanders that condemn him.

Since the story is useful for him to take control of the town, the criminal takes the identity of The Purple Pilgrim and becomes leader of the people.

In order to win their trust, he starts targeting people named Sanders, and one of them is Shiera Sanders, girlfriend of the Hawkman and secretly the heroine called Hawkgirl. However in this ocassion Shiera is attacked and kidnapped before she can use her abilites and she becomes a damsel in distress.

Taken from her appartment to the hidden village lost in time, she is taken to The Purple Pilgrim house and restrained in stocks,

After menacing her, she is condemned to death and taken to the village bound in ropes and gagged and put in a plank where she awaits her execution by drowning, as her end gets near, Hawkman appears and fights the villian, but Shiera's distress distracts him and he is captured too.

As the Hawkman is going to be burned alive, Shiera is released to see the execution, however the hero escapes, defeats the villian and avoids putting Shiera into further trouble, helping the people from the Valley return to modernity.

Trivia
The cover also shows Joan Williams tied up in front of a dinosaur. But this scene never occurs in the actual Flash storyline inside.