All Flash Vol 1 14

All-Flash #14 is a comic book published by DC Comics in 1944. It features two different stories featuring The Flash, and in one of them there is a damsel in distress.

Story
A card gambler called Deuces enters his appartment to find a mysterious woman called Ethel Stryker waiting for him. He asks him to play a poker game with Norman Empire, the crime lord who runs the city, telling him her life is at atake. Empire bought every authority in town except distric atorney Stryker he kidnapped him and after Ethel went to plead for his life the criminal agreed to let them play a poker game for their lives.

Deuces lost the game and Ethel Stryker is sentenced to die, but while the villian goes to make arrangements, the poker player is able to send a message to Flash. However a first rescue attempt fails. Deuces and Flash are buried in an underground metal box and Ethel joins her husband in bondage, both tied up to chairs while they are taken to their final destination.

Norman Empire is revealed to have very mischiveous and complicated plans. Locked while tied up in a giant light bulb, the couple are put down the waters of a river and a candle is light over some powder in a way that it will burn slowly and finally explode when it reaches the powder.

Luckily Joan Williams is keeping a watch on the criminals and once the Flash escapes the metal box she can tell him where the Strykers are, with his superspeed The Flash rescues the couple in the nick of time.

Gallery
The last panel shows Ethel Stryker face cut, that was as it was originally drawn in the comic,