Flash Comics Vol 1 87

Flash Comics #87 is an Anthology comic book made out of five unrelated storylines with different lead characters.

It was published in 1947 and it is notable because it established a record of four damsels in distress in a single issue of this series.

It is also the third straight comic featuring at least one tied up damsel,a very wellcome change after years of comedy content over adventure.

Flash Comics 87 features the first time Black Canary was distressed and the first time a story of The Ghost Patrol included a bound and gagged damsel.

Flash Story
Joan Williams goes on vacation to the town of Bayou, where she finds people is terrorized of a bell toling, they say everytime it sounds one of them must die.

She asks for the help of the Flash and they try to convince an old lady Clara Craig, that the legend is not true and that they are safe. However they eventually uncover the truth, Clara's brother used the legend to scare her sister and try to kill her to keep all the money in the family.

While The Flash is away both Joan and Clara get tied up, but the speedster apears just in time to save them.

Johnny Thunder story
The Black Canary is apparently making a lot of crimes in her comic book debut, and she has a package she leaves in the hands of Johnny Thunder. Johnny is unable to keep the package from gangsters but, under struction of the masked female he follows the criminals only to be captured.

Black Canary follows him, but she is knocked up with a hit on the back of her head and she is put on a mortal trap, inside a sack she is slowly lowered into a pit with crocodiles.

Unknown to her, Johnny was in the same distress and he escaped, as the Canaries sack reaches Johnny he saves her from the sack and later both join forces to stop the criminals.

Ghost Patrol story
Ghosts from the twelve century appear in modern day USA fighting a duel for an ancient casket, and after the mayhem they create a group of crooks decide to pose as ancient knights to make a robbery.

Doing these they overpower and leave the two employees of a store, including a young lady, bound and gagged.

The Ghost Patrol and the actual twelve century ghosts eventually stop the crooks and rescue the prisoners.