All-Star Comics Vol 1 1

All-Star Comics #1 is the first number of the DC Comics series that would become famous for publishing the Justice Society of America.

In this first number, published in 1940, there are several stories with many super-heroes, but they never actually meet.

The only one of those stories that includes a Damsel in Distress is the comic by the Hourman, where both he and a young girl called Peggy are captured.

The Villians have the hero captive and they question the girl to find some money, once she talks under menaces, she is also tied up and also gagged, something that does not happens to the male hero.

Despite their captivity, Peggy thinks fasts and manages to move in order to untie the Hourman bonds, once free, the hero returns the favour and frees our damsel.

A note of interest is that Hourman leaves her gagged, and only once she is untied does the young girl ungags herself.