Flash Comics Vol 1 91

Flash Comics #91 is a comic book published by DC Comics in 1948. It is made of five unrelated stories, all of them with different lead characters.

Four out of the five stories have one tied up damsel in distress, including two of the classic damsels from the series, Joan Williams and Hawkgirl.

This issue marks the seventh straight comic featuring at least one tied up damsel in distress.

Stories
The four damsel in distress stories go as follows:

Flash Story
The comic begins with Flash chasing after a plane that flies without a pilot and with a bound Joan Williams on board.

The speedster takes his only chance to land the plane safely and save his girlfriend, and then we have a flashback of the whole story, including how Joan got into that dire situation.

She was abducted by a crook called Big Pete, who had a scam to rob rich people with the help of an astrolog. When he is discovered by both Flash and Joan, he takes the girl to escape in a plane, and once he is away he parachutes leaving her to her fate, but luckily everything ends good for the damsel, and not for the villian.

Johnny Thunder Story
After her introduction, Black Canary quickly became a popular character and she would soon replace Johnny Thunder in the comic. This was the last time the new heroine was a supporting character for Johnny, that would end his 90 issues run as a character here.

In the story Black Canary is after some criminals who knock Johnny Thunder forcing her to cooperate with their crimes. After an attempt to escape, she, alongside with the other characters in the strip, ends up knocked out and tied hand and feet to a rocket.

They flew through the air until Thunderbolt, a genie, wakes up and uses his powers to free all of them before the rockets explode.

The story has major male interference in the bondage.

Ghost Patrol Story
Norah Blane is a porfessional ghost breaker, she doesn't believe in them and is dedicated to proove all of them as fakes. This makes her the target of a group of evil ghosts from the past that use her incredulity to escape into our world and create mayhem. The Ghost Patrol was aware of their plans and arrive to stop them, but they are too late.

The group of ghosts separate, one of them is left to take care of Norah while the rest go after the evil ghosts. But the girls guardian is not effective, he gets defeated by a mysterious foe and both he and the damsel end up tied up and in a mortal trap.

The villian is revealed to be Spandro, a phoney medium once exposed by Norah Blane, once he reveals himself he smashes a glass flor to let the damsel fall into some knives, but the rest of the members of The Ghost Patrol arrive just in time to save her.

Hawkman Story
Carter Hall, secretly the Hawkman, is asked to analyze a mysterious new element, dekium, and he asks his girlfriend Shiera Sanders to store it.

The chemical has the ability to make people invinsible and it is stolen by a group of criminals, Shiera takes her Hawkgirl identity to try to stop them, but ends up defeated and tied up. She is used as a hostage to force Hawkman to surrender, and once the hero is left in danger, Hawkgirl is taken away and tied up to a small tree, there she is told that, since Hawkman is no longer a treath, she is useless and will be murdered.

However the hero escaped the trap and comes flying in time to save the damsel and stop the criminals. While Hawkgirl is being untied, she is told of the marvelous abilities of the dekium.