All Flash Vol 1 31

All-Flash #31 is a comic book published by DC Comics in 1947.

It features two stories with damsels in distress, both featuring Flash girlfriend Joan Williams.

The comic book contains the first time Joan Williams was ever gagged after many times of only getting tied up.

It is also the last time bound damsels in distress appear in this series, since the next issue #32 only has a damsel in the cover and was the last in the series.

Twisted Destinies
During a boxing match famous boxer Gorilla Genson seems to change bodies with Bank teller Alfred Tither and during the confussion he accidentally wins a fight he was paid to lost.

In the audience, Gorilla's friend Susie, Jay Garrick and Joan Williams look at his confussion and go to the dresser to investigate only to find the boxer confronted by the criminals that had bribed him.

As he goes to change into the Flash, Joan and Susie enter the dressing room and are quickly overpowered bound and gagged.

They have their wrists tied behind their back and they are OTM Gagged with white cloths.

Flash tries to save them but he gets knocked out and the girls are taken away.

Later Flash finds both of them and Gorilla at an abandoned Indian village. The men are thrown into cement and to a river and the still bound and gagged girls are forced to enter a tepee which is set on fire.

Luckily The Flash escapes his trap and saves them before the flames do them any harm.

After stopping the criminals Flash unties the damsels, oan first and then Susie.

The Planet of Sport!
While visiting Keystone City Zoo, Jay Garrick (The Flash), Joan Williams and two olympic champions are transported to the planet of Strobos.

The leader of the planet wants to force them to compete with his planet champions in a fencing and wrestling match to the death. In order to save them, Garrick reveals himself as the Flash, and aiming for more entertainment for the audience, the Strobos leader uses Joan as bait to force him to contest.

Joan is tightly tied up to a pole and she is placed at the end of a race track filled with traps, at the very end The Flash is caught in a giant glass bottle just before he can save her.

Trapped, he witnesses how Joan, still restrained in ropes, is taken away on a horse.

Joan is taken to the arena and once again tied up to a pole, just before she is going to be executed, a Flash that managed to escape saves her and they manage to get safely back to Earth.

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