Editing Gardner Fox (section)

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Fox is credited with writing the first three of six stories in the inaugural issue of ''[[Flash Comics]]'' (Jan. 1940), including the debut of the titular character, The [[Flash (Jay Garrick)|Flash]].<ref>Wallace "1940s" in Dolan, p. 30: "DC shattered the sound barrier with the debut of the Flash, a blindingly fast mystery man written by Gardner Fox and drawn by Harry Lampert."</ref> With a hero described as a "modern-day [[Mercury (mythology)|Mercury]]", the title feature saw college student Jay Garrick imbued with superhuman speed after inhaling [[hard water]] vapors.<ref name="Fifty">{{Cite comic| writer = Marx, Barry| cowriters = [[Joey Cavalieri|Cavalieri, Joey]] and Hill, Thomas| artist = Petruccio, Steven | editor = Marx, Barry| story = Gardner Fox DC's Universe Expands | title = [[Fifty Who Made DC Great]]| date = 1985| publisher = DC Comics| page = 16}}</ref> The character went on to appear in a host of nineteen-[[1940s in comics|forties]] comics, including ''[[All-Star Comics|All Star]]'', ''[[Comic Cavalcade]]'', ''The Big [[All-American Comics|All-American Comic]] Book'', ''Flash Comics'' and his own title, ''[[All-Flash]],''<ref name="Fifty"/> so named because, unlike ''Flash Comics'', all the stories in it were about The Flash.