All-Flash #17 is an issue of the series All-Flash (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1944.
Synopsis for "The Tale of the Three Wishes!"
Convict Charley Lucas is given a Tibetan statue by his cellmate. Supposedly it has the power to grant its owner three wishes, and the cellmate's already had his, so he's passing it on. Charley wishes to be out of jail first, and the warden's secretary accidentally switches a list of cons eligible for parole with another of inmates scheduled for solitary, getting Charley his release. For his second wish he asks for a mob for his own to run, and decides to give himself a new impressive name to mark his gangland career: Champ Connors. Little does Charley know there's already a notorious gang boss named Champ Connors on his way into town to help the local underworld take on the Flash, but his train crashes and he's killed in the wreck.
When he checks into a hotel, some gangsters there to meet the real Champ Connors mistake Charley for the criminal genius and agree to work for him. He proposes they rob a party where an heiress is exhibiting her rare book collection, but Jay and Joan are attending. Using his speed, Jay's able to change into costume and round up the men in the main room before going into the library and catching Charley and the others there grabbing the actual loot. Charley slips away, but the Flash easily catches up to him. Using his last wish, Charlie wishes to be somewhere the Flash will never bother him. He gets it, whether the idol ever had magic powers or not, when the Flash crashes his getaway car into the wall of the state prison and catapults Charley inside.
Appearing in "The Tale of the Three Wishes!"
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- Champ Connors (Dies)
- Charley Lucas
- Chick
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- Marion Nolan Speere
- Martin Eldam (Mentioned only)
- Miss Drake
- Sheldon Reyam (Mentioned only)
- Unnamed Warden
- William Caxton (Mentioned only)
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Synopsis for "The Energetic Elephant!"
Noddy accidentally buys what he thinks is a talking elephant at a dead letter auction, but it's actually a mechanical vehicle that Winky and Blinky hide inside, pretending to be a talking elephant to trick Noddy. While trying to find his two wayward friends, Noddy and the elephant end up at the mansion of big game hunter Donald Taube, which gangster Rats Rannigan is trying to rob (and is being foiled in his attempts by the Flash). Rats finds out the real nature of the elephant and tries to use it to break into Taube's house, but is caught and arrested by the hero.
Appearing in "The Energetic Elephant!"
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- Rats Rannigan
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- Donald Taube
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- Earth-Two
- Donald Taube's house
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Synopsis for "The Matching Men From Mars!"
A spaceship from Mars lands on a rooftop, and its passengers obliterate the police when they try to intervene. They manage to move fast enough to escape even from the Flash when he gets involved. However, in the aftermath, the Fasted Man Alive does find it suspicious the Martians looked exactly alike, spoke perfect English and knew exactly where to strike to purloin the city's wealth. When Joan makes an offhand remark about wanting to go see a 3-D movie, that tips Flash off to the clue he's been missing about the identity of the Martian invaders. Soon he receives a call about an entire Roman legion robbing an opera house, but forearmed now, Flash easily figures out they're only projected images and there's only real man getting away with the loot. He was the agent for the inventor of the 3-D technology, who killed him and took the technology because making lifelike images of movies would've ruined his business.
Appearing in "The Matching Men From Mars!"
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- Hummer Johnson
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- Johnny Berger (Dies)
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- Earth-Two
- Keystone City
- 64 Club
- Opera House
- Keystone City
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Synopsis for "Cameras, Crime and Cuckoos!"
Continuing from the previous chapter, Winky, Blinky and Noddy find the projector that was being used to create the holographic hordes in the previous adventure, and take it home planning to have a film festival. They accidentally get it going and conjure up hordes of illusory cossacks and gangsters, which amuses the Flash when he finds out what's going on. Hearing that a cop left a gun battle to come help with a supposed invasion of Russian horse troopers, the Flash hurries over to help collar some flesh-and-blood crooks. After Noddy thinks one's just another illusion and gets bopped on the head for his troubles.
Appearing in "Cameras, Crime and Cuckoos!"
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Notes
- This issue also includes a text story titled 'Private School Mystery' written by Jay Marr.
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