All-Flash #3 is an issue of the series All-Flash (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1941.
Synopsis for "The Adventure of the Duplicate Faces"
Flash catches men stealing radium from a hospital, only to realize one of them's Jeb Young, a friend of Jay Garrick. Young had a terminal illness, but was offered a cure by a discredited scientist named Adam Addams who demanded a year of servitude in exchange for curing Young's condition. This included the theft of radium to carry on Addams' experiments. Addams, whose scientific discoveries including being able to alter a man's face into that of any other man, becomes the head of the hospital his men were robbing to get them out of lockup, by saying he won't press charges. The wicked scientist then announces his plan: to alter his men into the likeness of surgeons at the hospital to kill patients and get his revenge on the head of the hospital. The Flash intercepts them and prevents any deaths, also rescuing Addams' hostages, but the scientist escapes in a submarine.
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Synopsis for "The Adventure of the Savage Centaurs"
Dr. Manning is being threatened by some unknown criminal party, demanding he give them the hard-water formula that gave the Flash his powers. Which, Jay observes, is impossible because it was pure accident that created the mixture (secretly not even he knows what the formula was). The party responsible, scientist Adam Addams, sends his army of centaurs created from a herd of wild horses on his island retreat. Their mission is to cause havoc and keep the Flash distracted so he won't be able to prevent Manning's kidnapping. While Manning is kidnapped by Addams' human flunkies, Flash is able to capture the rampaging centaurs by shoeing them at high-speed, weighing them down with the unfamiliar metal on their hooves. To the Flash's dismay, the police decline to arrest the centaurs, because there's nothing in the law about how it applies to horse-men, so instead he asks the centaurs where they came from so he can return them there. Commandeering a sea plane, Flash flies the centaurs back to the island, where he's just a hair too late to capture Addams and rescue Manning. Without Addams' treatments, the centaurs will eventually change back to normal horses.
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- Adam Addams
- His Centaur gang
- Hercule
- Oats
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Synopsis for "House-Guests of Death"
Addams sends invitations to a party at an Arizona estate to the people involved in his previous caper (including Jay and Joan), but they find themselves trapped in the desert with one of them a murderer when one finds himself poisoned at dinner. Although Jay becomes the Flash to investigate, Addams has one of his men pose as the Flash and attack the other guests to discredit the real one, able to pretend to have super-speed by using secret passages to disappear. As terror reigns, Addams subdues the Flash by secretly hitting him with a sedative gas and dropping him into a metal room that starts to heat up to burn the hero alive.
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Synopsis for "The Flash vs. The Flash"
Flash regains consciousness and manages to escape by unscrewing the lock as the gas wears off. He convinces the "guests" that he's the real article with the burns he got on his hands touching the hot metal door of the death trap. Meanwhile, at Flash's direction, Dr. Manning does manage to recreate the formula that gave the hero his speed, and injects Addams with it. However, without all the practice the Flash has, instead of a fight to the finish as equals with the hero, Addams finds himself flung hither and yon with every muscular action magnified millions of times by his superhuman speed. Rather than face justice, Addams injects himself with another formula and explodes.
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Notes
- Published by Jolaine Publications, Inc.
- The Adam Addams who is the villain of this issue is not to be confused with the Adam Adams who was an enemy of Green Lantern.
- The title for the first chapter is also given as "The Adventure of the Misplaced Faces".
- Also appearing in this issue of All-Flash Quarterly were:
- Butch McLobster, by Ed Wheelan
- Hop Harrigan: "Bound for Britain" (text story) by Evelyn Gaines
- Mutt & Jeff (newspaper strip reprints), by Al Smith
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