Real name: J. Edward Dorn
First appearance: Flash Comics#6 (June 1940)
Abilities: Fixing races
Worst act: Drugging athletes
Quote: "I'm a...a fool, but if I don't you'll start to work on me, I suppose, like you did on Jonesy!"
Created by: Gardner Fox (script) and Everett E. Hibbard (art)
Another story focusing on gambling. This time Jay Garrick and his best gal pal Joan head back to their alma mater, Westin University, to check out the Olympic trials being held there. Sounds like a great outing, right?
It is, except that every single favored athletes end up losing all their races. One or two could be excused, but all? Suspecting something fishy, Jay enters the race as himself and makes it pretty clear he's the Flash. Seems a bit unfair but while in the race he discovers the plot-namely that Westin assistant commissioner Dorn, gambler Maloney, and trainer Jonesy have been drugging the runners and fixing the races.
He's not called on the cheating bit but he does remove himself from the trials so I guess everything works out. Also, kind of odd they're doing the Olympic things now (as or 1940). The last were in 1936 and the next wouldn't be held until 1948 but then again I guess they couldn't predict everything.
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