| JOHNNY QUICK (Johnny Chambers) | CHRONOLOGY |
| Created by Mort Weisinger and Chad Grothkopf |
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Johnny Quick (Johnny Chambers)
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CHRONOLOGY
Johnny Quick first appeared in More Fun Comics #71/2 (September 1941): "The Riddle of the Crying Clown".
Below is the definitive list of appearances of Johnny Quick in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.
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Johnny Quick Chronology
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| Adventure Comics #159/2 (December 1950): "The Testing of Johnny Quick" [Continuity questionable] |
| All-Star Squadron #65 (January 1987): "The Origin of Johnny Quick" [Flashbacks] |
| Secret Origins Vol. 2 #7/2 (October 1986): "The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Sandman" |
| Secret Origins Vol. 2 #12 (March 1987): "The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Fury" [Flashback] |
| More Fun Comics #71/2 (September 1941): "The Riddle of the Crying Clown" |
| All-Star Squadron #65 (January 1987): "The Origin of Johnny Quick" [Flashbacks; also retelling More Fun Comics #71 with new details] |
| More Fun Comics #72/3 (October 1941): "The Mystery of the Music Murders" |
| More Fun Comics #73/4 (November 1941): "The Black Knight" |
| More Fun Comics #74/5 (December 1941): [Dr. Clever] |
| More Fun Comics #75/5 (January 1942): [The Man of a Million Murders] |
| More Fun Comics #76/5 (February 1942): "The Adventure of the Human Streak" |
| More Fun Comics #77/5 (March 1942): "The Wizard of Weapons" |
| More Fun Comics #78/5 (April 1942): "Death's Dividends" |
| More Fun Comics #79/5 (May 1942): "Mr. Meek Makes Haste" |
| More Fun Comics #80/5 (June 1942): "The Adventure of the Vanished Voice" |
| Justice League of America #193/2 (August 1981): "The All-Star Squadron" [As Johnny Chambers] |
| All-Star Squadron #1 (September 1981): "The World on Fire" |
| All-Star Squadron #2 (October 1981): "The Tyrant Out of Time" |
| All-Star Squadron #3 (November 1981): "The Dooms of Dark December" |
| All-Star Squadron #4 (December 1981): "Day of the Dragon King" |
| All-Star Squadron #5 (January 1982): "Never Step on a Feathered Serpent" |
| All-Star Squadron #6 (February 1982): "Mayhem in the Mile-High City" |
| All-Star Squadron #7 (March 1982): "Carnage for Christmas" |
| All-Star Squadron #8 (April 1982): "Afternoon of the Assassins" |
| All-Star Squadron #9 (May 1982): "Should Old Acquaintance Be Destroyed..." |
| All-Star Squadron #10 (June 1982): "If an Eye Offend Thee..." |
| All-Star Squadron #11 (July 1982): "Star-Smasher's Secret" |
| All-Star Squadron #12 (August 1982): "Doomsday Begins at Dawn" |
| All-Star Squadron #13 (September 1982): "One Day, During the War" |
| Justice League of America #207 (October 1982): "Crisis on Earth Prime, Book One: Crisis Times Three" |
| All-Star Squadron #14 (October 1982): "Crisis on Earth Prime, Book Two: The 'Mystery Men' of October" |
| Justice League of America #208 (November 1982): "Crisis on Earth Prime, Book Three: The Bomb-Blast Heard 'Round the World!" |
| All-Star Squadron #15 (November 1982): "Crisis on Earth Prime, Book Four: Master of Worlds and Time" |
| Justice League of America #209 (December 1982): "Crisis on Earth Prime, Book Five: Let Old Acquaintances Be Forgot..." |
| More Fun Comics #81/5 (July 1942): "Code for Conspirators" |
| All-Star Squadron #16 (December 1982): "The Magnetic Marauder" |
| Star Spangled Comics #15/6 (December 1942): "The Trial of Robotman" [Behind the Scenes] |
| All-Star Squadron #17 (January 1983): "To Slay the Body Electric" |
| More Fun Comics #82/5 (August 1942): "Letters in the Sky" |
| All-Star Squadron #18 (February 1983): "Vengeance from Valhalla" |
| All-Star Squadron #19 (March 1983): "Death Considered As a State of Mind" |
| All-Star Squadron #20 (April 1983): "For the Dark Things Cannot Stand the Light" |
| All-Star Squadron #21 (May 1983): "A Tale of Three Citadels" |
| All-Star Squadron #22 (June 1983): "The Powerstone Corrupts Absolutely" |
| All-Star Squadron #23 (July 1983): "When Fate Takes Thy Measure" |
| All-Star Squadron #24 (August 1983): "The Man Who'll Know Too Much" |
| All-Star Squadron #26 (October 1983): "Talons Across Time" |
| All-Star Squadron Annual #2 (1983): "The Ultra War" |
| All-Star Squadron #27 (November 1983): "A Spectre Is Haunting the Multiverse" |
| More Fun Comics #83/5 (September 1942): "Mercury Messenger Service" |
| All-Star Squadron #31 (March 1984): "Uncle Sam Wants You" |
| All-Star Squadron #32 (April 1984): "Crisis on Earth-X! The Prequel" |
| All-Star Squadron #33 (May 1984): "The Battle of Santa Barbara -- Times Two" |
| All-Star Squadron #34 (June 1984): "The Wrath of Tsunami" |
| All-Star Squadron #35 (July 1984): "That Earths May Live" |
| All-Star Squadron #38 (October 1984): "Detroit Is Dynamite" |
| All-Star Squadron #39 (November 1984): "Nobody Gets Out of Paradise Valley Alive" |
| All-Star Squadron #40 (December 1984): "The Rise and Fall of the Phantom Empire" |
| All-Star Squadron #41 (January 1985): "Catch a Falling Starman" |
| All-Star Squadron #42 (February 1985): "Oh, Say, Can't You See?" |
| All-Star Squadron #44 (April 1985): "Night and Fog" |
| All-Star Squadron #45 (May 1985): "Give Me Liberty, Give Me Death" |
| All-Star Squadron #46 (June 1985): "Philadelphia -- It Tolls for Thee" |
| All-Star Squadron #64 (December 1986): "See You in the Funny Papers" |
| All-Star Squadron #50 (October 1985): "Crisis Point" |
| All-Star Squadron #51 (November 1985): "Monster Society of Evil" |
| All-Star Squadron #52 (December 1985): "From Fear to Eternity" |
| All-Star Squadron #53 (January 1986): "Worlds in Turmoil" [Appearance same as Crisis on Infinite Earths #5] |
| All-Star Squadron #54 (February 1986): "The Crisis Comes to 1942 (and Vice Versa)" [Appearance same as Crisis on Infinite Earths #5] |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #6 (September 1985): "3 Earths! 3 Deaths!" |
| All-Star Squadron #57 (May 1986): "Kaleidoscope" |
| All-Star Squadron #58 (June 1986): "I Sing the Body Robotic" |
| All-Star Squadron #59 (July 1986): "Out of the Ashes... Mekanique" |
| All-Star Squadron #60 (August 1986): "The End of the Beginning!" |
| All-Star Squadron #61 (September 1986): "The Origin of Liberty Belle" |
| All-Star Squadron #65 (January 1987): "The Origin of Johnny Quick" |
| Young All-Stars #1 (June 1987): "The Coming of the Young All-Stars" |
| Young All-Stars #2 (July 1987): "A Gathering of Heroes" |
| Young All-Stars #3 (August 1987): "A Call to Arms" |
| Young All-Stars #9 (February 1988): "You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Souls" |
| Young All-Stars #14 (July 1988): "Hell Hath No Fury" |
| Young All-Stars Annual #1 (1988): "The Mekanique Paradox" |
| Young All-Stars #15 (August 1988): "And Deathbolt Makes Three" |
| Young All-Stars #25 (May 1989): "Atom and Evil Part V: Armageddon '42" |
| More Fun Comics #84/5 (October 1942): "The Adventure of the One Man Movie" |
| Young All-Stars #27 (July 1989): "Meanwhile..." [Also appears in flashback to Secret Origins Vol. 2 #29/3 between panels] |
| Young All-Stars #30 (October 1989): "The Sons of Dawn Part III: When Titans Make War..." |
| Young All-Stars #31 (November 1989): "The Sons of Dawn Part IV: Men... and Super-Men" |
| More Fun Comics #85/5 (November 1942): "The Jest of Jason Biltwell" |
| More Fun Comics #86/5 (December 1942): "400 Years in a Day" |
| More Fun Comics #87/5 (January 1943): "The Luck of Jabez Ritcer" |
| More Fun Comics #88/4 (February 1943): "Tubby Watts, Hero" |
| More Fun Comics #89/4 (March 1943): "Prescription for Plunder" |
| More Fun Comics #90/4 (April 1943): "The Sting of the Hornet Fleet" |
| More Fun Comics #91/4 (May-June 1943): "Mystery of the Missing Fat Man" |
| More Fun Comics #92/4 (July-August 1943): "Hits, Runs, and Errors" |
| More Fun Comics #93/4 (September-October 1943): "Adventure of the Forty-Foot Shelf" |
| More Fun Comics #94/4 (November-December 1943): "Tubby Takes a Flyer" |
| More Fun Comics #95/4 (January-February 1944): "The Scoop That Was Thirty Years Too Late" |
| Manhunter Vol. 3 #23 (August 2006): "Psychobabble Part Four: Phantom Pain" [Flashback] |
| More Fun Comics #96/2 (March-April 1944): "T. Watts, Miracle Man" |
| More Fun Comics #97/2 (May-June 1944): "Trouble at Forty Below" |
| More Fun Comics #98/3 (July-August 1944): "Tall, Slim and Handsome" |
| More Fun Comics #99/5 (September-October 1944): "Models for Crime" |
| More Fun Comics #100 (November-December 1944): "Tubby Strikes It Rich" |
| More Fun Comics #101/4 (January-February 1945): "An Investment in Happiness" |
| More Fun Comics #102/3 (March-April 1945): "The Bird and Bee Bandits" |
| More Fun Comics #103/3 (May-June 1945): "Reflected Glory" |
| More Fun Comics #104/3 (July-August 1945): "The Missing Musicians" |
| More Fun Comics #105/3 (September-October 1945): "Hearse for Hoodlums" |
| More Fun Comics #106/4 (November-December 1945): "The Outlaw's Outing" |
| More Fun Comics #107/3 (January-February 1946): "Vacation with Double Pay" |
| Adventure Comics #103/2 (April 1946): "The Curious Cargo of the Bonnie Bess" |
| Adventure Comics #104/2 (May 1946): "Mr. Bee Goes to Town" |
| Adventure Comics #105/3 (June 1946): "Tubby Reduces" |
| Adventure Comics #106/3 (July 1946): "The Shipwrecked Romance" |
| Adventure Comics #107/3 (August 1946): "The Nightmare of Nicholas Norwich" |
| Adventure Comics #108/3 (September 1946): "Ghosts in Armor" |
| Adventure Comics #109/3 (October 1946): "Methuselah Manor" |
| Adventure Comics #110/5 (November 1946): "The Quick-Change Crimes" |
| Adventure Comics #111/3 (December 1946): "The Man Who Hated Speed" |
| Adventure Comics #112/4 (January 1947): "The Menace of Mercury" |
| Adventure Comics #113/4 (February 1947): "The Proof of Perpetual Motion" |
| Adventure Comics #114/5 (March 1947): "What's Past is -- Present" |
| Adventure Comics #115/3 (April 1947): "Tubby Watts, Cameraman" |
| Adventure Comics #116/5 (May 1947): "The Sultan of Flatbush Atoll" |
| Adventure Comics #117/5 (June 1947): "The Man Who Wore Ten Hats" |
| Adventure Comics #118/4 (July 1947): "Johnny Quick -- Bus Boy" |
| Adventure Comics #119/5 (August 1947): "The Scourge of Speed" |
| Adventure Comics #120/5 (September 1947): "The March of Crime" |
| Adventure Comics #121/5 (October 1947): "The Ninth Wonder of the World" |
| Adventure Comics #122/5 (November 1947): "The Speed Collector" |
| Adventure Comics #123/4 (December 1947): "The Adventure of the Antelope Boy" |
| Adventure Comics #124/5 (January 1948): "A Modern Cinderella" |
| Adventure Comics #125/5 (February 1948): "The Roamin' Roman" |
| Adventure Comics #126/4 (March 1948): "Tubby Watts, Athlete" |
| Adventure Comics #127/5 (April 1948): "Mayhem in the Meal-o-Mat" |
| Adventure Comics #128/4 (May 1948): "The Miracle Farmer" |
| Adventure Comics #129/4 (June 1948): "The Slowpoke Crimes" |
| Adventure Comics #130/4 (July 1948): "The Nimble Names Crimes" |
| Adventure Comics #131/5 (August 1948): "A Crime a Minute" |
| Adventure Comics #132/5 (September 1948): "The Phantom Formula" |
| Adventure Comics #133/4 (October 1948): "Concert of Crimes" |
| Adventure Comics #134/4 (November 1948): "Johnny Quick in the Future" |
| Adventure Comics #135/4 (December 1948): "The Showdown of Johnny Quick" |
| Adventure Comics #136/2 (January 1949): "Johnny Quick for a Day" |
| Adventure Comics #137/5 (February 1949): "Johnny Quick Makes History" |
| Adventure Comics #138/5 (March 1949): "The Johnny Quick Shave" |
| Adventure Comics #139/5 (April 1949): "The Film of the Future" |
| Adventure Comics #140/4 (May 1949): "The Man Who Hated Water" |
| Adventure Comics #141/4 (June 1949): "The Candid Camera Crimes" |
| Adventure Comics #142/5 (July 1949): "The Duel of Speed" |
| Adventure Comics #143/5 (August 1949): "The Runaway Formula" |
| Adventure Comics #144/5 (September 1949): "The Day That Was Five Years Long" |
| Adventure Comics #145/5 (October 1949): "My Kingdom for a Picture" |
| Adventure Comics #146/4 (November 1949): "Johnny Quick's Super-Search" |
| Adventure Comics #147/3 (December 1949): "The Speed Crimes" |
| Adventure Comics #148/5 (January 1950): "The Treasure of the Conquistadores" |
| Adventure Comics #149/5 (February 1950): "The Search of the Century" |
| Adventure Comics #150/3 (March 1950): "The Spectre's Magic Formula" |
| Adventure Comics #151/3 (April 1950): "The Lazy Names Crimes" |
| Adventure Comics #152/3 (May 1950): "The Doomed Safari" |
| Adventure Comics #153/3 (June 1950): "Case of the Lucky Loser" |
| Adventure Comics #154/3 (July 1950): "The Newsreel Crimes" |
| Adventure Comics #155/2 (August 1950): "Robinson Crusoe, 20th Century" |
| Adventure Comics #156/2 (September 1950): "The Menu of Menace" |
| Adventure Comics #157/2 (October 1950): "The Formula That Failed" |
| Adventure Comics #158/2 (November 1950): "Sheriff Johnny Quick" |
| Adventure Comics #160/3 (January 1951): "Quick Service for Johnny Quick" |
| Adventure Comics #161/3 (February 1951): "Caliph Tubby and Genie Quick" |
| Adventure Comics #162/2 (March 1951): "The Slow and Easy Club" |
| Adventure Comics #163/3 (April 1951): "The Secret of the Big Eye" |
| Adventure Comics #164/2 (May 1951): "The Battle of the Formulas" |
| Adventure Comics #165/3 (June 1951): "The Warrior of the Lightning Flash" |
| Adventure Comics #166/3 (July 1951): "Tubby, the Terrible Titan" |
| Adventure Comics #167/3 (August 1951): "The Super-Speed Swindles" |
| Adventure Comics #168/3 (September 1951): "Tubby, King of Comedy" |
| Adventure Comics #169/3 (October 1951): "Johnny Quick's New Assistant" |
| Adventure Comics #170/3 (November 1951): "The Bravest Cowards in the World" |
| Adventure Comics #171/2 (December 1951): "Slim Watts and Tubby Quick" |
| Adventure Comics #172/3 (January 1952): "Johnny Slow" |
| Adventure Comics #173/3 (February 1952): "A Super-Spending Spree" |
| Adventure Comics #174/3 (March 1952): "Tubby Watts, Efficiency Expert" |
| Adventure Comics #175/3 (April 1952): "The Man with the Magic Fingers" |
| Adventure Comics #176/3 (May 1952): "A Totem Pole for Tubby" |
| Adventure Comics #177/3 (June 1952): "Formulas from Space" |
| Adventure Comics #178/3 (July 1952): "Johnny Quick Meets Deadshot Dudley" |
| Adventure Comics #179/3 (August 1952): "The Modern Paul Bunyan" |
| Adventure Comics #180/3 (September 1952): "Johnny Quick's Outlaw Double" |
| Adventure Comics #181/3 (October 1952): "Joanie Swift, Queen of Speed" |
| Adventure Comics #182/3 (November 1952): "Johnny Quick, Ringmaster" |
| Adventure Comics #183/3 (December 1952): "The Whirlwind Vote-Getter" |
| Adventure Comics #184/3 (January 1953): "The Fastest Movie Ever Made" |
| Adventure Comics #185/3 (February 1953): "The Santa Claus Who Hated Christmas" |
| Adventure Comics #186/3 (March 1953): "Tubby Watts, King of Food" |
| Adventure Comics #187/3 (April 1953): "The Wizard of Westerly" |
| Adventure Comics #188/3 (May 1953): "The Man Who Outsped Johnny Quick" |
| Adventure Comics #189/3 (June 1953): "Too Many Speed Kings" |
| Adventure Comics #190/3 (July 1953): "Stand-In for 100 Convicts" |
| Adventure Comics #191/3 (August 1953): "The Impossible Deliveries" |
| Adventure Comics #192/3 (September 1953): "X Marks Tubby Watts" |
| Adventure Comics #193/3 (October 1953): "Thunderbolts on Mount Olympus" |
| Adventure Comics #194/3 (November 1953): "The Treasure of the Lost City" |
| Adventure Comics #195/3 (December 1953): "Prof. Watts' Problem Pupils" |
| Adventure Comics #196/3 (January 1954): "Johnny Quick, Traffic Cop" |
| Adventure Comics #197/3 (February 1954): "The Second Fastest Man" |
| Adventure Comics #198/3 (March 1954): "The Mechanical Fortune Teller" |
| Adventure Comics #199/3 (April 1954): "The Pirate Puzzle" |
| Adventure Comics #200/3 (May 1954): "The Human Bird" |
| Adventure Comics #201/3 (June 1954): "The 'Go Slow' Club" |
| Adventure Comics #202/2 (July 1954): "The Human Hot-Rodders" |
| Adventure Comics #203/3 (August 1954): "The Candid Camera Crime" |
| Adventure Comics #204/3 (September 1954): "Johnny Quick, King of Comedy" |
| Adventure Comics #206/3 (November 1954): "The Junior Newsreelers" |
| Adventure Comics #207/2 (December 1954): "The Courtship of Tubby Watts" |
| Flash Vol. 2 #109 (January 1996): "Dead Heat, Second Lap: A Swiftly Tilting Planet" [Flashback] |
| Justice Society of America Vol. 3 #8 (October 2007): "Bells & Whistles" [Flashback] |
| DC Special Series #11 (1978): "Beyond the Super-Speed Barrier" |
| Justice Society of America Vol. 2 #2 (September 1992): "Days of Valor" |
| Justice Society of America Vol. 2 #3 (October 1992): "Out of the Past" |
| Justice Society of America Vol. 2 #4 (November 1992): "Life on the Line" [Behind the scenes] |
| Justice Society of America Vol. 2 #5 (December 1992): "Only Human" [Behind the scenes] |
| Flash Vol. 2 #76 (May 1993): "Identity Crisis" |
| Flash Vol. 2 #77 (June 1993): "Suicide Run" |
| Flash Vol. 2 #78 (July 1993): "Blitzkrieg" |
| Flash Vol. 2 #79 (August 1993): "The Once and Future Flash" |
| Justice Society of America Vol. 2 #8 (March 1993): "Whispering Death" |
| Flash Vol. 2 #90 (May 1994): "On the Run" |
| Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #3 (September 1994): "Zero Hour" [Appears in flashback in JSA #66 between panels] |
| Flash Vol. 2 #96 (December 1994): "Terminal Velocity, Mach 2: All the Wrong Moves" |
| Flash Vol. 2 #97 (January 1995): "Terminal Velocity, Mach 3: The Other Side of Light" |
| Flash Vol. 2 #108 (December 1995): "Dead Heat, First Lap: Flatfooted" |
| Impulse #10 (January 1996): "Dead Heat, Second Lap: Disaffected Youth" |
| Flash Vol. 2 #110 (February 1996): "Dead Heat, Fourth Lap: Cut to the Quick" |
| Impulse #11 (February 1996): "Dead Heat, Fifth Lap: Breaking the Barrier" |
| Flash Annual #11 (1998): "Haunts" [As a ghost] |
| JLA Annual #2 (1998): "Life Itself" [As a ghost] |
| Infinite Crisis #4 (March 2006): "Homecoming" |
| Flash: Rebirth #3 (August 2009): "Rearview Mirrors" |
| Flash: Rebirth #4 (September 2009): "Flash Facts" |
| Blackest Night: JSA #2 (March 2010): "Troubled Souls" [Flashback] |
As a Black Lantern |
| Blackest Night: JSA #1 (February 2010): "Lost Souls" |
| Blackest Night: JSA #2 (March 2010): "Troubled Souls" |
| Blackest Night: JSA #3 (April 2010): "White Lightning" |