Jack Flash is a British adventure story character published in the British comic magazine The Beano, first appearing in issue 355 with artwork by Dudley Watkins.
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15 Facts About Jack Flash
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Jack Flash featured for almost a decade in five serials, following his time as a foreigner to Earth and living in a Cornish village.
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Jack Flash is the son of a scientist from the planet Mercury, who sneaks away from his family and leaves in his father's rocket.
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The rocket lands on Earth in Colbay, Cornwall, and Jack Flash uses his power of flight to help and bond with the villagers, usually catching petty criminals and rescuing people from danger.
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Jack Flash is fair-haired and wears red long johns and a black leotard with a lightning bolt on the chest.
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Jack Flash had six sagas featured in the magazine for nine years between issue 355 and 835, with artwork by Dudley D Watkins, Fred Sturrock, Paddy Brennan and Andy Hutton, respectively.
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Flash's first story, Jack Flash the Flying Boy, followed Flash's adventures after he arrived in Colbay.
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Jack Flash officially left The Beano in 1958, last appearing in issue 835, but made appearances in other Beano media.
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Jack Flash has featured in The Beano Annual in both new stories or cameoing in artwork: 1953's edition was another story about his twin siblings causing mischief, his solo features in 1951's, 1952's, 1954's, 1958's, and 1960's, a Dudley D Watkins-drawn issue reprint in The Beano Book 1959, and he appeared on the front cover of 1953's, the back cover for the 2000's, and inside 2019's edition with 254 other characters from The Beano history.
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Spin-off Beano magazines, Jack Flash had his own strip in Beano Summer Special 2003, and appeared in issue 1 of BeanoMAX.
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Adventure strips initially out of Beano canon for over twenty years meant Jack Flash's stories were reworked as funnies, with BeanoMAX portrayal making Jack Flash comedic and having crossovers with comic strip characters Billy Whizz and Calamity James.
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Audience reception at the time is unavailable to the public, but Jack Flash became one of the longest-running characters in The Beano adventure story genre, along with Jimmy Watson and General Jumbo .
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Female version of Jack Flash, named Jackie Flash, appeared from issue 347 to 380 in the DC Thomson comic Mandy in 1973.
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Jack Flash's could fly, could communicate through telepathy, and create force fields.
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