Jack Flash

Jack Flash
Adventure story character(s) from The Beano
Jack Flash from The Beano Book 1959, drawn by Dudley D. Watkins.
Publication information
Stars in
  • Jack Flash the Flying Boy (1949-1950)
  • Jack Flash and the Terrible Twins (1951)
  • Jack Flash (1955-1956, 1958)
  • The Happy-Go-Luckies (1956)
  • Jack's the Boy (1957)
Author(s)Uncredited
Illustrator(s)
First appearanceIssue 355
(19 February 1949)
Last appearanceIssue 3093
(27 October 2001)
Current statusDiscontinued
Character timelineIssues 355 – 388, 410 – 429, 453 – 484, 701 – 719, 740 – 749, 789 – 801, 824 – 835, 3093
Also appeared in
Beano works
DC Thomson works
Main Character
PowersFlight
Family
  • Ma Flash (mother)
  • Pa Flash (father)
  • Jane Flash (sister)
  • Jet Flash (brother)

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. He featured for almost a decade in five serials (told in eight arcs), following his time as a foreigner to Earth and living in a Cornish village.