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Rod Gaynor

Rod Gaynor

26 appearances · Golden Age · 1940–2020 · 6 key issues
Who is Rod Gaynor?

Rod Gaynor made their debut in the very first issue of Flash Comics in 1940 — one of the most storied launches in Golden Age history — introduced to the world by creators John B. Wentworth and Stan Asch at a moment when DC was building the foundations of superhero comics. Sharing those landmark pages with icons like The Flash, Jay Garrick, Carter Hall, and Johnny Thunder places Rod in extraordinarily distinguished company right from the start. With appearances stretching across roughly eight decades and a presence in beloved titles like All-Star Squadron and Young All-Stars, this is a character whose roots run deep into the Golden Age and whose story kept finding new readers well into the modern era. Six key-issue appearances make Rod Gaynor a genuine collector's discovery — a figure woven into the very fabric of DC's earliest and most cherished history.

Teams & affiliations
Ghost Patrol
★ First appearance
Flash Comics #1
Jan 1940

Top series

Covers through the years — 1940–2020

Flash Comics #1 1940
Flash Comics #1
All-Star Squadron #31 1984
All-Star Squadron #31
All-Star Squadron #59 1986
All-Star Squadron #59
Starman #76 2001
Starman #76
Detective Comics #1027 2020
Detective Comics #1027

Appearances

All Star Comics [ashcan] (1940)
#1
All-Star Squadron (1981)
Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe (1985)
#25
Who's Who: Update '87 (1987)
#1
Young All-Stars (1987)
Starman (1994)
#76
Detective Comics (2011)