(Flash Comics #93) - Fiddler and his gang committed a robbery, and when Flash showed up he was surprised, saying he thought Fiddler was at the bottom of the river, but Fiddler replied that was exactly what he wanted flash to think. Flash tussled with fiddler’s goons, giving the villain enough time to escape in his violin-mobile, and after Flash dropped the criminals off at the police precinct Fiddler started shadowing him. Flash was late for yet another date with Joan Williams, and she was frustrated that he was always blowing her off, reminding him he wasn’t a one-man police force. She told flash he should consider retiring because it might make him realize the world could get along without him. Flash pursued robbers, and tried to rescue a bricklayer when he was in danger of being run over by them, but the bricklayer said he could handle himself. The bricklayer tossed bricks at the crooks, causing them to crash, and told Flash he wasn’t as fast as he used to be. Flash then came across criminals trying to take little kids hostage, but before he could intervene the kids knocked out the crooks with a few well placed marbles. Flash went after crooks in a motorboat, but their boat crashed into him, knocking him out, and a nearby fisherwoman had to rescue him. Flash wondered if he might actually be slowing down and in need of a vacation. Joan started ignoring Flash’s calls, and when he went to her apartment she said she didn’t want to see him again. Flash made the momentous decision to retire and announced it to the press. With Flash retired Fiddler went on a citywide crimespree, and Joan couldn’t help but feel responsible. She dressed up as the Flash, and using a trick Flash once taught her created an optical illusion using miniature mirrors sewed onto her costume that made it appear as though she had superspeed. She surprised Fiddler in the middle of a railway robbery, but after his initial shock at his foe being back he used the vibrations from his violin to knock her out. Fiddler was surprised at seeing a female Flash and was disappointed his scheme to force Flash to retire had failed. He’d overheard Flash’s argument with Joan and staged phony crimes with the “victims” saving themselves played by members of his gang. He prepared to run the railway car over Joan when the real Flash decided to come out of retirement and saved her. The panicked Fiddler fell from the elevated railway tracks to his apparent death. Joan asked for Flash’s forgiveness and begged him to never retire again.