(Flash Comics #76) - The super-elixir that cured Worry Wart’s condition wore off and he returned to his old neurotic self, so he visited Jay Garrick and asked if the Flash could whip him up another batch. Jay gave him anti-worry pills, and told him to take one a month. Worry Wart figured two pills would be better than one, and overjoyed that he was no longer miserable after two pills he decided to swallow the whole bottle. Worry Wart was now completely carefree and ecstatic, giving off happiness-rays that spread across Keystone City. Everyone in Keystone gave up their responsibilities for revelry with banks throwing money at people and large groups of citizens singing in the streets. Jay and Joan laughed with each other, satisfied that they’d never have another worry in their life. Jay changed into the Flash to spread joy, but as he approached the city limits the happiness-rays wore off and he came to his sense, realizing happiness had to be earned and not taken for granted. Flash warned people about entering Keystone and made radio broadcasts warning any visitors to insulate their heads so they’d be immune to the happiness-rays. A group of crooks got the idea to insulate their heads and rob the carefree city blink, targeting jewelers, banks and other businesses. Flash made short work of them, ripping the turbans they were wearing on their heads so they’d become carefree like everyone else. Worry Wart visited a lighting works and almost fell into a generator, but Flash saved him. Flash said that if he’d hit the generator his concentrated happiness-rays would have turned the whole world carefree, completely halting human progress, so he hooked Worry Wart up to a device that drained the rays from his body and dissolved them in an acid solution. Worry Wart was back to his old miserable self, and Flash found that the citizens of Keystone were not grateful that they were back to normal. Instead everyone was depressed and angry that their brief happiness had come to an end, and Flash felt terrible, even if he knew he had to do what he did.

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