Johnny Quick (Johnny Chambers)

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Johnny Quick is a Golden Age DC Comics character with the power of superhuman speed. He was a superhero who appeared mostly in More Fun Comics during the Golden Age. In the 1980s Johnny Quick's adventures were retconned into the reality of DC Comics' Earth-Two; this was done in the pages of the comic book the All-Star Squadron.

Johnny Quick is in truth Mr. Johnny Chambers, a newsreel photographer for Sees-All/Tells-All News. He invokes his power by reciting a mathematical formula ("3X2(9YZ)4A") taught to him by his childhood guardian, Professor Gill, who had in turn derived it from inscriptions found in a Pharaoh's tomb. After learning the secret to gaining superhuman speed, Johnny chooses to work as a mystery-man.

He was, for a time, married to Libby Lawrence (Liberty Belle I) and they have a child together, Jesse Chambers, who followed in their footsteps and became (alternately) Jesse Quick and then Liberty Belle II.