The introduction of the Flash in Showcase 4 (September-October 1956) is in the running. Titled "Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt!", the story tells of the accidental creation of the Flash when police scientist Barry Allen is struck in his lab by a lightning bolt.
The first DC reprint is five years later in the Secret Origins Annual (1961), which itself was reprinted in 1998. But the earliest reprint is just three months after the original by the Australian publisher K.G. Murray in their The Hundred Comic Monthly. There are eight other reprints.
Hundred Comic Monthly, The #3 (K. G. Murray, 1956)
Secret Origins #1 (DC,Summer 1961)
Secret Origins #1 (DC, February-March 1973)
Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1976)
DC Silver Age Classics Showcase 4 (DC, 1992)
Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1991)
Essential Showcase 1956-1959, The (DC, 1992)
Flash Archives, Volume 1 (DC, 1996)
Secret Origins Replica Edition #1 (DC, 1998)
Millennium Edition: Showcase 4 (DC, 2000)
Showcase Presents: The Flash #1 (DC, 2007)
I haven't seen the original comic but in comparing seven of the DC reprints the only difference is the colouring. Five have identical colouring, including the Archives volume. The original Secret Origins Annual and The Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told have different colouring.
Secret Origins 1 - 1961
Secret Origins 1 back
Silver Age Classics Showcase #4 - 1992
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