Tom versus the Flash number 108 or always be wary of strangers who come to your town carrying

canes and you smell like gorillas.

Welcome back for the Flash number 108, the September 1959 issue, featuring a cover

penciled by Cameron and Fantino and inked by Joe Giella.

Our first story in this issue is The Speed of Doom written by John Broome with art,

penciled by Carmen and Fantino and inked by Frank Giacoa.

We open this issue.

Barry Allen, Iris West, on a date at the park.

I don't know if I would take my date to the Central City Park,

because it seems that seems to be a hot spot for aliens, super-gorillas,

super-powered thieves, all sorts of bad stuff.

It's always storming.

It's always storming there.

We'll see this later.

Well, the structure of this story, the sort of framing sequences, they're out on this date. They're having a picnic and Iris wants to sit by her favorite tree stump. Why anyone would have a favorite tree stump is beyond me. But she does, and it's not there. And that causes Barry to think about what happened to him a week earlier so this whole story

you have to imagine is sort of being told as Barry and Iris are having lunch and Barry is just thinking

to himself the whole time silently eating not speaking to Iris I'd so wonder how these guys ever

get married it's amazing to me that this relationship lasts.

What an awkward meal to be to have.

Well, earlier in the week, as Barry is thinking to himself,

we see that when the Flash isn't fighting crime and he's not keeping up his second apartment,

he answers personal ads that

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