Tom versus the Flash number 113 or John Broome seems to have a big problem with the circus.

Welcome back for the Flash number 113, the July 1960 issue featuring a cover,

pencils by Carmen and Fantino, inked by Joe Gala. Both stories in this issue, done by the same team.

Written by John Broome, penciled by Carmen Infantino, inked by Joe Giella, edited by Julie Schwartz.

Our first story is Danger in the Air, a jetliner heading towards Central City, of course.

You may not know this, but Maya 3A is Central City,

big hub city for your DC Universe airlines.

Being central, of course, it's not an ironic name.

Central City, I think, is probably Central United States.

There's a lot of airlines coming and going.

Well, this jetliner's coming in.

Problem, though.

Smaller jet pulls up next to it, starts shooting some shots in the air. All of a sudden, this jetliner's coming in. Problem, though. Smaller jet pulls up next to it, starts

shooting some shots in the air. All of a sudden, the jetliner pilots here, a little message

in their, in their headphones telling them that they need to keep their speed at three air miles

an hour and open their door, and no one will get hurt. Yep, that's right. It's a stick up in the air. We see from one of the smaller jet, if you could climb out of the cockpit, run across the wing, and then start running through the air towards the bigger jetliner. Forget physics. Forget the fact that why, how could he run, how would he maintain the speed running

through the air once he leaves the shed? Who knows? Who knows? It doesn't matter. It's the beauty

of comics. You never have to explain this type of stuff. So the guy running from the, uh, from the

smaller jet to the bigger jet was wearing sort of a rather foolish, clownish-looking costume.

And he's running on air.

And his name is the trickster.

That's right.

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