Tom versus the Flash number 116, or I Can't Avoid Talking About Taxes.

Welcome back for Flash number 116 on November 1960 issue featuring a deceptive cover,

pencil by Carmen Anfantino, and inked by Jogiel, it's deceptive.

But the man in the cover's not the bad guy in the story.

You'd be led to believe that. Both stories in this issue, written by John Broome, pencil by Carmen and Fantino, inked by Jogiela, and edited by Julie Schwartz. Our first story is The Man Who Stole Central City. Great opening splash page. We have the flash running towards the house, a shadowy figure inside the house with a gun.

You just see the silhouette and the flash thinking,

how can I avoid my fate?

Interesting, intriguing.

You want to read more.

We start on World 86 and Dimension 24 of the Cosmos.

Remember, this is before the multiverse has been created,

so we don't have any sort of multiverse tying continuity together.

This is just made up.

Well, they're all made up, but this is even more just randomly made up alternate dimension.

And on this alternate dimension, we're in a classroom.

A classroom run by teacher El Leiter, who has, on his desk, a miniature miniature version of central city not only is it just a

miniature model it's an exact duplicate of what's going on on earth's central city meaning there's

tiny observable people inside of it tiny rogues tiny flash tiny milk trucks tiny bitchy iris west

sitting in this duplicate of central city it's a tool used by the teacher

to teach students about humanity they can observe what's going on they can learn about our culture

our obsession with timeliness and in this issue a little bit about taxes the teacher a lighter

goes into a story about how every year he has to go back to Earth

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