Tom versus the Flash number 124, or John Broome was not a fan of Garden Apartments.

Welcome back for the Flash number 124 of the November 1961 issue, featuring a cover,

Penciled by Carmen Am Fantino and inked by Joe Giella. The creative teams for both stories are the same.

Writer John Broome, Penciler, and Anfantino, In, Joe Giella, and edited by Julie Schwartz. Our first story is The Space Boomerang Trap. You get The Flash, you get elongated man, you get Captain Boomerang on this one. It's great. We open at a seaside resort where Ralph Dibney is chilling with his hot and rich wife, Sue. But is he occupied with his wife?

No.

He's preoccupied with a letter from his friend, The Flash.

You see, when two grown men back in those days developed a close friendship,

they'd communicate via letter for the rest of their life.

You know, sharing each other's problems.

Sort of like a dialogueuing journal of your feelings.

I suggest a lot of you start doing that.

It feels real good.

Well, in this letter that the Flash has written to Ralph,

he's explained that he's had some problems recently.

You see, Captain Bermain just got paroled out of prison.

And the Flash knew that Captain Bermanagh is the type of guy who's going to want to make a big splash right away. So he goes and looks in the paper, and he finds out that there's an exhibition of rare jewels, the Kormnormark Collection. And you know that's Captain Bormoran who's going to go after that. So the Flash ran down to the exhibition, and guess who was there?

Captain Boomerang, dressed in this ridiculous costume.

Remember, he had gotten it as part as an advertising campaign.

Well, now, I mean, he's embraced it.

He's really into it.

He's wearing, he's wearing the costume.

The Flash is shocked.

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