Tom versus the Flash number 134 or come take a seat on this park bench and let me share something with you.

Welcome back to the Flash number 134, the February 1963 issue, featuring a cover,

Pencil by Carmen Infantino and inked by Murphy Anderson. Our creative teams for both stories are the same.

Writer John Broome, Penciler Carmen Infantino, Inker Joe Giela, and edited by Julie

Schwartz.

Our first story is the man who mastered Absolute Zero.

You can tell from that.

It's going to be a Captain Cold story, so it shall be fun.

But we open not in a frozen locker or in a prison cell, but at Central City University,

where a giant computer-looking machine

is about to be tested for the 2000th time.

And it's not any machine, it's the lightning calculator.

That's right.

In the DC Universe, they've decided to harness

the power of lightning to fuel a giant calculator.

Imagine the math problems that this thing can solve.

Imagine all the dirty words you can write upside down,

8008.

You know what that says when you flip that around?

They have a sleigh problem at the university though.

For the last couple weeks, the LICAL, or a lightning calculator,

they sure heard the Lysk has been spitting out wrong answers, you know,

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