Tom versus the Flash number 139 or if you go 500 years into the future, make sure to lock your shit up tight.

Welcome back for the Flash number 139, the September 1963 issue entitled Menace of the Reverse Flash, written by John Byr and Penciled by Carmen Infantino, inked by Joe Giella, edited by Julie Schwartz, featuring a cover pencil by Carmine and Fantino, inked by Jokeyella, edited by Julie Schwartz,

featuring a cover pencil by Carmine and Infantino and inked by Murphy Anderson.

Yes, we get the introduction of the Flash's arch rival, the reverse flash, Professor Zoom.

We start with the view of the Earth with a strange satellite orbiting around it, and then suddenly,

bam, disappearing. We find out that it was expected

for the satellite to disappear, that it is in fact a special type of time capsule invented by a young

and brilliant physicist by the name of Dr. Walter Drake. You see, he's one of those guys who can't

wait the 10 years to open up a time capsule so you can look at how silly

garbage pail kids were in the past no you're going to make a machine that takes all the principles

of time travel to shoot a time capsule into the future so it'll be discovered hundreds of years

later and people can marvel all kinds of the stuff inside of it at that point isn't it really

just an artifact?

It's not so much a time capsule. I didn't think time capsules are something that adults were concerned

with. I always thought that was something kids would do, and then like 10 years later, kids would dig

them up. But at DC Universe, people are worried about time capsules, and they're trying to pick up

the pace. It also brings up the issue of if you're

creating a time capsule that you're shooting 500 years in the future and it just disappears and it's

not coming back i mean what's the difference between that and burying it i mean are they putting

our fruit in there the examples of uh 20th century fruit so people in the future can see how it

tasted differently. The stuff they're putting in there, I mean, they got an Elvis record, a baseball

glove, a suit, so people know what's going on, a camera, pictures of the Flash, and the Flash

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