Tom versus the Flash number 145, or it used to be customary to buy the lady an outfit on the first dates.

Welcome back to the Flash number 145, the June 1964 issue, featuring a cover penciled by Carmine Infantino and inked by Murphy Anderson.

Our creative team for both stories is the same.

Writer Gardner Fox, Penciler Carmine Infantino, Inker Joe Giella, editor Julie Schwartz,

our first story is.

The Weather Wizard blows up a storm.

We open with me questioning how good of a reporter Iris West is.

Because we see that she is at a high school auditorium reporting on a science fair. Not a lot of stuff going on in Central City when the picture news sends one of their top reporters to check out kids who have made miniature planetariums.

And Iris is having doubts, too.

She's wondering why her editor sent her here.

Looking at a miniature planetarium, everyone's clapping, how nice.

She's sort of distracted.

But then Tommy Davis gets up to show off his invention for the science fire, which is a weather

forecast machine.

Simple enough.

But whoa, he predicts snow, which causes everyone in the crowd to start laughing at the young

boy.

It's Jew and he can't snow.

And as we've seen in other comics, Central City audiences just love to rip on

the people on stage. They're merciless. They're like Philly fans, like Philadelphia sports fans.

I can see Central City audience like throwing batteries at Santa Claus. Tommy Davis defends his

machine and says it's going to happen, it's going to snow.

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