Tom versus the Flash number 146 or step three in your two-step plan to success.

Welcome back for the Flash number 146, the August 1964 issue,

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

Our first story is The Mirror Masters Master's Masterstroke,

written by John Broome,

pencil by Carmen Anfantino,

inked by Joe Giella,

and edited by Julie Schwartz.

We see Barry Allen getting ready

for a big day.

If you remember way back

in issue number 136,

last time the Miramar Master

appeared actually,

Iris had been harassing Barry

to enroll in a success class. One of those bullshit seminar self-help classes where you all sit around and talk about why you're failing instead of actually doing something about it. Of course, Barry doesn't need it. He's the Flash and he's very successful, but Iris doesn't know that. She just sees him as a guy in a rut. So he's thrown on his bowtie. It's the last day of the class. He's been taking these classes for months. Imagine that. He's fighting bad guys as the Flash. He's got to go to this class during the week, you know, telling him how he's a screw up, all because he loves Iris so much.

It's the last day of the class. It's a graduation day. He shows up at the building, and Iris is

waiting outside. It says, take a step back, Iris, all right? Relax. She's there to make sure that

he showed up, and she's demanding that he graduate at the top of his class. It's a little, if you think

someone's not successful and they've been taking this class, see, don't keep that pressure on them

right at the end. Well, now Barry's like, oh, God, so now I've got to be the head of the class.

There's eight other people in this class, a very funny line that he said. You know, there's eight

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