Tom versus the Flash number 149 or I proposed to my fiancé at Bread and Breakfast Room by Captain Cold in Door County.

Welcome back for the Flash number 149, the December 1964 issue featuring a cover of pencil by Carmine Infantino and inked by Murphy Anderson.

Our first story is The Flash's sensational risk written by John Broome, penciled by Carmine and Fantino,

inked by Joe Giella, and edited by Julie Schwartz. We open in Blue Valley, the home of

Wally West, Kid Flash, who's awakening on a Saturday morning thinking, I don't have to go

to school, I can roll over and go back to bed when

all of a sudden explosion nearby rocks the entire house, throwing him out of his bed.

He runs downstairs, his mother's losing her shit.

She's obviously concerned there was an explosion nearby.

While he runs out the door saying, I'm going to find out where that explosion is.

His mom doesn't stop him. That's interesting.

I would keep my kid indoors if there was a giant explosion nearby. They let him go. She doesn't

know his kid flash, but he gets outside, he throws on his costume. He starts searching for wherever

this explosion came from. And he comes to a nearby crater several miles from his home.

You know, it's got smoke coming out of it. It's huge. It's a big crater. He gets up to it.

He starts to run down the side of it to see, you know, what's at the bottom, if it's like a meteorite or something,

when all of a sudden these strange energy waves start hitting him. And he starts, you know,

he thinks the energy waves obviously caused this type of explosion,

but just like a riptide, like how when a giant wave hits the beach and the water

pulling back will suck things out to the ocean, these waves are starting to retract,

and now Wally is caught up in these waves, and he's sucked down into the crater,

which is kind of a cool, cool visual.

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