Tom versus the Flash number 153 or, you know, brainwashing isn't bad all of the time.

Welcome back for the Flash number 153 entitled The Mightiest Punch of All Time, written by John

Broome, penciled by Carmen Amfantino, inked by Joe Giella, and edited by Julie Schwartz,

featuring a cover penciled by Carmen and Fantino and inked by Murphy Anderson.

This very same story is reprinted in the flash number 196.

We start this story in the future, in the 25th century, outside of a prison where the new cycle of today is in the future.

Everyone's gathered around for a very important prisoner has been released.

None other than Professor Zoom.

In fact, we get his real name.

Iobard Fawn has been released out of prison, calm and serene.

Everyone's interested waiting for him to snap.

But no, because he's gone through the quote-unquote reform school inside the modern, well, I should say not the modern.

The futuristic prisons of earth.

See, in the future, they brainwash people to be good, sort of a little bit like clockwork orange.

They show the fact that since he was such an advanced criminal, they had him go through all

these systems, this new way of learning, and it's affected his mind to the point where they can

put him into the cerebro scanner. They ask him questions, you know, are you going to kill someone,

are you going to rob a bank?

And there's a couple of lights, three lights, two on each side and one on top. It's ridiculous looking, you know. You can have the orange light means that the machine can't tell what he's

thinking. Green means he's all good. And red means he's bad. Oh, they have him go through the

test with his silly hair and everything, and bang, green light.

He's good.

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