Tom versus the Flash number 166 or you could just use the front door.

Welcome back for the Flash number 166, the December 1960 issue,

featuring cover pencil by Carmine Infantino, inked by Joe Giella.

The entire issue is edited by Julie Schwartz.

Apologies if I seem exasperated. I just watch the badgers lose

my precious, precious Wisconsin badgers lose to the Xavier Musketeers. A little bit of drink.

Since the Sunday afternoon, I got a little bit of buzz on. So if I slur a few words, I get a few things

wrong. Don't sue me.

You can't. It's free.

I'm under no obligation to give you factual information.

Well, let's move on to the actual stories then.

The first story of this issue is the last stand of the three-time losers,

written by John Broome, penciled by Carmine Infantino, and inked by Joe Giella.

We open this issue with Barry Allen calling home, him and Iris have moved in together.

He's calling home to Sue. She's there. She's not there. She's obviously working late.

They both have careers. What a realistic comic. I'll get to more of that later.

He figures I'll stop by the office, I'll pick

up Iris. I'm working on this big experiment at work. It's, uh, it's stressful. You can tell

it's stressful because he has his tie untied. No stubble. He's no Mr. Fantastic. He's not

letting that facial hair grow just because he's stressed out. No, he just loosens the tie. The bow tie is untied. He's stressed out. He's going to walk home. I've done that. I've walked a really long way in Chicago. I walked from the Sears Tower to Second City once because I was stressed out. That's a long goddamn walk through dangerous areas, I might add. So I identify with that. And while he's walking, he is thinking about the fact that he's still contemplating whether or not to tell Iris that he's the flash. He realizes that he promised he would, but he can hold back on it. He's going back and forth on it when, bam. His costume pops out of his ring for no reason. He didn't do it. He didn't hit the usual motion that happened. No one was around to see it because it would have given him away. But he realizes it's from a strange vibration that's coming from a nearby building that sort of hit the ring and caused it to go off. I bet he's going to check out what's going on. Inside that building, where the vibration came from, we see a group of crooks breaking in using a silencer equipped

drill. That's probably where the vibrations come from. And we see who they are. It's the three-time

losers club. A bunch of dudes have been in jail a couple of times. They get caught again. They're

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