Tom versus the Flash number 167 or let's just agree to forget about this one.

Welcome back for the Flash number 167, the February 1967 issue, feature cover pencil by Carmine and Fantino, inked by Joe Giella.

Of course, the whole issue is edited by Julie Schwartz.

This is a very special issue.

This is quite unique in the history of the flash. Shamasu, I'm exhausted. I am tired from

work, except I have a little loopy. It's because of that. But I'm dedicated. I got to get,

I got to get through this. There's 350 issues. I have a ton to go. I can't be stopping every time I get tired.

Our first story of this issue is an exceptional treat. It is entitled The Real Origin of the Flash, written by Gardner Fox, pencil with Carmine and Fantino, and inked by Sid Green. A new inker on the book.

Sid Stone kind of made it more cartoony, though I think the story itself is a little bit more

slapstickish, so that that would be pretty easy to explain. We start with the flash trailing some

diamond thieves down by the central city

waterfront. You know orphans hanging out there, little girls playing with dolls, diamond thieves.

And as he goes to make his move against him, he's doing his standard show off stuff,

spinning one around like a top, pushing another one into another. Now looking at how that guy got pushed, he is contorted horrifically.

I think the flash would have snapped his back.

Well, the flash is just tossing these guys around.

He throws one gap into the air, punches another guy so hard that his head runs into the other

guy's head.

It's almost quite brutal.

He grabs one guy, he's spinning him around in the air,

when all of a sudden the flash starts getting hot. He gets so hot that he bursts in the flames.

His protective aura doesn't seem to be working. Well, he drops the guys on the ground. He's done

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