Tom versus the Flash number 173 or you know you're in trouble when you have women from

parallel dimensions coming to Nagia.

Welcome back for the Flash number 173, the September 1967 issue entitled Doomword Flight of the

Flashes, written by John Broome, penciled by Carmen Infantino, inked by Sid Green, edited by Julie Schwartz,

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

This story is reprinted in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest Number 2, and Crisis on Multiple Earth's

Teamups Volume 2. We start this time not in Central City,

but in Keystone City on Earth 2,

home of the Justice Society and the original Flash Jay Garrick.

He's in his backyard with his wife Joan,

just relaxing, perhaps showing some mojitos by the pool,

just kick back.

Joan's not relaxed though. She's pissed.

She's pissed because Barry hasn't told Iris that he's the Flash yet. She can't understand why.

She's known that Jay's been the Flash for a very long time. They've always trusted each other.

I would say to Joan, though, you can't put your parameters of your relationship on somebody

else's relationship.

But what works for you doesn't work for everyone, so she might want to back off on harassing Barry.

Well, she's so worked up about this that she thinks that someone ought to go tell him what to

do, that it isn't that dangerous.

You know, Joan Jones never been harmed because

she knows that he's the flash. She's hinting and hinting. She's angling for a trip to Earth

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