Tom versus the Flash number 175 or one of Superman's lesser known abilities is blowing up people's spots.

Welcome back for the Flash number 175 of the December, 1967 issue entitled The Race to the End of the Universe,

written by E. Nelson Bridwell, penciled by the new regular penciler, Ross Andrew, inked by the new regular

inker Mike Esposito, with a cover by Al Plastino, edited by Julie Schwartz, and you can find

this story in Limited Collectors Edition C-48 in Superman versus Flash trade paperback.

That's right.

It's a Flash versus Superman race.

Notice who I build first.

I should note, E. Nelson Bridwell, if you don't know who he is, he was a longtime editorial

assistant to Mort Wisinger, who was the editor in charge of the Superman books. And Bridwell

became very famous for being sort of the caretaker of all of the pre-crisis Superman law.

He's the one that made the Kryptonian language consistent everywhere.

He named all the creatures.

He came up with all the history.

He was a huge continuity nerd.

You can tell he got a little bit of his writing from Mort Weissinger.

As we'll see as this story goes on. We start with an anonymous call

to the Central City Police Station that the Weather Wizard is about to take out the Central

City power plant with lightning bolts. And right away, you're going to see the difference

between Ross Andrew and Carmen Antofanino. I love Ross Andrew. He's a very different

style from Carmen and Fantino, a little rougher hue and a little stockier, a little thicker

characters. A great comic book artist, but definitely a very big difference from Carmen and

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