Tom versus the Flash number 176 or death sure likes to talk a lot, doesn't he?

Welcome back for the Flash number 176 the February 1968 issue featuring cover pencil by Carmine Infantino and inked by Murphy Anderson.

The entire issue is edited as always by Julie Schwartz.

Our first story in this issue is Death Stalks,

The Flash, written by John Broome, penciled by Ross Andrew, inked by Macca Esposito. We open in a

Central City hospital where Iris Allen is sick and looks terrible. She has a severe case of

grip, which I had to look up, because I don't know what that is. It's influenza. It's a bad flu. And she is doing terribly. The nurses brought her pills. The nurse is telling her husband will be back soon. That Barry had to run off on some sort of business emergency. Iris, of course, acknowledges what's going on. There's a little back and forth about it being some sort of special case. Iris really knows

that he had to go take care of something as the flash, and it was a huge emergency, even though

she's very, very sick. And we see a flashback to a news alert coming over the radio that

had escaped killer by the name of Dan Bolton had hold himself up in a hotel. I was threatening

to shoot people.

There's going to be a standoff. Barry says that he feels like he needs to go do it. She says,

quote, well, if you feel it's your duty, Barry, he says, I do, dear, and he takes off, no,

wrong move, Barry. When your lady says it like, well, if you feel like you have to do it, you should.

That means you don't do it.

You should have stayed there while she's sick and let Dan Bolton shoot people up.

We see Barry throw on the costume, give Iris, you know, like a hand squeeze.

Doesn't kiss her, but she's sick.

And we see him zoom out of the room, and we see a little bit of the difference of how Andrew and Esposito are going to treat sort of the motion of the flash as opposed

to how Infantino did it. And as we see Andrews sort of penciling it as a series of images moving

in motion while Infantino really leaned heavily on sort of motion lines and blurred action.

Iris is sort of unreasonably upset and just worried about the flash.

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