Top versus the Flash number 226 or bromance, rogue style.

Welcome back for the Flash number 226, the March, April 1974 issue, featuring a cover by

Nick Cardi with the entire issue being edited by Julie Schwartz. Our first story in this issue is

the hot, cold war in central city.

Written by Carrie Bates, with pencils by Irv Novick and inks by Frank McLaughlin and

Dick Giordano, we start at the state penitentiary. Where a prisoner is getting released,

has a model record, an inspiration to everyone else completely reformed. The warden says he

wished everyone would be this

good coming out of this prison. There's a lot of problems. And there, and we see who it is. It's

Mick Rory, heat wave, our bald, rogue shaking hands with the warden saying, I've been inspired to

live a new life outside of myself. Well, this happy scene going on, we see a man putting his life back together.

Maybe he's going to aid society.

Who knows what he's going to do?

But not everyone's happy.

We see up in a cell overlooking the yard, none other than Len Snart, Captain Cold,

who is pissed about what's going on with Mick Rory.

Is he pissed that Mick stole something from him, that Mick didn't come to say goodbye?

No.

He's disgusted with the fact that he's pretending to go straight.

It breaks the super villain, the code of supervillains, according to Captain Cold,

the criminal cold. It's the responsibility of the criminal to constantly attempt to escape.

Captain Cold has never stayed in jail for the entirety of his sentence. He always escapes.

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