Tom versus Flash number 234 or everyone heard him screaming but nobody wanted to help.

Welcome back for the Flash number 234, the June 1975 issue featuring a cover penciled by

Ernie Chan with Inks by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez with the entire issue being edited by Julie Schwartz.

The first story in this issue is, I'm going to kill you, Flash, but not till I'm good and ready.

Written by Carrie Bates, penciled by Irv Novick, inked by Text Blaisdell.

We begin with a horrifying scene inside the Flash Museum.

The Flash laying on the ground, four rogues standing above him, Captain Cold, Pied Piper, Captain Boomerang, and Heat Wave. Have they finally won? Have they finally defeated the Flash? Don't worry. Don't cry. Don't drop the podcast, but the Flash is dead. It's not exactly what it appears. Because running through the halls of the Flash Museum is a police officer and Dexter Miles, the curator of the Flash Museum. You see these figures we saw, this scene we've seen. It's simply some wax replicas posed in this manner that Dexter Miles found in the museum, and he's called the cops. No locks have been broken. Nothing's been stolen. No alarms have gone up. How did these figures get arranged

in this manner? Textra Miles believes it's simply a warning to the flesh that he's going to end up

as dead as a wax figure and that the four rogues have been set up as a smokescreen so the flash

can't guess which one of the four it is. I would just not put myself in as one of the four,

but it's not how you fight a

superhero if you're a supervillain. You got to leave clues. You got to leave clues.

The cop and Dexter talking, Dexter says maybe we shouldn't let anyone find out about this. We got to

keep this under a lid until we can figure out who's doing it. We don't want to freak everybody out.

We also have to let the Flash know first so he can be ready for what's going to happen.

I mean, they're used to playing the PR game at the Flash Museum. The scandals, constantly,

the sex rooms. God knows what Dexter's up to with interns at this place.

While they're having this discussion, a flash goes off. A reporter has snuck in to the museum.

Dexter Miles freaks out, tells the cop to grab the cameraman. Freedom of the press

does not exist when it comes to the Flash Museum. If Dexter Miles can see you,

he can crush your civil rights. Well, they give chase, but he has alluded them. Dexter Mal's

not being in great shape, and neither is the cop. Of course, it is suspicious that reporter,

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