Tom versus Flash number 239, or maybe you can help her by making out with it.

Welcome back for the Flash number 239, the February 1976 issue featuring a cover by Ernie Chan,

with the entire issue being edited by Julie Schwartz. Our story in this issue, and we only got one

is the Taylor Made Crimes of Central City, written by Carrie Bates with art by Irv Novick and Frank McLaughlin.

Let me start off with an apology about my voice. I've had a bit of a cold the last couple days.

It's a little bit of a struggle to get through recording it. I'm going to bring you the same enthusiasm

with a slightly raspy, worn-out voice. World-weary what I'm going to call it. This story is a world

weary story. We see some cracks start to develop in that marriage between Barry and Iris, but we begin

not in the Allen household, but the countryside of Central City. And what is driving through this

countryside of Central City? Well, a payroll truck, an armored truck, carrying payroll,

million dollar payroll. It's driving along when the guards inside of it noticed something odd.

The entire truck is starting to crack like an eggshell. The car grinds to a halt.

Motor has stalled out. They're confused by what's going on. We see a hand tap the armor truck and it shatters.

Like it was made out of glass. It's none other than the Pied Piper using sonic vibrations at the proper frequency.

He was able to make the truck brittle enough to break as he reaches to get his pipe. One of the guards breaks out his gun, demands the piper hand it over.

Piper says, oh, well, you got the drop on me, here you go.

But as the guard grabs the pipe, it starts playing by remote control.

It pipe piper doesn't need it in his mouth for it to work.

Don't isolate what I just said.

So the remote control pipe is going.

It's causing the guards to dance a jig.

That is humiliating for them, of course. I do notice that the armored car seat still there. It was not

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