Tom versus the Flash number 247 or sometimes a massage isn't the solution to your problem.

Welcome back for the Flash number 247, the March 177 issue featuring a cover penciled by Rich Buckler and inked by Frank Springer with the entire issue being edited by Julie Schwartz.

The story in this issue is the mad mad earth

of abracadabra written by carrie bates with pencils by irvnovic inks by frank maclaughlin we still

haven't gained back their coloring credit must have been hellful coloring job thought one time remember last

issue abracadabra lord barry allen the flash to the 64th century

where we set up a situation where it looked like barry killed abracadabra with a super speed punch and we

begin in the year 63 76 at the maximum security complex where we see a guard leading some aliens from the United

Planets. A little bit of continuity there is the United Planets is the same group that is in charge

when the Legion is around in the 30th century, and this is the 64th. And that's always a weird thing

with the DC Comics, where for a while, all the characters are going into the future, but now

the future is really sort of matched up.

And so it's a little call to that.

So the aliens are concerned, you know, who's housed in this type of way?

Please, Everett says, listen, most people are reformed.

For instance, last issue, we saw that since abracadabra sought applause.

The way to stop committing crime was just to have everyone applaud him everywhere he goes.

An elegant solution, but I question, what if someone's a pedophile?

What do you do to get rid of that?

You can't, there's no applause equivalent for that, or murder or serial killer, but most, apparently,

those problems are long gone. Most criminals are reformed, but there is a room, and we see them walking past for extremely dangerous criminals who are far too dangerous to reform.

The guard points the door and says there's no reason to be concerned, though.

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