Tom versus the Flash number 249 or Never Rough Your Partners Apes.

Welcome back for the Flash number 249 in the May 1977 issue feature in cover

Penciled by Rich Buckler, inked by Jack Abel with the entire issue being edited by Julie Schwartz.

Our story in this issue is a hero named Super, written by Carrie Bates, pencil by Irvininovich, inked by Frank McLaughlin, colored by Jerry Serp, lettered by Deborah Shulman. Colors and Letters, come get your credit. Jeanette Con, did you force this as new publisher? Well, Deborah Schulman does a great job, just wanted to mention it. You may remember previous issue. The Allen's next door neighbor, Barney Sands,

came up with some super villain in his mind called master villain. An alien entity entered his

mind, stole the idea, brought the drawing to life. Now he's running around like an adult villain

with the mind of a kid, just sort of wrecking shit, getting up in the Flash's business,

wrecking Central City stomping things to a second dimension in the Flash campaign and we're in trouble. Also, side note, plot B, Daphneed in town, amnesia, hoping that Barry Allen can help her remember what's going on, or doctor, told her to do it. So there we go. Where do we start though? Do we start where we left Defend? We start with a flashback way to the past, right? When Iris and Barry had just got married, we see Barry in bed asleep with a... That's my sleep sound. It's Professor Zoom. Got to switch to the flash and get after that criminal, and we see Iris laying up lamp and bed think, wow, I'm married to the

flash. Remember, that's how she really found out. Because Barry talks in his sleep and he talks

about being the flash and she knew. Well, why are we start there? Because we're coming back to the

present. Same situation. Barry, longer hair, Iris, more fashionable hair. Barry's asleep, but is he

talking about being the flash? No. he's talking about Daphne Dean.

Oh, Barry, why?

You're heading straight towards a divorce, because of course Iris is pissed that she has to sit

here and listen to Barry having some sort of dream about Daphne.

And saying things like, try, Daphne, try, think back, try to remember that great times we had together. Like that night of our senior prom, the moonlight swim in the park. And Barry starts smiling, and Iris freaks up his obviously Barry had sex with Daphne that night. Come on. It was the, that's what you did. Senior prom, you had sex with your date. I didn't. Long story. I don't want to get into it. But Barry, obviously, he's smiling. Iris is pissed. Doesn't want to hear the rest of it. She's sitting there thinking I'm so freaking sick of listening to Barry talk about Daphne Dean. As anyone would be, you don't want your spouses, ex-girlfriend or boyfriend showing up up and then you got to listen to him talk all

the time about it. It's just, it's sickening. You get a quick flashback to explain why Daphne is in

town. Iris starts to fall asleep when she's awoken by the ringing of an alarm. Now it's the phone.

And is it Daphne Dean? She'll lose her shit if it is now. Somebody else is called him.

Barry's answered.

Barry is suddenly scared.

The color goes out of his face.

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