Tom versus the Flash number 260 or make your own time travel rules.

Welcome back for the Flash number 260 to April 1978 issue feature cover by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez.

I'd like how he draws this flash on this cover. I like the mask. It looks cool. It looks like a costume, but not creepy costume,

like the Alex Ross Flash painting. The issue is edited by Julie Schwartz. Our story in this issue is

the 1,000-year-old root written by Carrie Bates, pencil by Irvnovick, inked by Joe Giella,

lettered by Ben Oda,

colored by Gene DeAngelo. We begin with Eric Russell. Eric Russell is Iris Allen's father

from a thousand years. And if you're trying, I know, if you haven't listened to prior ones,

leaping in now, Iris was really born in the future and sent back by her parents.

The future, it's messed up.

There's a nuclear war.

Lots of shit went down.

Some people survive, though, like Eric Russell and his wife.

And one of Eric Russell's big passions in the future is looking through micro-feche.

I assume.

To me, I imagine the most lasting medium in the DC universe

which will go through thousands of years to the Legion of Superheroes way off in the future.

Well, actually, I think the same century. Don't think about it too hard. But the lasting medium

of the DC universe is microfeche. And that's what

Eric Russell is doing in his lab. He's looking through stuff. He likes to go back through his family tree,

looking up his ancestors. Ancestors such as Philip Russell. But he found something interesting.

He found a photo from January 13th, 1978, showing his

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