Tom versus the Flash number 277, or the best way to deal with grief is to bottle it up inside and never tell anybody.

Welcome back to the Flash number 277 in September 1979 issue, feature and covered by Dick Giordano with the issue being edited by Ross Andrew.

Our story in this issue is The self-destruct flash written by

Carrie Bates, pencil by Alex Savick, inked by Frank McLaughlin, lettered by Benota, colored by Gene

DiAngelo. Last issue, right, remember the flash all hopped up on angel dusts from the party

where Iris got killed, apparently by York, and he's freaking out. Iris is dead. He went to the satellite to get help from his quote-unquote friends. They of course turned him down because they can't bring Iris back to life. Well, he flips out. He's starting to destroy the satellite, destroy the Justice League. That's where we start off. He's in the satellite, screaming, ranting, raving, Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Green Lantern are there, and they got to try and do something to stop him. Hey, the Flash is hard enough to beat when he isn't juiced up on Angel does. The Justice League being master tacticians decide the best way to get the Flash is just do all of them charge at him at once, which of course doesn't work because he runs out of their way at Super Speed. So they're all jammed in together, and the flesh starts running around them at super speed. So fast, it's creating a vacuum that's pushing Batman and Green Lantern into Superman, so hard that they can't breathe. Now, this isn't a problem for Wonder Woman Superman, because, you know, they're so powerful, the vacuum isn't really affecting them. But it's choking the shit out of Batman and Green Lantern, so something has to be done. Finally, Superman makes him move, sticking his arm out, close-lining the flash as he runs by at SuperSpeed, which dazes him. Superman picks him up. They got to have a plan, though, they restrain the Flash before he regains his senses. Green Lantern wraps some green energy bands around him,

but he can't wrap up his feet because of the yellow boots.

Wonder Woman takes care of that by throwing her magic lasso around his feet.

Well, even that's not enough as the flash starts pulling himself back together.

He starts spinning so fast he drills himself into the ground.

Superman reaches down and grabs him quick

to find that the flash has passed out from sheer exhaustion.

I mean, it's obviously only temporary, so the league quickly has to figure out what's wrong with the flash.

Superman's concerned there might be some type of permanent damage that's driven him insane, but maybe it's chemically induced from the drugs.

Green Lantern's hoping for the best thing. It's temporary.

It's obviously the drugs, the grief, the emotional overload,

but they're going to scan them to figure out.

So Green Lantern starts scanning his body.

Superman starts using his supervision to check out what's going on.

Yes, it's angel dust, all right.

As Green Lantern says, a dose big enough to kill an elephant.

Also, Superman's traces of PCP and other junk drugs.

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