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Welcome back for the Flash number 284, the April 1980 issue feature of a cover,

penciled by Ross Andrew, inked by Dick Giordano, and edited by new Flash editor Len Ween.

Our story in this issue is, run Flash, run for your life, written by Carrie Bates, pencil by Don Heck, inked by Frank Chiramante, lettered by Milton Snapein, colored by Gene DeAngelo. Last issue of Flash in Professor Zoom, battling inside Professor Zoom's time-tripper glass bulb time travel devices, all time travel devices in the DC

universe seem to be.

Reverse Flash, Professor Zoom booby-trapped it so that if anyone besides him tried to use it,

it would send him back to before the beginning of time where no man could possibly exist,

hence killing them.

The Flash decided he was going to make a break for it.

He didn't want to die with the guy that killed his wife, so he jumped out of the time tripper just into the ether of time, which it looks fairly easy to do it. It's a lot of swirling in this issue, lots of swirly, swirling art everywhere. Very few really tight backgrounds for most of the book. Don Heck was able to get this one out quickly. So as we see Professor Zoom hurling back towards the very beginning of time,

screaming for the flesh, not to leave him alone. The flash is just floating around in time. He

can't control himself. He's out of sync with the rest of the time stream. He's moving incredibly

fast. It's not like he's in water or space or something,

so he can't really slow himself down. He's just being pulled around. In fact, he's being

pulled towards a giant swirling vortex, which he has never, he's never seen this before in all

of his time travel. It's probably because he's moving at such a weird vibrational rate.

The machine was moving backwards, as fast as it could. He jumped out of it. He's now vibrating.

It's obviously some weird pocket of time that he's never encountered. So he falls into the vortex,

starts spinning out of control. He doesn't know where he's going. He does notice about himself,

though, that ever the scientist, he's trying to figure out what

this vortex is, even while it could possibly mean the end of his life.

So as he's swirling down and down into it, he starts to get extremely tired, can barely

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