Tom versus the Flash number 298 or the colorist got a break for smart.

Welcome back for the Flash number 298, the June 1981 issue featuring a cover

Pencil bar Carmine Infantino, inked by Dick Gerardano, with the issue being edited by Lenween.

Our first story in this issue is A Deadly Shade of Peril, written by Carrie Bates, penciled by Carmen and Fantino, inked by Bob Smith, colored by Gene DeAngelo, lettered by Ban Odo.

We begin Monday morning, 11.34 a.m. The forensics lab in the Central City police station.

We see a flash costume popping out of a ring. It's Barry Allen throwing on his flash costume.

He's headed somewhere.

Slight problem, though.

He hears that in the hallway.

Captain Fry walking in and Patty Spivit trying to cover for the fact that Barry Allen isn't around very much.

You have a job in your superior.

You got to leave sometimes to go fight guys on motorcycles.

That's what happens.

But it isn't good for your reputation at work to constantly be gone because as they walk in

in, Barry's match to make himself invisible probably vibrating at super speeds and no one can see him.

Captain Fry makes a joke about the fact that if Patty wants to see Bear Ann, she might want to start going to the unemployment office, because he's going to be a regular there. She's surprised that he's not in the lab, but they didn't see him walk out. And at this point, she just said she's got to tell Captain Fry something that he doesn't know. And we'll find out just a minute. And we see where Barry is headed off to. The flash runs past Mississippi Speed today.

No, no. It's the hospital parking lot. It's where Barry Allen's mom is.

Henry Allen, Dr. Henry Allen, piping mouth looking at his watch, pissed off that Barry isn't there yet,

just sat hanging around in the parking lot when a young man walks into himpton. We recognize this

young man as Jack. The young careless guy whose sports automobile ran the Allen's car off the road,

putting the Allen's in danger, putting Nora into a coma. He's trying to apologize. He feels

awful for what's happened. Now, we know something suspicious is going on with Dr. Henry Allen

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