Tom versus the Flash number 302 are Frank Curtis, not necessarily the best at concentrate.

Welcome back for the Flash number 302, the October 1981 issue featured cover

Pencil by Carmen Infantino, inked by Dick Gerardano.

With the issue being edited by Mike W. Barr, our first story in this issue is Lisa starts with

L, and that stands for lethal.

Written by Carrie Bates, pencil by Carmen Infantino, inks by Bob Smith, lettered by Ben Oda,

colored by Gene DeAngelo. We begin the single intermin camp Utopia Towers, of which Barry Allen lives.

It's a late afternoon. Henry Allen has just arrived from the hospital. A doorman kindly asks, how is poor Nora Allen doing? Henry explains what she's doing so well. She may be able

to come back home later that week. I'm curious as to whether a married couple can stay in

Utopia Towers for that long. I mean, it's a place for singles to be kept away from the functioning people of society.

Henry Allen gets up to Barry's bachelor pad, walks in, surprise not to see Barry, because Tuesday's supposed to be his day off.

He sits down, sits down, opens up the paper, you know, to read it as a distinguished gentleman would do to find out about news of the world, and we see behind him an odd sight, a lighter and a pipe floating in there. The pipe floating across the room, going into his mouth,

and the lighter lighting the pipe, shocking. Henry Allen, as he doesn't know what's going on,

the pipe falls out of his mouth, burning the entire apartment complex down,

and the singles have to wander the countryside with no home, nowhere to go.

Now, I assume he catches the pipe, but we see something very interesting happening in the dining area, Barry Allen at Super Speed, setting the table, telling his dad not to dodle, his beef stew is even more horrible when it's cold. Oh, I have a Guinness Stew recipe, Barry, that you should use. He used the crock pot. It's easy.

I'm shocked by what's going on, Barry goes unexplained. Well, I was late, late starting dinner, and I kind of had to hurry up setting the table, and I didn't have time to throw on my costume, hits his ring, the costume pops up, throws on his Flash costume, and admits to his dad that he's the Flash. He's been the flesh for years, and he's been keeping it concealed.

And now that they've grown so close since his mother's been in the accident, it's time to tell him who he is. If he can't trust his dad, who can he trust? Though I do like the Barry pretty much tries to give his dad a heart attack before just saying, hey, I'm the Flash. Here, watch me go at super speed. So now Henry

Allen knows Barry Allen is the Flash. Even though Henry Allen wants to kill Barry Allen,

and we'll find out exactly why later in the same issue. Next day, Central City Park,

big parade for the Flash. It's a huge part of the budget. Everyone's hanging out. They're going to

unveil a new statue to celebrate all the Flash is done for the city.

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