Tom versus the Flash number 309, or this place is getting jammed up with time travelers.

Welcome back for the Flash number 309, the main 1982 issue, featuring a cover

Pencil by Carmen Infantino, Inc. by Dick Giordano, and it is a pretty looking cover with the

entire issue being edited by Mike W. Barr. Our first story in this issue is,

How do you kill a legend? How do you? Who knows? Written by Carrie Bates, pencil, by Carman, Infantino, Inc. by Dennis Jensen, colored by Gene D'Angelo. A letter is Milt Snape, and we begin a scene above the oceans of Earth. A beautiful day. Some clouds out there, a nice breeze, southwesternly breeze going along. ocean looks beautiful, something unusual.

Of course, there's something unusual in the scene.

It is a comic book. there, a nice breeze, southwesternly breeze going along. Ocean looks beautiful, something unusual.

Of course, there's something unusual in the scene. It is a comic book. It's a yellow spaceship,

just sort of flying around looking for something. And we're privy to the thoughts of the pilot of the ship. And he's thinking about, I've just arrived here, I've traveled all the way through time,

back to the 20th century, but I need to look for some signpost to make sure I am in the right place. So this driver, he's flying around Earth looking for these signposts to tell him whether or not he's arrived in the correct time. First place he goes is the Arctic, where he sees Superman's Fortress of Solitude, which is a good clue, He's in the right place. Goes down to Gotham,

finds the Wayne Manor, and his sensors detect the Bat Cave underneath. Even better

scientist he's in the right time. He goes flying off back towards the ocean, back towards an island

called Paradise Island, home of the Amazons and birthplace of Wonder Woman. Yet another clue that

he is in the right place, and then he flies straight

up into space 22,300 miles above sea level to the Justice League satellite, and it's the final

clue that he has arrived in the correct time. The glorious age of superheroes. Now he needs to find

the one champion that he desperately seeks to help him. He needs to go to Los Angeles.

Oh, you're expecting for me to say Central City because it's a flashbook.

Well, you're wrong.

He's heading to Los Angeles first, but we are on our way to Central City.

We go to Central City Park, a very dangerous park.

It's a blustery Saturday, snow everywhere, two figures running through the snow,

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