Timbers to Flash number 319 or a good assassin uses the tools he's been given.

Welcome back for the Flash number 319, the March 1983 issue feature cover

Benzled by Ed Hannigan, inked by Dick Giordano, another cover that has nothing to do with

what goes on inside the story.

Now, visually, something does happen that's kind of similar to this, but the person certainly isn't

almost killed by the Flash's speed.

Once again, the Eradicator storyline has claimed yet another cover as a victim, another confusing

cover.

Our first story in this issue is a Slight Touch of Death, written by Carrie Bates, penciled by Carmen Infantino, inked by Dennis Jensen, colored by Carl Gafford, lettered by Banna Oda.

We begin, where we left off last issue, Captain Invincible in the Flash, falling from the side of a giant building in Central City. Remember,

the flash is unconscious stuck in the wall at Creed Phillips penthouse. There was an explosion.

Captain Invincible tried to break him out with his cardio power. More on that later.

Just blew the wall wide open. They're both falling to the death. The cops are just kind of standing

down there, just exclaiming to each other

how horrible it's going to be when both the Flash and Captain Invincible hit the ground,

you know, smashing into the ground. Not doing too much about it, not that they could do anything

about it, but it's just the weird, the number of interchanges about them, just sort of along the

lines of, oh, it's going to be horrible. Yeah, it's going to be awful. The Flash is unconscious. Usually the Flash would have some sort of super speed trick to save them. Well, Captain Invincible, Darrell Fry, is making his move to try and awaken the Flash by slapping him, open hand slap back and forth and back and forth, trying to wake him up. The cops see this happening. Stone's about to hit the ground. They see Captain Invincible slapping him in there. I mean, that's impressive. Daryl Frye to keep his wits about him to the level that he's able to slap the flesh. Finally, the flash does wake up, gathers his wits enough about what's going on, to make a super speed move to grab the cape from Captain Invincible's back,

wrap it around a flagpole as they're falling to break them enough so that he can

gently let them down by kicking and using the cape, but the physics of this doesn't work

because he's way up in the air when he snags the flagpole, but then you see him land on the ground holding

onto a piece of it like he swung down. That's an impressive cape. I don't think that's true.

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