Tom versus the Flash number 333 or set the Flash or Don Draper.

Welcome back for the Flash number 33. The May 1984 issue featured cover

Benson by Carmine and Van Dino, inked by Dick Giordano with the issue being edited by

Carrie Bates, one of my favorite covers. I just like how the flash, the actual word flash, is getting pulled down by the ropes.

I always think it's very dynamic. I think all of these covers from this time period are pretty dynamic. And so is the story, which is down with the flash.

Written by Carrie Bates, pencil by Carmine and Fantino, inked by Frank McLaughlin, letter by Ben Oda, colored by Carl Gafford. We begin, Flash Museum.

We know it's the Flash Museum, Piz, A, it's got Flash Museum written in big yellow letters

on a red wall, and B, the door has busts of the Flash in the corner.

See, you know, it's the Flash Museum.

It's a great look.

It's a little gaudy.

But the Flash is a bit gaudy. Outside of the doors, we see some suspicious-looking individuals

wearing purple jumpsuits, which is a villainous-style jumpsuit to wear. They also have mallets,

which means they're going to smash something.

They're talking back and forth. They're counting down to something. I can't tell what it is. Oh, that's because in the panel when they're counting down, there's nothing on the door, and then in the next scene there's dynamite attached to the door. I think it's just glass. They could just kick it in, but they're going to do destruction. We'll get to that in a second. Dynamite goes off, flash museums, glass doors are shattered.

We see that the people in the purple jumpsuits is one little boy, one old man, and one woman. And they're kind of going back and forth, arguing about the little boy's flippancy. The old guy knows how to get around the Flash Museum because he brought his grandson there. Are these people against the Flash? I don't know. I don't understand. Well, they run right in. They're dashing around the Hall of Rokes where you see all the rogue statues. The old man's got a plan. They got to get right to it. Different part of the museum. Cut away. Hidden. Dexter Miles, scared of these intruders. He heard the dynamite blast. He's on the phone calling the cops, telling him to put out all alarms. There are vandals. Numbered three, according to

Dexterosa. I wonder if the cops look. So there's three of them. Is that what you're trying to say,

Mr. Shakespeare? Dexter Mouse is demanding that a police car get over there immediately. Well, what are these vandals up to? Well, we see them get right up to the Flash's big statue inside, and they go to town on it. They're smashing it with mallets, breaking the head, breaking the leg. They're going crazy, yelling, down with the Flash, down with the flash, feeling invigorated by the attack.

And just as they're really getting into it, someone comes from around the corner,

it's Dexter Miles with a gun.

That's right, Dexter Miles has a gun.

Tells him to freeze, the lady picks up a rock, throws it and hits Dexter Miles in the head,

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