Tom versus the Flash, showcase number eight, or Len Snart doesn't have time to wait for periodicals.

Welcome back for Showcase number eight, the June 1957 issue, presenting The Flash, with a cover by Carmen Infantino and Joe Giella.

Cover is a giant hand pointing at the flash, you know, threatening him.

Standard issue for your giant hands on covers.

Here's something you're going to find out.

There are no giant hands in this issue, nor is there anyone pointing at the flash.

I don't know where this cover came from.

I don't know if they had an idea for a story involving this cover, but back at that time,

you come up with covers first sometimes, and then the story wasn't very good.

I don't know what happened.

Cover doesn't make a lot of sense.

And yes, that's right.

Showcase number eight.

The Flash debuted in Showcase Number 4.

It was popular enough to be brought back in Showcase

number 8, since Showcase was a bi-monthly title, if you loved that first issue of The Flash,

you had to wait eight months to get the next one. People would be clamoring today, so angry.

But yes, the first one was a hit enough to bring the book back. So let's get

into the first of our two stories entitled The Secret of the Empty Box, written by Robert

Canager, penciled by Carmen Infantino, and edited by Julie Schwartz. Great beginning flash page

of this. Splash page, I should say, of the flash on a tight

rope with some sort of magician-looking man taunting him. But we get into the story,

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