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Issue Details

Issue #138
Published August 1963
Frequency monthly with the exception of January, April, July and October
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Additional sequences and character appearances from Donald Dale Milne, 1/7/2006.

Cover Details - "The Pied Piper's Double Doom!"

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]; Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Pied Piper [Hartley Rathaway]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Murphy Anderson
Notes Additional sequences and character appearances from Donald Dale Milne, 1/7/2006.
Reprinted in Flash Archives, The (DC, 1996 series) #5 (March 2009); in Showcase Presents The Elongated Man (DC, 2006 series) #1

13 page Flash story "The Pied Piper's Double Doom!"

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]; Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Tower City police officers; Sue Dibny; Iris West; Pied Piper [Hartley Rathaway] (villain)
Synopsis The Pied Piper uses his musical control to force both The Flash and The Elongated Man to commmit robberies and forget they did so, but the heroes meet while trying to solve each others' crimes and realize the Pied Piper is behind the scheme, and defeat him.
Genre Superhero
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Refers to Flash #106 and #113. Flash is able to temporarily stretch using one drink of Gingold. The reprint issue credits the script to John Broome.
Reprinted in DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #24 (February 1981); in Flash Archives, The (DC, 1996 series) #5 (March 2009); in Showcase Presents The Elongated Man (DC, 2006 series) #1

1 page public service announcement "How NOT To Enjoy A Vacation!"

Characters Mr. Green; Mrs. Green; the 2 Green children; Terry (the Greens' dog)
Synopsis Terry relates all the results of poor planning by Mr. Green on his last vacation.
Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira
Notes Sequence is between Part 1 and part 2 of sequence 1. Credits from a list by Lionel English.

1 page letters page "Flash-Grams"

Characters none
Script Julius Schwartz
Notes Letter from Jerry Bails regarding the relative merits of the current Flash stories vs. the stories from the 1940's. For his comments, Jerry is awarded the original artwork for Part 1 of "Secret of The Three Super-Weapons."

10 page Kid Flash story "Mystery of the Matinee Idol!"

Characters Kid Flash [Wally West]; Dexter Myles (first appearance); Blue Valley Summer Festival Commissioner; Mayor of Blue Valley; Sheriff of Blue Valley; Rudolph West; Mary West; Charley (villain); 2 unamed common crooks (villains)
Synopsis Two crooks try to use Dexter Myles as a diversion to stage a jail break of their comrade, but are foiled by Kid Flash, and Dexter is awarded a spot in the summer festival Playhouse production.
Genre Superhero
Script John Broome
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Joe Giella
Notes A new feature of Kid Flash's new costume appears for the first time; the hair spray used to change his hair from red to brown when appearing as Kid Flash. Intro Dexter Myles, who later becomes curator of the Flash Museum.
Reprinted in Flash Archives, The (DC, 1996 series) #5 (March 2009)