Mirror Master steals Flash's legs—and his super speed!

The Mirror Master's Master Stroke!

Police Forensics Scientist Barry Allen has just completed Professor Dobill's Success Course. Allen's girlfriend, Picture News Reporter Iris West, meets him, on graduation day, to make plans for lunch. West makes it clear she'll be satisfied by nothing less than Allen graduating at the top of his class. Allen's mind, however, is focused more on the recent news of the Mirror Master's escape from prison. Unbeknownst to Allen, the Mirror Master is actually one of his classmates, in Dobill's success course.

Using Dobill's guiding principles of success, the Mirror Master has been enjoying his most successful crime spree ever. Unable to contain himself any longer, the Mirror Master uses the mirrors in his special glasses to place the entire class in a trance. Moving to the front of the room, the Mirror Master addresses the class, boasting of the details of his latest crime. Interrupted mid-robbery by a night watchman, the Mirror Master dodged the guard's gunfire, before subduing him with a mirror weapon.

Encountering the Flash during the getaway, the Mirror Master unveiled his newest mirror weapon. After a blinding flash, the Mirror Master's legs were, inexplicably, swapped with the Flash's. Now able to run at super-speed, the Mirror Master fled. Running along on his hands, the Flash is able to catch up with the Mirror Master, and surround him in a super-speed generated whirlwind. The Mirror Master makes a break for it, then doubles back and clocks the Flash, knocking him out.

Another blinding flash from his mirror weapon, restores the Mirror Master's legs to him. Finished boasting of his criminal prowess, the Mirror Master retakes his seat, and releases the class from their trance. Very quickly, Dobill, Allen, and the rest of the class, realize they've experienced an entire hour of lost time. Allen takes note that the classmate sitting on his left, really the Mirror Master, has an empty ashtray at his desk. The ashtray on Dobill's desk has four cigarette butts extinguished in it, the exact number Allen's classmate usually smokes during class.

Studying his classmate's face, Allen sees through his disguise, and recognizes him as the Mirror Master. Moving faster than the eye can see, Allen uses the Mirror Master's glasses to put the class back in a trance. Quickly dodging the Mirror Master's attack, Allen punches the Mirror Master into unconsciousness. For solving the mystery of the classes' trance, and capturing the notorious Mirror Master, Dobill graduates Allen at the top of his class. A fact West takes great delight in, during their lunch date.

Fatal Fingers Of The Flash!

Using his Cosmic Treadmill, the Flash journey's into the far future, to the day the Earth died. The Flash finds the Earth a barren wasteland, devoid of life. His scientific curiosity draws him to several pools of liquid metal. Removing his gloves, the Flash finds the metal to have the feel and consistency of Mercury. As the sun begins to nova, the Flash takes several photographs. Relaxing his inner vibrations, the Flash returns to the present.

As Police Forensics Scientist Barry Allen, the Flash had been dining with his girlfriend, Picture News Reporter, Iris West. It was there that West revealed that she had written an article on the end of the world, after interviewing astronomer Coblentz Stanton. Professor Stanton had determined the exact moment the Earth's sun would go nova, destroying the world. Allen offered West the Flash's aid, in getting pictures of the Earth's last moments.

Upon returning to the present, the Flash finds his gloves disintegrating. Touching a table in his laboratory causes it to decay in a matter of seconds. The Flash experiments with several objects, and gets the same results. Coming into contact with the pool of liquid metal, has given him the uncontrollable power to rapidly age anything he touches. En route to find help for his condition, the Flash encounters a police chase.

The Flash runs down the criminal's car, and slaps all four wheels. The tires become brittle, and shatter. When the first crook exits the car, the Flash slams him back with a super-speed generated blast of compressed air. Still moving at extreme velocity, the Flash heats the air enough to melt the asphalt around the second crook's feet, then rapidly cools it, adhering his shoes to the road.

The Flash takes out the final crook by running around a pear tree at super-speed, and drawing the pears into his wake. Charging the last crook standing, the Flash drops down low, allowing the pears to rush past him at high velocity, and batter the crook into unconsciousness. Crossing a bridge, the Flash spies two young boys struggling in the river's rapids.

The Flash dives in, and has the boys grab his legs, as he swims them back to shore. After chastising the boys for not wearing life jackets, the Flash finally makes it to the research institute. The scientists there are baffled by the Flash's condition. Acting as if the Flash had been poisoned, the scientists have the Flash decay a bag of oats, then consume them. The decaying oats create an aging anti-toxin in the Flash's bloodstream, curing him of his rapid aging touch. In gratitude for procuring the photographs for her, West offers to take the Flash to dinner.