The Flash feels guilty when he believes he's responsible for paralyzing a young basketball star's legs. Finale for a Fiddler!

"Million-Dollar Dream!"

The Flash encourages a crippled Hispanic boy, Pablo Hernandez, into walking. Hernandez stands up from his wheelchair, but falls as he takes his first step. Hernandez curses the Flash, blaming the Scarlet Speedster for putting him in the wheelchair. As the Flash exits the hospital, Hernandez's doctor informs him that Hernandez's paralysis is trauma-based. Hernandez could walk, if he only had the will to do so. The Flash's guilt paralyzes him into inactivity, when a group of crooks try to run him over.

Picture News reporter, Iris West, pulls the Flash to safety. Exiting their car, the crooks attack West and the Flash. The Scarlet Speedster still does nothing to defend himself. Only when he hears West's cries of distress is the Flash moved to action. Within a matter of seconds, the Flash has beaten all of his attackers into unconsciousness. The Flash, and West, continue to wander the streets of Hernandez's neighborhood. The Flash is treated with scorn everywhere he walks.

A month earlier, West had been assigned to write an article about Hernandez, known as "El Flash Espanol"( The Spanish Flash), for his lightning swiftness on the basketball court. The Flash joined West, to meet his namesake. The hopes and dreams of Hernandez's family lay with the likely success of Hernandez, on the basketball court. The Flash offered to take Hernandez to see his grandparents, in Puerto Rico. Enroute, the Flash encountered a burning ship.

Setting Hernandez on the ship's bow, the Flash set to putting out the blaze. While the Flash was fighting the fire, the ship's mast fell upon Hernandez, pinning his legs. By the time the Flash had returned to Hernandez, the boy had been traumatized into believing his legs were crushed. The Flash tries to distract himself from his despair, by fighting crime. In combat with a helicopter gunship, the Flash catches a stray bullet to the temple, temporarily robbing him of his locomotive abilities.

While the Flash and Hernandez are waiting to see the same doctor, an explosion from the chemical laboratory sets the hospital ablaze. The Flash begs Hernandez to save himself. Slowly, the boy rises from his wheelchair. Still unsteady on his feet, Hernandez drags the Flash away from the fire, to the rooftop. Still trapped by the fire, it falls on the Flash to overcome his own immobility, as Hernandez has done, to save them both. A triumphant Hernandez is re-united with his family, including his grandparents, who West brought in from Puerto Rico.

Finale For A Fiddler!

Responding to a police bulletin, the Golden Age Flash confronts his old nemesis, the Turtle. Though the Golden Age Flash is able to triumph over his old foe, he finds himself completely winded afterwards. The Golden Age Flash takes his wife to a rock festival, little realizing that his old nemesis, the Fiddler, intends to crash the scene.

The Fiddler leaps on stage, and begins playing his fiddle. A powerful wave of vibratory energy begins to forcibly repel the audience, including the Golden Age Flash. Laughing uproariously, the Fiddler momentarily ceases playing, giving the Golden Age Flash all the time he needs to round up the Fiddler's men, before apprehending the Fiddler himself.

The Man With Future-Vision!

This story was originally published in Strange Adventures #73 (October 1956). A plot summary for this story can be found on that issue page.