The Flash #150
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe Flash #150 is a tidy capstone to the mid-Silver Age era of Barry Allen's solo title, arriving at a round-number milestone that showcased the creative engine Julius Schwartz had built: two complete Gardner Fox stories in a single issue, each pushing the limits of what speed could mean for a superhero. The second story, in which Barry accidentally transfers a strange telekinetic ability to a pair of criminals by exceeding ten times the speed of light, is a textbook example of the era's commitment to science-fictional cause-and-effect as plot fuel — a storytelling discipline that set the title apart from its contemporaries. Historically, the issue also carries an unexpected Easter egg in its letters column: a published letter from a teenage Cary Bates, who would go on to become the longest-tenured Flash writer of the Bronze Age, holding the title from 1971 through its cancellation in 1985.
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The issue was edited by Julius Schwartz and scripted by Gardner Fox — the same partnership responsible for reviving the Flash concept and producing 'Flash of Two Worlds,' the story that introduced DC's Multiverse — with credits verified against Schwartz's editorial records held by DC Comics. Cover art and interior pencils for the lead story were handled by Carmine Infantino and inked by Murphy Anderson, while the second story used Joe Giella on inks, reflecting the rotating inker practice common under Schwartz's editorship. The book was published on December 3, 1964, though its cover date reads February 1965, consistent with the newsstand-distribution lag standard for the period.
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- Cover date: February 1965; on-sale date: December 3, 1964. Published by DC Comics as part of The Flash Volume 1.
- Two complete stories by Gardner Fox: 'Captain Cold's Polar Perils!' (pencils Carmine Infantino, inks Murphy Anderson) and 'The Touch-and-Steal Bandits' (pencils Carmine Infantino, inks Joe Giella).
- Lead story features Captain Cold competing with Barry Allen for the affections of Ayesha, Maharanee of Jodapur — Ayesha's first (and introduction-only) appearance, per the Grand Comics Database.
- Second story, 'The Touch-and-Steal Bandits,' introduces Danny Ralston and Joey Ralston — two minor villain characters making their debut — as accidental recipients of Barry's speed-generated telekinesis.
- The second story's central conceit: when Flash pushes his velocity to ten times the speed of light, he develops temporary telepathic powers and simultaneously grants crooked brothers the ability to remotely move any object they have previously touched.
- The issue contains a letters-column contribution from Cary Bates — then a teenager — who would later write The Flash from issue #179 (1968) through the series finale at #350 (1985), a 14-year tenure as the book's primary scribe.
- All story credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records as provided to the Grand Comics Database by DC Comics.
- Both stories in the issue were later collected in the hardcover The Flash Archives Vol. 6 (DC, 2012), which reprints The Flash #142–150 and represents the final volume of that Archive Edition series.
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Reprinted in Batman #314 (1966), Lynvingen #3/1966 (1966), Flash #7 (1971), Flash #11 (1972), The Flash #214 (1972), Showcase Presents: The Flash #3 (2009), The Flash Archives #6 (2012), The Flash: The Silver Age Omnibus #2 (2017), Flash Rogues: Captain Cold #[nn] (2018), The Flash: The Silver Age #4 (2019)
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