The Flash #151

The cover of The Flash #151 (1965) delivers an immediately gripping image: the scarlet speedster hurls himself at full velocity into a dark barrier surrounding the top-hatted, cane-wielding Shade, while a second Flash — helmetless and dressed in a lightning-bolt jersey — sits imprisoned within that same shadowy silhouette. Carmine Infantino's pencils (inked by Murphy Anderson) make the contrast between the Flash's blurring speed lines and the villain's smug, immovable composure feel genuinely electric. Billed as a "new double-Flash thriller" with the story "Invader from the Dark Dimension!", this issue promises the kind of imaginative, dimension-hopping adventure that made Gardner Fox's 1965 DC work so endlessly entertaining.