The Flash #154

Something has gone terribly wrong with the Scarlet Speedster in The Flash #154 (August 1965), and Carmine Infantino's cover pencils — inked by Murphy Anderson — capture the chaos beautifully: the Flash tumbles helplessly through the air, tangled in wild, looping ribbons of his own speed-wake, while a speeding car with figures atop it races below him. His thought bubble says it all — "My super-speed's gone haywire! My jet set days are over!" — setting up the enticingly titled story "The Day Flash Ran Away With Himself!" Written by Gardner Fox and drawn by Carmine Infantino, this 12-cent DC gem promises a genuinely clever premise: what happens when the world's fastest man can't control the very power that defines him?