The Flash #164

Few sights in 1966 comics could stop a reader cold quite like the Scarlet Speedster in handcuffs — yet that's exactly what Infantino and Giella deliver on this striking cover, with a grim-faced Flash being escorted by police while an angry crowd surges behind him, some calling him a "Flash-Fink" and demanding he be handed over. The bold tagline says it all: "Public Hero One Day — Public Menace the Next!" as Central City's beloved champion finds himself caught between the law and a hostile mob. John Broome's story, "Flash — Vandal of Central City!", promises the kind of dramatic fall-from-grace tension that made Silver Age DC storytelling so compelling.