Flash Vol 1 125

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"The Conquerors of Time!"

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Flash Vol 1 #125
December, 1961

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Carmine Infantino, Joe Giella

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You see, this treadmill is cosmic-ray powered!

-- Barry Allen

Appearing in "The Conquerors of Time!"

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Supporting Characters:

Iris West

Villains:

Mynher

Synopsis for "The Conquerors of Time!"

Across the globe, nuclear-powered devices fail.

Meanwhile, Wally West arrives in Central City for a brief vacation. His is picked up at the train station by Barry Allen, who takes him back to his lab and presents his new Cosmic Treadmill, which he had designed to aid his ability to travel through time. He tells Wally how he had traveled to the year 2287 and discovered that Earth had been invaded by the Dokris, who had canceled out all the radiation in the minerals of the planet by deploying a hive into the distant past. Because of this, the humans of the future had no atomic weapons with which to combat the alien invaders.

Barry sent Wally back to the year 100,842,246 BC to destroy the hive, while he went back to the future to help the future humans.

In the past, Wally befriends a strange birdlike creature after saving it from a giant ant. They in turn save him from a giant bee that had carried him into the sky. He is able to communicate with them by building a replica of the hive he is seeking out of rocks, and they begin to search for it. However, Wally passes out, paralyzed by the sting from the giant bee.

In the future, Barry finds a pocket of humans hiding in some caverns and convinces them to hold onto their atomic weapons, as they should soon work again. He discovers that an army of Dokris soldiers is heading to the caverns, but diverts to another location and seals them up underground. However, one soldier manages to escape his trap and shoots Barry with a radiation gun. Although he is able to sidestep the brunt of the blast, he is still weakened and is captured.

The Dokris are impressed with Barry's powers and offer him a chance to join them. When he refuses, he is imprisoned and constantly irradiated to negate his powers. However, he had been carrying one of the era's atomic weapons, which the aliens did not take, thinking it harmless. On his first attempt, it failed to fire, but on a second try it worked, and he used it to blow a hole in the side of his cell and escape. An army of aliens is sent after him, but Barry defeats them by creating a storm of wind that bowls them over. With their atomic weapons working again, the humans are easily able to drive the Dokris away from Earth.

Upon returning to his home era, Barry listens to Wally's side of the story. The Ornitho-Men had cured his paralysis using leaves, and after they found the hive, it was easily destroyed.

Notes

This issue marks the first appearance of the Cosmic Treadmill.
This issue is reprinted in The Flash Archives, Volume 4

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