Comic Title: Flash Archives Vol. 3 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2002
On Sale Date: January 30, 2002 Direct Market Date February 6, 2002
Source: Previews, Vol. 11 #12 (#156)

Direct Market Date January 30, 2002
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Direct Market Date February 6, 2002
Source: Comic Shop News, #763

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 224
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Madcap Inventors of Central City"
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Flash (Barry Allen of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Flash #117 (1960)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Flash #117; next appearance in Justice League of America #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Iris West (last appearance in Flash #117; next appearance in Flash #118)

Villain(s)

• Toughy Boraz (no further appearances)
• An unnamed bandit (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Winky, Blinky and Noddy (of Earth-1; Winky Moylan, Blinky Boylan, and Noddy Toylan; no further appearances)
• Two unnamed children (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Winky, Blinky and Noddy are three dimwits who are fired from their most recent jobs. The trio put there heads together to build a strange machine. The machine, which is simply an assemblage of spare parts including a rock n’ roll record, gives them a message to "Buy dirt cheap and sell it high". Winky throws a dart at a map to determine where to buy, and the dart lands outside the window.

The dimwitted trio dig up the front lawn and sell the dirt from atop a ladder. A man offers to buy the dirt just as Blinky has found a treasure chest that was buried. The buyer is Toughy Boraz, a crook, and the chest was his stolen loot.

Boraz pulls a gun on the trio, but Noddy using an ultrasonic whistle which he thought was a police whistle. The sound of the whistle is heard by the Flash. Flash rushes to the scene and stops Boraz.

Using the reward money for recovering the stolen money, the boys open an inventing business. Their first invention is a jumping bean for their car. This causes the car to jump up and down across traffic. While trying to escape from their bouncing vehicle, a bandit uses it to escape his pursuers. Noddy again alerts the Flash who finds the car, but the bandit has escaped.

Later the boys spot the bandit again. The whistle call gets Flash’s attention, and this time he is able to catch the crook.