Comic Title: Flash #173
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1967
On Sale Date: July 20, 1967 Newsstand Date July 20, 1967
Source: House Ad, Green Lantern #55, Page 30

Newsstand Date July 20, 1967
Source: Direct Currents, Blackhawk #236, Page 30

Copyright Date July 20, 1967
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1967


Frequency: Monthly, with the exception of Jan., July, & Oct.
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "Doomward Flight of the Flashes"
Pages: 23

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

Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Sid Greene

Reprinted In:
DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #2 (1980)
Crisis on Multiple Earths:Team-Ups Vol. 2 TPB (2007)
Flash of Two Worlds HC (2009)
Showcase Presents:The Flash Vol. 4 TPB (2012)
Flash:The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 3 HC (2018)
Flash of Two Worlds Deluxe Edition HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash of Earth-1 (last appearance in Superman #199; next appearance in Flash #174)

Guest Star(s)

• Flash of Earth-2 (last appearance in Flash #170; next appearance in Justice League of America #64)
• Kid Flash (last appearance in Teen Titans #11; next appearance in Teen Titans #12)

Supporting Character(s)

• Iris Allen (last appearance in Superman #199; next appearance in Flash #174)

Villain(s)

• Golden Man (an alien mutant; no further appearances)
• The Domino Gang (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Joan Garrick (last appearance in Flash #151; next appearance in Flash #201)

Synopsis:
While battling the Domino Gang alongside Kid Flash, the Flash suddenly vanishes in a bolt of light. Kid Flash returns to Barry Allen's house where he meets Jay Garrick and his wife Joan who have dropped by to visit from Earth-2. Jay joins Kid Flash on a search for Barry. Then Kid Flash is also teleported away by a flash of light.

Kid Flash and awakens on an alien planet next to his mentor. An alien mutant called Golden Man claims responsibility for teleporting them to his planet. He is far more evolved than other beings from his planet and has teleported the Flashes there to provide a hunt. Flash and Kid Flash are then forced to outrun their captor to stay alive.

Golden Man secretly has another motive for the hunt. He plans to use the super-speed energy expended by his opponents to evolve the rest of his race. Then he can rule over them as a dictator. However, Flash is lost in a pit of quicksand. Since his plan requires two speedsters, Golden Man returns to his laboratory with the unconscious Kid Flash.

Golden Man then teleports Jay Garrick to his world. However, Jay's internal vibrations allow him to remain conscious upon arrival. Jay and Kid Flash try to defeat Golden Man, but are captured again. Then Barry Allen arrives, having survived the quicksand by vibrating through the planet's crust.

The three Flashes are then able to defeat Golden Man. In a last ditch effort to succeed in his world domination plan, Golden Man activates an experimental machine. However, instead of advancing his race on the evolutionary ladder, the untested machine causes Golden Man to devolve into a primitive. With the threat neutralized the three speedsters return to Earth.