The Flash #123

Dates

Cover date

September 1961

On sale

July 17, 1961

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• Flash of Two Worlds! [Chapter 1] · 10.67 pages

  Barry Allen appears at the Community Center in Central City to perform for kids and during one of his amazing tricks is mysteriously transported to Keystone City...a place that he recalls that the original Flash once lived. The two meet and Barry surmises that Jay lives on a parallel Earth...one that evidently Earth-1 writer Gardner Fox tuned in on when he wrote the adventures of the Flash in the 1940's. Jay tells Barry that a crime wave has hit Keystone City and asks Barry for his help.

• Fastest Trips Around the World! · 1 pages

  Modern speed records by people for circling the earth.

• Flash of Two Worlds! Chapter 2 · 7.67 pages

  Unknown to either Flash, three master criminals from the past of Jay Garrick are responsible for the crime wave in Keystone City: the Thinker, who vows to steal the Neptune Cup, the Fiddler, who seeks to steal the crown jewels on display at a museum, and the Shade wants to gain control of a collection of historical curios. However, both Flashes fall flat on their face in their attempts to nab the Thinker and Shade.

• Flash of Two Worlds! Chapter 3 · 5.67 pages

  After comparing notes, Jay and Barry decide to work together to tackle the Fiddler. But the Shade and Thinker are comparing notes, too, and discover that their partner in crime is up against two Flashes, not one.

Characters

Reprinted in

The Flash 123 (Facsimile Edition) (2020), 80 Page Giant Magazine (1964), The Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told (1989), The Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told (1990), The Flash Archives (1996), Millennium Edition: The Flash Vol. 1, #123 (2000), Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups (2005), Flash: The Greatest Stories Ever Told (2007), Showcase Presents: The Flash (2007), DC Comics Classics Library: The Flash of Two Worlds (2009), The Flash Chronicles (2009), The Flash Omnibus (2014), Flash: A Celebration of 75 Years (2015), The Flash: The Silver Age (2016), The Flash: The Silver Age Omnibus (2017), The Flash: 80 Years of the Fastest Man Alive The Deluxe Edition (2019), The Flash of Two Worlds Deluxe Edition (2020), Legends of the DC Universe: Carmine Infantino (2023), DC Finest: The Flash: The Human Thunderbolt (2024)