Flash #111

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Synopsis

The Invasion Of The Cloud Creatures!Police Forensics Scientist, Barry Allen, takes his date, reporter Iris West, to a lecture. The lecturer is Doctor Wiley Summers, one of Allen's college colleagues. Summers' lecture concerns a fantastic experience he had, while examining Mount Lassen, the only active volcano in the continental United States. Summers became aware of strange cloud formations directly over his head, that exuded an air of menace. Summers quickly photographed the clouds. Upon developing the film, though, the clouds seemed quite ordinary. Summers theorized that these cloud "creatures" dwelled within the volcano, and were intent on wiping out humanity.With no real evidence to support his wild claims, the scientific community, rightly, considered the idea to be ludicrous. Summers, thus, raises the alarm, to the public, through his lecture tour. After the lecture, Allen introduces West to Summers. West, though, also considers Summer's notion preposterous. Having failed to wipe out humanity through volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, the hostile clouds mount an attack on an army base, revealing themselves to the world. After destroying the military installation with a barrage of lightning, the clouds turn towards civilian targets. The deafening sound of their thunder is such that it can reduce buildings to rubble.Every countermeasure brought to bear against the clouds harmlessly passes right through them. Leaving West behind with Summers, Allen heads out to meet the threat, as the Flash. Dodging the cloud's lightning barrage, the Flash runs in a tight circle, generating a tornado. The clouds easily avoid the Flash's attack, simply by increasing their elevation. The clouds generate a powerful vacuum, lifting a building from it's foundations. Once released, the building crashes to the Earth, destroying it. The Flash races up a high hill, then leaps into the clouds. Moving at incredible velocity, the Flash is able to, literally, skip across the cloud formations...