Flash #141

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The Mystery Of Flash's Third Identity!While the Flash is away on a mission, in space, with the Justice League of America, the Top escapes from prison. Upon his return, the Flash attempts to apprehend the Top. The Flash grabs the Top, only to have the Top's uniform tear away in his hand, when the Top starts spinning at super-human speed. In the darkness, the still spinning Top escapes. Alone in his apartment, the Flash, as police forensics scientist Barry Allen, turns on his television, in the hopes that there will be some news of the Top. Instead he sees a news story on the slum areas of Central City. Allen watches in horror, as one of the tenement walls begins to crumble, seconds away from collapsing on a small boy.Allen, as the Flash, races to the boy's rescue. The boy, Jimmy Darrel, was there to deliver a package. Flash retrieves the package, and notices the Top's costume inside the box. Darrel reveals that he was delivering the package for a local tailor, Paul Gambi. Suspecting Gambi to be the personal tailor of all his foes, the Flash decides to pay Gambi a visit. Disguising himself as a lowlife, the Flash, as "Trigger Joe", meets with Gambi, and requests a super-villain's costume. Gambi states that he doesn't do that kind of work. The headline of a newspaper in Gambi's workshop, leads the Flash to the Top's next criminal enterprise.The Top steals a statue of "Winged Victory", from a local exhibition hall, incapacitating the guards with a gimmicked top that spins them like tops. Encountering the Flash, the top hurls down another trick top in the Flash's path. This top projects holographic images of the Top. The Flash runs down two of the "Tops", but each turn out to to be decoys. Passing through the second "Top", the Flash crashes into a wall, and knocks himself out. The Flash, as "Trigger Joe", returns to Gambi's, where he finds the tailor much more agreeable to his earlier request. Gambi outfits "Trigger Joe" with a science fiction themed outfit, dubbing him...