Flash #146

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Synopsis

The Mirror Master's Master Stroke!Police Forensics Scientist Barry Allen has just completed Professor Dobill's Success Course. Allen's girlfriend, Picture News Reporter Iris West, meets him, on graduation day, to make plans for lunch. West makes it clear she'll be satisfied by nothing less than Allen graduating at the top of his class. Allen's mind, however, is focused more on the recent news of the Mirror Master's escape from prison. Unbeknownst to Allen, the Mirror Master is actually one of his classmates, in Dobill's success course.Using Dobill's guiding principles of success, the Mirror Master has been enjoying his most successful crime spree ever. Unable to contain himself any longer, the Mirror Master uses the mirrors in his special glasses to place the entire class in a trance. Moving to the front of the room, the Mirror Master addresses the class, boasting of the details of his latest crime. Interrupted mid-robbery by a night watchman, the Mirror Master dodged the guard's gunfire, before subduing him with a mirror weapon.Encountering the Flash during the getaway, the Mirror Master unveiled his newest mirror weapon. After a blinding flash, the Mirror Master's legs were, inexplicably, swapped with the Flash's. Now able to run at super-speed, the Mirror Master fled. Running along on his hands, the Flash is able to catch up with the Mirror Master, and surround him in a super-speed generated whirlwind. The Mirror Master makes a break for it, then doubles back and clocks the Flash, knocking him out.Another blinding flash from his mirror weapon, restores the Mirror Master's legs to him. Finished boasting of his criminal prowess, the Mirror Master retakes his seat, and releases the class from their trance. Very quickly, Dobill, Allen, and the rest of the class, realize they've experienced an entire hour of lost time. Allen takes note that the classmate sitting on his left, really the Mirror Master, has an empty ashtray at his desk. The ashtray on Dobill's desk has four...